Translocal Ruralism Mobility and Connectivity in European Rural Spaces /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hedberg, Charlotta (Editor), do Carmo, Renato Miguel (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Series: GeoJournal Library, 103
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Emigration and immigration.; Human geography.; Social Sciences.; Human Geography.; Migration.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.

Rural areas are often viewed as isolated and stagnating areas and urban areas as their opposites. Against such a backdrop, this book seeks to unveil a set of dynamics that view rural areas as ‘translocal’ in the sense that they are ‘changing’ and ‘inter­connected’. Social transformations take place...