José Manuel Álvarez‐Montoya, Esteban Ruiz‐Ballesteros
The role of newcomers in the contemporary rural world has been widely studied, but the variability of profiles they present (amenity migrants, classic economic immigrants, neo‐rurals…) suggests that not all these actors have the same effects on the rural world and its crises. This article examines specifically how neo‐rurals—a population that is politically committed to sustainable rural development—influence the socio‐environmental, socio‐economic and socio‐identity issues surrounding the rural crisis through their engagement with tourism, a key activity in shaping the rural world in southern Europe. To do this, we present an ethnographic case study conducted in Fuenteheridos, a village in the Sierra de Aracena (Andalusia, Spain) that has a significant neo‐rural population and a developed tourism sector. This case study allows us to reflect on the differential effects of neo‐rurals on the rural crisis.
新移民在当代农村世界中的作用已经得到了广泛的研究，但他们所呈现的特征（便利移民、经典经济移民、新农村……）的可变性表明，并非所有这些参与者对农村世界及其危机都有相同的影响。本文专门研究了新农村人口——在政治上致力于农村可持续发展的人口——如何通过参与旅游业（塑造南欧农村世界的关键活动）来影响围绕农村危机的社会环境、社会经济和社会认同问题。为此，我们在西班牙安达卢西亚阿拉塞纳山脉（Sierra de Aracena）的一个村庄富恩特赫里多斯（Fuenteheridos）进行了一项人种学案例研究，该村庄拥有大量新农村人口和发达的旅游业。这一案例研究使我们能够反思新农村对农村危机的不同影响。
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The hostility to wolves by segments of agribusiness and the general public in the United States is a puzzle, given that wolf predation is not responsible for a large number of cattle and sheep losses and has only a very modest economic effect on the livestock industry. Thus, the logic of profit‐seeking in capitalism, although playing a role, is insufficient to explain the outsized and partisan opposition to wolf recovery. We argue that the logics of settler colonialism are a foundational force that shapes the politics and management of wolves in the United States. We explain how settler colonialism seeks to eliminate both Indigenous people and wolves to appropriate and reshape landscapes for settler use. Contemporary wolf policy and management at the state and federal levels continue to reflect settler colonial logics. Our general aim is to show how theories of settler colonialism complement other prominent sociological theories and enhance our understanding of the forces leading to ecological crises. We conclude by highlighting examples of more just approaches to wolf management that include Indigenous kinship and relational values.
{"title":"Colonizing Canis lupus: Wolf Management as a Settler Colonial Project","authors":"Kristina Beggen, Richard York","doi":"10.1111/ruso.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.70009","url":null,"abstract":"The hostility to wolves by segments of agribusiness and the general public in the United States is a puzzle, given that wolf predation is not responsible for a large number of cattle and sheep losses and has only a very modest economic effect on the livestock industry. Thus, the logic of profit‐seeking in capitalism, although playing a role, is insufficient to explain the outsized and partisan opposition to wolf recovery. We argue that the logics of settler colonialism are a foundational force that shapes the politics and management of wolves in the United States. We explain how settler colonialism seeks to eliminate both Indigenous people and wolves to appropriate and reshape landscapes for settler use. Contemporary wolf policy and management at the state and federal levels continue to reflect settler colonial logics. Our general aim is to show how theories of settler colonialism complement other prominent sociological theories and enhance our understanding of the forces leading to ecological crises. We conclude by highlighting examples of more just approaches to wolf management that include Indigenous kinship and relational values.","PeriodicalId":47924,"journal":{"name":"RURAL SOCIOLOGY","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144290171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This is one of the first studies of food provisioning in remote rural areas of Scotland and England, providing evidence of precarity in food access at the same time as agricultural products are exported from the region to the global food system. We interviewed residents of four remote and rural areas of the UK about their food shopping habits and their purchase of local foods. Using theoretical resources from social science literature on food shopping, alternative food networks, and resilience to identify the influence of daily routine on rural food shopping practices, the importance of local retailers, the limited availability of locally produced foods, and the distinct nature of remote and rural households' food and shopping practices. Our findings illustrate the greater fragility of these rural food systems, the challenges faced by residents of these communities who can be unusually dependent on long and sometimes unreliable supermarket supply chains for the bulk of their food purchases, and the ‘buffering’ practices that they adopt to guard against possible food shortages. We argue that these practices can be considered as a form of care for both individuals and communities, but that, on their own, they cannot fully address this fragility. Initiatives to support shorter supply chains could improve the resilience of rural food systems but would require investment in infrastructure such as abattoirs, market spaces, and polytunnels in order to increase production, meet existing demand for locally produced food, and keep that food within these areas for local consumers.
