Pub Date : 2023-07-01Epub Date: 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1111/soru.12437
Chloe Sutcliffe, Jerry Knox, Tim Hess
This article concerns UK commercial fruit and vegetable growers' narratives regarding the sustainability of water use for food production. In it we explore their perspectives on efforts by regulators to limit agricultural withdrawals of water from the natural environment in line with EU Water Framework Directive objectives, alongside their views on retailer sustainability commitments. Discourse analysis is used to investigate how the growers contested restrictive regulation, constructed their identities, portrayed other supply chain stakeholders, and conveyed their social relations with them. Using Erving Goffman's theory of frontstage and backstage performances, the implications for the growers' water management decisions and their internalisation of sustainability agendas for water are examined. Whilst the growers gave accounts of purposely misrepresenting their water withdrawal practices and their discourse illustrated significant polarisation between environmental and agricultural interests, their underlying commitment to environmental sustainability was ambivalent, with both anti and pro-environmental attitudes expressed. The growers also frequently gave critiques of superficial sustainability in fresh produce supply chains. We argue that, given contemporary shifting definitions of agricultural identities, settings in which their construction is negotiated can provide windows of opportunity for conventional growers to engage in genuine pro-environmental performances that may deepen their assimilation of environmental goals and commitment to sustainable water use.
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{"title":"Farmers who tinker: Grounded alternatives to incrementalism and the growth imperative","authors":"Matt Comi","doi":"10.1111/soru.12445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12445","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47985,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia Ruralis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42600665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Mahon, M. Woods, M. Farrell, Rhys Jones, Bryonny Goodwin‐Hawkins
{"title":"A spatial justice perspective on EU rural sustainability as territorial cohesion","authors":"M. Mahon, M. Woods, M. Farrell, Rhys Jones, Bryonny Goodwin‐Hawkins","doi":"10.1111/soru.12444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12444","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47985,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia Ruralis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45785194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brian Kuns, Lowe Börjeson, K. Fischer, Charlotta Hedberg, Irma Olofsson, U. Ovaska, Bjarke Refslund, Johan Fredrik Rye, H. Vihinen
This article focuses on migrant labour in Nordic agriculture, wild berry picking and food processing. The starting point is the fear of a food crisis at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic (2020) because of the absence of migrant workers. The question was raised early in the pandemic if food systems in the Global North are vulnerable due to dependence on precarious migrant workers. In the light of this question, we assess the reactions of farmers and different actors in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden to what looked like an unfolding food crisis. In many ways, the reactions in the Nordic countries were similar to each other, and to broader reactions in the Global North, and we follow these reactions as they relate to migrant workers from an initial panic to a return to business as usual despite the continuation of the pandemic. In the end, 2020 proved to be an excellent year for Nordic food production in part because migrant workers were able to come. We discuss reasons why the Nordic countries did not face disruptions during the pandemic, map out patterns of labour precarity and segmentation for migrant labour in agriculture and food production in the Nordic countries and propose questions for further research. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Sociologia Ruralis is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)
{"title":"From panic to business as usual: What coronavirus has revealed about migrant labour, agri‐food systems and industrial relations in the Nordic countries","authors":"Brian Kuns, Lowe Börjeson, K. Fischer, Charlotta Hedberg, Irma Olofsson, U. Ovaska, Bjarke Refslund, Johan Fredrik Rye, H. Vihinen","doi":"10.1111/soru.12443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12443","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on migrant labour in Nordic agriculture, wild berry picking and food processing. The starting point is the fear of a food crisis at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic (2020) because of the absence of migrant workers. The question was raised early in the pandemic if food systems in the Global North are vulnerable due to dependence on precarious migrant workers. In the light of this question, we assess the reactions of farmers and different actors in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden to what looked like an unfolding food crisis. In many ways, the reactions in the Nordic countries were similar to each other, and to broader reactions in the Global North, and we follow these reactions as they relate to migrant workers from an initial panic to a return to business as usual despite the continuation of the pandemic. In the end, 2020 proved to be an excellent year for Nordic food production in part because migrant workers were able to come. We discuss reasons why the Nordic countries did not face disruptions during the pandemic, map out patterns of labour precarity and segmentation for migrant labour in agriculture and food production in the Nordic countries and propose questions for further research. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Sociologia Ruralis is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)","PeriodicalId":47985,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia Ruralis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47291381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Immaculate Conception of Data. Agribusiness, Activists, and Their Shared Politics of the Future by KellyBronson, Montréal: McGill‐Queen's University Press. 2022. xiv + 224 pp. $37.95 (paperback). ISBN‐10: 0228011213. ISBN‐13: 978–0228011217","authors":"Romain Blancaneaux","doi":"10.1111/soru.12438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12438","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47985,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia Ruralis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46978717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Governing resettlement beyond safety: Multilevel governance as a model for sustainable resettlement of unaccompanied refugee children in rural Sweden?","authors":"Ildikó Asztalos Morell","doi":"10.1111/soru.12431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12431","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47985,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia Ruralis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47559223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘A just price is future’: The capital–life conflict in a viticulture region (El Penedès)","authors":"Patricia Homs Ramírez de la Piscina","doi":"10.1111/soru.12435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12435","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47985,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia Ruralis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47109968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The journey of staying: A transitional and mobility perspective on the staying rural preferences of rural young adults","authors":"H. Hofstede, Koen Salemink, T. Haartsen","doi":"10.1111/soru.12434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12434","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47985,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia Ruralis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42742118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Affected by and affecting forest fires in Sweden and Spain: A critical feminist analysis of vulnerability to fire","authors":"Marien González‐Hidalgo","doi":"10.1111/soru.12432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12432","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47985,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia Ruralis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42154005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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