Reconstituting Rurality (Reconstructing Rural Areas, 2) - Softcover

Murdoch, Jonathan; Marsden, Terry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857286456 ISBN 13: 9781857286458

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

The second in the "Restructuring Rural Areas" series, this work presents an examination of the way in which the rural, and the concept of rurality is being reconstructed within urban regions.; It argues that the rural is not a fixed category but the outcome of political, economic and socio- cultural pressures. These pressures are exacerbated in southeast England - an area dominated by London and the patterns of growth associated with that city. Through close analysis of key land development processes and a series of village studies, the authors give a forceful demonstration of the way in which certain social groups are becoming increasingly influential in determining the material and social shape of rural areas in the United Kingdom. The formation of class identity, it is argued, is closely bound up with the formation of certain local spaces; class and space must be considered as combined elements in the development of rural locales. To illustrate this the authors document in detail the means by which dominant groups represent themselves within the development process and show how the exclusion of certain kinds of development leads to the exclusion of certain social groups.

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Jonathan Murdoch, Terry Marsden

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857286456
• ISBN 13: 9781857286458
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272