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Contesting countryside smells: The power of intensive livestock odours
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9305-8399
Abstract Agricultural smells permeate many rural areas and yet are little researched. Following scent trails can reveal much about rural relations and contestations. This research explored how smell emerged as one of the most controversial subjects during planning consultations over proposed intensive poultry units in the UK counties of Herefordshire and Shropshire. It considers how sensory knowledge is constructed within a planning context, comparing technical odour modelling reports submitted as planning evidence with the lay knowledge and experience of local residents and businesses. The mixed methods deployed included walking interviews and solo walks which gathered evidence of how smells from intensive livestock operations are experienced on the ground. The farming sector tends to normalise agricultural smells while many local residents experience an increasingly dissonant smellscape which affects their wellbeing in multiple ways. Focusing on one sensory dimension reveals contrasting understandings of the rural and how relations of power are contested in the rural planning arena.
Highlights Unpleasant smells from intensive poultry units are understood in multiple ways. Odour is contested by objectors and applicants during the planning process. Technical modelling omits many dimensions of intensive agricultural smells. Walking methods reveal how odours are experienced on the ground. Exploring agricultural smell issues reveals dimensions of rural power relations.
Contesting countryside smells: The power of intensive livestock odours
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9305-8399
Abstract Agricultural smells permeate many rural areas and yet are little researched. Following scent trails can reveal much about rural relations and contestations. This research explored how smell emerged as one of the most controversial subjects during planning consultations over proposed intensive poultry units in the UK counties of Herefordshire and Shropshire. It considers how sensory knowledge is constructed within a planning context, comparing technical odour modelling reports submitted as planning evidence with the lay knowledge and experience of local residents and businesses. The mixed methods deployed included walking interviews and solo walks which gathered evidence of how smells from intensive livestock operations are experienced on the ground. The farming sector tends to normalise agricultural smells while many local residents experience an increasingly dissonant smellscape which affects their wellbeing in multiple ways. Focusing on one sensory dimension reveals contrasting understandings of the rural and how relations of power are contested in the rural planning arena.
Highlights Unpleasant smells from intensive poultry units are understood in multiple ways. Odour is contested by objectors and applicants during the planning process. Technical modelling omits many dimensions of intensive agricultural smells. Walking methods reveal how odours are experienced on the ground. Exploring agricultural smell issues reveals dimensions of rural power relations.
Contesting countryside smells: The power of intensive livestock odours
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9305-8399
Abstract Agricultural smells permeate many rural areas and yet are little researched. Following scent trails can reveal much about rural relations and contestations. This research explored how smell emerged as one of the most controversial subjects during planning consultations over proposed intensive poultry units in the UK counties of Herefordshire and Shropshire. It considers how sensory knowledge is constructed within a planning context, comparing technical odour modelling reports submitted as planning evidence with the lay knowledge and experience of local residents and businesses. The mixed methods deployed included walking interviews and solo walks which gathered evidence of how smells from intensive livestock operations are experienced on the ground. The farming sector tends to normalise agricultural smells while many local residents experience an increasingly dissonant smellscape which affects their wellbeing in multiple ways. Focusing on one sensory dimension reveals contrasting understandings of the rural and how relations of power are contested in the rural planning arena.
Highlights Unpleasant smells from intensive poultry units are understood in multiple ways. Odour is contested by objectors and applicants during the planning process. Technical modelling omits many dimensions of intensive agricultural smells. Walking methods reveal how odours are experienced on the ground. Exploring agricultural smell issues reveals dimensions of rural power relations.
Contesting countryside smells: The power of intensive livestock odours
Caffyn, Alison (author)
Journal of Rural Studies ; 86 ; 554-565
2021-07-20
12 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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