Sammanfattning

Hunting is a social world in which members socially differentiate themselves into smaller social worlds on the basis of adhering to a particular method, aesthetic, or game. Such identity constitution has been understood as forming communities of practice of hunters. Importantly, these communities frequently take pride in their distinct identities and assert theirs is the 'real' way of hunting. In this paper, we canvass the diverse factors that make up hunter identities and examine them for patterns and meaning. Our analysis places the phenomenon of social differentiation as it currently takes place in hunting in the context of responses to modernization. On this analysis, hunter identities are found to be rooted in defensive localism, class competition over resources, gender and moral affiliation, and the protection of the social legitimacy of hunting before an increasingly critical society. Our work is at once a synthesis of recurring hunting profiles across literature and field sites in Europe and a critical analysis of the significance of hunting communities of practice in future research, including serious leisure studies, nature-based recreation, criminology and rural sociology.

Nyckelord

Hunting; Wildlife management; Landscapes; Defensive localism; Urban outsiders

Publicerad i

Journal of Rural Studies
2019, Volym: 68, sidor: 13-21

SLU författare

• von Essen, Erica

  • Institutionen för stad och land, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

Associerade SLU-program

Naturupplevelser och hälsa


Globala målen

Uppnå jämställdhet och alla kvinnors och flickors egenmakt


UKÄ forskningsämne

Vilt- och fiskeförvaltning


Publikationens identifierare

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.03.013

Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/99121