Description
Book SynopsisThis popular dream of "escaping into the countryside" has caused great change in the population structures of Western society in this century.
Table of ContentsMigration, Rurality and the Post-Productivist Countryside (K. Halfacree & P. Boyle).
Studying Counterurbanisation and the Rural Population Turnaround (T. Champion).
Counterurbanisation and Social Class (T. Fielding).
Contrasting the Counterurbanisation Experience in European Nations (T. Kontuly).
Concentrated Immigration, Restructuring and the 'Selective' Deconcentration of the United States Population (W. Frey & K. Johnson).
The Hypothesis of Welfare-Led Migration to Rural Areas: The Australian Case (G. Hugo & M. Bell).
Inside Looking Out;
Outside Looking in. Different Experiences of Cultural Competence in Rural Lifestyles (P. Cloke, et al.).
Indigeneity, Identity and Locality: Perspectives on Swaledale (S. Fielding).
Class, Colonisation and Lifestyle Strategies in Gower (P. Cloke, et al.).
Middle Class Mobility, Rural Communities and the Politics of Exclusion (J. Murdoch & G. Day).
Neo-Tribes, Migration and the Post-Productivist Countryside (K. Halfacree).
Counterurbanisation, Fragmentation and the Paradox of the Rural Idyll (M. Gorton, et al.).
Planning by Numbers: Migration and Statistical Governance (S. Abram, et al.).
Neglected Gender Dimensions of Rural Social Restructuring (J. Agg & M. Phillips).
Migration into Rural Communities: Questioning the Language of Counterurbanisation (J. Allen & E. Mooney).
Migration into Rural Areas: A Collective Behaviour Framework? (P. Boyle and K. Halfacree).
List of Illustrations.
List of Tables.
List of Contributors.
Index.