{"title":"Producing but Not Consuming? Food Provisioning in Remote, Rural Areas of the UK☆","authors":"Isabel Fletcher, Ann Bruce","doi":"10.1111/ruso.70006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.70006","url":null,"abstract":"This is one of the first studies of food provisioning in remote rural areas of Scotland and England, providing evidence of precarity in food access at the same time as agricultural products are exported from the region to the global food system. We interviewed residents of four remote and rural areas of the UK about their food shopping habits and their purchase of local foods. Using theoretical resources from social science literature on food shopping, alternative food networks, and resilience to identify the influence of daily routine on rural food shopping practices, the importance of local retailers, the limited availability of locally produced foods, and the distinct nature of remote and rural households' food and shopping practices. Our findings illustrate the greater fragility of these rural food systems, the challenges faced by residents of these communities who can be unusually dependent on long and sometimes unreliable supermarket supply chains for the bulk of their food purchases, and the ‘buffering’ practices that they adopt to guard against possible food shortages. We argue that these practices can be considered as a form of care for both individuals and communities, but that, on their own, they cannot fully address this fragility. Initiatives to support shorter supply chains could improve the resilience of rural food systems but would require investment in infrastructure such as abattoirs, market spaces, and polytunnels in order to increase production, meet existing demand for locally produced food, and keep that food within these areas for local consumers.","PeriodicalId":47924,"journal":{"name":"RURAL SOCIOLOGY","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144237378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American Rust Belt, by Amanda McMillanLequieu, New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 384 pp. $32.00 (paper). ISBN: 9780231198752.","authors":"Ellie Martin","doi":"10.1111/ruso.70008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.70008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47924,"journal":{"name":"RURAL SOCIOLOGY","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143930693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right, by ArlieHochschild, New York: The New Press, 2024. 383 pp. $30.99 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1‐62097‐643‐3.","authors":"Kai A. Schafft","doi":"10.1111/ruso.70005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.70005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47924,"journal":{"name":"RURAL SOCIOLOGY","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143920460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Drawing on 65 in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with community members and local leaders, this research examines and categorizes social distance between local leaders and low‐income community members in “Green Glen,” a rural Indiana community. We operationalize this distance as high, medium, and low based on leaders' connection to low‐income residents, knowledge of their livelihood strategies, and belief in culture of poverty rhetoric. High social distance leaders tend not to know any low‐income residents personally, know little about how they make ends meet, and rely upon culture of poverty explanations in discussions about them. Medium social distance leaders may have occasional interactions with low‐income residents or may have close personal ties with someone who does, tend to have some knowledge of how low‐income residents make ends meet, and use a combination of cultural and structural explanations when discussing poverty in Green Glen. Low social distance leaders have frequent interactions with low‐income residents, know a great deal about how they make ends meet, and point to local and national economic conditions that negatively impact the low‐income residents of the community. The amount of social distance may directly and indirectly impact low‐income community members' available resources and ability to make ends meet.
{"title":"“They Don't Want to Know; They Don't Want to Hear”: Social Distance Between Leaders and Low‐Income Community Members in a Rural Indiana Community☆","authors":"Steven Tuttle, Emily J. Wornell","doi":"10.1111/ruso.70007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.70007","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on 65 in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with community members and local leaders, this research examines and categorizes social distance between local leaders and low‐income community members in “Green Glen,” a rural Indiana community. We operationalize this distance as high, medium, and low based on leaders' connection to low‐income residents, knowledge of their livelihood strategies, and belief in culture of poverty rhetoric. High social distance leaders tend not to know any low‐income residents personally, know little about how they make ends meet, and rely upon culture of poverty explanations in discussions about them. Medium social distance leaders may have occasional interactions with low‐income residents or may have close personal ties with someone who does, tend to have some knowledge of how low‐income residents make ends meet, and use a combination of cultural and structural explanations when discussing poverty in Green Glen. Low social distance leaders have frequent interactions with low‐income residents, know a great deal about how they make ends meet, and point to local and national economic conditions that negatively impact the low‐income residents of the community. The amount of social distance may directly and indirectly impact low‐income community members' available resources and ability to make ends meet.","PeriodicalId":47924,"journal":{"name":"RURAL SOCIOLOGY","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143902919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Although place‐based partisanship is well‐documented, few scholars explore political polarization within rural communities or how political minorities survive conformity pressures in small towns. Drawing on interviews with 21 parents who reside in a predominantly conservative, rural community in Northern Appalachia, this study uses an identity‐based model of culture in action to analyze how political minority parents maintained their identity during the 2020 presidential election despite facing conflict in the community and their families. I found that political minorities coped with the nonverification of their political identities in the community by using the local college as a resource for political action, local power, and their children's socialization. I argue that political minorities maintained their identities by framing their group as superior to the Republican majority in the community by highlighting their higher status, access to cultural capital, and values associated with their partisan social identity. Within families, however, responses to political disagreements diverged. While some maintained their partisan identities, others adopted a moderate stance. Moderates relied on cultural skills to frame political differences as a matter of tolerance, independence, choice, and separation of morality from political identity. Partisans used their cultural skills to frame political differences as a matter of protecting children from moral harm. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of the coping strategies that political minorities use to negotiate family, community, and political identity amidst increasing political division and geographic sorting.
