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Towards a Meta‐Framework of Endogenous Development: Repertoires, Paths, Democracy and Rights
Author(s) -
Ray Christopher
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
sociologia ruralis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.005
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1467-9523
pISSN - 0038-0199
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9523.00122
Subject(s) - conceptualization , operationalization , agency (philosophy) , democracy , politics , sociology , globalization , political science , economic system , political economy , economics , epistemology , law , social science , computer science , philosophy , artificial intelligence
Although interest in endogenous (integrated, participative, bottom‐up) rural development by policy makers, practitioners and academics continues to grow, the term suffers from an incomplete conceptualization. This prescriptive essay proposes a meta‐framework in which to conceptualize the nature of endogenous development in the contemporary, contexts of globalization and Europeanization. The framework is built around three main components. Territorial repertoires and development paths encapsulate the nature of ownership and choice in the exploitation of resources. This derives from a more sophisticated understanding of territorial agency. A repertoire functions dynamically as a mediator between the local territory and the extralocal level and so the component rights focuses attention onto this flexible interface, through the support potentially available from extralocal regulation and through a raising of consciousness within the local territory. Rights, by energizing a cultural and political dynamic, allow for a discourse on alternative paths of development to be pursued, which is itself operationalized through any or all of the three modes of democracy.