Relations and areas of interaction between landowners in a peri-urban area

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  • Ann-Sofie Richardt

While land management can be a subject of conflict in places where the composition of landowners is socially and culturally diverse, it also holds the potential of bringing landowners together across social groups. This chapter uses the case of a peri-urban area near Copenhagen, Denmark, to examine the relations landowners have through their use and management of land within and across social groups. To elaborate the analysis and discussion of social groups, social coherence and fragmentation, this chapter introduces the concepts of homophily and self-categorisation. Interviews with 40 landowners from two parishes addressed four types of land-based relations: (1) exchange of help and services; (2) debate of farming/management; (3) shared interests and (4) friendship. While the pattern of relations overall supported the idea that people interact more with their own social group, the analysis also showed areas of interaction across groups as well. Three overall themes summarise important areas of cohesion/fragmentation: (1) Rented land and contracting, (2) Common interests between landowners including hunting, farming and horses, (3) Urgency and geographic proximity.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelMetropolitan ruralities
RedaktørerKjell Andersson, Stefan Sjöblom, Leo Granberg, Peter Ehrström, Terry Marsden
Antal sider31
ForlagEmerald Group Publishing
Publikationsdato2016
Sider93-123
Kapitel5
ISBN (Trykt)978-1-78560-797-4
ISBN (Elektronisk)978-1-78560-796-7
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2016
NavnResearch in Rural Sociology and Development
Vol/bind23
ISSN1057-1922

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