Full Description
This book focuses on the concept of alienation in peripheral and rural areas. It explores how is rural alienation experienced, reproduced and exploited in and across various empirical settings. It examines how rural discontent has changed and developed over the past decade and the new dynamics of rural protest. It explores the interplay of rural authenticity and rural alienation and how this affects the life of rural communities and discourses.
Contents
1. Introduction
Part one: Rurality and Populist Politics
2. Reviving Rural Portugal: CHEGA's Populist Narratives and the Ideal of the Upstanding Farmer
3. Rural Dimensions of Infrastructural Populism
4. Green discontent in rural areas: rural identity, place resentment, and resistance to the green transition
5. Rural youths and right-wing populism un Argentina: emergence and consolidation in dispersed spaces
6. Right-wing and left-wing populists on the fields: strategies and challenges in rural policy making in Greece and Turkey
7. Precarious Present and Future? The Situation of Young Agricultural Wage Earners in Uruguay and Chile
Part two: Rurality between Alienation and Authenticity
8. Model villages and rural authenticity
9. Rural images of rurality: between the rural gap and the social empowerment
10. Moving back and forward with Back-to-the-land: Progressive reforms and authentic expressions
11. Individualism and autonomy at the periphery
12. The rural re-awakening: A bonapartist counter-revolution to end the final victory of neoliberalism, or to perpetuate it
13. Conclusion
