Rural revival : a photo-ethnography of entrepreneurs in a renovating region / Alex Stewart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stewart, Alex, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Newfoundland and Labrador.

Ethnology.

Photography--Research--Newfoundland and Labrador.

Photography.

Rural conditions.

Physical Description:

xii, 232 pages : illustrations (color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2024]

Summary:

"When most of their jobs disappear, how do communities survive? In the hard-hit area explored in this book - the Bonavista Peninsula, on the island of Newfoundland - many residents transitioned into "everyday" entrepreneurs such as restaurateurs. Rural Revival explains how these business owners developed a place rich in "entrepreneurial capital". The author draws on six years of ethnographic fieldwork in the area: observations from listening, watching and learning with people in their everyday settings. Camera work opened doors to people's ventures and their lives. The many photographs in this book bring you deeply into a sense of presence among the people and their natural settings. To interpret the findings from fieldwork, the author draws on rural sociology and economic anthropology. He shows how people transformed the value of once-neglecting things in the "house economy" into assets for tourists, leaving the "market economy." He uses theories of "cross-sector partnerships" to show the ways in which regional development is tough to sustain." -- Back cover

Contents:

Part one: a rural crisis. Disaster in the fishery

The challenging physical geography

Resource dependency

Part two: community capitals and embeddedness. Community capitals

Derivative capitals: tourism capital and entrepreneurship capital

Trade-offs in geopark design

Embedded entrepreneurs in a house economy

The fishery abides

Part three: revival with community capitals

Social capital: embeddedness and collaboration

Cultural and historical capital

Rising tide theatre

The sealers interpretation centre

The Sir William F. Coaker heritage foundation

Revalorizing tradition and history

Human capital: the good news

Financial capital

Political capital

Built capital: physical renovations

Renovations with neutral or positive outcomes

Building on a basis of natural capital

Landscape as place

Views from the hike discovery trails

Tourism capital: agglomeration of attractions

Agglomeration of arts and crafts

Agglomeration of food and beverage

Entrepreneurship capital: agglomeration of entrepreneurs

In-migrant entrepreneurs

An aside on dialects

Rural tourism as regional entrepreneurship

History

Dilapidated buildings

Fossils

Icebergs

Cliffs by the sea

Sea birds

Whales

Kinship

The house abides

Part four: five problems

Tourism capital: problems with the weather

Transportation challenges

Limitations in human capital

Renovations as gentrification

Will regional collaboration continue?

Part five: research method

Evolution of my research role

How I worked in the field

Space, places, place, and photography

Words and images

moving and still

Research limitations

Note on post-processing photographs

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783111519470

3111519473

OCLC:

1445429183

Publisher Number:

90100686400