Rural Routes Podcast

Bojan Fürst
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What is rural in the 21st century? This podcast was produced through The Leslie Harris Centre of Regional Policy and Development at Memorial University of Newfoundland. This is the archive of the podcast.

  1. Jun 9

    S3E12: Along The Baccalieu Trail

    Dale+Natalie Bojan Fürst Download In this episode, I talk to Dale Jarvis, intangible cultural heritage officer for the province of Newfoundland and Labrador and research associate at the Folklore Department at Memorial University, and Natalie Dignam, a researcher and a broadcaster based in St. John's. We talked about intangible culture heritage along Baccalieu Trail in Newfoundland and how it can create tourism opportunities for the region. We also talked about community radio, Newfoundland ponies, traditional skills, and why we need to start paying attention to local knowledge.

  2. Jun 9

    S3E11: Rural and island responses to COVID-19

    Covid19 Bojan Fürst Download Geography matters. And when it comes to pandemics such as this COVID-19 one that we find ourselves in the middle of, how we respond to pandemics is very much influenced by geography. That curiosity about geographically distinct responses to COVID-19 pandemic is very much behind two research projects we are going to talk about today. The first one was initiated by The Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation. It looked at rural responses to the pandemic in Canada. The second project was initiated at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and it looked at how small islands around the world responded to COVID19 pandemic. The guests today in order of appearance are: Dr. Sarah Minnes, the current President of the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Conservation of Change Lab at the University of Guelph. Dr. Sean Markey is a professor and certified planner with the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Ashleigh Weeden is a PhD candidate in the School of Environmental Design & Rural Development at the University of Guelph. Dr. Francesco Sindico is the Co-Director of the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. He leads the project on island responses to Covid-19 with data from islands in 36 countries around the world.

  3. Jun 9

    S3E10: Rural trauma

    Rural Trauma Bojan Fürst Download This episode of Rural Routes features Dr. Kathleen Kevany from the Faculty of Agriculture at Dalhousie University in Truro, Nova Scotia. She is the director of the Rural Research Collaborative and a licensed psychotherapist who studies community development, community well-being and social change. We reached out to Dr. Kevany in the aftermath of a mass shooting in rural Nova Scotia to help us understand the impacts such traumatic events have on rural regions and communities and what we can do to help us get through such difficult events. Dr. Kevany also shared some of the resources available to rural communities and especially those affected by the recent events.

  4. Jun 9

    S3E9: The Future of Rural Work

    S3E9-Future of Rural Work Bojan Fürst Download This episode is an excerpt from a panel discussion recorded at the 2019 Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation conference and North Atlantic Forum in St. John's, Newfoundland.

  5. Jun 9

    S3E8: Rural-Urban Interaction

    CRRF 1 - Rural Urban Bojan Fürst Download Bill Reimer, Brian Dabson, and Zita Cobb made for a stellar opening panel of the 2019 Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation conference this past October in St. John’s at Memorial University’s Signal Hill Campus. They dived deep into the issues of rural-urban interaction and possibilities of a healthier and more respectful relationship.

  6. Jun 9

    S3E7: Rural Innovation in Ireland

    Felicity Kelliher Bojan Fürst Download A growing population, opportunities in a variety of industries and sectors, focus on experience and food, and a drive to find new and better ways of doing just about anything? If you think this describes a trendy metropolis, think again. Rural Ireland is creating a range of innovative rural development strategies that bring together residents, industry, civil sector and academic institutions on projects that range from implementation of broadband internet access, to agro-tourism, to intellectual capital vouchers. In this episode of Rural Routes you'll hear from Dr. Felicity Kelliher at the Waterford Institute of Technology on rural innovation in Ireland.

  7. Jun 9

    S3E6: Social enterprise and community development

    S3E6-Social Enterprise1 Bojan Fürst Download Social enterprises are increasingly a tool in the community development toolbox. In November 2018, Drs. Natalie Slawinski and Blair Winsor from the Faculty of Business Administration at Memorial University of Newfoundland and the Harris Centre organized a workshop and a public forum on Fogo Island to present the final results of a research project on the role of social enterprises in community development. Using the excerpts from that event and the conversation in the studio with Dr. John Schouten, Canada Research Chair in Social Enterprise, and Kimberly Orren, director of Fishing for Success, this episode is your primer on the role social enterprises could play in rural development.

  8. Jun 9

    S2E5: Rural Media

    S3E5-Rural Media Bojan Fürst and Rebecca Cohoe Download Media industry is in trouble. For a long time now it has been shedding jobs and converging into ever larger corporate entities where profits outweigh any residual sense of responsibility to small communities for whom a local paper is often a necessity. Are there solutions? In this episode we will bring you interviews with journalists working a community owned paper in Blyth, Ontario and a co-op station in Nelson, BC as well as a conversation with two researchers from the Caribbean islands of Curaçao and Aruba studying journalism practices in small island settings.

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What is rural in the 21st century? This podcast was produced through The Leslie Harris Centre of Regional Policy and Development at Memorial University of Newfoundland. This is the archive of the podcast.

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  • Creator
    Bojan Fürst
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2026
  • Episodes
    42
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    ©2026 Bojan Fürst
  • Show Website
    Rural Routes Podcast