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A study of involuntary rural migrants from the three Gorges dam: Lessons to be learned in a world hungry for energy 对三峡大坝非自愿农村移民的研究：在一个渴求能源的世界中汲取的教训

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-12-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103988

Xiaolu Gao , Yiran Gao , Yunning Zhao , Mark Rosenberg , Minlu Li

In a world hungry for energy, large-scale dam projects continue to expand, yet they often trigger involuntary displacement in rural areas—posing urgent economic, social, and political challenges. This study argues that structured and phased emphasis on migrants' social relations is essential for fostering social integration, where the goals of rapid adaptation and long-term stability should be distinguished. Using an analytical approach to measure adaptability and stability among displaced populations, we identify four social integration types—Disengagement, Isolation, Assimilation, and Co-existence—and examine their influencing factors with particular attention to various types of social interactions. A survey of involuntary rural migrants from the Three Gorges Dam (TGD) project in China, who had been relocated for about 20 years, highlighted distinct roles for kinship, geo-, and home-village relations: 3–5 stable local contacts facilitate adaptation, 8–10 promote long-term stability, while over-reliance on kin or home-village networks can impede broader integration. These findings underscore the varying social integration experiences of Disengagement (minimal local and kin attachments), Isolation (strong kin/home-village relations but weak local bonds), Assimilation (increasing local presence yet retaining strong home-village relations), and Co-existence (more balanced kin/home-village relations alongside high geo-relations). These findings underscore the need to foster geo-relations, diversify interaction partners, and adopt mixed resettlement modes. We further outline post-relocation priorities aimed at improving migrants’ social integration at different stages. This study contributes by advancing a dual-phase perspective of adaptation and stability, proposing a typology of integration scenarios, and demonstrating the temporal shifts in the functions of different social ties.

在一个渴求能源的世界里，大型水坝项目不断扩大，但它们往往引发农村地区的非自愿流离失所，带来紧迫的经济、社会和政治挑战。本研究认为，有组织地、分阶段地强调移民的社会关系对于促进社会融合至关重要，在社会融合中，应区分快速适应和长期稳定的目标。利用分析方法来衡量流离失所人口的适应性和稳定性，我们确定了四种社会整合类型——脱离接触、隔离、同化和共存——并研究了它们的影响因素，特别关注了各种类型的社会互动。一项针对中国三峡大坝（TGD）项目非自愿农村移民的调查显示，他们已经搬迁了大约20年，强调了亲属关系、地理关系和家村关系的不同作用：3-5个稳定的当地联系有助于适应，8-10个促进长期稳定，而过度依赖亲属或家村网络可能会阻碍更广泛的融合。这些研究结果强调了不同的社会融合体验，包括脱离（最小的地方和亲属依恋）、孤立（强烈的亲属/家村关系，但弱的地方联系）、同化（增加当地存在，但保持强烈的家村关系）和共存（更平衡的亲属/家村关系和高度的地缘关系）。这些发现强调了加强地缘关系、使互动伙伴多样化和采用混合安置模式的必要性。我们进一步概述了旨在改善移民在不同阶段的社会融合的搬迁后优先事项。本研究提出了适应和稳定的双阶段视角，提出了整合情景的类型学，并展示了不同社会关系功能的时间变化。

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Recultivation of abandoned farmland in mountainous areas: distribution patterns, dominant determinants, and policy implications 山区撂荒耕地的再生产：分布格局、主要决定因素和政策影响

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-12-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103984

Yunxi Liu , Xue Wang , Fuyao Zhang , Hengfei Song , Xiubin Li , Minghong Tan , Tiechou Shi

