{"title":"Farmer identities: facilitating stability and change in agricultural system transitions","authors":"Angelina Letourneau, D. Davidson","doi":"10.1080/23251042.2022.2064207","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The need for institutional change posed by anthropogenic global warming is now well-recognized, and this is particularly the case for agri-food systems, which are both significant contributors to climate change, and highly vulnerable to its impacts. The importance of identity to institutional change is well-recognized in various areas of scholarship, although in the study of institutional responses to climate change this key driver is less often discussed. In this study, we seek to create space for doing so, by focusing on the identity work of a sample of farmers in Alberta, Canada, as they navigate this moment of sector uncertainty. We show how farmer identities are becoming destabilized as producers attempt to accommodate growing environmental and climatological concerns, with many productivist farmers seeking to deflect sources of identity disconfirmation, while post-productivist farmers engage in active community-building and information seeking to support the formation of a new identity.","PeriodicalId":54173,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Sociology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Environmental Sociology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2022.2064207","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT The need for institutional change posed by anthropogenic global warming is now well-recognized, and this is particularly the case for agri-food systems, which are both significant contributors to climate change, and highly vulnerable to its impacts. The importance of identity to institutional change is well-recognized in various areas of scholarship, although in the study of institutional responses to climate change this key driver is less often discussed. In this study, we seek to create space for doing so, by focusing on the identity work of a sample of farmers in Alberta, Canada, as they navigate this moment of sector uncertainty. We show how farmer identities are becoming destabilized as producers attempt to accommodate growing environmental and climatological concerns, with many productivist farmers seeking to deflect sources of identity disconfirmation, while post-productivist farmers engage in active community-building and information seeking to support the formation of a new identity.
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Environmental Sociology is dedicated to applying and advancing the sociological imagination in relation to a wide variety of environmental challenges, controversies and issues, at every level from the global to local, from ‘world culture’ to diverse local perspectives. As an international, peer-reviewed scholarly journal, Environmental Sociology aims to stretch the conceptual and theoretical boundaries of both environmental and mainstream sociology, to highlight the relevance of sociological research for environmental policy and management, to disseminate the results of sociological research, and to engage in productive dialogue and debate with other disciplines in the social, natural and ecological sciences. Contributions may utilize a variety of theoretical orientations including, but not restricted to: critical theory, cultural sociology, ecofeminism, ecological modernization, environmental justice, organizational sociology, political ecology, political economy, post-colonial studies, risk theory, social psychology, science and technology studies, globalization, world-systems analysis, and so on. Cross- and transdisciplinary contributions are welcome where they demonstrate a novel attempt to understand social-ecological relationships in a manner that engages with the core concerns of sociology in social relationships, institutions, practices and processes. All methodological approaches in the environmental social sciences – qualitative, quantitative, integrative, spatial, policy analysis, etc. – are welcomed. Environmental Sociology welcomes high-quality submissions from scholars around the world.
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