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… The study focuses on how external elites produce new rural … rural space by incorporating elements specific to the Chinese context: guanxi, rural revitalization policies, and gentry culture. …

The Chinese government now considers the conservation and reuse of cultural heritage important in revitalising the countryside and narrowing the gap between urban and rural development. We highlight the development of a “new gentry” concept, arguing that in this process the government has appropriated and transformed the concept of “gentry” from the traditional Chinese farming society of the imperial period. Heritage conservation allows the new gentry group to act as official agents to reinforce grassroots management and establish an elitist and capital-oriented authorised heritage discourse while erasing the class narrative. We propose that this is not equivalent to a general “gentrification” process, but is a policy tacitly supported by officials with a clear agenda.

… , the development of New Rural Elite Associations is not intended to grant xiangxian more … While Zhejiang Province is well known for having a strong “rural elite culture ” (xiangxian …

… rural development has made it difficult for rural areas to attract and retain outstanding talents. However, the origin of the Xiangxian culture … a new engine of rural economic development. …

ABSTRACT This paper discusses local development and various governance strategies that local governments can use to engage actors in rural communities and resources from a broader environment to achieve desired socio-economic outcomes. We ask: How can local governance vary in rural communities? How can governance arrangements lead to contrasting socio-economic outcomes? Our conceptual framework combines a typology of local governance roles with socio-economic outcomes associated with neo-endogenous development theory. We explore culture-based development projects from three rural communities. We find that local governance strategies vary between relatively similar rural communities and that they represent compromises in terms of socio-economic outcomes. Local government in rural communities can act strategically through use of local networks. Local governance here is best understood as an emergent quality of the local context, history, institutions, culture, and, power relations. Therefore, governance strategies in rural contexts should be based on careful reflection on potential roles, trade-offs and desirable outcomes.

… , social capital formation and local development, and collective … ‘the local’, the see manifestations tend to underplay both local … capital and rural intensifi cation: local organizations …

This article argues that there is a need to enrich the theory of citizen participation and the design of deliberation practices through greater attention to the cultural politics of deliberative space. The article focuses on the ways the social valorization of political space influences basic discursive processes such as who speaks, how knowledge is constituted, what can be said, and who decides. From this perspective, decentralized design principles are necessary but insufficient requirements for deliberative empowerment. The point is illustrated through an analysis of the Science for the People movement in Kerala, India, a prominent example of deliberative empowerment. The discussion shows how the movement employed cultural and pedagogical strategies to facilitate an empowered participation of local citizens in the deliberative planning process. These experiences demonstrate the importance of a deeper understanding of cultural meaning and political identity in the theory of democratic deliberation and the practice of participatory governance.

… /PLA seeks and embodies participatory ways to empower local and sub-ordinate people to … by their acronyms–RRA (rapid rural appraisal), PRA (participatory rural appraisal) and PLA (…

… in the operation of the local state in particular … of local government/governance’. By so doing there is more scope for appreciating the local variations in the practices of rural governance …

… in two predominantly rural districts in the South Island of New … local authorities in their respective emerging governance … the impact of governance on local government legitimacy, …

… study form a new direction for governance in these small rural towns it … local government that incorporated large tracts of farming land with a disproportionate share of votes on the local …

Abstract Rural sage culture is a cultural phenomenon in traditional China. This article explores the emergence and development of the rural sage shrine and uses the former Henan provincial administrative commissioner Wan Yi’s rituals to the rural sage shrine in 1614 as a case study to illustrate that the Confucian tradition of local rituals permeated and influenced the election culture of local society during the Ming Dynasty. The abolition of the imperial examination system at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the absence of a new bureaucratic system made it difficult for the traditional rural sages to survive as the old and new forces were renewed, which led to the cultural spirit of the traditional village sages becoming increasingly blurred in modern China. After the reform and opening up in 1978, China’s policy of reshaping rural grassroots society was put forward, which provided a good social environment and guaranteed the emergence of “new rural sages”. New rural sages were born in the wave of reform in the new era. From this historical experience, it is concluded that the nomination of rural sages to the shrine was a means of valuing rural talents. In the process of innovation and development of the culture of the rural sage, contemporary China has given a new mission to the “new rural sage”, that is, to transform the folk customs, to build models, and to correctitude value tropism.

