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The volume is a comprehensive handbook of oral history and memory studies in Finland. The Finnish research field has originally emerged at the collaborative intersection of history, folklore studies, and ethnology. Since then, this field has developed into vibrant multi- and cross-disciplinary arena characterized by a strong focus on methodological issues related to memory in culture and theoretical engagement with studies on narration and processes of remembering. The chapters of the book explore the perspectives on the production of memory-based knowledge in oral history interviews and collection campaigns of written reminiscences. Moreover, the book introduces versatile methodological approaches to the study of memory and memories, ranging from narrative to corpus analysis, and investigates the multiple media of remembrance from documentary film to museum exhibition. The chapters of the book also engage the field's disciplinary position and interrogate the potentials and challenges related to the application of the methods of oral history research and the use of memory-based knowledge beyond academia in political, societal, and community-based projects.
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A fresh anthropological look at a central but neglected topic: the profound changes in rural life throughout Western Europe today. As locals leave for jobs in cities they are replaced by neo-hippies, lifestyle-seekers, eco-activists, and labour migrants from beyond the EU. With detailed ethnographic examples, contributors analyse new modes of living rurally and emerging forms of social organisation. As incomers’ dreams come up against residents’ realities, they detail the clashes and the cooperations between old and new residents. They make us rethink the rural/urban divide, investigate regionalists’ politicisation of rural life and heritage, and reveal how locals use EU monies to prop up or challenge existing hierarchies. They expose the consequences of and reactions to grand EU-restructuring policies, which at times threaten to turn the countryside into a manicured playground for escapee urbanites. This book will appeal to anyone seriously interested in the realities of rural life.
Sociology, Rural. --- Country life --- Sociology, Rural --- Europe.
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This volume analyses the political economy dynamics of food system transformation from an interdisciplinary perspective. Drawing on empirical data from a wide range of countries, the book touches on issues as varied as repurposing agricultural subsidies, biotechnology innovations, red meat consumption, and sugar-sweetened beverage taxes.
Food supply --- Economic aspects. --- Political aspects. --- Farming and Country Life. --- Industry & industrial studies.
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In Life Is Elsewhere, Anne Lounsbery shows how nineteenth-century Russian literature created an imaginary place called "the provinces"-a place at once homogeneous, static, anonymous, and symbolically opposed to Petersburg and Moscow. Lounsbery looks at a wide range of texts, both canonical and lesser-known, in order to explain why the trope has exercised such enduring power, and what role it plays in the larger symbolic geography that structures Russian literature's representation of the nation's space. Using a comparative approach, she brings to light fundamental questions that have long gone unasked: how to understand, for instance, the weakness of literary regionalism in a country as large as Russia? Why the insistence, from Herzen through Chekhov and beyond, that all Russian towns look the same? In a literary tradition that constantly compared itself to a western European standard, Lounsbery argues, the problem of provinciality always implied difficult questions about the symbolic geography of the nation as a whole. This constant awareness of a far-off European model helps explain why the provinces, in all their supposed drabness and predictability, are a topic of such fascination for Russian writers-why these anonymous places are in effect so important and meaningful, notwithstanding the culture's nearly unremitting emphasis on their nullity and meaninglessness.
Russian literature --- Country life in literature. --- Regionalism in literature. --- Country life --- Regionalism --- Human geography --- Nationalism --- Interregionalism --- Rural life --- Manners and customs --- History and criticism. --- History --- Social aspects --- comparative literature, symbolic geography, empire in literature, genre studies, regionalism.
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Ruralia est la revue de l’Association des ruralistes français et du Laboratoire d’études rurales (Université de Lyon). Pluridisciplinaire, elle a pour but de favoriser la recherche et les échanges scientifiques tant nationaux qu’internationaux dans le domaine des sociétés rurales contemporaines (19e-21e siècles). Elle se propose en outre d’encourager le développement de ses activités par une décentralisation active en multipliant les contacts entre spécialistes des recherches sociales et les rapports avec ceux des domaines voisins, les praticiens, les services et organismes intéressés.
