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Geographies of rural cultures and societies / edited by Lewis Holloway and Moya Kneafsey.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Perspectives on rural policy and planningPublisher: Aldershot : Ashgate, 2004Description: x, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0754635716
  • 9780754635710
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.1412 22
Contents:
1. Geographies of rural cultures and societies : introduction -- Pt. I. Thinking ruralities -- 2. Obese and pornographic ruralities : further cultural twists for rural geography? -- 3. Spatial stories : preliminary notes on the idea of narrative style in rural studies -- 4. (Re)positioning power in rural studies : from organic community to political society -- 5. Constructing multiple ruralities : practices and values of rural dwellers -- Pt. II. Rural societies : inclusions and exclusions -- 6. Politics and protest in the contemporary countryside -- 7. Geographies of invisibility : the 'hidden' lives of rural lone parents -- 8. Constable countryside? : police perspectives on rural Britain -- Pt. III. Community and governance -- 9. Mobilizing the local : community, participation and governance -- 10. A sense of place : rural development, tourism and place promotion in the Republic of Ireland -- 11. 'Community'-based strategies for environmental protection in rural areas : towards a new form of participatory rural governance? -- Pt. IV. Cultures of farming and food -- 12. Lost words, lost worlds? : cultural geographies of agriculture -- 13. Producing-consuming food : closeness, connectedness and rurality in four 'alternative' food networks -- 14. Winners and losers? : rural restructuring, economic status and masculine identities among young farmers in South-West Ireland.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Geographies of rural cultures and societies : introduction -- Pt. I. Thinking ruralities -- 2. Obese and pornographic ruralities : further cultural twists for rural geography? -- 3. Spatial stories : preliminary notes on the idea of narrative style in rural studies -- 4. (Re)positioning power in rural studies : from organic community to political society -- 5. Constructing multiple ruralities : practices and values of rural dwellers -- Pt. II. Rural societies : inclusions and exclusions -- 6. Politics and protest in the contemporary countryside -- 7. Geographies of invisibility : the 'hidden' lives of rural lone parents -- 8. Constable countryside? : police perspectives on rural Britain -- Pt. III. Community and governance -- 9. Mobilizing the local : community, participation and governance -- 10. A sense of place : rural development, tourism and place promotion in the Republic of Ireland -- 11. 'Community'-based strategies for environmental protection in rural areas : towards a new form of participatory rural governance? -- Pt. IV. Cultures of farming and food -- 12. Lost words, lost worlds? : cultural geographies of agriculture -- 13. Producing-consuming food : closeness, connectedness and rurality in four 'alternative' food networks -- 14. Winners and losers? : rural restructuring, economic status and masculine identities among young farmers in South-West Ireland.

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