Contested Countryside Cultures: Otherness, Marginalisation and Rurality

by Paul J. Cloke (Editor), Jo Little (Editor)

Images and stories about countrysides are alluring, with their idyll-ised myths about nature and rural life. This book gives voice to 'other' countrysides where age, gender, sexuality, economic position and disabilities marginalise and exclude.

Contested Countryside Cultures examines the notion of 'otherness', discussing the way in which certain identities and positionings in rural society are constructed to form ideas of who belongs or is welcome in the contemporary countryside. Accounts of rural others reveal important advances in the understanding of how rural society is creating and differentiated in line with cultural constructions of rurality.

Contributors: Julian Agyeman, David Bell, Paul Cloke, Clare Fisher, Keith Halfacree, Sarah Harper, Annie Hughes, Phil Kinsman, Owain Jones, Jo Little, Jon Murdoch, Chris Philo, Andy Pratt, David Sibley, Rachel Spooner, Gill Valentine.

304 pages, Paperback

First published June 19, 1997

Reviews

[Lena · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lu uniquement le chapitre sur les communautés rurales de lesbiennes séparatistes