Brooks, Sally Heather orcid.org/0000-0002-1005-1245 and Meçe, Merita H. (2023) The impact of rural emptiness on gender relations in postsocialist Albania. Sociologia Ruralis. pp. 268-286. ISSN 1467-9523
Abstract
This paper explores impacts of dramatic levels of outmigration from Puka, a remote region of northern Albania. Since 1991 depopulation, economic decline and state withdrawal have created conditions of what Dzenovska calls rural emptiness. Drawing on focus group discussions with women from eight villages, it explores how conditions of rural emptiness have led to a transformation of gender contracts, with women taking on additional responsibilities. However these changes have been accommodated within a re-traditionalised patriarchal system through the devaluation of tasks assigned to women, their increased surveillance by male relatives, and erosion of women’s social life outside the household.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 European Society for Rural Sociology. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
Keywords: | Albania,migration,gender contracts,rural emptiness,informal care,postsocialism |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Social Policy and Social Work (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 08 Dec 2022 09:50 |
Last Modified: | 11 Jan 2025 00:08 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12416 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/soru.12416 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:194202 |
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