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Title: Truck Journeys and Land Parcels: Understanding the socio-economic organization of family farming through farm life histories
Author/Creator: Smith, Erin F
Description: Conceptual advances for understanding the organization of family farms have not yet initiated parallel debates about how they might be aligned with the methods used to understand them. Customization of a novel research approach—farm life history—for an investigation of the socioeconomic organization of forty Australian farms responds to this literature gap. Individual farm life histories were initiated using farm tours (truck journeys) in which changes to the composition of land parcels prompted research conversations. The researcher and participants benefited from using motorized transport and traveling while talking, but the benefits were experienced unevenly across research encounters.
Relation: Professional Geographer / Vol. 67, No. 3, pp.464-471
Relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2015.1028501
Year: 2015
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: FoR 0406 (Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience) | FoR 1604 (Human Geography) | Australia | family farm organization | farm life history | land ownership | mobile interviews

Collection(s): Research Publications
Resource Type: Journal Article
Identifier: ISSN: 0033-0124
Rights: Copyright © 2015 The Authors. This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Erin F. Smith (2015) Truck Journeys and Land Parcels: Understanding the
Socioeconomic Organization of Family Farming Through Farm Life Histories, The Professional Geographer, 67:3, 464-471, DOI: as published in the Professional Geographer 2015 Copyright by Association of American Geographers, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00330124.2015.1028501
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