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Reza Movahedi

Academic rank: Professor
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Education: PhD.
ScopusId: 24448372200
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Faculty: Faculty of Agriculture
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Research

Title
From Arturo Escobar’s development theory to Antony Giddens’s structuration theory: a social constructionist analysis of rural entrepreneurship and multifunctional agriculture
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
agricultural multifunctionality; rural entrepreneurship; Antony Giddens; Arturo Escobar; social constructionism; discourse; hegemony; development; social science; Iran
Year
2016
Journal international journal of agricultural resources,governance and ecology
DOI
Researchers Hassan Shahraki ، Reza Movahedi ، Ahmad Yaghoubi Farani

Abstract

Many research papers in the field of entrepreneurship have gained from a positivistic analytical approach, both in epistemology and methodology. Also there are very limited enquires concerning entrepreneurship in rural areas, or rural entrepreneurship in a new way. Through this paper, using social constructionism as a big paradigm, Antony Giddens’s Structuration Theory and Arturo Escobar’s Three Component Theory in development deployment, we try to present an explanation of rural entrepreneurship and multifunctional agriculture, as two main discourses in rural regions. The main claim is that it is necessary to shift from positivistic and hegemonic discourse of rural entrepreneurship to socially constructed discourse of agriculture’s multifunctionality, through an analytical reversion of Escobar’s theory, and using Structuration Theory as a theoretical context