Rendering smallholders social: Taking a social relations approach to understanding the persistence of smallholders in the rural Global South

IF 5.1 1区 社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103432
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Drawing on 36 studies in 19 countries and three continents, conducted over forty years, this paper revisits the question of how and why smallholders – and smallholdings – persist in the Global South even under conditions of rapid social and economic transformation. The paper argues that a significant part of the answer to this question can be found by taking a social relational approach: by ‘rendering’ the smallholder social. We identify five social themes that have resonance notwithstanding very different historical inheritances, environmental conditions, political contexts, and economic and developmental situations. Smallholder households feed a significant population of the world, educate the next generation, care for the sick and support those in need, cushion workers when economies contract and jobs evaporate, create communities, underpin national growth, and manage the land. Bringing these roles and qualities into view makes clear that smallholders, far from being relict survivors are critical actors in contemporary rural and urban transformations.

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让小农社会化:从社会关系角度理解全球南部农村地区小农户的持续存在
本文利用四十年来在 19 个国家和三大洲进行的 36 项研究,重新探讨了即使在社会和经济快速转型的条件下,小农和小农户如何以及为何在全球南部地区持续存在的问题。本文认为,这个问题的大部分答案可以通过社会关系方法找到:将小农户 "社会化"。尽管历史传承、环境条件、政治背景以及经济和发展状况各不相同,但我们确定了五个具有共鸣的社会主题。小农家庭养活了世界上相当多的人口,教育下一代,照顾病人,支持有需要的人,在经济萎缩和工作岗位蒸发时为工人提供缓冲,创建社区,支撑国家增长,管理土地。将这些角色和特质纳入视野,可以清楚地看到,小农户绝非过时的幸存者,而是当代农村和城市变革的关键参与者。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Rural Studies publishes research articles relating to such rural issues as society, demography, housing, employment, transport, services, land-use, recreation, agriculture and conservation. The focus is on those areas encompassing extensive land-use, with small-scale and diffuse settlement patterns and communities linked into the surrounding landscape and milieux. Particular emphasis will be given to aspects of planning policy and management. The journal is international and interdisciplinary in scope and content.
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