The dynamics of rural change are often linked to frameworks of ‘rural community resilience’, a body of literature associated with various aspects of society including social capital, community initiatives, and governance. Drawing on emergent literature, this study aims to explore how assemblage approaches may disseminate resilience thinking via dissolving structure-agency and bounce-back-transformative divisions. The paper explores how deliberate, and often policy-orientated actions, are intertwined with ‘non-intentional’ activities and processes that are deeply embedded in daily rural life. The paper further illustrates rural development processes through a case study of the watermelon-producing community of Medgyesegyháza, Hungary: a community that, in recent years, has been praised for its endurance throughout a period of socio-economic turbulence.

The aim is to demonstrate how assemblage theory may explain the emergence of intermingling human and non-human agency. It was observed that the resilience of the rural community assemblage is embedded in daily practices, and emerges from relations between two main components: humans and watermelons. By applying the concept of territorialisation, this paper examines how components of the assemblage become aligned as provisional stability is established. The paper contends that the engagement with non-humans establishes community identity, but changes in relations de-territorialise the assemblage and trigger new contingencies. The precarious nature of human-watermelon relationships have repercussions on stability as they may serve as drivers of change.

农村变化的动态通常与“农村社区复原力”框架有关，这是与社会各个方面相关的文献体系，包括社会资本、社区倡议和治理。本研究利用新兴文献，旨在探索组合方法如何通过消解结构-能动性和反弹-转化的分裂来传播弹性思维。本文探讨了深思熟虑且通常以政策为导向的行动如何与深深植根于农村日常生活中的“非故意”活动和过程交织在一起。本文通过对匈牙利 Medgyesegyháza 西瓜生产社区的案例研究进一步说明了农村发展过程：该社区近年来，

目的是展示组合理论如何解释混合人类和非人类能动性的出现。据观察，农村社区组合的复原力植根于日常实践中，并产生于两个主要组成部分之间的关​​系：人和西瓜。通过应用领土化的概念，本文研究了随着临时稳定的建立，组合的组成部分如何对齐。该论文认为，与非人类的接触建立了社区认同，但关系的变化使集合去领土化并引发新的突发事件。人与西瓜关系的不稳定性质对稳定性产生影响，因为它们可能成为变革的驱动力。