Farmland abandonment and its subsequent recultivation have become key issues in global land system science, particularly in ecologically fragile mountainous regions undergoing rapid socio-economic transformation. Accurately quantifying the spatial patterns of recultivation of abandoned farmland (RAF) and identifying its main drivers are essential for optimizing farmland allocation and promoting sustainable land use. Existing research, however, faces challenges in detecting fragmented RAF plots and assessing the spatially heterogeneous effects of multiple factors. To address these gaps, this study draws on multiple land-use change theories to develop a framework for interpreting the spatial distribution of RAF and applies it to an empirical analysis of Shizhu County, Chongqing, a typical mountainous area in Southwest China. The analysis uses large-scale land-use data combined with kernel density analysis, buffer zoning, and multilevel modelling. Our results reveal a distinct ‘central-fringe’ pattern: RAF is predominantly concentrated in central regions near the administrative center, whereas fringe regions exhibit significantly lower RAF rates. The key factors influencing RAF differ by region: in central regions, population density and land transfer rate exert the strongest influence; in fringe regions, plot aggregation, altitude, and land transfer rate are the most critical determinants. Based on these findings, we propose region-specific strategies that differentiate between central and fringe regions to improve the efficiency and sustainability of RAF. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of RAF dynamics in complex mountainous areas and offers practical insights for targeted land-use policy and rural revitalization.

耕地撂荒及其后续复垦已成为全球土地系统科学的关键问题，特别是在经济社会快速转型的生态脆弱山区。准确量化撂荒耕地再植的空间格局，识别撂荒耕地再植的主要驱动因素，对优化撂荒耕地配置、促进土地可持续利用具有重要意义。然而，现有的研究在识别碎片化的RAF地块和评估多因素的空间异质性效应方面面临挑战。为了弥补这些不足，本研究借鉴了多种土地利用变化理论，构建了一个解释RAF空间分布的框架，并将其应用于西南典型山区重庆市石柱县的实证分析。该分析使用大规模土地利用数据，结合核密度分析、缓冲区划分和多层次建模。我们的研究结果揭示了一个明显的“中心-边缘”模式：RAF主要集中在靠近行政中心的中心地区，而边缘地区的RAF率明显较低。影响RAF的关键因素因地区而异：在中部地区，人口密度和土地流转率的影响最大；在边缘地区，地块聚集、海拔和土地流转率是最关键的决定因素。基于这些发现，我们提出了区分中心和边缘地区的区域特定策略，以提高RAF的效率和可持续性。该研究有助于更深入地了解复杂山区的RAF动态，并为有针对性的土地利用政策和乡村振兴提供实用见解。

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Citizenization of rural migrants at a crossroads: Shifting aspirations, eroding urban commitments, and spatial inequality in China 十字路口的农村移民市民化：愿望的转变、城市承诺的侵蚀以及中国的空间不平等

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-12-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103979

Chenglong Wang , Jianfa Shen

To accelerate progress towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), China has embedded the citizenization strategy (CTS) within its New-Type Urbanization (NTU) initiative. As hukou reform deepens, the core challenge of CTS has shifted from overcoming institutional exclusion to addressing a growing misalignment between policy reforms and migrants' evolving preferences. This study proposes a tripartite framework of citizenization, comprising legal status, integration quality, and urban commitment, to capture its multidimensional complexity. Using data from 174 cities and applying entropy analysis, we reveal pronounced spatial disparities: while northeastern and western cities show relatively strong citizenization performance, economically advanced southeastern hubs often lag, particularly in social adaptation and cultural assimilation. It suggests that rapid economic growth does not necessarily translate into inclusive urban futures for rural migrants. Megacities show a structural mismatch, with high hukou aspirations colliding with restrictive eligibility and weak commitment to settlement. Determinants further show that cities with higher proportions of tertiary-educated migrants achieve stronger citizenization, while male-dominated, inter-provincial, and homestead-retaining populations perform worse. Nonlinear relationships identify critical patterns: notable improvements occur after five years of urban residence, and the relationship between educational service quantity and citizenization follows a non-monotonic rather than linear trend. Moreover, the positive association between PM_2.5 and the index aligns with citizenization being higher in more urbanized or industrialized cities, rather than indicating a preference for pollution or a direct environmental mechanism. Findings offer nuanced insights into China's citizenization of rural migrants and contribute to broader global debates on bridging rural-urban divides and advancing sustainable urbanization in alignment with the SDGs.

