The Right to Development: Construction of a Non-Agriculturalist Discourse of Rurality in Denmark

Autor/in	Svendsen, Gunnar Lind Haase
Titel	The Right to Development: Construction of a Non-Agriculturalist Discourse of Rurality in Denmark
Quelle	In: Journal of Rural Studies, 20 (2004) 1, S.79-94 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0743-0167
DOI	10.1016/S0743-0167(03)00045-7
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; War; Citizen Participation; Agriculture; Rural Areas; Discourse Analysis; Vocabulary; Community Organizations; Denmark + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Krieg; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Landwirtschaft; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Diskursanalyse; Wortschatz; Dänemark
Abstract	The paper argues for the existence of two powerful discourses of rurality in Denmark after World War II. The first one is termed the modernist-agriculturalist discourse. Although still influential in the current public debate, in Denmark as well as in other Western European countries, this discourse of rurality had its heyday in the 1960s. It is based on key words, such as structural changes, development and vertical integration. Since the 1950s, it has belonged to groups of Danish farmers who use a productionist terminology in the public debate. However, the paper mainly focuses on a second discourse of rurality, established during the 1970s. Based on key words, such as community, culture, environment and active citizenship, this terminology was applied and promoted by new non-agricultural elites in the villages and can therefore be termed the non-agriculturalist discourse of rurality. The paper shows how this new "family" of powerful words was developed and promoted by The National Confederation of Village Communities in rural Denmark ("Landssammenslutningen af Landsbysamfund" or L.A.L.), established in 1976. Thus, from the late 1970s, members of this organization contributed to build and apply a peculiar L.A.L. vocabulary in their journal "Landsbyen" (''The village'')--a vocabulary which later was to be disseminated among the population and, finally, to have a significant impact on state politics. (Author).
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