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dc.contributor.authorCheshire, L
dc.contributor.authorWilling, I
dc.contributor.authorSkrbiš, Z
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T16:09:42Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T16:09:42Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.date.modified2014-04-09T22:18:34Z
dc.identifier.issn1745-0101
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/17450101.2013.796784
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/58103
dc.description.abstractABSTRACT In contemporary cosmopolitanism research, cities are iconic places where cosmopolitan exchanges and actors find their 'natural' milieu. Farmers not only are remarkably absent from this literature but have been depicted as operating with a highly localist and agrarian world view and being strongly connected to the land and the farm through history, biography and family tradition. In this paper, we present findings from a three-year study of entrepreneurial family farmers who are globally engaged and undertake extensive mobility as part of their farm business practices. The paper shows how they readily display some of the key hallmarks of contemporary cosmopolitanism: they are highly mobile and frequently engage in the routineness of international travel; they understand the strategic significance of cultural sensitivities and competencies; and they gain pleasure from engaging with difference. Yet, we suggest that these expressions of cosmopolitanism are also contradictory and, at times, may be understood as either 'instrumental', 'banal' or 'engaged'. The paper illustrates how ordinary and everyday cosmopolitan repertoires and sentiments can arise outside the usual settings and among actors not readily acknowledged in the cosmopolitanism literature.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto21
dc.relation.ispartofjournalMobilities
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchRural sociology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSocial theory
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode441003
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode441005
dc.titleUnrecognised Cosmopolitans: Mobility and Openness among Globally Engaged Family Farmers
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2013
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorWilling, Indigo A.


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