Retourner à la terre pour faire avec la crise : ancrages et circulations entre ville et campagne au Portugal

Dolci, Paula; Cortés, Geneviève; Perrin, Coline

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“…Beside this individual quest for self‐realisation (Blekesaune et al., 2010; Bock et al., 2020, pp. 51–58; Pinto‐Correia et al., 2015), economic crises can further stimulate voluntary and forced mobility to agriculture (Dolci et al., 2019; Döner et al., 2020) to gain a better quality of life. Since the mid‐20th century, most migrants to rural areas in the quest for a sustainable agrarian lifestyle have been urbanites from the Global North (Halfacree, 2022).…”

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Engagement of new entrants in mountain farming through the lens of generativity: Lack of family farming background and its implications in Alpine Austria and Italy

Grüner,

Konzett

2024

Sociologia Ruralis

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While mountain family farmers rely on cultural, financial and material resources passed on from previous generations, new entrants typically lack such intergenerational amenities. Applying the concept of ‘generativity’ to agriculture prove valuable in examining start‐up motives, obstacles, opportunities and impacts regarding generational renewal via newcomers without a family farming background. Following a multilevel approach, we interviewed new entrants, long‐established family farmers and members of agricultural organisations in three Alpine regions of Austria and Italy. We illustrate that family farmers primarily care for their farm's continued existence, while new entrants seek autonomy from the agricultural industry, thus transmitting the relevance of agriculture beyond their offspring. At first sight, land access is a major hurdle for new entrants, as agricultural land is reserved for family farmers. By taking over abandoned farms, new entrants escape constraints imposed by previous farming generations, thus facilitating the introduction of novel operating concepts and the regeneration of traditional practices. Consequently, newcomer farms are transforming from previously exclusive production sites into open spaces of exchange that include non‐agricultural communities, reconnecting land, production and consumption. We conclude that a lack of family farming ties may foster extra‐familial renewal and sustainability in mountain agriculture.

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Engagement of new entrants in mountain farming through the lens of generativity: Lack of family farming background and its implications in Alpine Austria and Italy

Grüner,

Konzett

2024

Sociologia Ruralis

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No(w) future: Neo-farming and eco-anxiety in France

Sallustio

2024

Time & Society

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Studying how people relate to the future and how it shapes individual or collective affects is a way to grasp what motivates social practices. What would be the effect of the climate crisis and democratic disillusionments on social mobilisations? What impact does the disappearance of the horizon of progress have on individuals' lives? Based on long-term fieldwork among a dozen neo-farming anarchist libertarian collectives in the Massif Central (France), I analyse how the future horizon of despair, anxiety, or abandonment is necessarily intertwined with utopian projection. This interaction between antinomic futures creates a paradoxical and Camusian ‘absurd' present that resonates with a shared temporality emphasising the ‘here and now' and prefigurative politics. Through this study of the ‘back-to-the-land' movement, I will propose a broader epistemological discussion related to how anthropology has historically approached incoherence and contradictions. I advocate for deepening our understanding of the meaning of social practices by interrogating the intrinsic multiple representations of time that impel them.

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New Players on a Tough Field

Konzett

Grüner

2022

European Countryside

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The pivotal aim of this research is to identify new entrants to mountain farming, their routes into practicing and resulting environmental impacts. Following an actor-network approach, this multi-regional case study was conducted in two remote regions of the Western Austrian Alps and in a bordering Alpine region in South Tyrol (Italy). All data was generated using semi-structured interviews on site and official agricultural statistics. Both autochthons and foreign newcomers to mountain farming display a great deal of idealism to fulfil their agricultural dreams. Their self-determination and bid for independence from the agricultural industry affects their thinking and decisions on housing, farming and collaborations, resulting in far-reaching social and spatial impacts on the sociocultural landscape. In implementing sustainable and extensive farming practices, new entrants act as role models and thus highlight alternatives beyond the prevailing mountain agricultural regime.

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Retourner à la terre pour faire avec la crise : ancrages et circulations entre ville et campagne au Portugal

Abstract: Going back-to-the-land to deal with the economic crisis: integrations and migrations between city and countryside in Portugal

Cited by 6 publications

References 51 publications

Engagement of new entrants in mountain farming through the lens of generativity: Lack of family farming background and its implications in Alpine Austria and Italy

Engagement of new entrants in mountain farming through the lens of generativity: Lack of family farming background and its implications in Alpine Austria and Italy

No(w) future: Neo-farming and eco-anxiety in France

New Players on a Tough Field

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