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European Countryside, 2015 This paper presents a sociological analysis of the image of a “good village”, as portrayed in the annual Czech competition Village of the Year. It focuses on the positive representations attached to the rural in the political and expert discourse.
Pospěch Pavel +2 more
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Church schools, educational markets and the rural idyll [PDF]
British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017 Researchers have begun to explore the role that faith schools play in contemporary educational markets but the emphasis to date has been on urban rather than rural contexts. This article approaches the issue of marketisation through a qualitative case-study comparison of two Anglican primary schools in contrasting rural localities in England and Wales.
Hemming, Peter, Roberts, C
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Journal of Rural and Community Development, 2018 This article is the result of two months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in rural Lebanon, studying local food harvesting, preparation and consumption practices. The study revealed the complexities of maintaining land-based lifestyles in contemporary
Michael Robidoux, Carla Haibi
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Looking for Rural Idyll ‘Down Under’: International Immigrants in Rural Australia [PDF]
International Migration, 2014 Abstract This article outlines the empirical findings of the first national longitudinal study of almost 1,000 recent immigrants who decided to move to non‐metropolitan Australia. The national survey (2008‐2010) identified that new international immigrants tend to move to rural areas because of the natural beauty, lifestyle and ...
Branka Krivokapic‐Skoko, Jock Collins
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Homo Voluntarius and the Rural Idyll: Voluntary Work, Trust and Solidarity in Rural and Urban Areas
Journal of Rural and Community Development, 2016 Based on Mancur Olson’s and Robert Putnam’s theories, this article discusses whether it is more difficult to recruit volunteers in urban than in rural areas. We use data from the Danish Rural-Urban Barometer (2011/12), which contains 2000 valid responses
Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen +1 more
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Journal of Land Use Science, 2021 This paper analyzes land-system dynamics changes due to energy infrastructure development and explores the environmental and social ramifications of hydraulic fracturing, through a case study in Central Appalachia.
M. Caretta +3 more
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Abstract policing, Covid-19 and the ‘rural idyll’ in Scotland
Policing and SocietyThe impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on rural ‘policing’ (broadly defined to include a range of institutions involved in order maintenance) remains relatively under-discussed and under-theorised.
Jamie Buchan +3 more
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Plaasfeminism in Ronelda S. Kamfer’s Kompoun (2021)
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2022 This review article explores how Ronelda S. Kamfer’s novel Kompoun (2021) deconstructs and diversifies the white patriarchal space of the plaas (farm) by reinscribing it with a highly situated ‘plaasfeminism’ emerging from the female characters in the ...
Hanneke Stuit
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Amarilis y la belleza de Zacinto
thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date, 2020 Theocritus’ id. 4 has been considered by some scholars as an example of rural mime; the fact that the poem, a unique case in the Corpus Theocriteum, does not contain any pastoral song or contest contributes to the impression of ‘realism’.
Irene M. Weiss
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Crossroads, 2023 The article aims to discuss the cultural significance of cycle touring for the Victorian urban middle class in the context of the growing significance of leisure and recreation to England’s working population and the burgeoning mass tourist industry ...
Beata Kiersnowska
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