Overview
- Illustrates that rural areas are dynamic and interconnected by flows and mobilities
- Shows that flow on various scale levels are affecting rural space
- Provides examples of flows that are connecting rural areas on various scale levels like migration, commuting, everyday life activities, business networks and information technology
Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL, volume 103)
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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 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 of local and global migratory flows, the activities of rural firms in national and global arenas, the spread of different forms of transportation and dislocation, and the growing information society, which enables rural spaces to be connected to the world and improves new ways of interconnection and sociability practices.
The book is structured into two parts, which intertwine thedynamics of rural spaces. The first part, ‘Linking nodes: people and networks connecting places’, is concerned with mobilities such as migration and commuting, and the establishment of national and global networks. The second part, ‘International mobilities: a tension between scales’, analyses the dynamics of international migration and mobilities in rural areas.
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Keywords
- Counter urbanisation process
- Ethnography
- Euclidean and relational space in Business networks
- European rural spaces
- Golaka Dhama
- Internal and international migrants
- Linking nodes
- Marginalisation and urbanisation
- Migration
- Mobilities and social change
- Regional development
- Rural Swedish labour markets
- Rural areas
- Rural-urban relationships
- Spatial (im)mobilities
- Transformation of rural-urban connections
- Translocal ruralism
- Transnational mobilities
Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Linking Nodes: People and Networks Connecting Places
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Front Matter
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Linking Nodes: People And Networks Connecting Places
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International Mobilities: A Tension Between Scales
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Back Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Translocal Ruralism
Book Subtitle: Mobility and Connectivity in European Rural Spaces
Editors: Charlotta Hedberg, Renato Miguel do Carmo
Series Title: GeoJournal Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2315-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2314-6Published: 05 October 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3786-0Published: 29 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2315-3Published: 05 October 2011
Series ISSN: 0924-5499
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0072
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 224
Topics: Human Geography, Migration, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning