https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 14:55:21 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/aspects-and-experiences-of-crisis-in-rural-greece-narratives-of-rural-resilience/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:46 +0000 http://arc.local/items/aspects-and-experiences-of-crisis-in-rural-greece-narratives-of-rural-resilience/ Continued]]> The purpose of this paper is to explore aspects, dynamics and experiences of the crisis in the Greek countryside. The ‘rural’ is emerging in public discourse as a resilient milieu of solidarity, of social innovation, and of opportunities for employment, especially in farming and in rural entrepreneurship. It seems that the crisis has contributed to triggering social constructions of ‘idyllic rurality’ which generated counterurbanisation tendencies and expectations for urbanites to return back to the land. However, those who had remained in rural areas and in farming were already been confronted with the prolonged crisis of the agricultural sector (CAP reforms and market liberalization), now coupled with the severe impact of the recent economic and financial crisis in Greece. Drawing on narratives of farmers and incomers in two rural areas, the paper investigates experiences and strategies to deal with the crisis, in the framework of work and family and in the context of discourses on rural resilience. Personal accounts reveal that remaining or returning to rural areas often conceal cases of underemployment and social deprivation and that, both farmers and incomers are not explicitly supported by policy makers.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/under-pressure-young-farmers-in-marriage-markets-a-greek-case-study/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:18 +0000 http://arc.local/items/under-pressure-young-farmers-in-marriage-markets-a-greek-case-study/ Continued]]> Gender issues, and masculinity in particular, have increasingly drawn the attention of scholars in the last decade. Nevertheless, given the well‐established phenomenon of young rural women’s rejection of framers and exodus from rural areas, scant attention is paid to the issue of rural marriage markets. This article aims to address the topic of young farmers’ perceptions and practices in their search for a bride. The target population was young males who joined the ‘Young Farmers’ programme in two tobacco producing communities in Greece. Utilising Bourdieu’s oeuvre (especially ‘habitus’), we argue that young male farmers do not seem able to reflect on their current position in the local marriage market and, in general, challenge dominant structures owing to themselves being ‘trapped’ in the tobacco production habitus (including dominant masculinity). While consciousness‐raising and change seem difficult the implications of the current crisis (including social suffering and disorders) are not yet plainly manifested.

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