Worthy of Recognition? How Second Home Owners Understand Their Own Group's Moral Worth in Rural Host Communities

Bibliographic Data

ID4895305
AuthorsMaja Farstad (0000-0002-2170-4475, Centre for Rural Research University Centre Dragvoll N‐7491 Trondheim Norway, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume56
Issue3
Pages408-426
Publication date2016-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociologia Ruralis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0199 • E-ISSN: 1467-9523
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/soru.12083
OpenAlexW1896236681
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited27

Second home owners are conspicuous stakeholders in many rural areas, and their understanding of what would be the morally right position for them to occupy in the host community matters not only to themselves but also to the local authorities and potentially affected residents. Based on interviews with 23 owners of second homes in rural municipalities in Norway, this article examines second home owners' understanding of their own group's moral worth in their rural host communities and their expectations of receiving - or not receiving - distributional goods and other forms of recognition. Both the humble and the reward-collecting perspective on second home owners' position are based on the perception of the rural community as weak and dependent upon second home owners' presence. Second home owners with a humble perspective think this unbalanced relationship is unpleasant, which weighs against the suggestion that second home owners be granted greater political power

Business · Economic growth · Economics · Host (biology) · Perception · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Position (finance) · Power (physics) · Public relations · Rural community · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Finance · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Marketing · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Psychology · Rural development and sustainability

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