Socio‐economic transitions and everyday life changes in the rural world: Pyrenean households and their contemporary economic history |
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| Authors: | Camila del Mármol Gemma Celigueta Ismael Vaccaro |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Departament d'Antropologia Social, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain;2. Department of Anthropology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada |
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| Abstract: | This article focuses on understanding rural life and how agrarian everyday life changes as a consequence of the radical socio‐economic transformations that, across the world, have accompanied rural communities in their transition from economies of subsistence to industrial production, and, in some areas, from there to providers of service to the tourism‐oriented leisure economy. In the last century in the Alt Urgell District (Spanish Pyrenees), many communities went from a production model based on subsistence farming and livestock breeding first to a specialization in milk production and later to tourism. The industrialization of milk production, the radical transformation of the scale of their operations, and the monetization of life transformed the identity and structure of these communities. The subsequent transformation of many of these farms to accommodate the leisure industry changed the shape of these households again. This paper reflects on how science, governance, commodification, and technology played a role on the transformation of the rural mountain areas, their people, and their everyday life. |
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| Keywords: | agrarian transitions everyday life ethnography household rural change techno‐governance |
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