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On the Ridge Path between Absolute Rejection and Unlimited Welcoming: Concluding Remarks
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Farms in progress-providing childcare services as a means of empowering women farmers in South Tyrol, Italy
Full text linkIn recent years, social farming has developed into an opportunity for income diversification in the South Tyrolean agricultural sector. In the northern Italian province, predominantly women farmers implement the provision of social services on farms. Starting from rural gender studies and women empowerment-literature, we hypothesize that social farming promotes the empowerment of the involved women. Accordingly, our study investigates the recognized impacts of offering farm-based childcare services on three types of power: power to, power with, and power within. In order to test our hypothesis, we conducted semi-structured interviews with seven women farmers that provide childcare services and with four experts. The results show that the provision of childcare services has enhanced the autonomy of women farmers and has had positive impacts on their skills and competences. This activity has changed their social role in the community by revalorizing rural lifestyles and by enabling the reconciliation of work and personal life for working mothers. Nevertheless, women farmers have recognized some negative effects on their workload, and on their interfamilial as well as other social relations. Finally, the study discusses the relationship between the specific ethno-linguistic context in South Tyrol and the effects of the activity of childcare provision on women farmers' empowerment
Tying Territory, Society and Transformation together: A Manifesto with an Integral Approach.
Full text linkThe EU-funded MATILDE Project was launched after the peak of the so-called refugee crisis of 2015. Besides its humanitarian focus, it examines territorial inequality and spatial justice in light of examples of mountainous areas as a kind of laboratory of peripheral living conditions. In European mountain and peripheral areas, the hosting of refugees has not until now been of major public concern. It can be assumed that peripheral areas are not the places that refugees most want to live in, nor is it an easy task for the original local population to host overnight larger number of immigrants. Therefore, the hosting of refugees in mountain areas can be considered a social innovation. In addition, the coincidence of various global crises (climate, pandemic, global value chains) superposed and strongly influenced the project, especially when considering their interdependency and mutual self-reinforcement. In this way, the MATILDE Project links three key themes together: mobility, territorial development and social innovation
Alpine Refugees – Immigration at the Core of Europe
No full textThis collection of essays highlights how given Alpine territories in Austria, Italy, and Switzerland are currently facing challenges imposed by migration, the barriers and limitations they are encountering, and the extent to which migration triggers policy and territorial innovations that can generate beneficial impacts for both migrants and local inhabitants. Contributors here include practitioners and social workers who have experimented with innovative reception and integration pathways, as well as researchers with diverse disciplinary backgrounds, including geographers, sociologists, political scientists, social anthropologists, economists, and legal experts. The book draws on empirical and theoretical investigations, research actions implemented within the framework of large EU projects, and exploratory case studies and storylines of welcoming reception initiatives. It will appeal to practitioners, social scientists, and policy makers interested in both understanding the determinants that affect migrant exclusion and inclusion in Alpine territories and developing reception and integration initiatives of advantage to both sides when hosting asylum seekers in mountain areas
Questioning Mountain Rural Commons in Changing Alpine Regions. An Exploratory Study in Trentino, Italy
Full text linkMost of rural resources in the Italian mountain territories, such as forests, pastures, huts, mountain paths, have historically been governed through collective organizations and institutions that have guaranteed the balance between productive activities and environmental protection. These systems can be framed according to the literature on commons. Although the model of collective resource management is still strongly rooted in the Alpine region, socioeconomic changes underway call into question the way resources are conceived, used and managed by communities and the very concept of community as a reference for a collective resource. Few studies have focused on the transformation and adaptation of commons to the changes taking place, such as the progressive penetration of global economic and demographic megatrends at the local level, with the aim of decoding the new tension between community needs and societal needs. By referring to the concepts of resilience and transformability of social-ecological systems, this paper aims to reflect on the impact of the socioeconomic transformations underway in mountain rural regions, to search for new approaches for the conceptualization of commons and to investigate how commons can be transformed in order to make them resilient and more socially inclusive. For that, an extensive literature review and an exploratory fieldwork using a case study approach have been performed. The paper ́s results are exploratory, from which working hypotheses have been derived to be explored in further studies. These hypotheses relate to socio-economic and cultural practices as well as approaches that would enable the re-embedding of the commons in the economy and society undergoing change
Aprire il dibattito sui commons rurali di montagna nelle regioni alpine in cambiamento. Uno studio esplorativo in Trentino, Italia
Full text linkLa maggior parte delle risorse rurali nei territori montani italiani, come boschi, pascoli, malghe, sentieri di montagna, sono state storicamente governate attraverso organizzazioni e istituzioni di risorse collettive che hanno garantito l'equilibrio tra attività produttive e tutela ambientale. Questi sistemi possono essere inquadrati secondo la letteratura sui commons. Sebbene il modello di gestione collettiva delle risorse sia ancora fortemente radicato nella regione alpina, i cambiamenti socioeconomici in corso mettono in discussione il modo in cui le risorse sono concepite, utilizzate e gestite dalle comunità e il concetto stesso di comunità come riferimento per una risorsa collettiva. Pochi studi si sono concentrati sulla trasformazione e l'adattamento dei commons ai cambiamenti in atto, come la progressiva penetrazione dei megatrend economici e demografici globali a livello locale, con l'obiettivo di decodificare la nuova tensione tra i bisogni della comunità e le esigenze della società. Facendo riferimento ai concetti di resilienza e trasformabilità dei sistemi socio-ecologici, questo articolo propone di riflettere sull'impatto delle trasformazioni socioeconomiche in corso nelle regioni rurali di montagna, di cercare nuovi approcci per la concettualizzazione dei commons e di indagare come i commons possano essere trasformati per renderli resilienti e più socialmente inclusivi. Per questo, è stata condotta un'ampia revisione della letteratura assieme ad un lavoro esplorativo sul campo utilizzando un approccio di ricerca basato su casi studio. I risultati dell'articolo sono esplorativi, e da esso vengono derivate alcune ipotesi di lavoro da approfondire in ulteriori studi. Queste ipotesi si riferiscono a pratiche socioeconomiche e culturali così come ad approcci che permetterebbero il reinserimento dei commons nelle economie e nelle società in trasformazione
New and Very Old Regionalism: False Concepts under the Conditions of Global Mobilities and Distress
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