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Farmers and conservation: Conflict and accommodation in farming politics
Abstract In Britain in the late 1980s, farming was one significant arena for environmental politics. At a time when overproduction and the protectionist policies of the European Economic Community combined to prompt economic questions about the intensive methods of capitalist agriculture, conservationists found a larger audience for their protestations that such methods also destroyed or degraded the countryside. In the ensuing debates farmers made several, at times conflicting, kinds of defences which were all none the less aimed at maintaining their continuing control over the countryside. All of these defences arose in the ways they constructed farming through their everyday activities in farmwork. The article uses a case study of the livestock farmers of the Upper Yorkshire Dales to demonstrate that, in contrast to farmers' national positions, the various strands of debate, summarised as business versus nurture, did not present themselves as contradiction in the culture of farmwork. It was only when farmers were forced to confront other definitions of farming and the countryside that any tensions between business and nurture emerged for them. This movement from accommodation to conflict was what produced the contradictory messages which farmers appeared to be giving about farming and the environment within the wider environment debates.
Farmers and conservation: Conflict and accommodation in farming politics
Abstract In Britain in the late 1980s, farming was one significant arena for environmental politics. At a time when overproduction and the protectionist policies of the European Economic Community combined to prompt economic questions about the intensive methods of capitalist agriculture, conservationists found a larger audience for their protestations that such methods also destroyed or degraded the countryside. In the ensuing debates farmers made several, at times conflicting, kinds of defences which were all none the less aimed at maintaining their continuing control over the countryside. All of these defences arose in the ways they constructed farming through their everyday activities in farmwork. The article uses a case study of the livestock farmers of the Upper Yorkshire Dales to demonstrate that, in contrast to farmers' national positions, the various strands of debate, summarised as business versus nurture, did not present themselves as contradiction in the culture of farmwork. It was only when farmers were forced to confront other definitions of farming and the countryside that any tensions between business and nurture emerged for them. This movement from accommodation to conflict was what produced the contradictory messages which farmers appeared to be giving about farming and the environment within the wider environment debates.
Farmers and conservation: Conflict and accommodation in farming politics
McEachern, Charmaine (Autor:in)
Journal of Rural Studies ; 8 ; 159-171
01.01.1992
13 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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