为加快实现2030年可持续发展目标（sdg），中国将“市民化战略”纳入了新型城镇化（NTU）倡议。随着户口改革的深入，CTS的核心挑战已经从克服制度排斥转变为解决政策改革与流动人口不断变化的偏好之间日益严重的错位。本研究提出了一个市民化的三方框架，包括法律地位、融入质量和城市承诺，以捕捉其多维复杂性。利用174个城市的数据并运用熵分析，我们发现了明显的空间差异：东北和西部城市表现出相对较强的市民化表现，而经济发达的东南部城市往往滞后，特别是在社会适应和文化同化方面。研究表明，快速的经济增长并不一定意味着农村移民的城市未来具有包容性。超大城市显示出结构性的不匹配，高户口要求与限制性的落户资格和不坚定的落户承诺相冲突。决定因素进一步表明，受过高等教育的移民比例较高的城市实现了更强的市民化，而男性主导的、跨省的和保留家园的人口表现更差。非线性关系确定了关键模式：在城市居住5年后，教育服务质量与市民化之间的关系呈现非单调而非线性趋势。此外，PM2.5与该指数之间的正相关关系与城市化程度或工业化程度较高的城市的市民化程度一致，而不是表明对污染的偏好或直接的环境机制。研究结果对中国农村流动人口市民化提供了细致入微的见解，并有助于就弥合城乡差距和根据可持续发展目标推进可持续城市化展开更广泛的全球辩论。

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Conservation and inheritance of cultural heritage in regeneration of urban villages: A tale of two villages in Guangzhou, China 城中村更新中的文化遗产保护与传承——广州两个村的故事

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-12-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103989

Zhonghua Gu , Ying Zhang , Shi Xian , Silin Pan , Lulu Wang

The conservation of cultural heritage amidst urban regeneration has become a focal point in academic discussions. Existing research mainly focuses on historic towns and rural villages in developed countries, with insufficient attention to the urban villages of developing nations, particularly those in China, which are situated within complex urban-rural contexts, characterized by a hybrid of historical and cultural heritage, and confronted with pronounced uncertainties. This paper develops a conceptual framework that integrates narrative space theory, urban village regeneration, and cultural heritage conservation to explore the context, processes, and outcomes of heritage conservation under diverse regeneration modes. Through an in-depth analysis of two cases in Guangzhou—Liede Village's comprehensive redevelopment and Whampoa Village's micro-regeneration—the study reveals how different regeneration modes reshape narrative spaces and influence cultural heritage conservation in distinct ways. The findings demonstrate that the priorities assigned to spatial value mining, mediated by the interplay between narrators, mediums, and readers, changed across different regeneration phases and strategies. Additionally, different regeneration modes of urban villages exerted varying influences on narrative representation and non-representation spaces, reflecting the inherent complexity of their cultural heritage conversation and underscoring the need for regeneration strategies that more effectively balance diverse roles and elements. This research could enrich the global discourse on heritage conservation by offering new insights into the conservation of rural culture in the context of rapid urbanization and regeneration.

城市更新中的文化遗产保护已成为学术界讨论的焦点。现有的研究主要集中在发达国家的历史城镇和乡村，对发展中国家的城中村，特别是中国的城中村的关注不足，因为它们处于复杂的城乡背景中，具有历史和文化遗产混合的特点，面临着明显的不确定性。本文构建了一个整合叙事空间理论、城中村再生与文化遗产保护的概念框架，探讨不同再生模式下遗产保护的语境、过程和结果。通过对广州列德村综合改造和黄埔村微再生两个案例的深入分析，揭示了不同的再生模式如何以不同的方式重塑叙事空间，影响文化遗产保护。研究结果表明，在叙述者、媒介和读者之间的相互作用下，空间价值挖掘的优先级在不同的再生阶段和策略中发生了变化。此外，城中村不同的再生模式对叙事再现和非再现空间产生了不同的影响，反映了其文化遗产对话的内在复杂性，强调了需要更有效地平衡不同角色和元素的再生策略。该研究为快速城市化和更新背景下的乡村文化保护提供了新的见解，从而丰富了全球遗产保护的论述。

