Research Catalog

Title

Geographies of rural cultures and societies / edited by Lewis Holloway and Moya Kneafsey.

Publication

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Holloway, Lewis.
• Kneafsey, Moya.

Description

x, [1], 313 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

The contributors to this volume examine the position of rural cultural and social geography at the beginning of the 21st century and draw attention to some of the key dimensions of cultural and social experience in the contemporary countryside.

Series Statement

Perspectives on rural policy and planning

Uniform Title

Perspectives on rural policy and planning

Subject

• Sociology, Rural > Congresses
• Rural geography > Congresses
• Rural conditions
• Rural geography
• Sociology, Rural
• Agrarsoziologie
• Ländlicher Raum
• Rurale geografie
• Plattelandsontwikkeling
• Ontwikkelingslanden
• Great Britain > Rural conditions > Congresses
• Great Britain
• Großbritannien
• Entwicklungsländer
• Coventry <2001>

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Most chapters based on papers given at the conference 'Progress in rural geography : towards 21st century geographies of rurality, ' held at Coventry University July 5-6, 2001.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Geographies of Rural Cultures and Societies: Introduction / Lewis Holloway, Moya Kneafsey -- Thinking Ruralities -- Obese and Pornographic Ruralities: Further Cultural Twists for Rural Geography? / Martin Phillips -- Spatial Stories: Preliminary Notes on the Idea of Narrative Style in Rural Studies / Rob Fish -- (Re)positioning Power in Rural Studies: From Organic Community to Political Society / Graham Gardner -- Constructing Multiple Ruralities: Practices and Values of Rural Dwellers / Hanne Kirstine Adriansen, Lene Moller Madsen -- Rural Societies: Inclusions and Exclusions -- Politics and Protest in the Contemporary Countryside / Michael Woods -- Geographies of Invisibility: The 'Hidden' Lives of Rural Lone Parents / Annie Hughes -- Constable Countryside? Police Perspectives on Rural Britain / Richard Yarwood, Caroline Cozens -- Community and Governance -- Mobilizing the Local: Community, Participation and Governance / Bill Edwards, Michael Woods -- A Sense of Place: Rural Development, Tourism and Place Promotion in the Republic of Ireland / David Storey -- 'Community'-Based Strategies for Environmental Protection in Rural Areas: Towards a New Form of Participatory Rural Governance? / Susanne Seymour -- Cultures of Farming and Food -- Lost Words, Lost Worlds? Cultural Geographies of Agriculture / Carol Morris -- Producing-Consuming Food: Closeness, Connectedness and Rurality in Four 'Alternative' Food Networks / Lewis Holloway, Moya Kneafsey.

ISBN

• 0754635716
• 9780754635710

LCCN

2004041045

OCLC

• ocm54079640
• 54079640
• SCSB-14662061

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library