Of Organic Farmers and "Good Farmers": Changing Habitus in Rural England

Autor/inn/en	Sutherland, Lee-Ann; Darnhofer, Ika
Titel	Of Organic Farmers and "Good Farmers": Changing Habitus in Rural England
Quelle	In: Journal of Rural Studies, 28 (2012) 3, S.232-240 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0743-0167
DOI	10.1016/j.jrurstud.2012.03.003
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Cultural Capital; Values; Public Policy; Conservation (Environment); Environmental Standards; Rural Environment; Environmental Influences; Land Use; Rural Economics; Farm Management; Rural Farm Residents; Economic Factors; Sustainable Development; Agriculture; Agricultural Production; Agribusiness; Rural Sociology; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Wertbegriff; Öffentliche Ordnung; Conservation; Environment; Konservierung; Bewahung; Umwelt; Umweltauflage; Ländliches Milieu; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Bodennutzung; Ökonomischer Faktor; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Landwirtschaft; Agriculture; Production; Produktion; Agrarproduktion; Landwirtschaftliche Produktion; Agrarindustrie; Agrarsoziologie
Abstract	In recent years, numerous studies have identified the importance of cultural constructions of "good farming" to farming practice. In this paper, we develop the "good farming" construct through an empirical study of organic and conventional farmers, focussing on how change occurs. Drawing on Bourdieu's concepts of cultural capital, habitus and fields, we argue that the dynamics of the "rules of the game" in the agricultural field have simultaneously led to a broadening of the "good farming" ideal, and to a fragmentation, whereby individual farmers prioritise a subset of this broad range. We demonstrate that gradual devaluation of existing ways to achieve cultural capital is essential to the development of new symbolic values. In line with this, we offer a critique of the implied static nature of cultural capital in the studies of farmer responses to agri-environmental schemes. We also point out that the alterations in perception and practices of farmers who converted to organic farming for "pragmatic" reasons may be greater than sometimes implied. (As Provided).
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