Truck Journeys and Land Parcels: Understanding the socio-economic organization of family farming through farm life histories

Erin F Smith

doi:10.1080/00330124.2015.1028501

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Truck Journeys and Land Parcels: Understanding the socio-economic organization of family farming through farm life histories

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Truck Journeys and Land Parcels: Understanding the socio-economic organization of family farming through farm life histories

Erin F Smith

Professional Geographer, Vol.67(3), pp.464-471

2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2015.1028501

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Abstract

Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience

Human Geography

Australia

family farm organization

farm life history

land ownership

mobile interviews

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.

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Title: Truck Journeys and Land Parcels: Understanding the socio-economic organization of family farming through farm life histories
Authors: Erin F Smith (Author) - University of Sydney
Publication details: Professional Geographer, Vol.67(3), pp.464-471
Publisher: Routledge
Date published: 2015
DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2015.1028501
ISSN: 0033-0124
Copyright note: 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
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449216002621
Output Type: Journal article

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