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