Shaping Rural Areas in Europe: Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present and the Future (GeoJournal Library (107))

"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."--Publisher's website Front Matter....Pages i-ix What Is Shaping Rural Areas in Europe? Introduction....Pages 1-8 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 Running Wild in the Country?: Mobilising Rural In-Migration....Pages 11-23 Translating Ex-Urban Dwellers’ Rural Representations into Residential Practices and Rural Futures....Pages 25-39 Perceptions and Appropriations of Discourses in the National Park Island of Ons (Galicia, Spain)....Pages 41-55 Having, Loving, Being in the Periphery: Interpretations of Locality in the National Landscape of Koli, Eastern Finland....Pages 57-73 Projecting the ‘Disadvantaged’: Project Class, Scale Hopping and the Creation of Ruralities....Pages 75-92 Front Matter....Pages 93-93 The Pastoral Ideal in Portugal: From Literature to Touristic Practices....Pages 95-108 Mediating Rurality, History and Exclusivity in Pousadas de Portugal ....Pages 109-128 McRural, No Rural or What Rural ? – Some Reflections on Rural Reconfiguration Processes Based on the Promotion of Schist Villages Network , Portugal....Pages 129-146 Connecting Food Memories with the Rural: The Case of Portuguese and British Consumers....Pages 147-163 Does the Countryside Still Feed the Country? Producing and Reproducing the Rural in Transylvania....Pages 165-180 In Search of the Rurban Idyll? Developing the Residential Rural Areas in Finland....Pages 181-195 The Foraged Countryside: Perceptions of Nature and Culture in Four Encounters with Fungi....Pages 197-212 The Rurality Reinvention Discourse: Urban Demands, Expectations and Representations in the Construction of an Urban Rurality Project....Pages 213-226 Cross-Cultural Perceptions and Discourses Between Rural and Urban in Galicia....Pages 227-245 Concluding Remarks on Perceived and Lived Ruralities and the Future of Rural Europe....Pages 247-254 Back Matter....Pages 255-268