Rural Myths and Urban Ideologies

Kapferer, Judith

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“…There are visions of social care and harmony and rural virtue, which portray rural life as simple, slower and kindlier than urban life. On the other hand, there is a myth about conservatism, intolerance, suspicion of outsiders, homogeneity, prejudice and racism (Kapferer 1990, Francis & Henderson 1992). While elements of both aspects exist, to label all rural communities in such a way is as absurd as saying all urban people are cultured, tolerant and educated.…”

Section: Rural Social Work Practicementioning

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Social work in rural areas: a personal and professional challenge

Green¹

2003

Australian Social Work

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Australians live in diverse areas, city and country, coast and hinterland, desert and rainforest, urban and remote areas. While much social work practice is located in large population centres, the problem of providing a social work service in rural and remote areas is a challenging one. This article examines some of the issues for rural social workers practicing where networks are small and multilayered, anonymity, privacy and safety for the social worker cannot be guaranteed, and a broad range of knowledge and skills are demanded. As a profession, it is important to acknowledge the complexity of delivering an ethical, responsive and appropriate service in rural areas. For rural social workers, this challenge impacts in both their professional and personal roles.

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Section: Rural Social Work Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Social work in rural areas: a personal and professional challenge

Green¹

2003

Australian Social Work

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“…This has for instance been found to be the case for the Turku region in Finland, where regions of both high and low population densities are clustered [ 4 ]. Another example is Australia, where the majority of the population is clustered around the coastal belt [ 5 ]. From here on, the term urbanisation will be used to refer to the population clustering.…”

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A theoretical single-parameter model for urbanisation to study infectious disease spread and interventions

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The world is continuously urbanising, resulting in clusters of densely populated urban areas and more sparsely populated rural areas. We propose a method for generating spatial fields with controllable levels of clustering of the population. We build a synthetic country, and use this method to generate versions of the country with different clustering levels. Combined with a metapopulation model for infectious disease spread, this allows us to in silico explore how urbanisation affects infectious disease spread. In a baseline scenario with no interventions, the underlying population clustering seems to have little effect on the final size and timing of the epidemic. Under within-country restrictions on non-commuting travel, the final size decreases with increased population clustering. The effect of travel restrictions on reducing the final size is larger with higher clustering. The reduction is larger in the more rural areas. Within-country travel restrictions delay the epidemic, and the delay is largest for lower clustering levels. We implemented three different vaccination strategies—uniform vaccination (in space), preferentially vaccinating urban locations and preferentially vaccinating rural locations. The urban and uniform vaccination strategies were most effective in reducing the final size, while the rural vaccination strategy was clearly inferior. Visual inspection of some European countries shows that many countries already have high population clustering. In the future, they will likely become even more clustered. Hence, according to our model, within-country travel restrictions are likely to be less and less effective in delaying epidemics, while they will be more effective in decreasing final sizes. In addition, to minimise final sizes, it is important not to neglect urban locations when distributing vaccines. To our knowledge, this is the first study to systematically investigate the effect of urbanisation on infectious disease spread and in particular, to examine effectiveness of prevention measures as a function of urbanisation.

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“…Furthermore, despite popular perceptions, the consumption and provision of rural products and services has increased with demand mainly coming from urban areas. A countryside dominated by traditional occupations in agriculture separated from urban life is now regarded as 'a rural myth' (Kapferer, 1990). Although products and commodities are still important, other values of the rural landscape have become established and are now dominating policy as the 'new rural paradigm' (OECD, 2006) and have been developed in academia as 'post-productivism' (Evans et al 2002;Mather et al, 2006;Wilson, 2001).…”

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Beyond Post-Productivism: From Rural Policy Discourse To Rural Diversity

Almstedt

Brouder

Karlsson

et al. 2014

European Countryside

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There has been a strong discourse in public policy aimed at transforming rural places from venues of primary production into truly diverse socioeconomic landscapes. Yet conceptualisations of the rural as envisioned in the policy and politics of the 'new economy' often prove to be elusive on the ground. However, post-productive activity in rural areas has become a major focus for rural studies scholars. This paper investigates the ideas of post-productivism in the existing literature, and argues for a holistic understanding of post-productivism as an idea and political ambition rather than an imperative and irreversible change of rural economic activity. The purpose of the study is to make clear the division between post-productivism and the related concepts of post-production and post-productive activities in order to better understand processes of rural change in relation to different geographical contexts. It is argued that post-productivism as a concept stands apart from de facto post-production and alternative concepts such as multifunctionality and should be regarded as part of broader regional development discourses. The paper outlines several important fields in which post-productivism is a necessary component for rural transformation and development. While it is not always easily captured in indicators or empirical studies in rural locations, postproductivism exists at the level of discourse and planning and thus has real effects on the ground. The paper concludes by offering suggestions on how to apply the concepts of post-productivism, post-production and multifunctionality in future studies.Abstrakt: De senaste årens landsbygdspolitik kännetecknas av en stark diskurs för att omvandla platser från dominerande primärproduktion till skiftande socioekonomiska aktiviteter där inte minst turism förväntas inta en stark ställning. Omvandlingsambitionen framträder särskilt starkt i styrdokument och projektverksamhet, samtidigt som tydliga och omfattande reella avtryck ofta lyser med sin frånvaro. Däremot har post-produktiva verksamheter på landsbygden blivit 298/346 ett viktigt fokus för forskare. I föreliggande artikel undersöks idéer kring postproduktion och post-produktivism så som de framkommer i tidigare forskning. Det argumenteras för behovet av en helhetssyn på post-produktivism som idé och politisk ambition, liksom att ta utgångspunkt i att uppenbara förändringar av landsbygdens ekonomiska aktiviteter ännu inte är särskilt omfattande. Syftet med studien är att klargöra begreppens innehåll och relation till multifunktionalitet för att bättre förstå landsbygdens förändring i relation till olika geografiska sammanhang. Artikeln beskriver flera viktiga områden där post-produktivism är en nödvändig komponent för landsbygdens omvandling och utveckling, men att den faktiska utvecklingen och de politiska ambitionerna inte alltid går hand i hand. Artikeln avslutas genom att ge förslag på hur man kan använda begreppen inom forskningen.

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Rural Myths and Urban Ideologies

Cited by 20 publications

References 4 publications

Social work in rural areas: a personal and professional challenge

Social work in rural areas: a personal and professional challenge

A theoretical single-parameter model for urbanisation to study infectious disease spread and interventions

Beyond Post-Productivism: From Rural Policy Discourse To Rural Diversity

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