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Financial and mental health challenges in agriculture: Key informants' perspectives on farmers’ ability and willingness to seek help 农业中的财务和心理健康挑战：关键信息提供者对农民寻求帮助的能力和意愿的看法

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-12-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103977

Sarah Ruszkowski , Florence A. Becot , Carrie Henning-Smith , Andrea Bjornestad

As mental health challenges in agriculture have become more visible in recent years, farm organizations, farm service providers, and government agencies have invested in programs and resources to alleviate these challenges. Yet, these investments have overall been made with limited understanding of farmers' ability and willingness to engage with mental health support. Even less is known about how farmers engage with financial support despite financial challenges being a major stressor. In this paper, we leverage data from 59 interviews with 64 key informants in three U.S. states to explore their perspectives on the following: 1) farmers' willingness and ability to seek help for financial and mental health challenges and 2) the factors shaping farmers' willingness and ability to seek help for these two sets of challenges. Key informants described farmers as more willing than they were able to seek help, that they were most willing to engage with financial support, and least able to engage with mental health support. Many of the factors explaining willingness and ability were the same for mental health and financial challenges. Our findings highlight the importance of helping farmers access programs and resources (instead of the prevailing approach framed around convincing farmers to seek help), focusing on addressing the major barriers that impede farmers’ ability to seek help, and systematically linking financial and mental health programs and resources. Productive avenues for future research include examining the interplay between ability and willingness from the perspective of farmers and in countries with stronger social policies.

近年来，随着农业中的心理健康挑战变得越来越明显，农场组织、农场服务提供商和政府机构已经投入了一些项目和资源来缓解这些挑战。然而，总的来说，这些投资是在对农民参与心理健康支持的能力和意愿了解有限的情况下进行的。尽管经济挑战是一个主要的压力源，但人们对农民如何获得财政支持所知甚少。在本文中，我们利用来自美国三个州的64位关键线人的59次访谈数据，探讨他们对以下方面的看法：1)农民在财务和心理健康挑战中寻求帮助的意愿和能力；2)影响农民在这两组挑战中寻求帮助的意愿和能力的因素。关键举报人描述说，农民更愿意寻求帮助，而不是能够寻求帮助，他们最愿意获得财政支持，而最不愿意获得心理健康支持。许多解释意愿和能力的因素与心理健康和经济挑战是一样的。我们的研究结果强调了帮助农民获得项目和资源的重要性（而不是围绕说服农民寻求帮助的主流方法），重点是解决阻碍农民寻求帮助能力的主要障碍，并系统地将财务和心理健康项目和资源联系起来。未来研究的有效途径包括从农民和社会政策较强的国家的角度考察能力和意愿之间的相互作用。

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The deviation between willingness and behavior of farmers to adopt diversified conservation practices: Unraveling the role of risk and time preferences in northeastern China 农民采取多样化保护措施的意愿与行为偏差：东北地区风险偏好和时间偏好的作用

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-12-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103974

Rui He , Jianjun Jin , Yuhang Dai , Jubo Yan , Dan Liu

To adapt to climate change and promote black soil preservation, it is crucial to bridge the deviation between willingness and behavior in Conservation Agriculture (CA) and to acknowledge the heterogeneous preferences of farmers. However, current research has not adequately addressed the influence of farmers’risk and time preferences on these deviations of diversified CA practices. This study investigates the deviations of adopting CA practices among farmers in the black soil region of northeastern China and examines how risk and time preferences affect these deviations. Field surveys and behavioral experiments show that 683 farmers adopted CA practices, while 56 showed interest but did not follow through on any. Specifically, 595, 677, and 721 expressed interest in adopting straw returning, no or reduced tillage, and subsoiling, respectively, but 199, 177, and 182 did not act. Farmers display risk aversion and loss aversion, along with a preference for present bias in the short term and impatience in the long term. Notably, risk aversion narrows the deviation for subsoiling, while loss aversion increases the deviations for overall CA, straw returning, and subsoiling. Most importantly, farmers’ present bias widens the deviations for all three practices, and discount rates increase the deviations for overall CA, no or reduced tillage, and subsoiling. Based on these findings, effective policy implications are proposed for the government to bridge the deviation between willingness and behavior and enhance the adoption of CA practices by farmers in the black soil regions, thereby contributing to global climate change adaptation.

