Building bridges across the plurality of rural development research

Mikaël Akimowicz, S. Ashleigh Weeden and Ryan Gibson
Additional contact information
Mikaël Akimowicz: LEREPS - Laboratoire d'Etude et de Recherche sur l'Economie, les Politiques et les Systèmes Sociaux - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - UT - Université de Toulouse - UT2J - Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès - UT - Université de Toulouse - Institut d'Études Politiques [IEP] - Toulouse - ENSFEA - École Nationale Supérieure de Formation de l'Enseignement Agricole de Toulouse-Auzeville

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: This short introduction, and the collection of contributions that follows, underlines the duality of the world we live in and experience everyday, and the way scholars and practitioners from different regions and disciplines attempt to reveal and make sense of this world. The entanglement of intangible and tangible dimensions produces consequences for both the material and imaginative opportunities available for rural places to find meaningful current and future pathways to their desired futures. The tangible dimension, which deals with the materiality of the world, concretely impacts lives. The outcomes of the actions we implement in everyday life can contribute to or subtract from one's happiness, feelings of satisfaction, completion, and attainment. In this perspective, the autonomy and capacity of decision-makers are connected to the genuine use of resources to reach goals, generate income, cope with change, respond to threats... Those actions stem from belief and value systems which underly decision-making processes. Experience, successes, and errors contribute to updating held beliefs, strengthening what works, and modifying what does not. The interactions among tangible and intangible dimensions are well illustrated in this special issue of The Annals of Regional Science and appear in discussions on the appearance and the essence of agritourism, the tangible and intangible assets used to capture value, the connection between identity and the physical environment, the material and immaterial resources engaged in an innovation process, as well as the philosophies underlying multi-level governance.

Keywords: Rural; Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-05-22
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Published in Annals of Regional Science, 2023, 71, pp.1-8. ⟨10.1007/s00168-023-01224-3⟩

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04133231

DOI: 10.1007/s00168-023-01224-3

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().