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Risk individualisation is increasingly apparent in policy and practice discourses on social exclusion. For rural older people, potentially compounding risk factors emerge from the intersection of ageing and rurality. When linked to the diversity of individuals, rural settings, and national jurisdictions, this raises intriguing questions concerning how rural communities perceive and manage related risk. The article draws on comparable data from Australia, Ireland and Northern Ireland to explore rural community stakeholders’ perceptions of the construction of, and responsibility for, risk of old-age social exclusion. Data derive from interviews and focus groups with 84 stakeholders from 13 settings across the three jurisdictions. Analysis illustrates an almost universal narrative around the individualisation of risk of old-age social exclusion, where rural communities serve a role in risk mitigation more than construction. The narrative’s policy, socio-cultural and contextual drivers, together with its implications, are discussed with reference to the contrasting national contexts.
Author(s): Warburton J, Scharf T, Walsh K
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Sociologia Ruralis
Year: 2017
Volume: 57
Issue: 4
Pages: 459-480
Print publication date: 01/10/2017
Online publication date: 23/05/2016
Acceptance date: 08/04/2016
Date deposited: 07/04/2016
ISSN (print): 0038-0199
ISSN (electronic): 1467-9523
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/soru.12129
DOI: 10.1111/soru.12129
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