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The Ruins of the Rural Idyll: Reconfiguring the Image of the Farm in Homeland and Five Fingers for Marseilles

open access: yesSocial Dynamics, 2020
The symbolic importance of the image of the farm in South African cultural imaginaries can hardly be overestimated, even today. Historically placed at the nexus of the dualism between commercial agricultural areas and the communal areas of the Bantustans,
Hanneke Stuit
exaly   +2 more sources

Romance in the Cowshed: Challenging and Reaffirming the Rural Idyll in the Dutch Reality TV Show Farmer Wants a Wife

open access: yesJournal of Rural Studies, 2019
This paper examines the representation of rural life in the immensely popular Dutch version of the reality TV show Farmer Wants a Wife (2004-present).
Esther Peeren
exaly   +2 more sources

Beyond rural idyll? Social imaginaries, motivations and relations in Polish alternative food networks

, 2020
The concept of alternative food networks (AFNs) has evolved in the academic literature, from early optimistic studies on agricultural relocalization rooted in rural sociology to multidimensional analyses and the subsequent intellectual diversification of
W. Goszczyński, M. Wróblewski
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Governing the Rural Idyll: The Multifaceted Roles of Government in the Politics of Enhanced Commodification

Rural sociologist
This article examines how government intervention shapes tourism‐led rural commodification through a dynamic and institutionally embedded process. Drawing on Mitchell's Creative Enhancement model and fieldwork in Zhoucun—a policy‐prioritized village on ...
Li Yu, Ying-Nan Zhang, Sijie Li
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Rural idyll in a global creative city: gentrification, cultural governance and creative placemaking

Urban Geography
This paper examines the on-the-ground process of creative city making in the Global South. It highlights the role of the state in the development of creative cities in the Chinese context, with a specific focus on how the state has instrumentalized arts ...
Xue-Ke Yang, T. C. Chang
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Rural policy in the 1980s: the revival of the rural idyll

Journal of Rural Studies, 1986
Abstract A popular explanation for the absence of poverty and deprivation from the rural policy agenda in the past has been the power of popular rural imagery in masking their existence. Despite a decade of academic and policy debate which has exposed some of the reality behind the images, this paper illustrates that not only do they still condition ...
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