or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
More Buying Choices
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
Country Visions
 
 
Tell the Publisher!
I’d like to read this book on Kindle

Don t have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here, or download a FREE Kindle Reading App.

Country Visions [Paperback]

Prof Paul Cloke
No customer reviews yet. Be the first.
RRP: £31.99
Price: £30.39 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
You Save: £1.60 (5%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In stock.
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk. Gift-wrap available.
Only 1 left in stock--order soon (more on the way).
Want guaranteed delivery by Thursday, September 9? Choose Express delivery at checkout. See Details
5 new from £28.57 1 used from £19.00

Frequently Bought Together

Customers buy this book with Rural Geography: Processes, Responses and Experiences in Rural Restructuring £24.69

Country Visions + Rural Geography: Processes, Responses and Experiences in Rural Restructuring
Price For Both: £55.08

Show availability and delivery details


Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought


Product details


Product Description

Product Description

Country Visions is a highly readable, challenging and incisive collection of essays, exploring different ways of knowing rurality; of understanding the countryside. The essays suggest that we must go beyond cultural constructions of rural idyll and their accompanying political, cultural and theoretical orthodoxies, which risk both "purification" of transgressive presences and practices, and ignorance of significant agency and performance.

It begs questions about how to read, analyse and write about the country; about how the countryside works for its actors; and how it might work better in the future.

From the Back Cover

Country Visions

is a highly readable, challenging and incisive collection of essays, exploring different ways of knowing rurality; of understanding the countryside. The essays suggest that we must go beyond cultural constructions of rural idyll and their accompanying political, cultural and theoretical orthodoxies, which risk both "purification" of transgressive presences and practices, and ignorance of significant agency and performance.

Country Visions re-views the countryside as heterogeneous, dynamic and often dystopic. It is an authoritative and engaging collection, emphasising that rural areas are not just known differently, they are also performed differently.

Country Visions can be read as a running debate, as a series of glimpses into the nature of rural areas, each carrying a different understanding of what can be known, and what should be known. Essayists explore the different ways in which rural areas are :

Represented and idyllised

Known and understood through practice and performance

Envisioned as theoretical and political arenas

It begs questions about how to read, analyse and write about the country; about how the countryside works for its actors; and how it might work better in the future.

Paul Cloke is Professor of Geography at Bristol University, and Founder Editor of Journal of Rural Studies.


Inside This Book (Learn More)
Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Search inside this book:

Tag this product

 (What's this?)
Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items.
Your tags: Add your first tag
 

Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store

If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store. Learn more

Customer Reviews


There are no customer reviews yet.
Video reviews
Video reviews
Amazon now allows customers to upload product video reviews. Use a webcam or video camera to record and upload reviews to Amazon.



Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
Search all Amazon discussions
   
Related forums


Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category


Look for similar items by subject


Feedback


Amazon.co.uk Privacy Statement Amazon.co.uk Delivery Information Amazon.co.uk Returns & Exchanges

Your Recent History

 (What's this?)

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.