Alternative countrysides

Alternative countrysides

Author: Jeremy Macclancy

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2015-06-01

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0719098505

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. A fresh anthropological look at a central but neglected topic: the profound changes in rural life throughout Western Europe today. As locals leave for jobs in cities they are replaced by neo-hippies, lifestyle-seekers, eco-activists, and labour migrants from beyond the EU. With detailed ethnographic examples, contributors analyse new modes of living rurally and emerging forms of social organisation. As incomers’ dreams come up against residents’ realities, they detail the clashes and the cooperations between old and new residents. They make us rethink the rural/urban divide, investigate regionalists’ politicisation of rural life and heritage, and reveal how locals use EU monies to prop up or challenge existing hierarchies. They expose the consequences of and reactions to grand EU-restructuring policies, which at times threaten to turn the countryside into a manicured playground for escapee urbanites. This book will appeal to anyone seriously interested in the realities of rural life today.


Creating a Modern Countryside

Creating a Modern Countryside

Author: James Murton

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0774840714

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In the early 1900s, British Columbia embarked on a brief but intense effort to manufacture a modern countryside. The government wished to reward Great War veterans with new lives: settlers would benefit from living in a rural community, considered a more healthy and moral alternative to urban life. But the fundamental reason for the land resettlement project was the rise of progressive or “new liberal” thinking, as reformers advocated an expanded role for the state in guaranteeing the prosperity and economic security of its citizens. James Murton examines how this process unfolded, and demonstrates how the human-environment relationship of the early twentieth century shaped the province as it is today.


Contested Countryside Cultures

Contested Countryside Cultures

Author: Paul Cloke

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-12

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1134769555

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book charts the experiences of marginalised groups living in (and visiting) the countryside, revealing how notions of the rural have been created to reflect and reinforce divisions among those living there.


Creating The Countryside

Creating The Countryside

Author: Erna Melanie DuPuis

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 1996-01-26

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1566393604

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

What does it mean to save nature and rural life? Do people know what they are trying to save and what they mean by "save"? As the answers to these questions become more and more unclear, so, too do the concepts of "environment," "wilderness," and "country." From the abuse of the Amazon rain forest to how Vermont has been marketed as the ideal rural place, this collection looks at what the countryside is, should be, or can be from the perspective of people who are actively involved in such debates. Each contributor examines the underlying tendencies–and subsequent policies–that separate country from city, developed land from wilderness, and human activity from natural processes. The editors argue in their introduction that these dualistic categories limit our ability to think about environmental and rural problems and hamper our ability to formulate practical, realistic, and just solutions. This book's interpretive approach to the natural world explores why people make artificial distinctions between nature and culture, and how people can create new forms of sustainable development in terms of real problems and real places. In the series Conflicts in Urban and Regional Development, edited by John R. Logan and Todd Swanstrom.


The Unquiet Countryside

The Unquiet Countryside

Author: G. E. Mingay

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-12-23

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 1000510271

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

First published in 1989 The Unquiet Countryside chronicles rural crime and unrest in the English countryside from seventeenth century down to the end of the Victorian era. The authors highlight some of the most striking aspects of the countryside of the past: the extent and nature of rural crime and protest; riots over food; the Swing riots of 1830; poaching, arson, and animal maiming; the relations between landowners and the rural community; and the eventual new outlet for farmworkers in the growth of labour organizations. The volume expands our understanding of the rural past and directs new light on Britain’s rural heritage. This book is an essential read for scholars and researchers of British history, agricultural history, and history in general.


Housebuilding Brit Countryside

Housebuilding Brit Countryside

Author: Mark Shucksmith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-11

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1134949669

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


Rural Policing and Policing the Rural

Rural Policing and Policing the Rural

Author: Dr Richard Yarwood

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2012-11-28

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1409488861

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Policing reveals much about rural society. It refers to the way that the police, the public and other agencies regulate themselves and each other according to the dominant ideals of society. This can be formally, through the ever-growing spectrum of policing partnerships in neo-liberal countries, or informally, through the performance and enforcement of moral codes and values. This book draws on international inter-disciplinary perspectives to examine the range and consequences of policing across different rural localities. Rural Policing and Policing the Rural is organised into two sections: the first examines who is policing rural areas, while the second examines the nature of rural policing by considering, on the one hand, the policing of rural space and, on the other, how ideas of rurality are regulated. In doing so this book provides a survey of rural policing that will be valuable to academics, students, policy makers and those policing rural places.


Rural by Design

Rural by Design

Author: Randall Arendt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-08

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 1351178423

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

For America’s rural and suburban areas, new challenges demand new solutions. Author Randall Arendt meets them in an entirely new edition of Rural by Design. When this planning classic first appeared 20 years ago, it showed how creative, practical land-use planning can preserve open space and keep community character intact. The second edition shifts the focus toward infilling neighborhoods, strengthening town centers, and moving development closer to schools, shops, and jobs. New chapters cover form-based codes, visioning, sustainability, low-impact development, green infrastructure, and more, while 70 case studies show how these ideas play out in the real world. Readers —rural or not—will find practical advice about planning for the way we live now.