Ethnology --- Country life --- Portugal --- Civilization --- Rural life --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Manners and customs --- Anthropology --- Human beings
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A fresh anthropological look at a central but neglected topic: the profound changes in rural life throughout Western Europe today. As locals leave for jobs in cities they are replaced by neo-hippies, lifestyle-seekers, eco-activists, and labour migrants from beyond the EU. With detailed ethnographic examples, contributors analyse new modes of living rurally and emerging forms of social organisation. As incomers’ dreams come up against residents’ realities, they detail the clashes and the cooperations between old and new residents. They make us rethink the rural/urban divide, investigate regionalists’ politicisation of rural life and heritage, and reveal how locals use EU monies to prop up or challenge existing hierarchies. They expose the consequences of and reactions to grand EU-restructuring policies, which at times threaten to turn the countryside into a manicured playground for escapee urbanites. This book will appeal to anyone seriously interested in the realities of rural life.
Sociology, Rural --- Country life --- Rural life --- Manners and customs --- Rural sociology --- Sociology --- Sociology, Rural. --- Europe. --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Rural anthropology. --- Western Europe.
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« J'avais une camarade qui lisait à la lueur de la lune... » « Acheter des livres, c'est comme acheter des fleurs... » « Moi j'adore les atlas ! » L'image d'une campagne sans livres, lieu de culture orale, a longtemps prévalu, et peut-être prévaut-elle encore, chez les citadins. Et pourtant... De la côte bretonne aux campagnes méridionales, des vallées normandes aux collines bourguignonnes, une mosaïque de « pays », autant de situations socioéconomiques spécifiques, autant de modèles culturels hérités, qui peuvent parfois prendre le pas sur les déterminations sociales. Des pratiques de lectures singulières, un jeu complexe entre offre et demande. Mais aussi, d'un bout à l'autre de la France rurale, des façons de lire souvent partagées : la lecture « accumulation », la lecture « échappée solitaire », celle qui permet d'accéder à une citoyenneté longtemps entravée, de repenser son identité en ces temps de crise, de s'ouvrir sur d'autres espaces. Entre ces manières de lire et les usages urbains, la frontière reste fragile... L'espace culturel, est-ce pour autant un espace qui s'uniformise ?
Books and reading --- Country life --- Reading --- Public libraries --- Sociology, Rural --- France --- Rural conditions. --- Books and reading - France --- Country life - France --- Reading - France --- Public libraries - France --- Sociology, Rural - France --- population rurale --- bibliothèques --- lecture --- diffusion de la culture --- sociologie de la lecture --- livre
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Slaves --- Plantation life --- Sugar trade --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Communities - Social Classes --- Emancipation --- History --- Sugar bounties --- Sugar industry --- Enslaved persons --- Country life --- Sweetener industry --- Persons --- Slavery --- CUBA --- 1800-1899 --- Kuba. --- Cuba
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Mountain life --- Families --- Family --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Country life --- Social aspects --- Social conditions
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Sterbende Dörfer, Verödung und Niedergang: In Wissenschaft und Medien stehen ländliche Räume häufig für Orte des Mangels und der Benachteiligung. Zugleich bringen utopisch anmutende Vorstellungen und Bilder des Lebens auf dem Land so viel Glanz mit sich, dass sie in Werbung und Kultur sowie in den Wünschen und Orientierungen vieler Menschen Anklang finden. Die Beiträger*innen gehen aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven diesem utopischen Glanz nach. Sie fragen, inwiefern »Utopien des Ländlichen« ein Zugang sein können, um Vorstellungen eines gelingenden gesellschaftlichen Zusammenlebens zu entwickeln und zu erproben - und welche konkreten Forderungen für die Regionalentwicklung und -politik damit verbunden sind.
Community development. --- Rural development. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography. --- Advertising. --- Country Life. --- Country. --- Critical Geography. --- Cultural Geography. --- Cultural Studies. --- Culture. --- Geography. --- Literary Studies. --- Media. --- Regional Development. --- Rural Area. --- Social Geography. --- Society. --- Urban and Regional Planning. --- Utopia. --- Village.
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