Europe's Green Ring

by Granberg,Leo

• ISBN13: 9780754617549
• ISBN10: 0754617548
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-09-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Around the fringe of Europe lies a "green ring" of countries which have followed different pathways into modernity from the industrial core of the continent and have, until recently, been characterized by a strong agrarian presence in their politics, economy and culture. This book brings together fascinating case studies to compare the various experiences of the rural and agricultural groups.

Table of Contents

Central and Eastern European Countries in the Green Ring

De-peasantization or re-peasantization? changing rural social structures in Poland after World War II

De-peasantization of Hungarian rurality

The changing role of agriculture in the Czech countryside

Rural change in Bulgarian transitions

Soviet patrimonialism and peasant resistance during the transition - the case of Estonia

Rural transition problems and post-socialist peasantization in the Russian forest periphery

Post-traditional or post-modern rurality? cases from East Germany and Russia

Mediterranean Countries in the Green Ring

The de-agriculturalization of the Greek countryside: the changing characteristics of an ongoing socio-economic transformation

Shifting rurality: the Spanish countryside after de-peasantization and de-agrarianistion

Portugal: the emergence of the "rural question"

Reconstructing rurality in Mediterranean Italy

The Green Ring in the North of Europe

Peasantization and beyond in Finland and Scandinavia

Creating and re-creating modernity: peasantization and de-peasantization in Ireland

Societal paradigms and rural development - a theoretical framework for comparative studies

The Future of Peasants in Europe's Green Ring

Afterword

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