Following the general idea of place matters and based on the particular features of rural/peripheral settlements, people, and communities, the current study aims at exploring the development and meaning of peripheral identity and its construction, as perceived by adults who were born and raised in the northern periphery of Israel. Using the phenomenological genre, 40 interviews were conducted with adults aged 26–40 who grew up in the periphery at least until the age of 21. Inductive thematic analysis was conducted, based on the principles of grounded theory. The analysis yielded four main categories that represented four dimensions of a conflict or a paradox that characterizes life in the periphery: (1) Personal chronology from childhood to adulthood; (2) Family as an anchor vs. an obligation; (3) Settlement as inner vs. the outside environment; (4) Region as empowerment and powerful vs. deficit and powerless. The findings indicate that the embedded identity of the peripheral homegrown is ambiguous, conflictual, and contradictory. The current study aims to demonstrate how the social constructive approach can challenge the meanings of rurality/peripherally as an experience that is shaped in different ways.

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以色列农村和城市周边本土成年人的地方二元性☆

遵循地点问题的总体思路，并基于农村/周边聚落、人群和社区的具体特征，本研究旨在探索在以色列北部边缘出生和长大的成年人所感知的边缘身份的发展和意义及其构建。采用现象学方法，对 40 名年龄在 26 岁至 40 岁之间、至少在 21 岁之前在外围地区长大的成年人进行了采访。根据扎根理论的原则，进行了归纳主题分析。分析得出了四个主要类别，代表了边缘生活特征的冲突或悖论的四个维度：(1) 个人年表从童年到成年; (2) 家庭作为锚点与义务； (3)沉降作为内部环境与外部环境的对比； (4) 地区作为授权和强大与赤字和无能为力。研究结果表明，外围本土人的内在身份是模糊的、冲突的和矛盾的。当前的研究旨在展示社会建构方法如何挑战乡村/周边地区作为一种以不同方式塑造的体验的含义。