Changing Rural Paradigms: Rural Ethnology between State Interest and Local Activism
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Changing Rural Paradigms : Rural Ethnology between State Interest and Local Activism. / Høst, Jeppe Engset.
In: Ethnologia Scandinavica, 2016.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Changing Rural Paradigms
T2 - Rural Ethnology between State Interest and Local Activism
AU - Høst, Jeppe Engset
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - In this article I will review the historical, cultural and social formation of rural development policies in Denmark and situate these in a Scandinavian context. The review is based on a reading of commission reports, law documents and texts produced by the planners and scholars involved in regional development, the latter often reflecting upon and justifying their work. This gives us a retrospect on how ethnologists have interacted with rural policies and rural areas in transition. In the latter part of this article, I will have a particular focus on examining the so-called “new rural paradigm” (OECD 2006) and its implications for ethnological scholars and practitioners of today. In the “new rural paradigm”, bottom-up processes, “place-bound” cultural and historical values are highlighted as essential to local development. This of course empowers the ethnologists, but also put us in a position at the very centre of a commodification of “the rural” and rural communities. The article therefore concludes with a discussion of currents trends in regional and rural development and the
AB - In this article I will review the historical, cultural and social formation of rural development policies in Denmark and situate these in a Scandinavian context. The review is based on a reading of commission reports, law documents and texts produced by the planners and scholars involved in regional development, the latter often reflecting upon and justifying their work. This gives us a retrospect on how ethnologists have interacted with rural policies and rural areas in transition. In the latter part of this article, I will have a particular focus on examining the so-called “new rural paradigm” (OECD 2006) and its implications for ethnological scholars and practitioners of today. In the “new rural paradigm”, bottom-up processes, “place-bound” cultural and historical values are highlighted as essential to local development. This of course empowers the ethnologists, but also put us in a position at the very centre of a commodification of “the rural” and rural communities. The article therefore concludes with a discussion of currents trends in regional and rural development and the
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Regional udvikling
KW - velfærdssamfund
KW - etnologi
KW - landdistrikter
KW - Ethnology
M3 - Journal article
JO - Ethnologia Scandinavica
JF - Ethnologia Scandinavica
SN - 0348-9698
ER -
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