{"title":"Political Minority Identity Maintenance and Parenting in a Rural Small Town☆","authors":"Laura Backstrom","doi":"10.1111/ruso.70004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.70004","url":null,"abstract":"Although place‐based partisanship is well‐documented, few scholars explore political polarization <jats:italic>within</jats:italic> rural communities or how political minorities survive conformity pressures in small towns. Drawing on interviews with 21 parents who reside in a predominantly conservative, rural community in Northern Appalachia, this study uses an identity‐based model of culture in action to analyze how political minority parents maintained their identity during the 2020 presidential election despite facing conflict in the community and their families. I found that political minorities coped with the nonverification of their political identities in the community by using the local college as a resource for political action, local power, and their children's socialization. I argue that political minorities maintained their identities by framing their group as superior to the Republican majority in the community by highlighting their higher status, access to cultural capital, and values associated with their partisan social identity. Within families, however, responses to political disagreements diverged. While some maintained their partisan identities, others adopted a moderate stance. Moderates relied on cultural skills to frame political differences as a matter of tolerance, independence, choice, and separation of morality from political identity. Partisans used their cultural skills to frame political differences as a matter of protecting children from moral harm. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of the coping strategies that political minorities use to negotiate family, community, and political identity amidst increasing political division and geographic sorting.","PeriodicalId":47924,"journal":{"name":"RURAL SOCIOLOGY","volume":"97 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143813506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Haylie M. June, Michael R. Cope, Sydney Hawkins, Scott R. Sanders, Aaron Hunter
This study seeks to investigate residents' support for a future Winter Olympic host bid in Heber, Utah, a growing rural community about 45 miles from Salt Lake City. Specifically, we examine how feelings toward one's community and feelings toward Salt Lake City's hosting of the 2002 Winter Olympics predict support for a future Olympic bid. In order to investigate our research question, we use data collected in Heber Valley in 2012 and 2018. We find that community attachment, community satisfaction, and the community's perceived desirability significantly predict support for a future Olympic bid. Compared to the baseline year of 2012, 2018 was significantly different, indicating that support for a future bid has decreased as time has passed since the 2002 Olympic Games. Length of residence, employment status, and use of the Soldier Hollow facilities were also significant predictors of support for a future Olympic bid. There were slight variations among the independent variables when separating the observations by community within Heber Valley (i.e., among residents of the city of Heber, Midway, or other towns).
这项研究旨在调查犹他州希伯（Heber）居民对未来申办冬奥会的支持程度。希伯是一个距离盐湖城（Salt Lake City）约45英里的新兴农村社区。具体来说，我们研究了一个人对社区的感受和对盐湖城举办2002年冬奥会的感受如何预测对未来奥运会申办的支持。为了调查我们的研究问题，我们使用了2012年和2018年在希伯谷收集的数据。我们发现，社区依恋、社区满意度和社区感知的可取性显著地预测了对未来申奥的支持。与2012年的基准年相比，2018年的情况有很大不同，这表明自2002年奥运会以来，随着时间的推移，对未来申办的支持有所减少。居住时间、就业状况和士兵山谷设施的使用情况也是对未来申办奥运会的支持程度的重要预测因素。当按希伯谷内的社区（即希伯市、中途岛市或其他城镇的居民）分离观察结果时，自变量之间存在轻微差异。
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Jennifer Lai, Kristina Beethem, Sandra T. Marquart‐Pyatt
Reducing tillage is a key goal for conservation and regenerative agriculture, yet research has struggled to identify ways to increase the use of the practice among farmers. Recent scholarship has identified social capital as an important piece of the adoption puzzle. However, the ways in which farmers' social capital influences conservation practice use are seldom identified or explored. In this study, we tested the effects of three measures of social capital on the adoption of no‐till among 1,523 row crop farmers in the United States Corn Belt. Specifically, we operationalized the extent to which farmers' social networks, network trust, and community conservation norms affect intra‐individual processes and thus influence farmers' decisions regarding adoption. Our results identified key mechanisms for the promotion of conservation practices through social capital. Subjective conservation norms emerged as a main pathway through which farmers' social capital influenced their use of no‐till, indicating that networks, network trust, and community norms can increase adoption through affective paths. We conclude that academic research and policy experts should continue to situate farmers as social actors and pay heed to the norms and cultural expectations surrounding agricultural conservation practices.
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Christina Proctor, Noah Hopkins, Chase Reece, Lauren Ledbetter Griffeth
Traditional gender expectations and societal norms, along with unique occupational and organizational policies, may make it difficult for women to work in the agricultural industry. The purpose of this study is to apply Role Congruity Theory to female farmers' experience of occupational stress, and to explore behavioral adaptations used to cope with working in a male‐dominated occupation in areas where conventional gender norms are more prominent. Structured interviews were conducted with 16 female farm owners and managers and a thematic analysis approach was used to analyze data. Female farmers reported stress associated with gender stereotyping, misogyny, role expectations, and lack of respect. This study found that women are perceived as incongruent with the male‐dominated agricultural sector, and experience prejudice and harassment substantiating Role Congruity Theory. In addition, participants reported behavioral adaptations such as adopting masculine traits, dressing differently, and overworking or overcompensating, which may be contributing to higher stress levels. Women participating in this study took pride in defying expectations and succeeding in a male‐dominated occupation, but more effort should be made to promote diversity and inclusion in the agricultural industry.
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