Of organic farmers and 鈥榞ood farmers鈥? Changing habitus in rural England

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• 作者：Lee-Ann Sutherland^a ; ^{lee-ann.sutherland@hutton.ac.uk} ; Ika Darnhofer^b ; ¹ ; ^{ika.darnhofer@boku.ac.at}
• 关键词：Organic farming ; Diversification ; Cultural capital ; Bourdieu
• 刊名：Journal of Rural Studies
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：71_07430167
• 类别：abs
• 出版时间：July, 2012
• 卷：28
• 期：3
• 页码：232-240
• 文件大小：195 K

摘要

In recent years, numerous studies have identified the importance of cultural constructions of 鈥榞ood farming鈥?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 鈥榬ules of the game鈥?in the agricultural field have simultaneously led to a broadening of the 鈥榞ood farming鈥?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.