It is established that, in many countries, farmers recognise displayed tidiness in farming practice as indicative of ‘good’ farming. This paper asks whether Irish farmers share this recognition, and considers how this may affect uptake of agri‐environmental schemes and the potential for alterations in farming practices associated with such schemes to become ‘culturally embedded’. Taking a Bourdieusian approach, this paper examines features which Irish farmers associate with tidy, ‘good’ farming practices and the resulting capital invested in them. It is found that the Irish participants do recognise displayed tidy practice as cultural capital, but that it is mainly male farmers who afford this capital sufficient value to recognise the display of tidiness as status‐conferring symbolic capital. This recognition results in inter‐farmer criticism and judgement, and in the questioning by many male farmers of the untidy farmer’s right to the ‘good farmer’ identity. This is not the case for female farmers, who generally dislike the culture of judgement and criticism. In light of this culture, it is suggested that tidiness is one reason why agri‐environmental schemes do not become culturally embedded, and that this issue may be exacerbated by the low representation of Irish women in farm ownership and management.

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栖息地面临的挑战：爱尔兰农村的树篱H草

可以确定的是，在许多国家/地区，农民认识到耕作实践中显示出的整洁程度表明“良好”耕作。本文询问爱尔兰农民是否也认同这种认识，并考虑这可能会如何影响对农业环境计划的采用，以及与此类计划相关的耕作方式改变以成为“文化底蕴”的可能性。本文采用布尔迪厄斯方法，研究了爱尔兰农民与整洁，“良好”的耕作方式相关联的功能，以及由此产生的资本投入。发现爱尔兰的参与者确实将展示的整洁做法确认为文化资本，但是主要是男性农民提供了足够的价值，以将整理的展示视为具有地位地位的象征性资本。这种认识导致农民间的批评和判断，并导致许多男性农民对不整洁的农民享有“好农民”身份的权利提出质疑。对于女性农民而言并非如此，她们通常不喜欢判断和批评的文化。根据这种文化，有人建议整洁是农业环境计划未融入文化的原因之一，而爱尔兰妇女在农场所有权和管理中的代表性低可能加剧了这一问题。