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Understanding the socio-cultural resilience of rural areas through the intergenerational relationship in transitional China: Case studies from Guangdong
Abstract While rural resilience is considered valuable in global sustainable development and is gaining increasing attention, socio-cultural resilience in rural contexts has attracted limited scholarly attention. Intergenerational relationship as a crucial indicator of socio-cultural resilience and transformation in rural areas, is under-studied. Drawing on a qualitatively based and multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in two villages in Guangdong, China, this article interrogates how rural residents understand and practice intergenerational relationship, further observing rural resilience from the socio-cultural perspective. The findings revealed the following: 1) changes in intergenerational relations in rural China are neither simple nor linear, but rather highly diversified and contextualized; 2) the status of intergenerational relationships in the villages is highly related to a series of external factors, including demographical features, economic condition and geographical location, etc.; 3) intergenerational relationships and the way rural families operate, interact, and are defined are closely related. Changes in intergenerational relationships not only reveal important shifts in the social and cultural makeup of rural communities, but they also serve as a significant indicator of the resiliency of both rural communities and families. This article, through those results, echoes the rising diversity of contemporary rural family life in China, arguing that intergenerational relationship provides a nuanced, humane perspective to probe social and cultural changes and rural-urban relations in rapidly urbanizing societies. We call for collaborative action to cultivate the positive intergenerational relationships, enhance the rural resilience from socio-cultural perspective, further contribute to the revive of countryside.
Highlights Socio-cultural resilience is an emerging research agenda that deserves more scholarly attention, particularly in rural contexts where socio-cultural structures have been undergoing significant transformations amid rapid modernization and urbanization. Intergenerational relationship can provide a nuanced perspective to examine the social changes currently occurring in many rural areas and to explore how rural societies respond to external disturbances. The status of intergenerational relationships in the studied villages is highly related to a series of external factors, including demographical features, economic condition and geographical location, etc. The intergenerational relationships have deeply influenced how rural families are operated, interacted and defined, which further results in significant changes of socio-cultural structure in the rural areas. We call for a collaborative action to revive rural areas and their communities by cultivating dynamic local industry and functional intergenerational relationships.
Understanding the socio-cultural resilience of rural areas through the intergenerational relationship in transitional China: Case studies from Guangdong
Abstract While rural resilience is considered valuable in global sustainable development and is gaining increasing attention, socio-cultural resilience in rural contexts has attracted limited scholarly attention. Intergenerational relationship as a crucial indicator of socio-cultural resilience and transformation in rural areas, is under-studied. Drawing on a qualitatively based and multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in two villages in Guangdong, China, this article interrogates how rural residents understand and practice intergenerational relationship, further observing rural resilience from the socio-cultural perspective. The findings revealed the following: 1) changes in intergenerational relations in rural China are neither simple nor linear, but rather highly diversified and contextualized; 2) the status of intergenerational relationships in the villages is highly related to a series of external factors, including demographical features, economic condition and geographical location, etc.; 3) intergenerational relationships and the way rural families operate, interact, and are defined are closely related. Changes in intergenerational relationships not only reveal important shifts in the social and cultural makeup of rural communities, but they also serve as a significant indicator of the resiliency of both rural communities and families. This article, through those results, echoes the rising diversity of contemporary rural family life in China, arguing that intergenerational relationship provides a nuanced, humane perspective to probe social and cultural changes and rural-urban relations in rapidly urbanizing societies. We call for collaborative action to cultivate the positive intergenerational relationships, enhance the rural resilience from socio-cultural perspective, further contribute to the revive of countryside.
Highlights Socio-cultural resilience is an emerging research agenda that deserves more scholarly attention, particularly in rural contexts where socio-cultural structures have been undergoing significant transformations amid rapid modernization and urbanization. Intergenerational relationship can provide a nuanced perspective to examine the social changes currently occurring in many rural areas and to explore how rural societies respond to external disturbances. The status of intergenerational relationships in the studied villages is highly related to a series of external factors, including demographical features, economic condition and geographical location, etc. The intergenerational relationships have deeply influenced how rural families are operated, interacted and defined, which further results in significant changes of socio-cultural structure in the rural areas. We call for a collaborative action to revive rural areas and their communities by cultivating dynamic local industry and functional intergenerational relationships.
Understanding the socio-cultural resilience of rural areas through the intergenerational relationship in transitional China: Case studies from Guangdong
Wu, Xinhui (author) / Yuan, Zhenjie (author)
Journal of Rural Studies ; 97 ; 303-313
2022-12-03
11 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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