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Farm Stores in agriburbia: The roles of agricultural retail on the rural-urban fringe
Canadian Food Studies, 2017 This investigation highlights the role of on-farm stores on the rural/urban fringe near Vancouver, Canada. Operators achieve higher economic return by targeting populations interested in local food and in agritourism, including customers from towns in ...
Lenore Newman +7 more
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Agriculture and Human Values, 2020 Farming computer games enable the ‘desk chair countryside’—millions of people actively engaged in performing farming and rural activities on-line—to co-produce their desired representations of rural life, in line with the parameters set by game creators.
L. Sutherland
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The ‘desk-chair countryside’: Affect, authenticity and the rural idyll in a farming computer game
, 2020 Agricultural computer games engage millions of players world-wide in farming practices. This paper investigates how farm-based computer and video games act as sites of cultural production. I utilise a case study of Stardew Valley to assess how notions of
L. Sutherland
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Mediatized Image Politics of an ICE Raid, Staged in a Midwestern Idyll
Semiotic Review, 2023 This article shows how constitutive news media displays of contrasting chronotopes (i.e., peopled time-space imageries), both major and small, engendered an interpellative politics to channel white virtue while also flipping the script of U.S ...
Jennifer F. Reynolds
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EXPLORING SUSTAINABILITY WITH URBAN-RURAL MIGRANTS: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPERIENCE IN POLAND
EtnoAntropoZum, 2019 Globally, the word „migration” is most often associated with long distances and moving from one country to another. In the shadow of this comprehension stands the phenomenon of contemporary internal migration. I present a more rarely analysed type of it—
Petya V. Dimitrova
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Die Erzählung "Pan učitel" von Božena Němcová zwischen Texten und Kontexten
Brünner Beiträge zur Germanistik und Nordistik, 2022 In this paper, I focus on the intertextual relations and contexts of Božena Němcová's short fiction "Pan učitel" [Our Teacher], especially in relation to František Mošner's educational story "Pěstounka" [Foster-mother] (1851) and the piece of prose ...
Zuzana Urválková
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The lawn grew too quickly! Perception of rural idyll by Czech amenity migrants
GeoScape, 2019 The arrival of amenity migrants has significant impacts for many rural areas in economic, environmental and social terms. While the causes of relocation from cities to remote rural localities can be generally understood as attempts to change the way of ...
J. Píša
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Urban–rural lifestyle migration in search of the rural idyll
Терени, 2022 Статията представя някои ключови изводи от дисертацията „Миграция от град към село: примери от България, Словакия и Белгия“, като на фокус е Български пример – село Желен в община Своге. Преселниците в Желен са глобални хора на средна възраст, които биха желали да заживеят в умерено урбанизирано село – там да са налице както необходимите удобства, така
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Presentation. Rural Landscapes Beyond the Idyll
Documents d'Anàlisi Geogràfica, 2020 Presentation of issue 66/2: Rural Landscapes Beyond the ...
Valerià Paül +2 more
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Rural sociologistThe social construction of rurality remains a collective fantasy of a safe, green, ethnically homogeneous environment. This fantasy, called “the rural idyll,” still dominates the way in which people give meaning to their lives, the lives of others, and ...
Willemien Van Damme +2 more
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