Australian rural education research: A geographical perspective

This paper brings a rural geographical lens to the study of education and rurality. Two key interrelated notions underpinning Australian educational scholarship on rurality are explored. That is, the concepts of the rural and of community. The adoption and mobilisation of these terms in a large proportion of rural educational research as unproblematic is at odds with contemporary theorising in rural geography. In order to advance studies of rural education, we point to the contestability, fluidity and fundamentally political nature of these core concepts. In doing so, we draw on a selection of extant geographical research and educational research concerned with the rural. In concluding the paper we highlight that as well as challenging orthodoxies in relation to notions of rurality and community, more recent rural geographical scholarship has also engaged a greater diversity of methodological approaches. We suggest that more robust and nuanced approaches to terms such as 'the rural' and 'the community' in educational research could be garnered by reference to this dynamic body of methodological writing.

L'Evolució dels enfocaments metodològics en la geografia rural catalana, 1940- 1984

L’article pretén estudiar la introducció dels nous enfocaments metodològics en la geografia catalana en el període 1940-1984, tot estudiant la geografia rural. L’autor s’ha centrat en l’estudi de 19 tesi doctorals què estudien la geografia rural parcial o totalment

[Ressenya del llibre] Fernando Collantes Gutiérrez. El declive demográfico de la montaña española (1850-2000) : ¿Un drama rural? . Madrid, Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación, 2004, 364 pp.

Comentari del llibre de Fernando Collantes Gutiérrez, 'El declive demográfico de la montaña española (1850-2000) : ¿Un drama rural?', publicat l'any 2004 pel Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación

[Ressenya de] Los espacios rurales en el cambio de siglo: incertidumbres ante los procesos de globalización y desarrollo : X Coloquio de Geografía Rural de España. Lleida, del 25 al 29 de setembre de 2000

Crònica del 'X Coloquio de Geografía Rural de España', que va tenir lloc a la Universitat de Lleida, entre els dies 25 i 29 de setembre de 2000, organitzat pel Grup de Treball de Geografia Rural de l’Associació de Geògrafs Espanyols (AGE) i el Departament de Geografia i Sociologia de l'esmentada universitat. L’objectiu bàsic del col·loqui era reflexionar al voltant de les transformacions i permanències que afecten els espais rurals espanyols davant del canvi de segle

Turismo e(m) assentamentos de reforma agrária na perspectiva da crítica marxista radical: uma leitura dos anais do Congresso Brasileiro de Turismo rural

Pós-graduação em Geografia - IGCE

Crítica à noção de multifuncionalidade rural em assentamentos de reforma agrária no Pontal do Paranapanema – SP

Pós-graduação em Geografia - FCT

O paraíso atrasado: a construção do rural no Brasil através do imaginário geográfico

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Development of a Digital Tool to Overcome the Challenges of Rural Food SMEs

Peer reviewed

From stress to distress: Conceptualizing the British family farming patriarchal way of life

‘Rural stress’ and ‘farming stress’ are terms that have become commonly appropriated by British health-based academic disciplines, the medical profession and social support networks, especially since the agricultural ‘crises’ of B.S.E. and Foot and Mouth Disease. Looking beyond the media headlines, it is apparent that the terms in fact are colloquial catch-alls for visible psychological and physiological outcomes shown by individuals. Seldom have the underlying causes and origins of presentable medical outcomes been probed, particularly within the context of the patriarchal and traditionally patrilineal way of life which family forms of farming business activity in Britain encapsulate. Thus, this paper argues that insufficient attention has been paid to the conceptualization of the terms. They have become both over-used and ill-defined in their application to British family farm individuals and their life situations. A conceptual framework is outlined that attempts to shift the stress research agenda into the unilluminated spaces of the family farming ‘way of life’ and focus instead on ‘distress’. Drawing upon theorization from agricultural and feminist geography together with cultural approaches from rural geography, four distinct clusters of distress originate from the thoughts of individuals and the social practices now required to enact patriarchal family farming gender identities. These are explored using case study evidence from ethnographic repeated life history interviews with members of seven farming families in Powys, Mid Wales, an area dominated by family forms of farming business. Future research agendas need to be based firmly on the distressing reality of patriarchal family farming and also be inclusive of those who, having rejected the associated way of life, now lie beyond the farm gate.

O patrimônio cultural e as identidades territoriais como possibilidades de desenvolvimento da atividade turística no município de Rosana/SP

Pós-graduação em Geografia - FCT