Rural realities in the post-socialist space

Kay, Rebecca; Shubin, Sergei; Thelen, Tatjana

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2012.03.001

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“…320) . Thereby, the transition paradigm neglected the plurality, heterogeneity and asynchrony of post-socialist experiences and simultaneously portrayed differences as deviances from the West (Kay et al ., 2012;Stenning and Hörschelmann, 2008) . This benchmarking of Western norms positioned post-socialist countries as lagging behind, hence ran counter to postcolonial theory that aims to brush normative standard-settings against the grain .…”

Section: Overcoming the Mutual Silence: Decolonial Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Question of Responsibility: (De-)Peripheralising Rural Spaces in Post-Socialist Estonia

Plüschke-Altof

2018

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Recent studies on socio-spatial polarization and post-socialist spaces increasingly propose the use of postcolonial theory. Following this proposal, the paper attempts to make the decolonial approach fruitful for studying the crucial role that discourses play for rural peripheralisation processes in post-socialist Estonia. It shows that the Estonian discourses on peripheries manifest in a struggle between neoliberalism and interventionism as two competing regional development models that promote either self- or state responsibility for dealing with peripheralisation. Despite their differences, both models build on the same notion of modernity, as the colonial history associated with socialist modernity renders alternative models obsolete.

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Section: Overcoming the Mutual Silence: Decolonial Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Due to their simultaneous material deprivation and territorial stigmatization, rural areas in post-socialist space are often treated as peripheries per se (Kay et al, 2012). As such a spatial hierarchy does not simply exist, but is actively made, the question arises how, by whom and with what consequences?…”

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The Question of Responsibility: (De-)Peripheralising Rural Spaces in Post-Socialist Estonia

Plüschke-Altof

2018

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“…Researchers working on post-socialist and post-industrial spaces have been calling for some time for a closer examination of these everyday experiences and responses to decline and marginalisation Kay et al, 2012;Morris, 2015) and have examined the diversity of strategies adopted to negotiate sociospatial change, both literally in the form of economic formal and informal practices and in terms of constructions of identity and place (Nagy et al, 2016;Hörschelmann and Stenning, 2008). Existing research has identified experiences of loss but also of continuing solidarity, belonging and comfort as examples of everyday resilience (Bonfiglioli, 2014;Morris, 2015) and have also noted more vocal attempts to turn a peripherality into a political resource: in their case study on workers in the Israeli periphery, Cohen and Aharon-Gutman (2014) show how "the broadcasted disempowerment of the periphery" could be turn into a "weapon of the weak" using its peripheral location and lack of alternative local livelihoods as a resource for the mobilisation of citizenship claims (Cohen and Aharon-Gutman, 2014: 598) analysis, based on a case study in post-industrial Estonia, particularly captures the heterogeneity of narratives of peripheralisation through a comparative analysis of generational cohorts, based on "common location in the social and historical process" (Mannheim, 1998: 168).…”

Section: Conceptualising Peripheralisation: Towards a Multiscalar Appmentioning

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Narratives of peripheralisation: Place, agency and generational cohorts in post-industrial Estonia

Pfoser

2017

European Urban and Regional Studies

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Research on spatial polarisation in Central and Eastern Europe has tended to focus on macro-economic processes that create certain places and people as peripheral and has highlighted the socioeconomic impact of peripheralisation, while paying only limited attention to local experiences and responses.Drawing on a multiscalar conception of peripheralisation processes, the article examines the making of socio-spatial inequalities from the perspective of the periphery and foregrounds the narrative practices through which actors negotiate peripheralisation processes focusing on the case of Narva, a former industrial city in Estonia's Northeastern region. In the face of negative structural dynamics actors rework their peripheral status by articulating a positive sense of belonging, claiming recognition based on their work and trying to exert control over their futures. The paper particularly highlights generational differences within these narrative responses to spatial inequalities. While older workingclass populations' narratives are shaped by collective and place-based resilience, the post-socialist generation employs more individualised strategies in the face of peripheralisation and exercises agency by detaching themselves from place. Analysing these responses, the article draws attention to constrained agency as well as cultural differentiation within peripheral communities.

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“…In this article, we turn to the data on rural ageing from a dynamically changing, yet under‐researched, post‐socialist context (Burholt and Dobbs ; Kay et al ; Scharf et al . ).…”

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Ageing in the Changing Countryside: The Experience of Rural Czechs

Galčanová

Staveník

2019

Sociologia Ruralis

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Gerontological research has extensively focused on the experiences of people ageing within changing social contexts. However, accounts from the context of the European post-socialist transformation are missing. In addition, there is a lack of theoretical understanding concerning how older people experience ageing as part of the dynamic process of rural change. In this article, we present the perspectives of older Czech rural residents on living and ageing in the changing countryside. Based on 20 qualitative interviews with older adults, we show how they interpret contemporary changes in three major areas: politics and economy, infrastructure and technology, and local population and community life. Embedded in a constructionist approach, we aim to understand how their interpretations of current changes are related to their views on the past, to their self-positioning within current and past changes and their sense of local and social belonging. We introduce the concept of biographical contextualisation, which grasps the temporal horizon of meaning-making with regard to contemporary changes in rural life.

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Rural realities in the post-socialist space

Cited by 40 publications

References 25 publications

The Question of Responsibility: (De-)Peripheralising Rural Spaces in Post-Socialist Estonia

The Question of Responsibility: (De-)Peripheralising Rural Spaces in Post-Socialist Estonia

Narratives of peripheralisation: Place, agency and generational cohorts in post-industrial Estonia

Ageing in the Changing Countryside: The Experience of Rural Czechs

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