Economising the Rural

How New Markets and Property Rights Transform Rural Economies

Bibliographic Data

ID4446508
AuthorsAlexander Dobeson (0000-0002-6352-3592, Department of Sociology Uppsala University Box 624 751 26 Uppsala Sweden, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume58
Issue4
Pages886-908
Publication date2018-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociologia Ruralis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0199 • E-ISSN: 1467-9523
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/soru.12215
OpenAlexW2794540931
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited55

How do new markets and property rights transform rural economies? Based on an ethnographic case study of the Icelandic fisheries, this article shows how the organisation of markets for fishing rights and fresh fish has transformed the rural periphery into a globally entangled site of investments, valuation and exchange. The empirical material shows, on one hand, how the economisation of the traditional small-boat fisheries hasdisentangledlocally bound fishers into independent market actors and investors; and on the other hand, how daily economic copingre-entanglesfishers into a new web of money-mediated relations and debt that pushes them to economise their operations for the purpose of increasing profit-making in order to stay afloat. While economisation has led to a general valorisation of small boats and the construction of a 'quality'-oriented market niche, fishing communities of the rural periphery maintain their struggle to survive in a new and volatile culture ofliberalrural capitalism

Business · Capitalism · Commons · Debt · Economics · Economy · Fishery · Fishing · Market economy · Political science · Property rights · Tragedy of the commons · Valuation (finance) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Ecology · Finance · Organic Food and Agriculture · Rural development and sustainability

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