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Geographies of rural cultures and societies / edited by Lewis Holloway and Moya Kneafsey.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Perspectives on rural policy and planning
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology, Rural.
- Rural geography.
- Great Britain--Rural conditions.
- Great Britain.
- Rural conditions.
- Physical Description:
- x, 313 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2004]
- Contents:
- 1 Geographies of Rural Cultures and Societies: Introduction / Lewis Holloway, Moya Kneafsey 1
- Part I Thinking Ruralities
- 2 Obese and Pornographic Ruralities: Further Cultural Twists for Rural Geography? / Martin Phillips 15
- 3 Spatial Stories: Preliminary Notes on the Idea of Narrative Style in Rural Studies / Rob Fish 40
- 4 (Re)positioning Power in Rural Studies: From Organic Community to Political Society / Graham Gardner 55
- 5 Constructing Multiple Ruralities: Practices and Values of Rural Dwellers / Hanne Kirstine Adriansen, Lene Moller Madsen 79
- Part II Rural Societies: Inclusions and Exclusions
- 6 Politics and Protest in the Contemporary Countryside / Michael Woods 103
- 7 Geographies of Invisibility: The 'Hidden' Lives of Rural Lone Parents / Annie Hughes 126
- 8 Constable Countryside? Police Perspectives on Rural Britain / Richard Yarwood, Caroline Cozens 145
- Part III Community and Governance
- 9 Mobilizing the Local: Community, Participation and Governance / Bill Edwards, Michael Woods 173
- 10 A Sense of Place: Rural Development, Tourism and Place Promotion in the Republic of Ireland / David Storey 197
- 11 'Community'-Based Strategies for Environmental Protection in Rural Areas: Towards a New Form of Participatory Rural Governance? / Susanne Seymour 214
- Part IV Cultures of Farming and Food
- 12 Lost Words, Lost Worlds? Cultural Geographies of Agriculture / Carol Morris 241
- 13 Producing-Consuming Food: Closeness, Connectedness and Rurality in Four 'Alternative' Food Networks / Lewis Holloway, Moya Kneafsey 262
- 14 Winners and Losers? Rural Restructuring, Economic Status and Masculine Identities among Young Farmers in South-West Ireland / Caitriona Ni Laoire 283.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754635716
- OCLC:
- 54079640
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