Translocal Ruralism Mobility and Connectivity in European Rural Spaces

Translocal Ruralism Mobility and Connectivity in European Rural Spaces / edited by Charlotta Hedberg, Renato Miguel do Carmo.

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 ‘inter­connected’. Social transformations take place...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Hedberg, Charlotta (Editor), do Carmo, Renato Miguel (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
Edition:1st ed. 2012.
Series:GeoJournal Library, 103
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Human geography.
Emigration and immigration.
Regional planning.
Urban planning.
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Online Access:Click to view e-book
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Table of Contents:
  • 1: Translocal ruralism: mobility and connectivity in European rural spaces: Charlotta Hedberg and Renato Miguel do Carmo
  • I:Linking nodes: people and networks connecting places: 2: Between margimalisation and urbanisation: mobilities and social change in Southern Portugal: Renato Miguel do Carmo and Sofia Santos
  • 3: The ties that bind? Spatial (im)mobilities and the transformation of rural-urban connections: Hendrike Rau
  • 4: 'The rural' intervening in the lives of internal and international migrants: migrants, biographies and translocal pratices: Susanne Stenbacka
  • 5: Youth 'settles' by mobility: ethnography of a Portuguese village: Vanda Aparecida da Silva
  • 6: Migration dynamics in Romania and the counter-urbanisation process: a case study of Bucharest's rural-urban fringe: Liliana Guran and Michael Sofer
  • 7: Local embeddedness and global links in rural areas: euclidean and relational space in business networks: Alexandre Dubois, Andrew Copus, Moa Hedström
  • II: International mobilities: a tension between scales: 8: When the world goes rural: transnational potentials of international migration in rural Swedish labour markets: Charlotta Hedberg, Gunnel Forsberg and Ali Najib
  • 9: Foreigners, neighbours, immigrants: translocal mobilities in rural areas in Spain: Luis Camarero, Rosario Sampedro and Jesús Olivia
  • 10: Transnational immigration in rural Greece: analysing the different mobilities of Albanian immigrants: Apostolos Papadopoulos
  • 11: Golaka Dhama: a translocal Hare Krishna community: Louise Meijering
  • 12: Boundary crossings: migration, belonging/'un-belonging" in rural Scotland: Philomena de Lima.

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