Succession planning and temporality: The influence of the past and the future

Gill, Fiona

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“…to accept it as an element of his own self.” While Kuehne's experiences () illustrate the significance of differential socialization, it also highlights the importance of being able to continue the family story: “I felt that having spent all of my life on a farm, and being saturated with the farming culture from parents and friends from an early age, as well as being the fifth generation of an unbroken line of farmers, I had little choice but to continue the farming tradition” (204). Gill () notes how the importance of temporal elements in understanding farm succession has been neglected in academic discussion. Her understanding of individuals as merely “placeholders in the passage of time” (85) is useful in understanding the influence of the farm family in succession decision making.…”

Section: Societal Change and The Family Farmmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It typically, but not always, involves the transfer of ownership. It has long been understood to be intricately rooted in both tradition and a commitment to the family collective (de Haan 1994;Gasson and Errington 1993;Gill 2013). In addition to being the subject of significant research in the more general family business literature (see for example Handler [1994], who provides a rigorous review of family business succession research), it is increasingly identified in the agricultural sociology literature as an important process, shaping the industry structure and occupancy of the land.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“It's Definitely a Good Time to Be a Farmer”: Understanding the Changing Dynamics of Successor Creation in Late Modern Society

Chiswell

Lobley

2018

Rural Sociology

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This article considers the implications of the wider systemic shift from modernity to late modernity for the process of intergenerational farm transfer. The article argues that the shift from the collective to the individual, indicative of late modern society, is particularly pertinent in the context of intergenerational transfer, which has long been rooted in collective thinking. Drawing on the perspectives of incumbent farmers and potential successors, the article utilizes results from semistructured interviews with 29 farmers and 19 potential successors in Devon, England. Using a thematic analysis, the article provides a nuanced understanding of the impact of the systemic shift and the associated emphasis on the individual on successor identification. Although the article reaffirms understanding of successor creation as a collective process, determined by factors such as gender and birth order, it also identifies an emergent cohort of younger potential successors, for whom succession was the outcome of an evaluation of farming as a career. It concludes that, within the case study area, modernization is changing the way in which farm children are identifying themselves as "the successor." The article suggests how this increasingly judicious approach to succession leaves reproduction of the family farm increasingly vulnerable to negative externalities.

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Section: Societal Change and The Family Farmmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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“It's Definitely a Good Time to Be a Farmer”: Understanding the Changing Dynamics of Successor Creation in Late Modern Society

Chiswell

Lobley

2018

Rural Sociology

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“…There are manifold general conceptualizations of time and temporality; however, for the purposes of this article, we conceptualize time with the help of G. H. Mead (Flaherty and Fine, 2001; Gill, 2013; Jones et al, 2017; Nilsen, 2019a) and his philosophy of the present (Mead, 1932) in combination with the work of Bourdieu (2000, 2010).…”

Section: Theoretical Contextsmentioning

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The pace of “the good life”: Connecting past, present, and future in the context of a housing affordability crisis

Kubala

Samec

2021

Time & Society

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This article focuses on the topic of the young adult’s cleft habitus influenced by a housing affordability crisis in the Czech Republic and examines how this situation affects the young adult’s relation to the imagination of a temporally structured life course and synchronization of life spheres (housing, family, and work). This article is based on qualitative in-depth interviews conducted in the four cities most affected by the house and rent price increase. The general question addresses if and how social inequalities, sharpened by the current housing affordability crisis, affect the process of narrative life course coherence creation (the connection of past, present, and future) in relation to an orientation toward a vision of “the good life.” We furthermore complement the already existing ideal types of the young adult’s relation toward time— confident continuity and cautious contingency (Nielsen A (2019a) Levels of intersecting temporalities in young men’s orientation to the future. A cross-national case comparison. Time & Society 0(0): 1–22)—with two other two types— cautious continuity and total contingency—defined on the basis of our data. We argue that the ability of young adults to envision a coherent future is related to the feeling of secured housing and that the idea of the good life is depicted to a large extent through the ideal of homeownership, although the precarity of the housing market makes homeownership harder to reach for those from unprivileged backgrounds.

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“…In terms of longer-term scenarios, the aspect of rural life which has perhaps most preoccupied researchers is tenure and the continuity of households (e.g. Smith 1997), which is indeed a major concern of contemporary farming families revealed in sociological studies (Gill 2013). The evidence for routines, risk aversion and actively maintained continuity—and therefore a perhaps limited reach and breadth of futurity—is certainly readily detectible on the Romano-British farmsteads in the upper Thames valley.…”

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Making Space for Past Futures: Rural Landscape Temporalities in Roman Britain

Gardner¹,

Wallace²

2020

CAJ

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In this paper, we seek to explore the ways in which landscapes become venues not only for manipulations of the past in a present, but also for shaping possible futures. Considerations of temporality and being in the landscape have been more strongly focused on the past and social memory than the future, anticipation and projectivity, but these are vital considerations if we are to preserve the possibility that past people imagined alternative futures. A fruitful archaeological context for an exploration of past futures can be found in the choices people made during the late Iron Age and Roman period in Britain, which has an increasingly rich and high-resolution material record for complex changes and continuities during a period of cultural interactions and imperial power dynamics. More specifically, recent research into the architectural and material practices evident on rural settlement sites and across landscapes forces us to challenge preconceptions about the reactive/reactionary culture of rural societies. Case-studies from Kent and the West Country will be deployed to develop the argument that in the materializing of time, the future has a very significant part to play.

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Succession planning and temporality: The influence of the past and the future

Cited by 14 publications

References 11 publications

“It's Definitely a Good Time to Be a Farmer”: Understanding the Changing Dynamics of Successor Creation in Late Modern Society

“It's Definitely a Good Time to Be a Farmer”: Understanding the Changing Dynamics of Successor Creation in Late Modern Society

The pace of “the good life”: Connecting past, present, and future in the context of a housing affordability crisis

Making Space for Past Futures: Rural Landscape Temporalities in Roman Britain

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