Rural Community Resilience in Hungary and Wales
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Discussing possible theoretical frameworks for conceptualising ‘rural community resilience’ in Hungary and
Wales
Márton LendvayCheltenham, 07.11.2014.
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Research idea
Community resilience
Post-socialist
environment
Social
capital
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Research questions
How does social capital contribute to the resilience of rural communities in post-socialist environment?
1) How can ‘rural community resilience’ be conceptualized in post-socialist environment with special regard to human factors affecting rural communities?
2) How is social capital constructed in post-socialist and in capitalist settings; in what ways do forms of interaction and patterns of cooperation between members of rural communities differ?
3) How do rural communities enhance adaptability beyond formal cooperation in the post-socialist space?
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Community resilience?
“Community resilience is the existence, development, and engagement of community resources by community members to thrive in an environment characterized by change, uncertainty, unpredictability, and surprise. Members of resilient communities intentionally develop personal and collective capacity that they engage to respond to and influence change, to sustain and renew the community, and to develop new trajectories for the communities’ future.”
(Magis, 2010, p. 402)
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Critique
• No ontological theory behind these concepts
• No fixed analytical framework
• Little explanatory power
• Difficult operationalisation
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Case-studies
• Geographic area• Sense of community• External pressures• Response by community action
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Case-study I
“Watermelon producing community in Hungary”
Hungary
Medgyesegyháza
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Case-study I
“Watermelon producing community in Hungary”
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Case-study II
“Hilltop farming community of the Cambrian Mountains”
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Case-study II
“Hilltop farming community of the Cambrian Mountains”
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Processes and phenomena
Other community members
State
Day labour
Farmers Traders
Informal traders
Producer Organisations (cooperatives)
capitalist framework
capitalist attitude
(socialist) community
work
neoliberal attitude
capitalist approach
Integrators
socialist desire
capitalist attitude
community engagement
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Processes and phenomena
Seasonal labour
Ministry of Agriculture
Local government
Local farmers
Foreign customers
TradersWatermelon
Seedsmen
Weather
Informal traders
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Processes and phenomena
Tir Gofal
Tir Cymen
Glastir
Agri-environment
schemes
Cambrian Mountains
ESA
Strengthening environmentalist
discourse
Traditional farming
discourse
Sustaining farming practice
of production
Cambrian Mountains Initiative
Consensus?
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Possible interpretation I
Actor-network theory (Latour 1986)
• Every actor is part of networks and is a network itself• Entities only exist as long as they are parts of networks• Non-human actants have agency• Translation and enrolment
• The actor network is not stabile• Culture and social capital has no meaning
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Watermelon production
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Possible interpretation II
Governmentality (Foucault 1976)• Power is parallel• The actors subject to power implement the aims of
another actor themselves• Adds information about how and why networks form the
way they do
• Too policy oriented?
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Possible interpretation III
Assemblage theory (Deleuze & Guattari 1980)• A wider understanding of ANT• Components self-subsistent and can be detached and
made components of other assemblages• Solidifies the network
• Territorialisation • Coding
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Possible interpretation IV
Substantive rationales (Weber 1968)• Intangible components of network formation• Motivations behind actions• “Value postulates” – clusters of values
• In addition to network analysis
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Summary
• Resilience and social capital
• Case-study communities are diverse, internal tensions
• Possible ontological theories – Actor-network theory, governmentality,
assemblage theory…
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Questions?
Márton LendvayAberystwyth University
The PhD research is funded by the Aberystwyth Doctoral Career Development Scholarship scheme