Crisis and Post-Crisis in Rural Territories : Social Change, Challenges and Opportunities in Southern and Mediterranean Europe

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-vi Introduction (Fatma Nil Döner, Elisabete Figueiredo, María Jesús Rivera)....Pages 1-8 Foreign Immigration to Rural Spain: An Exploration of the Precarious Rural Cosmopolitanism in the Post-Crisis Scenario (Rosario Sampedro, Luis Camarero)....Pages 9-29 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 New Rural Residents, Territories for Vital Projects and the Context of the Crisis in Spain (Jesús Oliva, María Jesús Rivera)....Pages 51-71 Respatialization of Migrations and Differentiated Ruralities in Times of Crisis in Southern Italy (Alessandra Corrado, Giulio Iocco, Martina Lo Cascio)....Pages 73-95 Return to the Land in Times of Crisis: Experiences, Policies and Narratives in an Inner Periphery of Southern Italy (Carlotta Ebbreo)....Pages 97-118 ‘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 Transformative Mobilities and Resilience Dynamics in Rural Coastal Greece in a Time of Recession (Apostolos G. Papadopoulos, Loukia-Maria Fratsea)....Pages 141-162 Solidarity and Justice in Local Food Systems: The Transformative Potential of Producer-Consumer Networks in Greece (Sofia Nikolaidou)....Pages 163-185 Villages at the State/Society Interface During the Crisis: Toward New Territorial Boundaries in Metropolitan Municipalities (Fatma Nil Döner)....Pages 187-208 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