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Mobile media, gender, and power in rural India

2019

This article traces the diffuse connections between mobility and power by exploring how mobile phone use contributed to gendered power relations in rural India. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork on the use of mobile phones, conducted periodically between 2005 and 2013 in the village of Janta in West Bengal, India, and compared to earlier fieldwork in Janta, before the village had any phone system. Analysis of the increased mobility reveals how mobile phone use emerges within interconnected, changing fields of power. The political sphere earlier perceived as predominantly local was replaced by translocal political practices characterized by increasing mobility. Although new political pra…

Strengthening the Social Capital in Rural Areas Through the Rural Renewal Program. A Case Study of Opole Voivodeship

2019

Opinions regarding the limited resources of the social capital in Poland are quite common. The country is particularly often referred to as a place with a lower level of organization of its inhabitants. Therefore, a change is necessary towards a greater activation of local communities and creation of social organizations aimed at solving local problems. The effective implementation of development programs may provide considerable support for the introduction of these changes. The Rural Renewal Program may serve as a particularly good example in this respect because the local community is not only the beneficiary, but mainly the initiator of the actions taken. The purpose of the paper is to …

Agricoltura e mutamento sociale

1995

Istituzioni e sviluppo nelle aree rurali: il ruolo della divulgazione agricola

2003

Whose Narrative is it Anyway? Narratives of Social Innovation in Rural Areas – A Comparative Analysis of Community‐Led Initiatives in Scotland and Sp…

2020

Social innovation is a process in which local communities build social and cultural capital to address challenges and social needs. The diffusion of social innovation requires compelling narratives that encourage people to join them. Using qualitative techniques and a multiple case study methodology, this paper examines the content of narratives of social innovation in rural areas and how actors construct, spread and change them. We propose a narrative analytical framework comprising four key components: problematisation; solutions and goals; actors; and plot, which we apply to three initiatives in Scotland and Spain. Our findings suggest that marginalisation, the natural environment and co…

“Splendid Isolation”: embracing islandness in a global pandemic

2022

Islandness is often considered to be a disadvantage. However, it has helped the residents of islands to delay, deter, and, in some cases, totally insulate themselves from COVID-19. While islanders have been quick to lock themselves down, this has had a tremendous impact on their connectivity and on tourism, which in many cases is their major economic sector. Yet, the association of islands with being safe, “COVID-19 free” zones has helped these spaces to be among the first destinations to restart the tourism economy once travel restrictions were lifted. After several weeks of lockdown, and with the COVID-19 threat still looming, social distancing remained the norm. Travellers we…

Local Powers and a Distant State in Rural Central African Republic

1997

‘The State Stops at PK 12’ – i.e. 12 kilometres from the capital, Bangui.The situation described by this statement, often heard in the Central African Republic, seems to conform to the objectives of the currently fashionable policies of decentralisation and structural adjustment – for example, to end ‘too much state’. However, the absence of the state in the rural areas of the CAR is so striking that the position in certain respects has almost reached the level of caricature. It also reflects the more general situation in other parts of the continent where the excesses of a centralised, over-staffed post-colonial regime can coexist perfectly with the pronounced absence in the rural areas of…

Promoting neoliberal ideology in Finnish rural community development : the creation of new moral actors

2019

Today’s political ambitions are based on the neoliberal aspiration to diminish the state’s role and responsibilities, and to transfer those responsibilities to local communities and individuals in ways that idealise those communities, promising to ‘give power to the people’. Instead of highlighting individualism, neoliberalism now celebrates communities and participation. This article deals with the effects of this ideology with regard to Finnish rural policy objectives. Drawing on Finnish village action programmes as data, we argue that these ideological views aim to transform individuals and create new moral actors. Our research indicates that Finland’s rural policy objectives invoke acto…

La inmigración de Bulgaria y Reino Unido en el medio rural valenciano. Estudio comparado de dos modelos migratorios.

2016

Esta tesis tiene como objetivo la comprensión del fenómeno migratorio en la Comunidad Valenciana partiendo de la dualidad del contexto, en el que existe un fuerte componente de migración laboral, pero que a la vez un porcentaje importante de la inmigración es de tipo lifestyle, lo que supone que son personas de una edad superior que vienen a pasar los últimos años de su vida. Para ello se realizó un estudio de caso comparado en dos municipios tipo de cada uno de los tipos de migración, en el que se desarrollaron historias de vida (a extranjeros/as), entrevistas (a personas autóctonas, así como a informantes clave), pero también observación participante (y no participante), así como el refue…

Vietas piesaiste un dzīvesstilu daudzveidība Latvijas laukos

2019

Promocijas darba mērķis ir raksturot dzīvesstilu un vietas piesaistes daudzveidību Latvijas laukos. Teorētiskajā modelī lauku dzīves vide raksturota no vietas kā trīs dimensiju – materiālās formas, relatīvās attālinātība un vietai piešķirto vērtību un nozīmju perspektīvas; tās radītie priekšnosacījumi sociālajiem aģentiem – izmantojot dzīvesstila jēdzienu, vietas piesaistes, ikdienas mobilitātes un migrācijas jēdzienus. Izveidotais teorētiskais modelis empīriskajā pētījumā pārbaudīts, izveidojot kvantitatīvā aptaujā izmantojamu jautājumu matricu par ikdienas pakalpojumu un iespēju izmantošanu dažādos telpiskos mērogos. Pētījumā secināts, ka lauku ierobežotā iespēju struktūra un attālinātība…