Politics and Policies of Rural Authenticity

ISBN-13: 9780367550448 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 200 str.

Pavel Pospěch; Eirik Magnus Fuglestad; Elisabete Figueiredo

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Rural Authenticity Between Commodification and Populism  Part 1: Politics of Rural Authenticity  2. City and Countryside in the Imagining of Nations  3. Revisiting the Politics of the Rural and the Brexit Vote  4. Populism of the Dispossessed: Rethinking the Link between Rural Authenticity and Populism in the Context of Neoliberal Regional Governance  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  6. Political and Apolitical Dimensions of Russian, Rural Development: Populism ‘From Above’ and Narodnik Small Deeds ‘From Below’  7. The Feeling of Being Robbed  Part 2: Policies of Rural Authenticity  8. #Proudofthefarmer: Authenticity, Populism and Rural Masculinity in the 2019 Dutch Farmers’ Protests  9. Idyllic Politics and Politics of the Idyll  10. Dystopia as Authenticity: Changing Ruralities in Icelandic Cinema  11. Rural Authenticity as Cosmopolitan Modernity? Local Political Narratives on Immigration and Integration in Rural Norway  12. Dynamics of Changes in the Farmers’ Contestation in Poland in 1989-2018: On the Way to Rationality and an Institutionalized Model of Collaboration  13. Rurality: From the Margin Back to the Focus of Interest