Discursive no man?s land: Analysing the discourse of the rural in thetransitional Czech Republic

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Result on the web

<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0743016714000199" target="_blank" >http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0743016714000199</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2014.01.006" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jrurstud.2014.01.006</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Discursive no man?s land: Analysing the discourse of the rural in thetransitional Czech Republic

Original language description

This paper presents an analysis of the expert discourse of the rural in the period of transition in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. Before 1989, the discourse was monopolised by the governing communist regime. With EU accession in 2004, the discourse became standardised to the EU programmes and policies. The period in between these two dates is referred to as ?discursive no man's land? in which new meanings, functions and values were assigned to the rural. The paper concentrates on (a) how the rural was established as a public issue to be addressed by experts, (b) how the discourses of the rural changed under the influence of structural, macro-social factors and (c) what were the grounds on which state intervention in favour of the rural was perceived as legitimate. In answering these questions, the analysis identifies agriculture as a key element which provided a ?function? for the pre-1989 instrumental understanding of the rural. After the collapse of the regime and the rapid

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AO - Sociology, demography

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GA13-40212S" target="_blank" >GA13-40212S: Re-inventing the rural in the post-1989 Czech Republic</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Rural Studies

ISSN

0743-0167

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

34

Issue of the periodical within the volume

duben

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

96-107

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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