On the Environmental Embeddedness of Redneck Identity and Politics

The Original Redneck Fishin' Tournament and Invasive Species in a Rural Community

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4445642
AutoresJordan Fox Besek (0000-0001-6704-6095, Assistant Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology State University of New York at Buffalo 430 Park Hall Buffalo NY 14260, USA, autor de correspondencia), Jeanine Cunningham (0000-0002-3026-2947, Department of Sociology University of Oregon 1415 Kincaid St Eugene OR 97403 USA)
Año2020
Volumen60
Número2
Páginas394-413
Fecha de publicación2020-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociologia Ruralis (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0199 • E-ISSN: 1467-9523
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/soru.12296
OpenAlexW3006796171
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas29

Here, we examine the environmental embeddedness of redneck identity and politics. To do so, we use data from 22 in-depth, semi-standardised interviews and participant observation from several rural Illinois River communities whose citizens have had to confront, interpret, and adapt to the arrival of Asian carp, an invasive species that has significantly altered life in the region. Moreover, some community members now organise the 'Original Redneck Fishin' Tournament', an annual event geared toward challenging the continued invasion of Asian carp. We use this tournament as a window into the manner self-identified redneck communities negotiate the co-constitutive cultural, political, and material dynamism of local environmental relationships. Findings reveal a great diversity of nuanced ways a specifically redneck identity, politics, and environmental embeddedness build through each other, relationships that must be furthermore contextualised within broader socioenvironmental histories of state and urban interventions upon rural life

Diversity (politics) · Dynamism · Embeddedness · Ethnography · Identity (music) · Negotiation · Participant observation · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Tournament · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social and Cultural Dynamics