Geographies of Rural Cultures and Societies
By: Moya Kneafsey
Contributors: Holloway, Lewis
Edition: First edition.
Series: Perspectives on Rural Policy and Planning
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781315254487
Subjects: Rural Sociology; Congresses; Rural geography; Rural conditions; Sociologie rurale; Congrès; Conditions rurales
Description: "The last decade or so has witnessed a flourishing of research in rural geography; in particular, approaches which have developed socio-cultural perspectives on rural issues. This book brings together well-established and newer researchers to examine the position of rural social and cultural geography at the beginning of the 21st century and to suggest new research agendas. It offers critical evaluations of theoretical positions and advances, introduces new conceptual and methodological tools and reports on recent empirical work on a variety of topical issues in a number of countries. With diverse theoretical and empirical content, the book makes a valuable contribution to the development of research into changing social and cultural geographies of rurality in 'developed' or 'Western' countries."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Geographies of Rural Cultures and Societies: Introduction; title: part Part I: Thinking Ruralities; title: chapter 2 Obese and Pornographic Ruralities: Further Cultural Twists for Rural Geography?; title: chapter 3 Spatial Stories: Preliminary Notes on the Idea of Narrative Style in Rural Studies; title: chapter 4 (Re)positioning Power in Rural Studies: From Organic Community to Political Society; title: chapter 5 Constructing Multiple Ruralities: Practices and Values of Rural Dwellers; title: part Part II: Rural Societies: Inclusions and Exclusions; title: chapter 6 Politics and Protest in the Contemporary Countryside; title: chapter 7 Geographies of Invisibility: The 'Hidden' Lives of Rural Lone Parents; title: chapter 8 Constable Countryside? Police Perspectives on Rural Britain; title: part Part III: Community and Governance; title: chapter 9 Mobilizing the Local: Community, Participation and Governance; title: chapter 10 A Sense of Place: Rural Development, Tourism and Place Promotion in the Republic of Ireland; title: chapter 11 'Community' -Based Strategies for Environmental Protection in Rural Areas: Towards a New Form of Participatory Rural Governance?; title: part Part IV: Cultures of Farming and Food; title: chapter 12 Lost Words, Lost Worlds? Cultural Geographies of Agriculture; title: chapter 13 Producing-Consuming Food: Closeness, Connectedness and Rurality in Four 'Alternative' Food Networks; title: chapter 14 Winners and Losers? Rural Restructuring, Economic Status and Masculine Identities among Young Farmers in South-West Ireland.