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.
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...bound to attract a wide range of readers including researchers, policy makers, planners, managers, investors, farmers and all those connected, directly or indirectly, with the new image of rurality. Journal of Rural Cooperation
Contents: Geographies of rural cultures and societies: introduction,
Lewis Holloway and Moya Kneafsey. Part I: Thinking Ruralities: Obese and
pornographic ruralities: further cultural twists for rural geography?, Martin
Phillips; Spatial stories: preliminary notes on the idea of narrative style
in rural studies, Rob Fish; (Re)positioning power in rural studies: from
organic community to political society, Graham Gardner; Constructing multiple
ruralities: practices and values of rural dwellers, Hanne Kirstine Adriansen
and Lene MĆøller Madsen. Part II: Rural Societies: Inclusions and Exclusions:
Politics and protest in the contemporary countryside, Michael Woods;
Geographies of invisibility: the 'hidden' lives of rural lone parents, Annie
Hughes; Constable countryside? police perspectives on rural Britain, Richard
Yarwood and Caroline Cozens. Part III: Community and Governance: Mobilizing
the local: community, participation and governance, Bill Edwards and Michael
Woods; A sense of place: rural development, tourism and place promotion in
the Republic of Ireland, David Storey; 'Community'-based strategies for
environmental protection in rural areas: towards a new form of participatory
rural governance?, Susanne Seymour. Part IV: Cultures of Farming and Food:
Lost words, lost worlds? Cultural geographies of agriculture, Carol Morris;
Producing-consuming food: closeness, connectedness and rurality in four
'alternative' food networks, Lewis Holloway and Moya Kneafsey; Winners and
losers? rural restructuring, economic status and masculine identities among
young farmers in South-West Ireland, CaitrĆona NĆ Laoire; Index.
Dr Holloway is a Senior Lecturer in Geography and Dr Kneafsey is a Research Fellow in Geography, both working for the Geography Subject Group at Coventry University.
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