Rural Livelihoods, Regional Economies, and Processes of Change

ISBN-13: 9780415870856 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 202 str.

Deborah Sick

Opis

For centuries, new technologies and expanding networks of production and consumption have been changing the face of rural economies in significant ways. Millions of rural dwellers have found survival increasingly difficult and have fled to urban centres. Others have remained: some retrenching, struggling to just subsist, others attempting to innovatively redefine their place within new rural economies.

For the past 30 years, rural economies have largely been ignored by policy makers, but recent growing concerns about food security, environmental degradation, climate change, continued rural poverty, and high rates of out- migration have sparked renewed interest in rural regions. While numerous scholars have examined the changing nature of rural economies and their role in larger national and international development efforts, this collection aims to highlight the iterative "processes" which shape rural economies by showing how the livelihood strategies of rural dwellers and by extension the regional economies in which they live -- both shape, and are shaped by, larger national and international processes. Presenting case studies from a variety of rural regions around the world, this volume examines the changing face of rural economies. The book argues that regional economies and livelihoods are shaped not just by local conditions, national policies, and global economic forces, but also by the varied responses to changing conditions made by rural residents in any one region.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Rural livelihoods and processes of change Deborah Sick  2. ‘We Will Not Farm Like Our Fathers Did’: Multilocational livelihoods, cellphones, and the continuing challenge of rural development in western Kenya Joshua Ramisch  3. The New Face of the Countryside: Agriculture and generational livelihood strategies in rural Costa Rica Deborah R Sick  4. On the Ends of the Diversification Spectrum: Macro-level factors and Maasai livelihood pathways in contemporary Kenya Caroline Archamault, Scott Matter, and John G. Galaty  5. A Place That Found Its Brand: Kyoto’s agricultural economy in the twenty-first century Greg De St. Maurice  6. Balancing Conservation and Over-Exploitation: Rural economies, protected areas and sea cucumber fisheries in Yucatán, Mexico Sabrina Doyon and Catherine Sabinot  7. Livelihood Strategies, Ecotourism and Changing Environmental Values in a Costa Rican Village Josephine Howitt  8. Ethicizing Rural Livelihoods in a Market-Oriented Society: Lessons from a quilombola community in Sao Paulo, Brazil Rodrigo Penna-Firme Pedrosa  9. Bypassing the National, Engaging the Global: (Re)negotiating terms of global belonging in the Balinese handicrafts industry Jennifer S Esperanza  10. Networks, Collaboration, and Embeddedness: How small rural businesses mobilize social resources in local and global markets, a Canadian case Nathan Young

O autorze

Deborah Sick is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her research interests include smallholder producers, commodity markets, food systems, resource management, and socio-economic change in Latin America, principally in Costa Rica and northern Mexico.