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Stable Mobilities and Mobile Stabilities in Rural Estonian Communities

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  • Nugin Raili
  • Kasemets Kadri

    (Centre for Landscape and Culture, School of Humanities, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia)

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By analyzing the relations of communities and places in sparsely located rural areas, this article argues that rural community is not a stable unity tied to a place, but a phenomenon closely tied to its members’ connections to the interdependent concept of urban/rural, especially in terms of their mobility practices. In this study, the new mobilities paradigm was applied to reveal how everyday relational and routine aspects connected to material, structural, socio-cultural and economic conditioning dynamically intertwine to form a rural community. The analysis is based on three regional case studies in Estonian sparsely populated areas, which are diverse in terms of geographical location, demographic composition, type of settlement, history, and welfare conditions. By using qualitative in-depth interviews with people (N=60) who were involved with the locations, the article analyses everyday mobilities in these communities, especially in terms of interrelatedness to structural, social and material factors. The study has brought out interrelated themes that are connected to the use of rural representations in terms of individual and social self-reflection, the importance of social and material infrastructures, and the dynamics of these borders in communities and shaping community relations.

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  • Nugin Raili & Kasemets Kadri, 2021. "Stable Mobilities and Mobile Stabilities in Rural Estonian Communities," European Countryside, Sciendo, vol. 13(2), pages 222-241, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:eurcou:v:13:y:2021:i:2:p:222-241:n:13
    DOI: 10.2478/euco-2021-0016
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