Sociology of Rural Life

Hillyard, Samantha

doi:10.26530/oapen_390771

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“…Perhaps my own first encounter with rural sociology stands in support of this, given that it was somewhat circuitous. Following funded research of the social and cultural impact of the foot-and-mouth disease epidemic in the United Kingdom, an analysis of rural studies showed either the absence of an interactionist stance, or a fundamental misunderstanding of it (Hillyard 2007;Newby 2008). Human geography, rather than sociology, dominated, and qualitative analytical methods lacked penetration into rural domains following the decline in community studies (Hillyard 2007; Hillyard and Burridge 2012).…”

Section: The Performance Of Rural Spacementioning

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The Rising Salience of the Absent: An Interactionist Analysis

Hillyard

2019

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The paper uses examples from rural studies to demonstrate the relevance of symbolic interactionism for unlocking the complexity of contemporary society. It does so by making a case for a nonprescriptive theory-method dialectic. Case examples are drawn upon in support of the argumentation, including early interactionism and ethnographic work in the United Kingdom, and, in the second half of the paper, rural sociology and fieldwork. The main argument presented is that the traditional remit of interactionism should be extended to recognize how absence is increasingly influential. It concludes that interactionism is in tune with other new trajectories in the social sciences that take into consideration co-presence proximity both on and off-line.

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Section: The Performance Of Rural Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

The Rising Salience of the Absent: An Interactionist Analysis

Hillyard

2019

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“…The number of times that corporate food producers have threatened the health and financial wellbeing of consumers are also reminders of how people need alternative sources of knowledge that stabilise and enable food sovereignty. Clear examples are XL Foods, in Brooks, Alberta, where tons of beef and beef products had to be destroyed because of e-coli bacteria (CBC News, 2013), the foot-and-mouth disease epidemic in the United Kingdom in 2001 (Hillyard, 2007) and the results of corporate and government (mis)management of the fisheries (Ommer, 2007).…”

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Pedagogies That Explore Food Practices: Resetting the Table for Improved Eco-Justice

Harris

Barter

2015

Aust. J. environ. educ.

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As health threats appear with increasing regularity in our food systems and other food crises loom worldwide, we look to rural areas to provide local and nutritious foods. Educationally, we seek approaches to food studies that engage students and their communities and, ultimately, lead to positive action. Yet food studies receive only generic coverage and tangential attention within existing curricula. This article, reporting a pilot study located at Canada's geographic and cultural edge, focuses on local knowledge about past and present food practices. Objectives are to test pedagogies that bring all students greater opportunities for engagement and learning about their physical environment and food history, and that can be applied to rural and, with modifications, urban settings. Three critical, place-base pedagogical approaches — experiential, discovery and arts-based — to classroom teaching and learning are discussed, as well as implications for educational leadership, teacher training and curriculum development.

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“…They query whether it is possible to define 'the rural' in an unambiguous, meaningful manner. They all, however, recognise the salience of the rural imagination in popular parlance, and the fact it is 'irredeemably contextual' (Halfacree, 2004: 303;see also Copp 1972;Hoggart 1990;Hillyard 2007). If 'the rural' cannot act as a precise conceptual category for purposes of academic comparison, the academics' job then becomes the investigation of what constitutes 'the rural' in different spaces and times, and the ways those ideas both structure and are structured by socio-economic conditions.…”

Section: Ruralities Discourses and Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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MacClancy¹

2015

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I remember the moment well. I was doing fieldwork in Navarre, northern Spain, in the mid-1980s. Taking a weekend break, I was due to visit a commune in a hilly valley at the foot of the Pyrenees. Local friends had established it in a deserted village two years earlier. Before making the trek to their homes, my companion, who was from the area, wanted to show me Lakabe, the long-established, very successful commune on the other side of the narrow valley. As we walked down the valley's sole road, we met a group of some twenty youths, all carrying shovels, picks and hoes. 'They're a work party from the drug rehabilitation centre in the next village,' she said. ' And in the village after that, Buddhists from Bilbao are renovating the houses for a meditation centre. ' Her words made me realise, with a sudden flash, that almost the entire valley was being repopulated by a variety of alternatives: organic communards, Indophilic mystics, and addicts digging their way out of their habit. The indigenes had fled the area two decades before, for the sake of jobs in Pamplona. Now a new generation, of the disenchanted and the unemployed, had come in to renovate their collapsing houses, clear their fields, push the forest back, and start afresh. The Navarran regional government usually approved of this re-appropriation and would even consider giving them title to the lands they were working. My second realisation was that this style of rural repopulation was relatively general and gravely understudied. Wright, in a 1992 review of recent ethnography on rural Britain, could only cite five examples, and only one of those (Strathern 1981) took the topic of incomers as a worthwhile theme (Wright 1992).The new arrivals into rurality were not given due space in contemporary studies. Other than some work by Edwin Ardener and a few of his Oxford students in the late 1970s, the topic appeared to have been neglected (e.g. Ardener 1985; Macdonald 1989). So I convened a conference, held at Oxford Brookes University, some of whose papers, appropriately revised, are included here. In fact, the lack of interest in rurality went further than I originally realised. To my surprise, when I emailed a UK colleague inviting him to attend, he replied: 'The problem with "countryside studies" is that the latest trend is to study urban ethnic landscapes and not rural settings. ' In France the shift is equally marked:

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Sociology of Rural Life

Cited by 32 publications

References 52 publications

The Rising Salience of the Absent: An Interactionist Analysis

The Rising Salience of the Absent: An Interactionist Analysis

Pedagogies That Explore Food Practices: Resetting the Table for Improved Eco-Justice

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