… The aggregation of local sages and new rural elites also attracts more industrial investment, promoting an increase in the operational income of village collectives. Therefore, there is a …

… systems in Western Europe tend to be at their most visible and coherent in their rural homelands. Thus, there remains an association between rural areas and indigenous cultural identity…

… of cultural resources can provide local actors with strategic capacity for endogenous development … under which traditional cultures are explicitly treated as resources in the creation of …

… been on territorial-cultural identities as frameworks for endogenous development within the … In summary, endogenous developmentwhether rural or urbanthus becomes a project () …

… conducting endogenous development with rural communities, … with farmers within the context of endogenous development. … to further develop the local economy and cultural identity find …

… and cultural framework. The experience of neo-endogenous development across rural … was supplemented by rural Europe as the domain of indigenous cultural identity (in contrast …

… of endogenous development, this paper intends to reveal the endogenous development mechanism of rural … education consists of four elements:rural education identification, deep …

… , if exogenous development is development that is initiated outside a local region (ie, externally) then endogenous development is the opposite. In other words, ERD is development that …

Under the background of the decline of rural society, the brain drain and the lack of endogenous development power are one of the main reasons restricting the development of rural China. Although village committees and village Party committees, as grassroots governance instictutions, have played a great role in the process of rural revitalization, it is still difficult to achieve effective governance in rural areas with only top-down bureaucratic power. Therefore, activating the vitality of local elites and promoting the bottom-up development of rural areas is the internal driving force of rural revitalization. However, local elites have neither the institutional power of grassroots cadres nor the same prestige as clan elders. Therefore, for local elites to gain effective governance power, they must go through a process of empowerment, that is, gaining recognition from various forces within the village. Taking the Yuanqian Community of Xiamen city in Fujian Province as an example, this paper analyzes the formation process of local elite power. In this process, local elites gained the trinity of administrative, social and economic empowerment, and became the subject of governance power and the leader of rural revitalization. A new rural governance network with local elites as the core was constructed in the Yuanqian Community. Under the role of the new governance network, the material space and industrial space of the village have been transformed, thus promoting the revitalization of the countryside. At the same time, the village gradually expanded its influence and eventually became a model village in the field of rural revitalization. Due to its growing influence, the Yuanqian Community has achieved sustainable development. The case of Xiamen shows that local elites could gain effective governance power through an empowerment process. Then, by reconstructing the rural governance network, local elites could be the important social foundation of rural sustainable endogenous development.

… that rural people's agency in cultural … rural socio-spatial processes. In my case study of the re-production of traditional ancestral temples in rural areas of Xincheng Town, southeast China…

… revitalization policies, which typically marginalize community agency. … in rural China. Through ethnographic engagement with Dananpo Village, we analyze tensions between cultural …

… Taiwanese minister of the Council for Cultural Affairs, a Yale-… in a Taiwanese rural community, Zhulin community (竹林, a … , rural grass-roots collective movements in the Chinese social …

… assess community resilience developed by Emery and Flora (2006) and Kelly et al. (2015), this study analyses the resilience of Hu village (Sichuan, China). The resilience of the village …

… Chinese lineages have produced diversified cultural landscapes, including visually … trends of reiterating traditional rural meanings, keeping community practices of sociality/sacredness, …

Abstract The phenomenon of rural marginalisation has intensified across the European Union after the 2008 global economic crisis, since the traditional state forms have been proved unable to promote an all-inclusive governing. Beyond-the-state governance systems are socially innovative, horizontal, networked, and collaborative institutional arrangements that are committed to breaking through this rural marginalisation. Marginalised rural areas provide a favourable context for socially innovative governance, since they contain small cohesive communities, while at the same time poor governing penetrates them. Nevertheless, social innovation in rural governance remains largely unexplored. The novel contribution of this article consists in underlying this research gap and exploring the question of how socially innovative governance is fostered or impeded within marginalised rural regions. Comparative research was conducted in between the marginalised rural regions of Muhlviertel in Austria, Baixo Alentejo in Portugal, and Phthiotis in Greece. The comparative results revealed some of the parameters that foster socially innovative governance; a decentralized government structure, advanced interregional networking, a discourse dissemination among the stakeholders and the civil society, as well as an organizational stability of the involved institutions for social innovation to become embedded. This article points to socially innovative governance that has a more codified and systematized hypostasis by recommendation of unique governance qualities.

