Country/Rural Flashcards
The rural is..
Primary industry and business parks, a space of consumption due to tourism food etc
Official definition
Depending on place, problems of this is population density depends on area, reveals nothing and inaccurate due to second homes and commutes
Close 1997
Indices of the rural used 16 variables but later decided he was prefer mining the outcome
Hoggart 1990
Rural is too board
What is rural known as traditionally?
Primary production, low population density, low incomes
Rural as a social concept
A way in which people give themselves a place and identity
Little and Austin 1996
Rural seen as uncomplicated, innocent, honest, genuine society
Short 1991
Less hurried, time for one another, organic community
Halfacree and Jones 1995
Surrounded by fields, close-knit communities, thatched pubs and homes
Rural reconstruction due to globalisation
Interlinked changes such as towns growing in size, changes in the processes shaping rural areas, eg wind turbines. Qualities and quantitive difference eg changes in number of cars, views of people there
Matless 1994
It is assumed that rural is against modernisation but they have Internet and phone signal
Held et al 1999
Widening, depending and speaking up of worldwide interconnectedness
Albrow and King 1990
Peoples of the world are incorporated into a single world society, a global one
World Bank cited in Wills 2005 (globalisation)
Globalisation can be summarised as the global curriculation of goods, services and capital but also information, ideas and people
Economic globalisation
Free flow and more equal distribution of wealth eg free trade. International scale (food miles)
The guardian 2003 food miles
Chicken, Thailand
Carrots, SA
Tomatoes Saudi Arabia
Global trade regulations
World trade organisation 1994 most powerful
Halfacree 1993
Descriptive (population land use, economic activity) Socio-cultural, locality, social construct
Gray 1999
66 of 100 most wealthy global organisation are corporations and only 57 national governments are on the Forbes 500 list
Elwood
33% of trade is a big corporation trading within itself
Corporate concentration
4 companies dominate the global seed market eg 80% maize exports in US THREE COMPANIES
Globalisation of mobility
2007 quarter of migrant workers in uk were in rural areas (people in the country side are changing
Globalisation of values
Cultures changing, universal standard however conflict with traditional values eg hunting
Woods 2007 global countryside
Rural becoming interconnected “dynamic networks”
Resistance to globalisation
WTO often favour western nations and interested. Defensive localism - protecting their identity, increasing farmer debts, promoting local produce, protests on global scale JOSE BOVE
Rural economy and the European budget
41% was 70% big policies = controversial
Changing land use
No longer just farms, now tourism, wildlife perseveres, business parks or commute to urban
1947 uk agricultural act
Safety net for farmer, reduce the amount of food imported
1962 eu common agricultural policy
Common market for farmers, protection them, prevent people from starving
Productivity
Farm produce sold direct, using chemicals, few but large farms, removal of hedge rows - destroys the landscape focus on 1/2 crops and skills
Common agricultural policy CAP
Effected everyone. Stabilised markets, assured the availablity and prices (became 70% of budget)
Problems of CAP
Over production, waste, farm debts, reduction of the workforce, environmental problems, inequalitiesNOT SUSTAINABLE
1992 MacSharry and 2003 agenda 2000
Emphasis on diversification and multi functionality
Spelman 2001
Should rely less on direct farming subsidies and reward farmers in their environmental efforts
Current situation of CAP
Further reforms, sustainable intensification, payments for ecosystem services and re-wilding
State responses to rural change
Reforms of policies, agri-environmental schemes, land use and planing, rural development and action to support rural services