为了适应气候变化，促进黑土保护，弥合保护性农业意愿与行为之间的偏差，认识农民的异质性偏好是至关重要的。然而，目前的研究尚未充分探讨农民的风险偏好和时间偏好对多样化农业实践的这些偏差的影响。本研究考察了东北黑土地区农民采用农业生产实践的偏差，并考察了风险偏好和时间偏好对这些偏差的影响。实地调查和行为实验表明，683名农民采用了CA实践，而56名农民表现出兴趣，但没有坚持下去。具体而言，595、677和721分别表示有兴趣采取秸秆还田、免耕或减耕和深耕，但199、177和182没有采取行动。农民表现出风险厌恶和损失厌恶，以及短期偏好当前偏见和长期不耐烦。值得注意的是，风险厌恶缩小了沉土的偏差，而损失厌恶增加了总体CA、秸秆还田和沉土的偏差。最重要的是，农民目前的偏差扩大了所有三种做法的偏差，贴现率增加了总体CA、免耕或少耕和深耕的偏差。在此基础上，本文提出了有效的政策建议，以帮助政府弥合意愿与行为之间的偏差，并促进黑土地区农民采用CA实践，从而为全球气候变化适应做出贡献。

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Place-based rural development: building capacities, multi-actor collaborations and making sense of the local ‘place’ 基于地方的农村发展：能力建设、多方合作和理解当地“地方”

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-12-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103976

Claudia De Fuentes , David Doloreux , Stephen Quilley

This paper studies the modalities and processes of place-based development in rural economies. Through a case study of the wine industry in Nova Scotia (Canada), it examines why place-based development is important for rural industrial revitalization, and how new economic development is achieved through capacity building, multi-actor collaborations, and local sense-making. This case study highlights the ways in which interactions among multiple actors combined with deliberate interventions to attract exogenous knowledge and connect it to the specific local circumstances of a particular place were necessary to ignite and embed a new industry. The results are of broader relevance to the rural economic development literature and policy making, since they emphasize the potential to create new industries on greenfield sites in rural settings which initially lack the endogenous capacities for emergence and development.

本文研究了农村经济基于地发展的模式和过程。通过对加拿大新斯科舍省葡萄酒产业的案例研究，本文探讨了基于地方的发展对乡村工业振兴的重要性，以及如何通过能力建设、多方合作和地方意义制定来实现新的经济发展。本案例研究强调了多方参与者之间的互动与刻意干预相结合的方式，以吸引外部知识，并将其与特定地方的特定当地环境联系起来，这对于点燃和嵌入一个新产业是必要的。这些结果与农村经济发展文献和政策制定具有更广泛的相关性，因为它们强调了在农村环境中的绿地上创造新工业的潜力，这些新工业最初缺乏内生的出现和发展能力。

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Gendered labor mobility and terrace grain conservation: How female off-farm transfer reduces non-grain production in fragmented mountain agroecologies 性别劳动力流动与梯田粮食保护：女性非农转移如何减少破碎山区农业生态中的非粮食生产

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-12-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103973

Qianru Chen , Qian Wu , Hualin Xie

Grounded in feminist political ecology and utilizing a survey of 2085 rural households across diverse mountainous regions, this study deciphers the counterintuitive relationship between non-agricultural labor transfer (NALT) and terrace non-grain production (NGPT) through gendered labor divisions. Results reveal that NALT suppresses NGPT via dual pathways: remittance income reduces risk appetite for cash crops (income effect), while labor scarcity drives adoption of small-scale machinery favoring grain cultivation (substitution effect). Critically, gender reconfigures this dynamic—female labor transfer exerts significantly stronger inhibition on NGPT than male transfer, as women's exodus depletes essential labor for precision-intensive crops (e.g., vegetables, tea), triggering household exit from diversified farming, whereas terrain fragmentation constrains mechanization in male-dominated grain systems. This unintended conservation effect, where female off-farm mobility reinforces grain landscapes yet risks eroding women's agrobiodiversity knowledge, demands gender-responsive policy realignments: recognizing gendered crop heritage zones, subsidizing terrain-adapted machinery, and securing women's land rights to reconcile Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of food security (SDG 2) and gender equity (SDG 5) within rural revitalization frameworks.

