Research Catalog

Title

Contesting rurality : politics in the British countryside / Michael Woods.

Author

Woods, Michael, 1971-

Publication

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2005.

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Details

Description

x, 209 pages : illustrations, 1 map; 24 cm.

Summary

"Rural issues have gained national prominence in Britain in recent years. The future of hunting, the Foot and Mouth outbreak, farm income and agricultural reform and housing development have all claimed political and media attention, promoted by a vocal rural lobby and headline-grabbing protests and demonstrations. Combining detailed empirical research and case studies with theoretically informed critical analysis, this book provides an overview of the contemporary politics of the British countryside. It explores how and why rural issues have suddenly achieved such political prominence, by examining the changing politics and governance of rural Britain from the local to the national scale over the past century. It investigates the social, economic and institutional restructuring of rural communities and argues that we are witnessing not so much a rural politics, but a 'politics of the rural' in which the definition and representation of rurality itself has become the key focus of conflict." -- Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Perspectives on rural policy and planning

Uniform Title

Perspectives on rural policy and planning.

Subject

• Sociology, Rural > Great Britain
• Rural conditions
• Sociology, Rural
• Lokale politiek
• Politieke situatie
• Politieke activiteit
• Platteland
• Great Britain > Rural conditions
• Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-202) and index.

Contents

1. strange awakening of rural Britain -- 2. changing balance of local power in the countryside -- 3. Contemporary rural elites -- 4. National politics and rural representation -- 5. countryside alliance and rural protest -- 6. Agricultural politics -- 7. Developing the countryside : discourses and dissent.

ISBN

• 0754630250
• 9780754630258

LCCN

2004027705

OCLC

• ocm57201868
• 57201868
• SCSB-8941874

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library