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Farmer autonomy and the farming self
Abstract Drawing on interviews in Switzerland and New Zealand, we explore the concept of autonomy as part of a farming self. The farming self encompasses the dialectical relationship of autonomy as both value and tool that help us understand farmers within a wider set of economic, environmental and interpersonal relations. Farmers describe autonomy as a value in three related but slightly different ways. First, autonomy invokes a particular lifestyle connected to farming. Second, autonomy is understood as the equivalent of being one's own boss. Third, farmers describe autonomy negatively by enumerating the constraints that limit the first two iterations of autonomy in their farming operations. Beyond the value of autonomy for farmer identity, the farming self captures autonomy as a tool: a tool of identification, a tool to mitigate, navigate and translate the experiences of being a farmer in a wider network of agricultural relations.
Highlights Autonomy is a social tool used by farmers. New Zealand and Swiss farmers formulate autonomy in similar ways. Autonomy indicates a freedom of lifestyle versus constraints on personal freedom. The farming self uses autonomy as a tool of identification, navigation and buffering.
Farmer autonomy and the farming self
Abstract Drawing on interviews in Switzerland and New Zealand, we explore the concept of autonomy as part of a farming self. The farming self encompasses the dialectical relationship of autonomy as both value and tool that help us understand farmers within a wider set of economic, environmental and interpersonal relations. Farmers describe autonomy as a value in three related but slightly different ways. First, autonomy invokes a particular lifestyle connected to farming. Second, autonomy is understood as the equivalent of being one's own boss. Third, farmers describe autonomy negatively by enumerating the constraints that limit the first two iterations of autonomy in their farming operations. Beyond the value of autonomy for farmer identity, the farming self captures autonomy as a tool: a tool of identification, a tool to mitigate, navigate and translate the experiences of being a farmer in a wider network of agricultural relations.
Highlights Autonomy is a social tool used by farmers. New Zealand and Swiss farmers formulate autonomy in similar ways. Autonomy indicates a freedom of lifestyle versus constraints on personal freedom. The farming self uses autonomy as a tool of identification, navigation and buffering.
Farmer autonomy and the farming self
Stock, Paul V. (Autor:in) / Forney, Jérémie (Autor:in)
Journal of Rural Studies ; 36 ; 160-171
01.01.2014
12 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Farmers , Agriculture , Autonomy , New Zealand , Switzerland , Farming self
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