1st Edition
Alienation, Authenticity, and Populism in Rural Areas
Populism, rurality and the long ten years since 2016 PART I Populism and rural areas 1 Looking for rural populism in Norway: The search for a spectre 2 Reviving Rural Portugal? CHEGA’s narratives on rural territories and agriculture 3 Where the shoe pinches for the American right 4 The rural reawakening: A bonapartist counter-revolution to end the final victory of neoliberalism, or to perpetuate it 5 Right-wing and left-wing populists on the fields: Strategies and challenges in rural policy–making in Greece and Turkey PART II Authenticity and alienation 6 The cage and the market: Alienation and ambivalences in Italian 2024 farmers’ protests 7 Peasant farming as everyday resistance in rural Norway 8 The rural–urban divide: In politics versus on the ground 9 Model villages and the performance of authenticity 10 Tractors and trowels: Alienation, authenticity and the search for rural revival 11 Perceptions of the rural gap in Spain: Between consciousness and alienation 12 Poor young agricultural workers in Chile and Uruguay between 2010 and 2018
Biography
Pavel Pospěch is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Masaryk University, Czech Republic, and Faculty Fellow of the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology. His work lies at the intersections of cultural sociology, rural sociology and social theory. His research has appeared in the American Journal of Cultural Sociology, European Journal of Social Theory, Sociology Compass, Journal of Rural Studies, Sociologia Ruralis, Ethnic and Racial Studies and other outlets. He co-edited the volume Politics and Policies of Rural Authenticity (Routledge, 2021).
Eirik Magnus Fuglestad is a sociologist at Ruralis–Institute for Rural and Regional Research in Trondheim, Norway. His research covers a broad array of fields in rural studies from agricultural development to rural politics, including resistance and populism, social sustainability and resource use.
Elisabete Figueiredo is a rural sociologist and Associate Professor with Habilitation in the Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences and a researcher at the Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies Research Centre (GOVCOPP) of the University of Aveiro. She has developed research on social representations of rural territories, rural development policies, impacts of rural tourism on local communities, traditional food products and social perceptions of the environment.
