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Translocal Ruralism

Mobility and Connectivity in European Rural Spaces

  • Illustrates that rural areas are dynamic and interconnected by flows and mobilities
  • Shows that flow on various scale levels are affecting rural space
  • Provides examples of flows that are connecting rural areas on various scale levels like migration, commuting, everyday life activities, business networks and information technology

Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL, volume 103)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Translocal Ruralism: Mobility and Connectivity in European Rural Spaces

    • Charlotta Hedberg, Renato Miguel do Carmo
    Pages 1-9
  3. Linking Nodes: People and Networks Connecting Places

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
  4. International Mobilities: A Tension Between Scales

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123
    2. Foreigners, Neighbours, Immigrants: Translocal Mobilities in Rural Areas in Spain

      • Luis Camarero, Rosario Sampedro, Jesús Oliva
      Pages 143-162
    3. Goloka Dhama: A Translocal Hare Krishna Community

      • Louise Meijering
      Pages 185-201
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 219-221

About this book

Rural areas are often viewed as isolated and stagnating areas and urban areas as their opposites. Against such a backdrop, this book seeks to unveil a set of dynamics that view rural areas as ‘translocal’ in the sense that they are ‘changing’ and ‘inter­connected’. Social transformations take place in rural areas as the result of intense exchanges between different people, settings and geographies. Accordingly, rural-urban but also rural-rural interrelations on international and national scales are strongly contributing to rural change. Translocal ruralism is exemplified through the analysis of local and global migratory flows, the activities of rural firms in national and glo­bal arenas, the spread of different forms of transportation and dislocation, and the growing information society, which enables rural spaces to be connected to the world and improves new ways of interconnection and sociability practices.

 

The book is structured into two parts, which intertwine thedynamics of rural spaces. The first part, ‘Linking nodes: people and networks connecting places’, is concerned with mobilities such as migration and commuting, and the establishment of national and global networks. The second part, ‘International mobilities: a tension between scales’, analyses the dynamics of international migration and mobilities in rural areas.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

    Charlotta Hedberg

  • , Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Renato Miguel do Carmo

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Translocal Ruralism

  • Book Subtitle: Mobility and Connectivity in European Rural Spaces

  • Editors: Charlotta Hedberg, Renato Miguel do Carmo

  • Series Title: GeoJournal Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2315-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2314-6Published: 05 October 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3786-0Published: 29 November 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2315-3Published: 05 October 2011

  • Series ISSN: 0924-5499

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0072

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 224

  • Topics: Human Geography, Migration, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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