@article{2025:gospodarczyk:accepting_,
title = {Accepting the maelstrom? Emotional responses to drought in farming households in Poland and the involvement–detachment continuum},
year = {2025},
note = {This article focuses on responses to drought among Polish farmers.
Framed by the concept of the involvement–detachment continuum, as
proposed by Norbert Elias, this article shows the unbreakable bond
between natural occurrences and social life, especially of a specific
social group of farmers. Drawing on interviews and participant
observations in two research locations in Poland, purposefully chosen
to reflect the diversity of the sector in the country, the article
describes a response to drought dubbed “weary acceptance”. Based
on Elias’s essay “Fishermen in the maelstrom”, the article
argues, that when certain structural conditions are met, an objective
assessment of the possible actions against drought is being made by
the farmers. Based on this assessment, a position of passivity is
assumed, wherein the unpredictability and uncontrollability of drought
are being accepted as part of the course for farming, and stoicism in
the face of hardships is seen as a part of legitimised farming
habitus.},
journal = {Culture, Practice & Europeanization},
pages = {158--173},
author = {Gospodarczyk, Marta},
volume = {10},
number = {2}
}