| Description |
vi, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: Other Countrysides? / Paul Cloke and Jo Little -- 2. Of Other Rurals? / Chris Philo -- 3. From the Power of Topography to the Topography of Power: A discourse on strange ruralities / Jonathan Murdoch and Andy C. Pratt -- 4. Contrasting Roles for the Post-Productivist Countryside: A postmodern perspective on counterurbanisation / Keith Halfacree -- 5. Anti-Idyll: Rural horror / David Bell -- 6. Making Space: Lesbian separatist communities in the United States / Gill Valentine -- 7. Rurality and 'Cultures of Womanhood': Domestic identities and moral order in village life / Annie Hughes -- 8. Employment Marginality and Women's Self-Identity / Jo Little -- 9. Little Figures, Big Shadows: Country childhood stories / Owain Jones -- 10. Contesting Later Life / Sarah Harper -- 11. Ethnicity and The Rural Environment / Julian Agyeman and Rachel Spooner -- 12. Endangering the Sacred: Nomads, youth cultures and the English countryside / David Sibley |
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13. 'I Bought My First Saw with My Maternity Benefit': Craft production in west Wales and the home as the space of (re)production / Clare Fisher -- 14. Poor Country: Marginalisation, poverty and rurality / Paul Cloke -- 15. Conclusion: Marginality and Rural Others / Paul Cloke and Jo Little |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Published as an e-book, 2005 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
System requirements for PC users: Internet Explorer 5.5 and above, Adobe Acrobat reader 6.0.2 and above. For Mac users: Safari 1.2 and above, Adobe Acrobat reader 7.0 and above |
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Ebook Library titles may be saved to a thumbdrive, however the PDF will expire after 3 days. Printing of Ebook titles is restricted to 10% of the book for copyright reasons |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Group identity.
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Identidad de grupo
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Rural conditions.
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Marginality, Social.
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Sociology, Rural.
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| Author |
Cloke, Paul J.
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Little, Jo, 1958-
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| LC no. |
96043171 |
| ISBN |
0415140749 (cloth) |
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0415140757 (paperback) |
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