Crossing boundaries in rural research

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2399657
AutoresRobyn Eversole (0000-0001-7482-6188, Swinburne University of Technology, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen58
Número2
Páginas144-160
Fecha de publicación2022-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1440-7833 • E-ISSN: 1741-2978
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/14407833211014257
OpenAlexW3162419765
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas35

Rural places around the world share common issues related to their positioning outside social, political, and economic centres of power. More than simply tyranny of distance, many issues can be attributed to tyranny at distance: that is, the power of distant decision-makers to direct rural development from afar with little knowledge of rural contexts. In response to the challenge to progress a transformative research agenda for rural sociology, this article theorises a 'cross-boundary' approach to research for rural development, to address persisting issues of development ignorance. Cross-boundary knowledge production values the multiple, contextualised knowledges of rural people and brings these into dialogue with academic knowledges across disciplines to inform practical rural solutions. Rural sociologists, with their in-depth understanding of rural community dynamics and larger social structures, are ideally positioned to broker cross-boundary knowledge partnerships that equip rural communities to solve old problems in new ways

Agriculture · Boundary (topology) · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Ignorance · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Public relations · Rural area · Rural development · Rural history · Rural management · Rural sociology · Social science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Law · Rural development and sustainability · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics