Urban newcomers as candidates in rural municipal elections: Explorations in the political dimension of lifestyle migration

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Urban newcomers as candidates in rural municipal elections: Explorations in the political dimension of lifestyle migration

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Urban newcomers as candidates in rural municipal elections: Explorations in the political dimension of lifestyle migration

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50401 - Sociology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GF23-42452L" target="_blank" >GF23-42452L: Sociální a politické důsledky prostorových nerovností ve středovýchodní Evropě</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Journal of Rural Studies

ISSN

0743-0167

e-ISSN

1873-1392

Svazek periodika

115

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

April

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

9

Strana od-do

103571

Kód UT WoS článku

001424518300001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85216944830