Geographies of Rural Cultures and Societies

by Kneafsey,Moya; Holloway,Lewis

• ISBN13: 9780754635710
• ISBN10: 0754635716
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781351934183
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of leading experts, this book examines the position of rural social and cultural geography at the beginning of the 21st century and suggests new agendas in the study of changing social and cultural geographies of rurality in 'developed' or 'Western' countries. It offers critical evaluations of theoretical positions and advances, introduces new conceptual and methodological tools and reports on recent empirical work from the UK, New Zealand, Denmark, France, Australia, USA and Ireland on aspects of rural change.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
List of Tables	viii
List of Contributors	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
1 Geographies of Rural Cultures and Societies: Introduction	1	(14)
Lewis Holloway and Moya Kneafsey
PART I: THINKING RURALITIES
2 Obese and Pornographic Ruralities: Further Cultural Twists for Rural Geography?	15	(25)
Martin Phillips
3 Spatial Stories: Preliminary Notes on the Idea of Narrative Style in Rural Studies	40	(15)
Rob Fish
4 (Re)positioning Power in Rural Studies: From Organic Community to Political Society	55	(24)
Graham Gardner
5 Constructing Multiple Ruralities: Practices and Values of Rural Dwellers	79	(24)
Hanne Kirstine Adriansen and Lene Møller Madsen
PART II: RURAL SOCIETIES: INCLUSIONS AND EXCLUSIONS
6 Politics and Protest in the Contemporary Countryside	103	(23)
Michael Woods
7 Geographies of Invisibility: The 'Hidden' Lives of Rura lLone Parents	126	(19)
Annie Hughes
8 Constable Countryside? Police Perspectives on Rural Britain	145	(28)
Richard Yarwood and Caroline Cozens
PART III: COMMUNITY AND GOVERNANCE
9 Mobilizing the Local: Community, Participation and Governance	173	(24)
Bill Edwards and Michael Woods
10 A Sense of Place: Rural Development, Tourism and Place Promotion in the Republic of Ireland	197	(17)
David Storey
11 'Community'-Based Strategies for Environmental Protection in Rural Areas: Towards a New Form of Participatory Rural Governance?	214	(27)
Susanne Seymour
PART IV: CULTURES OF FARMING AND FOOD
12 Lost Words, Lost Worlds? Cultural Geographies of Agriculture	241	(21)
Carol Morris
13 Producing-Consuming Food: Closeness, Connectedness and Rurality in Four 'Alternative' Food Networks	262	(21)
Lewis Holloway and Moya Kneafsey
14 Winners and Losers? Rural Restructuring, Economic Status and Masculine Identities among Young Farmers in South-West Ireland	283	(19)
Caitriona Ni Laoire
Index	302