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Politics and Policies of Rural Authenticity book cover

1st Edition

Politics and Policies of Rural Authenticity

Edited By Pavel Pospěch, Eirik Magnus Fuglestad, Elisabete Figueiredo Copyright 2022
212 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book explores the notion of rurality and how it is used and produced in various contexts, including within populist politics which derives their legitimacy from the rural-urban divide. The gap between the ‘common people’ and the ‘elites’ is widening again as images of rurality are promoted as morally pure, unalienated and opposed to the cultural and economic globalization. This book... Read more

1. Rural Authenticity Between Commodification and Populism

Eirik Magnus Fuglestad, Elisabete Figueiredo and Pavel Pospěch

Part 1: Politics of Rural Authenticity

2. City and Countryside in the Imagining of Nations

Jonathan Hearn

3. Revisiting the Politics of the Rural and the Brexit Vote

Michael Woods

4. Populism of the Dispossessed: Rethinking the Link between Rural Authenticity and Populism in the Context of Neoliberal Regional Governance

Bianka Plüschke-Altof and Aet Annist

5. The Minister’s Tears and the Strike of the Invisible. The Political Debate on the "Regulatization" of Undocumented Migrant Farm Labourers During the Covid 19 Health Crisis in Italy

Domenico Perrotta

6. Political and Apolitical Dimensions of Russian, Rural Development: Populism ‘From Above’ and Narodnik Small Deeds ‘From Below’

Alexander Nikulin and Irina Trotsuk

7. The Feeling of Being Robbed

Bjørn Egil Flø

Part 2: Policies of Rural Authenticity

8. #Proudofthefarmer: Authenticity, Populism and Rural Masculinity in the 2019 Dutch Farmers’ Protests

Anke Bosma and Esther Peeren

9. Idyllic Politics and Politics of the Idyll

Florian Dünckmann

10. Dystopia as Authenticity: Changing Ruralities in Icelandic Cinema

Thoroddur Bjarnasson, Brynhildur Thorarinsdottir and Menelaos Gkartzios

11. Rural Authenticity as Cosmopolitan Modernity? Local Political Narratives on Immigration and Integration in Rural Norway

Guro Korsnes Kristensen and Berit Gullikstad

12. Dynamics of Changes in the Farmers’ Contestation in Poland in 1989-2018: On the Way to Rationality and an Institutionalized Model of Collaboration

Grzegorz Foryś

13. Rurality: From the Margin Back to the Focus of Interest

Pavel Pospěch, Eirik Magnus Fuglestad and Elisabete Figueiredo

Biography

Pavel Pospěch is Associate Professor of sociology at the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic and a Faculty Fellow of the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology. He has published in topics in urban sociology, rural sociology and cultural theory.

Eirik Magnus Fuglestad is a researcher at Ruralis – Institute for rural and regional research, Trondheim, Norway. His research interests lie in the intersection between nationalism, property rights and rural and agricultural development, looking at these fields form a historical sociological perspective.

Elisabete Figueiredo is Associate Professor with Habilitation at the Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences and Full Researcher at GOVCOPP, a Research Unit in Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies at University of Aveiro, Portugal. She has published in topics as rural sociology, environmental sociology and risk perceptions.

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