Urban newcomers as candidates in rural municipal elections: Explorations in the political dimension of lifestyle migration
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0743016725000117?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0743016725000117?via%3Dihub</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103571" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103571</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Urban newcomers as candidates in rural municipal elections: Explorations in the political dimension of lifestyle migration
Original language description
The lived experience and the transformative effects of urban-to-rural lifestyle migration are key research interests of rural studies, but we know little about what happens when urban dwellers make use of their local voting rights after relocating to rural areas. The paper presents insights from ethnographic explorations in a peripherialized rural region of Czechia in which social and spatial disadvantages intersect. Using an agency framework to bring the scholarship of lifestyle migration into conversation with the literature on transforming modes of political participation, the paper investigates how lifestyle migration affects the subjective perceptions and practical enactment of political agency among both lifestyle migrants and other rural residents. The findings show that lifestyle migration into rural peripheries widens the room to manoeuvre for the newcomers and highlights the role electoral tools play in the emergence of new formations of local citizenship. However, when lifestyle migrants emerge as political actors, this can also trigger uncertainties, social distinctions and local power struggles. The contribution is intended to stimulate further conceptual work towards a nuanced understanding of the political realm of urban-to-rural lifestyle migration and point out promising avenues for further research.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GF23-42452L" target="_blank" >GF23-42452L: Social and Political Consequences of Spatial Inequalities: East-Central Europe Case Study</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Rural Studies
ISSN
0743-0167
e-ISSN
1873-1392
Volume of the periodical
115
Issue of the periodical within the volume
April
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
103571
UT code for WoS article
001424518300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85216944830