期刊
JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES
卷 44, 期 -, 页码 111-122出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.01.013
关键词
Social-ecological systems; Social-ecological resilience; Farming; Agriculture; Poststructuralism; Relational; Europe
资金
- Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management [PJ-Nr. 100939]
- France, Ministry of Agriculture
- research programme Assessing and reducing environmental risks from plant protection products - French Ministries in charge of Ecology and Agriculture
- Conseil Departemental de la Drome
Family farms play an important role in the European countryside, yet their number is steadily declining. This raises the question of what conveys resilience to family farms, i.e. the ability to persist over the longterm through buffering shocks and adapting to change. Within the current approaches to farm resilience, we distinguish between two perspectives: the first focuses on material structures and highlights the role of farm types and ecological dynamics. The second focuses on actors and highlights that farmer agency and wider social forces also play important roles. We argue that a third perspective, one focusing on relations, has the potential to overcome both the structure/agency and the ecological/social dichotomies. Indeed, a relational approach enables a closer analysis of how ecological and social processes interact to undermine or strengthen resilience. The approach also allows to identify the different relationalities that are enacted within a specific context, foregrounding diversity in farming. Furthermore, it highlights that relations are continuously made and remade, putting the emphasis on change, and on the wider patterns that enable or constrain change. A relational approach would thus contribute to overcoming a one-sided focus on states and stability, shifting attention to the patterns of relations that enable transformational change. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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