本研究以女性主义政治生态学为基础，利用对不同山区2085户农户的调查，通过性别分工解读非农业劳动力转移（NALT）与梯田非粮食生产（NGPT）之间的反直觉关系。结果表明，NALT通过双重途径抑制NGPT：汇款收入降低了对经济作物的风险偏好（收入效应），而劳动力稀缺促使采用小型机械有利于粮食种植（替代效应）。至关重要的是，性别重新配置了这一动态——女性劳动力转移对NGPT的抑制作用明显强于男性劳动力转移，因为女性的外流耗尽了精密密集型作物（如蔬菜、茶叶）的必要劳动力，导致家庭退出多元化农业，而地形破碎化限制了男性主导的粮食系统的机械化。在这种意想不到的保护效应中，女性的非农流动强化了粮食景观，但也有可能削弱女性的农业生物多样性知识，因此需要对性别敏感的政策进行调整：承认性别作物遗产区，补贴适应地形的机械，并确保妇女的土地权利，以在乡村振兴框架内协调粮食安全（可持续发展目标2）和性别平等（可持续发展目标5）的可持续发展目标。

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Corrigendum to “China's agricultural upgrade: Digital inclusive finance driving high-quality development” [J. Rural Stud., Volume 121 (2026), 103927] “中国农业升级：数字普惠金融驱动高质量发展”勘误表[J]。农村学生。，第121卷（2026），103927]

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-12-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103942

Liangen Zeng , Yuandong Zou , Yisha Fu , Yanfeng Jiang , Xiaoyan Zhang , Linlin Dai , Yiqing Su

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Cultural and social capital in the rural revitalization: The production of public cultural space and power relationship in Dananpo Village 乡村振兴中的文化与社会资本：大南坡村公共文化空间的生产与权力关系

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-12-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103902

Jinyu Zhang , Yuqi Zheng , Yong Xiang

This study addresses a critical research gap concerning power dynamics inherent in top-down rural revitalization policies, which typically marginalize community agency. While existing literature predominantly privileges urban-centric development models or abstract spatial theories, we examine the understudied phenomenon of public space reproduction in rural China. Through ethnographic engagement with Dananpo Village, we analyze tensions between cultural authenticity and postmodern consumption demands in spatial practices, revealing how these negotiations generate economic rewards. Our research advances three key theoretical contributions: First, we extend Bourdieu's framework by theorizing how rural habitus mediates the conversion of public cultural space into cultural and economic capital, thereby exposing power asymmetries among key stakeholders. Second, we elucidate China's indigenous context of cultural capital conversion in the symbolic ownership of cultural production. Third, we propose an ideal revitalization model positioning rural residents as active agents in spatial transformation to ensure cultural continuity during industrial transitions. This ethnography uncovers structural power constraints shared by villages and offers practical implications for policymakers and practitioners.

本研究解决了自上而下的乡村振兴政策中固有的权力动力学的关键研究空白，这些政策通常将社区机构边缘化。在现有文献以城市为中心的发展模式或抽象的空间理论为主的背景下，我们考察了中国农村公共空间再生产这一未被充分研究的现象。通过与大南坡村的民族志接触，我们分析了空间实践中文化真实性与后现代消费需求之间的紧张关系，揭示了这些谈判如何产生经济回报。我们的研究提出了三个关键的理论贡献：首先，我们扩展了布迪厄的框架，通过理论化农村习惯如何中介公共文化空间向文化和经济资本的转化，从而揭示了关键利益相关者之间的权力不对称。其次，我们阐释了文化生产的象征性所有权中文化资本转换的中国本土语境。第三，我们提出了一种理想的振兴模式，将农村居民定位为空间转型的积极主体，以确保产业转型过程中的文化连续性。这种民族志揭示了村庄共有的结构性权力约束，并为政策制定者和实践者提供了实际意义。

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