In another world
Subtitle: among Europe's dying villages
By: Tom Pow
Publisher: Polygon
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781846971952
Subjects: Social conditions; Rural-urban migration; Villages
Description: In one of the great defining moments in human history, more people now live in cities than in rural areas, and the effects of this depopulation and the plummeting birthrate are being felt keenly throughout Europe, which has the fastest-declining population in the world. Tom Pow sets out to explore what this means in some of the most rapidly vanishing areas of Europe. From Spain to Russia, he uses the tools of his trade--travelogue, essay, story and poem--to make connections, not only with what he encounters in numerous dying villages, but to reflect on his own experiences of memory, identity and loss. In Another World is an open book: not an argument, but an invitation to remember, to reflect and to engage with one of the most significant social issues affecting Europe today.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-246).
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Poem: Untitled; title: Essay: Prologue: Withering Heights; title: Poem: Islanders; title: pt. One The Village and the Road; title: Essay: The Village and the Road; title: Story: Neighbours; title: Poem: The Lesson; title: Poem: Stars; title: pt. Two Lost Lands; title: Essay: The Lost Land; title: Essay: Of Armoires and Wolves; title: Poem: Singer; title: Poem: A Village History of Europe; title: Story: Fair Exchange; title: Story: A Gift from the Sea; title: Essay: Still Life; title: Poem: Walnut Gatherers; title: Story: Twelve Red Roses; title: pt. Three Few Souls; title: Poem: The Memory Tree; title: Story: Andrey; title: Essay: A Few Souls: The Emptying Villages of Russia; title: Essay: Afterword: Raasay; title: Poem: How to Tell When a Village is Dying.