“County residents take the fight”
Celebrations of local volunteering as a way to cope with cutbacks are frequent. Not least are such celebrations apparent within the media, where descriptions of local initiatives are sometimes seen as the solutions to downward spiralling trends in Swedish rural areas. The paper explores the media p...
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Linköping University Electronic Press
2024-03-01
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Celebrations of local volunteering as a way to cope with cutbacks are frequent. Not least are such celebrations apparent within the media, where descriptions of local initiatives are sometimes seen as the solutions to downward spiralling trends in Swedish rural areas. The paper explores the media production of meaning around rural resilience as they covered initiatives where rural populations mobilised to ‘save’ threatened local service for their supposed public interest. Using the concepts of ‘patchy resilience’ and ‘cruel optimism’, the paper points at how the representations attach rural areas and identities to a stereotypical rural imagery while also representing a resilience ideal that risks glorifying neoliberal responsibilisation.
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| spelling | doaj.art-64faddd5af1f4a959793c2753b4309e42024-03-16T10:11:40ZengLinköping University Electronic PressCulture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research2000-15252024-03-0116110.3384/cu.4285“County residents take the fight”Anna Sofia LundgrenKarin Ljuslinder Celebrations of local volunteering as a way to cope with cutbacks are frequent. Not least are such celebrations apparent within the media, where descriptions of local initiatives are sometimes seen as the solutions to downward spiralling trends in Swedish rural areas. The paper explores the media production of meaning around rural resilience as they covered initiatives where rural populations mobilised to ‘save’ threatened local service for their supposed public interest. Using the concepts of ‘patchy resilience’ and ‘cruel optimism’, the paper points at how the representations attach rural areas and identities to a stereotypical rural imagery while also representing a resilience ideal that risks glorifying neoliberal responsibilisation. https://cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/article/view/4285rural studiesmedia representationsrural resiliencevolunteer initiatives |
| spellingShingle | Anna Sofia Lundgren Karin Ljuslinder “County residents take the fight” Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research rural studies media representations rural resilience volunteer initiatives |
| title | “County residents take the fight” |
| title_full | “County residents take the fight” |
| title_fullStr | “County residents take the fight” |
| title_full_unstemmed | “County residents take the fight” |
| title_short | “County residents take the fight” |
| title_sort | county residents take the fight |
| topic | rural studies media representations rural resilience volunteer initiatives |
| url | https://cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/article/view/4285 |
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