A-8/15 When Farm Couples Break Up: Gendered Moralities, Gossip and the Fear of Stigmatisation in Rural Communities
This article draws on interviews with farm women and men who have experienced a family break up to analyse their experiences of gender expectations in family farming, their fear of stigmatisation and their receipt of help from the rural community. The interviews illustrate their compliance with dominant constructions of rural gendered moralities. Men struggled to…
Les merA-9/15 Farm, family, and myself: farm women dealing with family break-up
Despite the rising divorce rate among farm families in Norway, surprisingly little research has examined these break-ups. Drawing on interviews with farm women whose marital or cohabiting relationships broke down, we explore the contradictions between individualization and the moral responsibility embedded in the patriarchal discourse of the family farm. We ask whether farm family dissolution…
Les merA-7/15 Morality, mobility and citizenship: Legitimising mobile subjectivities in a contested outdoors
In this article, we examine articulations of mobile citizenship produced through the discursive practices of state agencies, drawing in particular on a study of the contested reconfiguration of outdoor citizenship in Norway. Whilst increased participation and diversity in outdoor activities is highly valued and encouraged because of its social benefits, moral landscapes of the outdoors…
Les merA-6/15 Moralske landskap i utmarka
This article explores the relationships between morality and landscape in the struggles over use and management of the Norwegian outfields. The outfields are appreciated and valuated by different stakeholder groups and has a range of uses, purposes and meanings, regarding natural, cultural, symbolic as well as economic resources. The article is based on studies of…
Les merA-5/15 Worthy of recognition? How second home owners understand their own group’s moral worth in rural host communities
Second home owners are conspicuous stakeholders in many rural areas, and their understanding of what would be the morally right position for them to occupy in the host community matters not only to themselves but also to the local authorities and potentially affected residents. Based on interviews with 23 owners of second homes in rural…
Les merA-4/15 Strategies in Norwegian Farm Tourism Product Development, Challenges, and Solutions
Over the past two decades, rural tourism has increasingly been seen as a competitive advantage for the Norwegian tourism industry. The rural tourism sector was, by the turn of the millennium, characterised by tougher market environments, a demand for more coordinated and improved quality products, strong competition, ageing infrastructures, and unfulfilled expectations. The research reported…
Les merA-36/15 Food Security, Food Sovereignty, and the Nation-State: Historicizing Norwegian Farmland Policy
I: Trauger, Amy (red.) Food Sovereignty in International Context. Discourse, Politics and Practice in Place. New York: Routledge, s. 87-105
Les merA-35/15 Kyllingens politiske økonomi – et bilde av det framtidige landbruket?
Bjørkhaug, H., R. Almås & J. Vik (red). Norsk matmakt i endring. Fagbokforlaget
Les merA-34/15 Når det rurale blir populært: Om matindustriens og dagligvarehandelens jakt på matkvaliteter som utgjør en forskjell
Bjørkhaug, H., R. Almås & J. Vik (red). Norsk matmakt i endring. Fagbokforlaget
Les merA-33/15 Kontraktsproduksjon – en ny hverdag for grønnsaksprodusenten
Bjørkhaug, H., R. Almås & J. Vik (red). Norsk matmakt i endring. Fagbokforlaget
Les merA-31/15 Konkurranse og samarbeid i verdkjeder for storfekjøtt
Bjørkhaug, H., R. Almås & J. Vik (red). Norsk matmakt i endring. Fagbokforlaget
Les merA-3/15 The succession/recruitment crisis in European agriculture
This article addresses the issues raised by Chiswell and Lobley concerning our publication ‘Understanding Farm Succession as Socially Constructed Endogenous Cycles’. Our response rebuts Chiswell and Lobley’s criticisms of the article and assembles evidence from the literature to suggest that in a number of countries and regions of Europe, farm succession failure is at crisis…
Les merA-29/15 Korleis analytisk fange staddanning mellom meining, makt, materialitet og menneske?
Aure, Marit; Berg, Nina Gunnerud; Cruickshank, Jørn; Dale, Britt Engan. Med sans for sted. Nyere teorier. Fagbokforlaget 2015
Les merA-28/15 Utfordringer i norsk kornproduksjon
Bjørkhaug, H., R. Almås & J. Vik (red). Norsk matmakt i endring. Fagbokforlaget
Les merA-27/15 Forest land ownership changes in Europe: Significance for management and policy
Cost Action FP1201 FACESMAP Country Reports, Joint Volume. EFICEEC-EFISEE Research Report. University of Natural Resources and LifeSciences, Vienna (BOKU): Vienna, Austria. [Online publication]
Les merA-25/15 Typologiosering av nye verdikjeder for mat: når profitt er målet og «ikkje-mat» er middelet
Bjørkhaug, H., R. Almås & J. Vik (red). Norsk matmakt i endring. Fagbokforlaget
Les merA-26/15 Fri ferdsel? Om friluftslivets rett og galt
I Rapport fra konferansen Forskning i friluft 2015. Norsk friluftsliv
Les merA-23/15 Paradoxes of a women’s organization in the forestry industry
B. Pini, B.Brandth and J.Little (eds.) Feminism and ruralities
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