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Shaping Rural Areas in Europe

Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present and the Future

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Editors:
  1. Luís Silva

    1. , (CRIA/FCSH-UNL), Centre for Research in Anthropology, Lisbon, Portugal

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  2. Elisabete Figueiredo

    1. , DCSPT, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

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  • Analyses rurality and rural imagery from different perspectives
  • Presents empirical material collected by using different methodologies
  • Deals with different territorial European contexts

Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL, volume 107)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. What Is Shaping Rural Areas in Europe? Introduction

    • Luís Silva, Elisabete Figueiredo
    Pages 1-8

  4. Consuming and Representing the Rural

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. The Pastoral Ideal in Portugal: From Literature to Touristic Practices

      • Luís Silva
      Pages 95-108

    3. Mediating Rurality, History and Exclusivity in Pousadas de Portugal

      • Marta Lalanda Prista
      Pages 109-128

    4. McRural, No Rural or What Rural? – Some Reflections on Rural Reconfiguration Processes Based on the Promotion of Schist Villages Network, Portugal

      • Elisabete Figueiredo
      Pages 129-146

    5. Connecting Food Memories with the Rural: The Case of Portuguese and British Consumers

      • Mónica Truninger
      Pages 147-163

    6. Does the Countryside Still Feed the Country? Producing and Reproducing the Rural in Transylvania

      • Árpád Töhötöm Szabó
      Pages 165-180

    7. In Search of the Rurban Idyll? Developing the Residential Rural Areas in Finland

      • Pilvi Hämeenaho
      Pages 181-195

    8. The Foraged Countryside: Perceptions of Nature and Culture in Four Encounters with Fungi

      • Maria Kennedy
      Pages 197-212

    9. The Rurality Reinvention Discourse: Urban Demands, Expectations and Representations in the Construction of an Urban Rurality Project

      • Ana Matos Fernandes
      Pages 213-226

    10. Cross-Cultural Perceptions and Discourses Between Rural and Urban in Galicia

      • Xerardo Pereiro, Santiago Prado
      Pages 227-245

    11. Concluding Remarks on Perceived and Lived Ruralities and the Future of Rural Europe

      • Luís Silva
      Pages 247-254

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 255-268
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About this book

Shaping Rural Areas in Europe. Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present and the Future sets out to investigate the effect of urban perceptions about the rural and consequent demands on rurality on the present and future configurations of rural territories in Europe in the early twenty-first century. This volume presents and discusses a broad range of case studies and theoretical and methodological approaches from different academic fields, mainly Anthropology, Sociology and Geography.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , (CRIA/FCSH-UNL), Centre for Research in Anthropology, Lisbon, Portugal

    Luís Silva

  • , DCSPT, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Elisabete Figueiredo

About the editors

Luís Silva, anthropologist, is Post-Doctoral research fellow at the Centre for Research in Anthropology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (CRIA/FCSHUNL), Lisbon, Portugal [luis.silva98@gmail.com]. His principal research interests include rural dynamics and the anthropology of tourism, focusing specifically on the making of heritage and tourism products in rural areas, as well as on the local impact of tourism and the heritage enterprise. He has published the book Casas no Campo. Etnografia do Turismo Rural em Portugal (Houses in the Countryside. Ethnography of Rural Tourism in Portugal) (Lisboa, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2009), and various papers in journals and books, including Beneath the Surface of the Heritage Enterprise. Governmentality and Cultural Representation of Rural Architecture in Portugal (Ethnologia Europaea 41 (2):39-53).

Elisabete Figueiredo is a sociologist, PhD in Environmental Sciences. She is an assistant professor at the Department of Social, Political andTerritorial Sciences – University of Aveiro (UAVR) and Full Researcher at GOVCOPP – Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies [elisa@ua.pt]. Her principal research interests are rural sociology and rural studies, especially contrasting social representations and imaginaries on rural areas and on rurality; rural development policies and strategies; rural reconfiguration and restructuring processes; rural tourism impacts. She is also interested in environmental sociology and risk studies. She is author and co-author of more than 100 papers, in international and national books and journals. She is the general coordination of the book Rural Plural – Olhar o presente, imaginar o future [Plural Rural – looking at the present, imagining the future] (2011, 100Luz).

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