Though policy openings for support from the ‘new rural paradigm’ look promising, market access through sustainability-led economic organisations in fragmented rural areas is not easy. This paper analyses the implications of the interactive embedded governance model framed by the structural, cognitive and relational dimensions of social capital and hence the fi rms’ ability to engage with networked stakeholders in bottom-up knowledge-sharing for innovation. We show how, in the case of three marginal rural villages in the province of Trentino, Italy, this approach was used to raise stakeholders’ awareness that the local identity and heritage resources represent assets that given appropriate knowledge sharing could be converted into ‘authentic’ tourism products. The study illustrates the critical importance of such non-economic factors for achieving sustainable rural development.

Effective rural governance is the foundation for achieving rural revitalization and promoting the modernization of China’s system and governance capacity in the new era. The elucidation of the influencing factors and driving pathways underlying effective rural governance has significant importance in facilitating the advancement of rural revitalization. Drawing upon the Actor-Network Theory (ANT), this study introduces an analytical framework of “human actor dimension—non-human actor dimension”. The study employs the fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparison Analysis (fsQCA) to explore the effective governance pathways within 20 typical cases of rural governance. The study reveals that a cooperative-based collective economy is a necessary condition for effective governance, while possessing a resource advantage is a core condition. Villager autonomy, local culture, and new technology are marginal conditions for effective governance, while the absence of elite participation fails to promote effective governance. The combination of human variables and resource compacts gives rise to “human actor-resource compacts” and “non-human actor-resource compacts”. The study further elaborates on the efficacious model of rural governance through three multifactor driving pathways: “human actor-non-human actor resource sparse linkage”. The research emphasizes the importance of fortifying rural governance and revitalization through the cultivation of relationships, enhancing government management systems, embracing technological innovation, supporting community economies, and advocating mechanisms that empower rural elites and talent.

Rural health governance is an important part of low-carbon green life, which is also related to the sustainable development and population health project in rural areas. Based on the survey data of 2343 rural residents in China, this study adopted a binary logistic regression model to explore the effects of rural residents’ social network and cognition on their participation in rural health governance. The research results show that only less than 30% of the respondents participated in rural health governance, and the proportion of rural resident participating is not high. Both their social network and cognition have a significant impact on their participation in rural health governance. Introverted communication helps strengthen the connection between rural residents, form the network and structure of rural social communication, build emotional links and common interests, and form a common cultural understanding paradigm and action framework. The extraverted communication means that rural residents gradually break away from the social network of acquaintances, which is not conducive to building a rural community. Rural residents’ understanding of behavior begins to deviate from rural culture, customs and emotional values, and the binding force of traditional culture is reduced, making it difficult to motivate them to participate in rural public life. Policy cognition can improve rural residents’ recognition of the value and significance of health governance. Responsibility awareness is the internal driving force for rural residents to participate in health governance, which can also reduce the governance cost of rural managers. Based on this, increasing rural residents’ introverted communication and cultivating their sense of responsibility are key to promoting their participation in rural health governance.

At present, in the process of RG (rural governance), problems such as the decline of social morality, the lack of collective identity, the lack of cohesion, and the low degree of autonomy have plagued the improvement of RG quality. FSC (folk sports culture) can promote good social governance with its positive role. As an informal system, FSC heritage derived from traditional society continues its strong vitality and flexibility in modern RG. This paper presents an RG model based on CSN (computer sensor network). The model takes the individual generated content of social media as the sensor data source and perceives the security situation of the online society and the real society through the data of netizens’ behaviors, emotions, and attitudes. The results show that the RMSE of the particles obtained by the improved resampling algorithm is slightly better than that of the traditional resampling algorithm, and the RMSE basically fluctuates between 0.36 and 0.45. This can reflect the effectiveness of the resampling algorithm in this chapter. FSC can play an important role in improving villagers’ political literacy, solving the problem of providing for the aged, maintaining rural stability, establishing rural organizations, and developing public welfare undertakings.

The importance of social capital for agricultural and rural development is explored in this paper through the analysis of seven comprehensive case studies that have been carried out in the framework of the European RETHINK research programme. The case studies are based on rather different initiatives at the interface between agricultural and rural development in Germany, Spain, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Denmark and Israel. The case studies represent a broad spectrum of socio-economic and agricultural contexts and focus on the role of social capital for development. We explore how social capital materialises in the context of rural areas, and what nuances it acquires in different rural environments. The case studies are used to better understand, and to illustrate, different expressions of social capital in different situations. Within the broad notion of social capital, we pay particular attention to trust, cooperation, sense of community, and culture and tradition. All four dimensions play a critical role in agricultural and rural development as they affect how people relate to each other, organise themselves and interact for development.

