Operationalising Contemporary Rural Development: Socio-Cultural Determinants Arising from a Strong Local Fishing Culture |
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Authors: | áine Macken-Walsh |
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Institution: | (1) Rural Economy and Development Programme (REDP), Teagasc,, Co. Galway, Ireland |
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Abstract: | A transition to programmes adopting a governance-based approach in encouraging value-added and innovation in rural economies
is often described as offering new opportunities for marginalised rural communities that have not benefited from top-down
development policies. In practice, however, it is noted in Ireland and elsewhere in the EU that traditional fishers and farmers
have been slow to engage in economic activities favoured by contemporary policies. I discuss how traditional small-scale fishing
communities can be estranged from contemporary rural development policies that are focused primarily on providing high value-added
service-oriented and processed goods. I approach the problem of poor integration of fishing communities by focusing on how
contemporary rural development programmes - though shrouded in language of local participation, governance, and indigenisation
- can fail to actively engage with indigenous socio-cultural identity and resources. Exploring how intricate human ecological
relationships involving custom and local knowledge of physical resources are not readily commoditised, I raise questions in
relation to some of the central claims of the governance and rural development model, such as that it has the capacity to
empower and generate confidence through locally appropriate economic activity. |
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