TY - JOUR

T1 - Mapping conversations about land use

T2 - How modern farmers practice individuality

AU - Brock, Steen

AU - Christensen, Andreas Aagaard

AU - Hansen, Line Block

AU - Graversgaard, Morten

AU - Vejre, Henrik

AU - Dalgaard, Tommy

AU - Piil, Kristoffer

AU - Andersen, Peter Stubkjær

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Intellect Ltd Article.

PY - 2021/6/1

Y1 - 2021/6/1

N2 - In this article, drawing on the discursive psychology of Rom Harré, we show how mapping the exchange of words among people might disclose a complex reality; not merely that which farmers explicitly talk ‘about’ but the reality implicitly at stake within the communication. More specifically, we show how discourses involving modern farmers reveal an underlying placing in an abstract space, having sub-spaces defined by the life-orientation, sense of self and according selfpositioning of modern people. In this way, we construct a road map of a set of ‘individualities’ characterizing the life of modern farmers: An individuality of citizenship, an individuality of geographies and an individuality of experience. Consequently, farmers face the problem that this multiplicity of individuality prevents them from communicating, as we will call it, univocally in the public by contrast to the univocal voices of other established social groups. We will analyse the structure of that problem by viewing diverse relations between the authority and the authenticity of different partners in the conversation on land use.

AB - In this article, drawing on the discursive psychology of Rom Harré, we show how mapping the exchange of words among people might disclose a complex reality; not merely that which farmers explicitly talk ‘about’ but the reality implicitly at stake within the communication. More specifically, we show how discourses involving modern farmers reveal an underlying placing in an abstract space, having sub-spaces defined by the life-orientation, sense of self and according selfpositioning of modern people. In this way, we construct a road map of a set of ‘individualities’ characterizing the life of modern farmers: An individuality of citizenship, an individuality of geographies and an individuality of experience. Consequently, farmers face the problem that this multiplicity of individuality prevents them from communicating, as we will call it, univocally in the public by contrast to the univocal voices of other established social groups. We will analyse the structure of that problem by viewing diverse relations between the authority and the authenticity of different partners in the conversation on land use.

KW - Authenticity

KW - Authority

KW - Citizenship

KW - Individuality

KW - Modern farming

KW - Self-positioning

U2 - 10.1386/EJPC_00025_1

DO - 10.1386/EJPC_00025_1

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:85117389358

VL - 12

SP - 5

EP - 17

JO - Empedocles: European journal for the philosophy of communication

JF - Empedocles: European journal for the philosophy of communication

SN - 1757-1952

IS - 1

ER -