Rural Imaginations for a Globalized World / edited by Esther Peeren, Tjalling Valdés-Olmos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peeren, Esther, editor.

Olmos, Tjalling R. Valdés, editor.

Series:

Thamyris intersecting ; no. 8.

Thamyris intersecting ; 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Country life.

Sociology, Rural.

rural sociology.

Physical Description:

500 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2025]

Contents:

Part 1. Grappling with the Globalized Rural across Disciplines. 1. Telling Stories about Rural Assemblages / Michael Woods ; 2. Land and the Poetics of Postcolonial Pastoral / Peter Hitchcock ; 3. Monocultural Montage : towards a Conceptual Dictionary of the Rural / Rowan Jaines ; 4. Anti-Urbanism and "Real Life" at the Periphery / Pavel Pospěch, Ondřej Klíma and Barbora Hubatková ; 5. #RuralGazes : an Autoethnography of Our Ways of Seeing / Lee-Ann Sutherland, Thoroddur Bjarnason, Menelaos Gkartzios and Esther Peeren ; 6. Rural Undercurrents / Wapke Feenstra from Myvillages

Part 2: Rereading Globalized Ruralities. 7. Rural Historicity in Popular Speculative Futurities : Eco-Anxiety as Settler Anxiety / Tjalling Valdés-Olmos ; 8. From Golden Age to Neoliberal Wilderness : Representing the Gaucho in Borges's "the South" and Bolaño's "the Insufferable Gaucho" / Josh Weeks ; 9. Four Cottage Scenes : Reading across Globalized Idylls / Ben Stringer ; 10. Sponging and the Island of Kalymnos : Rural, Industrial, Global / Joyce Goggin ; 11. Scales of Sustainability : the Ethical Positioning of Productivist Farmers in Debates about the Environment / Peter van Dam and Esther Peeren ; 12. The Rurality of Region : Narrative and Counter-Narrative in Indian Literary History and Politics / Sumati Dwivedi ; 13. Reflections on a Woman's Culm, Keeping the Home Fires Burning / Pauline O'Connell

Part 3. (De)Romanticized Rurals. 14. #COTTAGECORE : Online Rural and Climate Imaginaries / Natalia Sanchez-Querubín, Carlo De Gaetano and Sabine Niederer ; 15. Feminized Idyllic Rurality? : the Videos of Li Ziqi on Bilibili / Shao Shao ; 16. Rural Mythologies, Fresh Air, and the UK's National Parks / Rosemary Shirley ; 17. "After you've Taken Everything, What will be Left?" : Rural-Urban Relationalities in Folk Horror from the Celtic Margins in the UK / Kate Woodward ; 18. A Place Like No Other : Exploring the Relationship between Amusement Parks and Queer Men in the Midwest / Marcel Strobel ; 19. Rural Authenticity and Homonationalism in Filmic Representations of Central-Eastern European Migrants in the Italian and British Countryside / Dominika Mikolajczyk

Part 4. Reframing Farming. 20. A Garden in the Cotton Fields : Fannie Lou Hamer and Cooperative Economics on the Freedom Farm / Maarten Zwiers ; 21. Twisting Ruralities : Ecological Imaginations around the Beijing Farmers' Market / Chen Zhou ; 22. Cultivating Utopias : Dwelling and Fugitive Animal Husbandry in Ursula K. Le Guin / David Slot ; 23. Bless This Mess : Complex Rural Realities in an American Sitcom / David Karle and Charles Weak ; 24. Exploring the Transformative Powers of Art and Soil : The Farm/Art DTour's Rural-Urban Flow / María Patricia Tinajero ; 25. "Does Your Soil Have a Smell?" : Experiences of Regenerative Farming across the Great Plains / Janna Bystrykh and Clemens Driessen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9004731938

9789004731936

OCLC:

1500034504

Publisher Number:

CIPO000251151