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

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
What Is Shaping Rural Areas in Europe? Introduction....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Running Wild in the Country?: Mobilising Rural In-Migration....Pages 11-23
Translating Ex-Urban Dwellers’ Rural Representations into Residential Practices and Rural Futures....Pages 25-39
Perceptions and Appropriations of Discourses in the National Park Island of Ons (Galicia, Spain)....Pages 41-55
Having, Loving, Being in the Periphery: Interpretations of Locality in the National Landscape of Koli, Eastern Finland....Pages 57-73
Projecting the ‘Disadvantaged’: Project Class, Scale Hopping and the Creation of Ruralities....Pages 75-92
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
The Pastoral Ideal in Portugal: From Literature to Touristic Practices....Pages 95-108
Mediating Rurality, History and Exclusivity in Pousadas de Portugal ....Pages 109-128
 McRural, No Rural or What Rural ? – Some Reflections on Rural Reconfiguration Processes Based on the Promotion of Schist Villages Network , Portugal....Pages 129-146
Connecting Food Memories with the Rural: The Case of Portuguese and British Consumers....Pages 147-163
Does the Countryside Still Feed the Country? Producing and Reproducing the Rural in Transylvania....Pages 165-180
In Search of the Rurban Idyll? Developing the Residential Rural Areas in Finland....Pages 181-195
The Foraged Countryside: Perceptions of Nature and Culture in Four Encounters with Fungi....Pages 197-212
The Rurality Reinvention Discourse: Urban Demands, Expectations and Representations in the Construction of an Urban Rurality Project....Pages 213-226
Cross-Cultural Perceptions and Discourses Between Rural and Urban in Galicia....Pages 227-245
Concluding Remarks on Perceived and Lived Ruralities and the Future of Rural Europe....Pages 247-254
Back Matter....Pages 255-268