“We would be dead in the water without our social media!”: Women using entrepreneurial bricolage to mitigate drought impacts in rural Australia

• DOI: 10.1080/15575330.2021.1972017
• Publication Date: 2021-09-21T13:44:16Z
• Authors: Sarah Casey; Gail Crimmins; Laura Rodriguez C...; Penny Holliday
• Keywords: Bricolage; Economic stability

It is widely understood that climate change transforms rural communities' economic activities have historically relied on farming through off-farm income for stability and mitigation. Entrepreneurship has become a central feature of the diversification labor, but there still need to document how women operationalize entrepreneurship in their communities. We use three narrative interviews examine settler Murweh Paroo Shires outback Queensland Australia mitigated devastating financial impact most recent drought lens entrepreneurial bricolage income. The findings, generated grounded theory, highlight complexity processes women's networking (digital communal), learning digital technologies, repurposing resources places, family labor. paper contributes theoretically place-based, gendered context-specific understandings mitigation, identifying employed.