Contested Countryside Cultures: Rurality and Socio-cultural Marginalisation

Cloke, Paul; Little, Jo

ISBN 10: 0415140757 / ISBN 13: 9780415140751

Published by Routledge, London, 1997

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304pp paperback, tear along inner hinge of front cover.

Seller Inventory # 062222

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Contested Countryside Cultures: Rurality and Socio-cultural Marginalisation
• Publisher: Routledge, London
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415140757
• ISBN 13: 9780415140751
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

This book examines the 'other' side of the countryside, a place also inhabited (and visited) by women, children, teenagers, the elderly, gay men and lesbians, black and ethnic minorities, the unemployed and the poor. These groups have remained largely excluded by both rural policies and the representations of rural culture.
The book charts the experiences of these marginalised groups and sets this exploration within the context of postmodern, poststructuralist, postcolonial and late feminist analysis. This theoretical framework reveals how notions of the rural have been created to reflect and reinforce divisions amongst those living in the countryside.

About the Author

Paul Cloke is Professor in the department of Geography at the University of Bristol. Jo Little is Lecturer in the department of Geography at the University of Exeter.