Traditional villages carrying farming civilization are valuable historical and cultural heritage of China, and also the key to rural revitalization. Under the tide of modernization, Xihe Village, located in the mountains, is relatively intact as a traditional village. Under the guidance of the traditional village protection policy, the village has achieved remarkable results in protection and development. However, as the main body of village protection practice, local villagers still face corresponding problems in the protection and development of villages and the participation of relevant policies. These problems are manifested in residents' relatively low understanding of the protection policies of traditional villages; The government does not fully cooperate with the local villagers in carrying out cultural activities, and the village culture is not fully explored. Village infrastructure is still lacking, which is not conducive to retaining villagers to live and develop in the village. Therefore, in order to strengthen the participation of villagers in the protection of traditional villages, the government should strengthen the publicity of the protection and development policy of traditional villages. When carrying out cultural activities, the government should strengthen the cooperation with the villagers and explore the various cultural resources in the villages. Improve the infrastructure in the village, and provide better material guarantee for the life development of local villagers.

… , over half of the villagers said they participated in discussions … in the village of Tunnana explained: "Villagers participate to a … Other villagers responded similarly that participation had …

… in and catalyst the restoration of local cultures and social relations, and contribute to an … the cultural authority of artists and villagers’ uneven participation; and between local villagers’ …

… ," our work underscores the central role of culture in design participation … between designers and villagers enhanced the cultural awareness and participation of the villagers, there was a …

Communities are fundamental to national development, functioning as essential social units where local cultural identity and public participation play a crucial role. However, rapid urbanization has led to a decline in interpersonal interactions, weakened community bonds, and increased social divides, which in turn reduce residents’ engagement in public affairs. This study aims to explore the relationship between cultural identity and community revitalization to promote sustainable community development. We will achieve this by analyzing the implementation experiences of two rural Taiwanese communities: Huanan Community in Gukeng, Yunlin, and Chenggong Community in Dadou, Taichung City. Using exploratory factor analysis and regression analysis as our methodologies, we seek to understand how cultural identity fosters cohesion, enhances participation, and supports sustainable development in community revitalization. Our research findings indicate that cultural identity is composed of cultural engagement, cultural belonging, and cultural integration. Conversely, community revitalization encompasses aspects of daily life, life experiences, personal economic evaluation, community industry development, and residents’ environmental awareness. The overall research framework demonstrates that cultural identity has a strong influence on community revitalization, identifying strategies to improve residents’ quality of life and foster vibrant communities.

As the central priority of China's “Agriculture, Rural Areas, and Farmers” initiatives in the new era, the Rural Revitalization Strategy confronts practical challenges of cultural hollowing-out and intergenerational discontinuity during the modernization of agriculture and rural communities. The paradoxical coexistence of diminishing traditional farming heritage and imbalanced contemporary cultural resources establishes the cultivation of rural cultural ethos as a critical breakthrough point for strategic implementation. University students emerge as innovative catalysts for revitalizing rural cultural heritage through their knowledge capital and modern perspectives. Their engagement addresses dual imperatives: remedying talent deficits in grassroots cultural governance and facilitating bidirectional cultural exchange between urban and rural systems. Current practices reveal systemic constraints including fragmented participation, misalignment between supply and demand of cultural services, and insufficient institutionalization mechanisms, necessitating comprehensive solutions. This study investigates the operational dilemmas and breakthrough strategies of student-led cultural interventions, grounded in the coupling logic of cultural rejuvenation and human capital development. Based on the coupling logic of cultural revitalization and talent revitalization, this paper focuses on the realistic dilemma and breakthrough path of college students' participation in rural cultural construction, and provides theoretical reference for the construction of sustainable rural cultural ecology.

… the rural. I argue for a rural plural vision that embraces first rural and second rural equally, … practical politics of the rural, and keeps our understanding of the rural forever moving on. …

… The everyday lives of rural people, and the ways in which those lives are represented in wider society, are increasingly the subject of cultural mediation. The outpourings of popular …

… , social and cultural. Rural social scientists have woven this modernist narrative, but, as Philo shows, one effect has been the neglect of certain social groups, cultures and identities. …