Gendered Resource Access and Utilisation in Swedish Family Farming

Elias Andersson and Gun Lidestav
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Elias Andersson: Department of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901 83 Umeå, Sweden
Gun Lidestav: Department of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 901 83 Umeå, Sweden

Land, 2014, vol. 3, issue 1, 1-16

Abstract: Gendered relations in resource access and farming are two important intersecting themes of gender studies in a northern rural context. However, conventional analysis and perceptions of the economy conceal the contribution of women within families, in businesses and in the labor market. This article demonstrate the significance of capital to farming women’s engagement with agriculture using a Swedish case study, based on descriptive analyses of data from the Federation of Swedish Farmers. To disclose the embodiment of family farming, gendered control of land, business activities and farm incomes is analyzed. On this empirical basis, we argue for reconstitution of farm-related entrepreneurial research, rural development policies and rural gender studies from a new material feminist approach. Access to resources, typically land, together with social forces and embodied experiences constitute the basis of strategic focus and agency. We demonstrate that acknowledgement of access to resources in the research process and in the understanding of social relations, resistance and situated knowledge are essential.

Keywords: land; economy; materiality; material feminism; agriculture; entrepreneurship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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