Publisher's Synopsis
This is a fascinating and authoritative account of theoretically informed research into rural culture. Over the last 15 years - especially in the light of the 'cultural turn' in the social sciences - key questions have been asked about the significance of the cultural at various scales of rural being. The authors offer a personalised window onto research into rural culture, and in so doing provide a perspective on the broader project of how culture has become increasingly important in more general rural studies.
Key issues addressed include:
·In what ways are ruralities made meaningful through cultural construction?
·How do cultural representations of rurality present an interactive context for the choices, tactics and constraints associated with living in the countryside?
·How do ruralities connect into social identities?
·In what ways have new concepts of nature-society relations resulted in a rethinking of both representation and rurality?
Re-presenting Rural Culture will appeal to senior undergraduate and postgraduate students of geography, anthropology and cultural studies.
