Shaping Rural Areas in Europe: Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present and the Future

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by  Luís Silva, Elisabete Figueiredo (auth.), Luís Silva, Elisabete Figueiredo (eds.)

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Shaping
Rural Areas
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Perceptions and Outcomes on the
Present and the Future
Shaping Rural Areas in Europe
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Shaping Rural Areas
in Europe
Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present
and the Future
Editors
Luís Silva Elisabete Figueiredo
Centre for Research in Anthropology DCSPT
(CRIA/FCSH-UNL) University of Aveiro
Lisbon, Portugal Aveiro , Portugal
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Contents
1 What Is Shaping Rural Areas in Europe? Introduction...................... 1
Luís Silva and Elisabete Figueiredo
Part I Living in the Rural: New and Old Actors and Their
Visions on Rurality
2 Running Wild in the Country?: Mobilising Rural In-Migration ........ 11
Keith Halfacree
3 Translating Ex-Urban Dwellers’ Rural Representations
into Residential Practices and Rural Futures....................................... 25
María Jesús Rivera
4 Perceptions and Appropriations of Discourses in the National
Park Island of Ons (Galicia, Spain) ....................................................... 41
Juan Martín Dabezies and Paula Ballesteros-Arias
5 Having, Loving, Being in the Periphery: Interpretations
of Locality in the National Landscape of Koli, Eastern Finland ......... 57
Eeva Uusitalo and Laura Assmuth
6 Projecting the ‘Disadvantaged’: Project Class,
Scale Hopping and the Creation of Ruralities ...................................... 75
Alexandra Szőke
Part II Consuming and Representing the Rural
7 The Pastoral Ideal in Portugal: From Literature
to Touristic Practices ............................................................................... 95
Luís Silva
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8 Mediating Rurality, History and Exclusivity
in Pousadas de Portugal ........................................................................... 109
Marta Lalanda Prista
9 McRural, No Rural or What Rural? – Some Refl ections
on Rural Reconfi guration Processes Based
on the Promotion of Schist Villages Network, Portugal ........................ 129
Elisabete Figueiredo
10 Connecting Food Memories with the Rural: The Case
of Portuguese and British Consumers ................................................... 147
Mónica Truninger
11 Does the Countryside Still Feed the Country? Producing
and Reproducing the Rural in Transylvania ........................................ 165
Árpád Töhötöm Szabó
12 In Search of the Rurban Idyll? Developing the Residential
Rural Areas in Finland ........................................................................... 181
Pilvi Hämeenaho
13 The Foraged Countryside: Perceptions of Nature and Culture
in Four Encounters with Fungi .............................................................. 197
Maria Kennedy
14 The Rurality Reinvention Discourse: Urban Demands,
Expectations and Representations in the Construction
of an Urban Rurality Project ................................................................. 213
Ana Matos Fernandes
15 Cross-Cultural Perceptions and Discourses Between
Rural and Urban in Galicia ................................................................... 227
Xerardo Pereiro and Santiago Prado
16 Concluding Remarks on Perceived and Lived Ruralities
and the Future of Rural Europe ............................................................ 247
Luís Silva
Index ................................................................................................................. 255
List of Figures
Fig. 3.1 Study area in Spain ......................................................................... 30
Fig. 4.1 Theoretical model of the traditional farmer
landscape of Galicia ....................................................................... 45
Fig. 4.2 Comparison of infrastructures before and after the creation
of new forms of landscape management (a) A new zone
concentrated on the southern limit of the island, across
the port; (b) island traditional settlement spread on the
southern limit; (c) traditional building for grain storing
(Hórreo); (d) community-owned building for grain storage;
(e) old church located close to the old downtown;
(f) new church located in the civic center ...................................... 46
Fig. 4.3 The comparison in detail of two aerial photographs
in which changes between 1956 (l eft ) and 2003 ( right )
can be seen...................................................................................... 47
Fig. 5.1 Eero Järnefelt: Syysmaisema Pielisjärveltä
(An autumn landscape from Pielisjärvi), 1899, 61 × 198 cm) ....... 58
Fig. 5.2 Location of Koli village in Lieksa town ......................................... 63
Fig. 8.1 Inn of Sagres’ esplanade ................................................................. 115
Fig. 8.2 Inn of Sagres’ restaurant: a view over Sagres’ fortress
and promontory .............................................................................. 115
Fig. 8.3 Village of Óbidos: the main street where trading activity
is concentrated ................................................................................ 117
Fig. 8.4 Inn of Óbidos: the castle that houses a P ousada ............................ 119
Fig. 8.5 Inn of Bouro’s cloister: rehabilitation of a monastery’s ruin.......... 121
Fig. 9.1 Tag cloud with the most frequent words used to describe
the Schist Villages Network project ............................................... 140
Fig. 10.1 Two posters of the ‘Dig for Victory’ campaign
in World War II ............................................................................... 153
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List of Tables
Table 2.1 Moving into and staying within a (changing)
rural place ...................................................................................... 16
Table 4.1 Relationship of national parks with the other actors ..................... 51
Table 4.2 Relationship of ecotourists with the other actors .......................... 51
Table 4.3 Relationship of mass tourists with the other actors ....................... 52
Table 4.4 Relationship of traditional permanent population
with the other actors ...................................................................... 52
Table 4.5 Relationship of permanent pro-tourism population
with the other actors ...................................................................... 53
Table 9.1 Coding scheme used in the content analysis
of the Schist Villages Network website ......................................... 139
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