ISBN:
9789400723153
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XII, 221p. 23 illus, digital)
Series Statement:
GeoJournal Library 103
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Translocal ruralism
Keywords:
Social sciences
;
Regional planning
;
Migration
;
Human Geography
;
Social Sciences
;
Social sciences
;
Regional planning
;
Migration
;
Human Geography
;
Bevölkerungssoziologie
;
Bevölkerungsstatistik
;
Migration
;
Mobilität
;
Sociology, Rural
;
Ländlicher Raum
;
Mobilität
;
Verkehrsanbindung
;
Europa
;
Migration
;
Ländlicher Raum
Abstract:
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 'inter connected'. 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 o
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Contributors; 1 Translocal Ruralism: Mobility and Connectivity in European Rural Spaces; 1.1 Introduction: Towards a Translocal Rural Space; 1.2 Translocal Ruralism: Mobilities on Various Scale Levels; 1.3 Contextual Diversities; References; Part I Linking Nodes: People and Networks Connecting Places; 2 Between Marginalisation and Urbanisation: Mobilities and Social Change in Southern Portugal; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Mobilities in Rural Areas: A Theoretical Approach; 2.3 Diversity in the Inland Algarve: Alcoutim and São Brás de Alportel
Description / Table of Contents:
2.4 The Geography of Mobilities2.5 The Social Constitution of Mobility; 2.6 Solidarity and Mutual Knowledge; 2.7 Conclusion; References; 3 The Ties That Bind? Spatial (Im)mobilities and the Transformation of Rural-Urban Connections; 3.1 Introduction; 3.1.1 Methodology; 3.2 Stereotyping the Rural: Images of Immobility; 3.3 Rural (Im)mobilities and the Globalisation of the Rural; 3.3.1 Car Dependence in Rural Ireland; 3.3.2 No Place Like Home? Property Ownership and the Mobility of Farmers; 3.4 Mitigating Rural Immobility? Impacts of Transport and Land-Use Planning on Spatial Mobility Patterns
Description / Table of Contents:
3.5 ConclusionReferences; 4 "The Rural" Intervening in the Lives of Internal and International Migrants: Migrants, Biographies and Translocal Practices; 4.1 Introduction; 4.1.1 Rural Places and Scale; 4.1.2 Two Studies in One; 4.2 Translocalism and Rural Migration; 4.2.1 Seizing the Rural Migrants; 4.2.2 Biographies and Translocal Practices; 4.3 Translocal Rural Spaces from the Perspectives of Internal and International Migrants; 4.3.1 Communication and Networks; 4.3.2 Local Society and Community; 4.3.3 Spending Time Outdoors and the Meaning of Nature; 4.4 Conclusion; References
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Youth "Settled" by Mobility: Ethnography of a Portuguese Village5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Aims and Methodology; 5.3 The Regional Scale of Mobility: Young People and Association; 5.4 National and International Spaces: A Tension Between Flows and Images; 5.5 Cyberspace: Internet, Friends and Multiple Images; 5.6 The Cross-Border Scale: Beyond the Frontier; 5.6.1 Friendship, a Necessary Relationship; 5.7 Conclusion; References; 6 Migration Dynamics in Romania and the Counter-Urbanisation Process: A Case Study of Bucharest's Rural-Urban Fringe; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Background
Description / Table of Contents:
6.3 The Spatial Dimension of the Migratory Movements in Romania6.4 Metropolitan Areas in Romania and Migration Patterns in Their Rural-Urban Fringe; 6.5 Migration Patterns in Bucharest Rural-Urban Fringe; 6.6 Voluntari and Branesti - Two Case Studies; 6.7 Conclusion; References; 7 Local Embeddedness and Global Links in Rural Areas: Euclidean and Relational Space in Business Networks; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Conceptual Framework; 7.2.1 From Dyadic Linkages to Business Networks; 7.2.2 The Role of Proximity in Economic Geography; 7.2.3 Internationalisation of Rural SMEs Business Activities
Description / Table of Contents:
7.2.4 Translocal Relational Spaces
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-2315-3
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