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Interpreting Rurality

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Multidisciplinary Approaches

Interpreting Rurality

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Interpreting Rurality book

Multidisciplinary Approaches
Edited ByGary Bosworth, Peter Somerville
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2013
eBook Published 24 October 2013
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203383186
Pages 320
eBook ISBN 9780203383186
Subjects Development Studies, Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Geography
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Bosworth, G., & Somerville, P. (Eds.). (2013). Interpreting Rurality: Multidisciplinary Approaches (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203383186

ABSTRACT

The British countryside is a national institution; most people aspire to live there, many people use it for leisure and recreation and we can all watch rural life played out on our television screen, read about it in novels or consume its imagery in art and cinematography. The aim of this book is to explore the way that these aspirations and perceptions influence the way that the term "rural" is interpreted across different academic disciplines. Definitions of rural are not exact, leaving room for these interpretations to have a significant impact on the meanings conveyed in different areas of research and across different economic, social and spatial contexts.

In this book contributors present research across a range of subjects allowing critical reflections upon their personal and disciplinary interpretations of "rural". This resulting volume is a collection of diverse chapters that gives an emergent sense of how the notion of "rural" changes and blurs as the disciplinary lens is adjusted. In drawing together these strands, it becomes clear that human relations with rural space morph materiality into highly complex representations wherein both disadvantage and social exclusion persist within a rurality that is also commodified, consumed and cherished.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|12 pages

Introduction

ByGARY BOSWORTH, PETER SOMERVILLE

part |2 pages

Part I Material rurality

chapter 2|17 pages

Challenging Western perceptions: a case study of rural Zambia

ByJULIANA SIWALE

chapter 3|22 pages

Economic approaches to the rural

ByDAVID GRAY

chapter 4|17 pages

The potential for rural cooperatives in the UK

ByIGNAZIO CABRAS

chapter 5|18 pages

Rural parishes and community organisation

ByREBECCA HERRON, JENNIFER JACKSON

part |2 pages

Part II Represented rurality

chapter 6|18 pages

English historical perspectives on rurality: viewing the country from the city

ByANDREW WALKER

chapter 7|13 pages

Pits, pylons and posts: writing under the English rural idyll

ByCATHERINE PARRY

chapter 8|10 pages

A place for grazing livestock in defining rurality?

BySTEPHEN J . G . HALL

chapter 9|14 pages

A case study in the literary construction of the rural idyll: the English farm

ByRUPERT HILDYARD

chapter 10|13 pages

Horncastle Brass Band: revising the banding myth from the edges of rurality

BySUE FRITH GRAU

part |2 pages

Part III Contested rurality

chapter 11|11 pages

Dairy farming and the fight for ownership of the concept: ‘rural’

ByALISON MOORE

chapter 12|10 pages

Contested attitudes towards wildlife in Britain

BySUE BESTWICK

chapter 13|23 pages

Changing social relations in the English countryside: the case of housing

ByPETER SOMERVILLE

chapter 14|14 pages

Rural crime and policing

ByANGUS NURSE

chapter 15|16 pages

Gypsies and Travellers in modern rural England

ByMARGARET GREENFIELDS

part |2 pages

Part IV Consumed rurality

chapter 16|14 pages

Capitalising on rurality: tourism micro-businesses in rural tourism destinations

ByCLAIRE HAVEN - TANG AND ELERI JONES

chapter 17|16 pages

Ageing in rural communities: from idyll to exclusion?

ByWESLEY KEY

chapter 18|11 pages

The rural public house: cultural icon or social hub?

ByCLAIRE MARKHAM

chapter 19|19 pages

Conclusion: interrogating rural coherence

ByPETER SOMERVILLE, KEITH HALFACREE
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