Crisis and Post-Crisis in Rural Territories

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction

   • Fatma Nil Döner, Elisabete Figueiredo, María Jesús Rivera

   Pages 1-8

3. Foreign Immigration to Rural Spain: An Exploration of the Precarious Rural Cosmopolitanism in the Post-Crisis Scenario

   • Rosario Sampedro, Luis Camarero

   Pages 9-29

4. The Contribution of Mobilities to the Social Sustainability of Rural Areas in a Context of Crisis: Structural Conditions, Social Diversity and Inequalities

   • Elvira Sanz Tolosana, Manuel Tomás González Fernández

   Pages 31-49

5. New Rural Residents, Territories for Vital Projects and the Context of the Crisis in Spain

   • Jesús Oliva, María Jesús Rivera

   Pages 51-71

6. Respatialization of Migrations and Differentiated Ruralities in Times of Crisis in Southern Italy

   • Alessandra Corrado, Giulio Iocco, Martina Lo Cascio

   Pages 73-95

7. Return to the Land in Times of Crisis: Experiences, Policies and Narratives in an Inner Periphery of Southern Italy

   • Carlotta Ebbreo

   Pages 97-118

8. ‘No Choice’ or ‘A Choice’? – An Exploratory Analysis of ‘Back to the Countryside’ Motivations and Adaptation Strategies in Times of Crisis in Greece and Portugal

   • Elisabete Figueiredo, Maria Partalidou, Stavriani Koutsou

   Pages 119-139

9. Transformative Mobilities and Resilience Dynamics in Rural Coastal Greece in a Time of Recession

   • Apostolos G. Papadopoulos, Loukia-Maria Fratsea

   Pages 141-162

10. Solidarity and Justice in Local Food Systems: The Transformative Potential of Producer-Consumer Networks in Greece

    • Sofia Nikolaidou

    Pages 163-185

11. Villages at the State/Society Interface During the Crisis: Toward New Territorial Boundaries in Metropolitan Municipalities

    • Fatma Nil Döner

    Pages 187-208

12. Concluding Remarks: What Is Next for Rural Areas in the Aftermath of the Crisis?

    • Fatma Nil Döner, Elisabete Figueiredo, María Jesús Rivera

    Pages 209-214

This book sheds light on the effects of the financial and economic crisis in a diverse set of countries of Southern and Mediterranean Europe. Drawing on case studies from Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Turkey, this book presents a broad and integrative perspective on the impact of the crisis in different rural territories, discussing the similarities and dissimilarities of those impacts together with the resilience strategies adopted in each context. The impacts of the crisis in rural restructuring processes are also taken in consideration in this volume. Based on diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, the book discusses the challenges presented by the new socioeconomic contexts emerging from the crisis, as well as the resilience strategies adopted in rural territories by old and new actors. The book compiles nine empirical chapters dealing with the different cases and a final chapter devoted to the discussion of the shared and dissimilar processes of rural change. This book is a useful and valuable resource for scholars and post-graduate students from different disciplines, such as rural sociology, geography, anthropology, regional planning and agricultural studies.

• Rural restructuring
• Rural mobilities
• New rural residents
• Resilience strategies
• Crisis and post-crisis
• Social diversity
• Social cohesion
• Rural areas
• Respatialization of migrations
• Times of crisis
• Food policies
• Territorial boundaries
• Missing development caused by migration
• Rural coastal areas

• Department of International Relations, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Istanbul, Turkey

  Fatma Nil Döner

• Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

  Elisabete Figueiredo

• Department of Sociology and Social Work, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

  María Jesús Rivera

Fatma Nil Döner, (PhD) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey. In her research, she intends to analyze rural transformation in Turkey with a multi-disciplinary perspective combining rural sociology, political science, and international political economy. Due to her interest in comparative studies and academic collaboration, she was affiliated to Oxford Department of International Development in 2011, Athens Agricultural University in 2016, and Wolfson College, Oxford University in 2019 as a visiting fellow. Within the broad scope of rural transformation, she is particularly interested in rural governance and policy making, livelihood strategies, and land control.

Elisabete Figueiredo (PhD) is a Sociologist and Associate Professor with Habilitation at the Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences and full researcher at GOVCOPP – Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies, University of Aveiro, Portugal. Her main research interests are on contrasting social representations of rural areas, traditional food products and rural development, rural tourism impacts and, more recently, on counterurbanization movements motivated by the economic and financial crisis. She is author and co-author of more than 200 publications in international and national journals, books and conference proceedings. She participated in several EU and nationally funded research projects. Currently she coordinates the research project STRINGS - Selling The Rural IN (urban) Gourmet Stores – establishing new liaisons between town and country through the sale and consumption of rural products.

María Jesús Rivera (PhD) is a Sociologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at the University of the Basque Country, Spain. Her research revolves around the socio-demographic transformation of rural areas, the impact of new rural dwellers on these areas, and the potentiality of rural territories to attract and establish new populations. Within this broad research scope, her area of interest includes some related topics such as the relevance of labour migrants for rural sustainability, neo-ruralities, social inequalities, processes of counterurbanisation, rural welfare, expressions of poverty in rural areas, as well as the cultural dimension of rurality and nature, and their commodification. She has led and participated in several regionally and nationally funded projects on rural research. 

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