Politics and policies of rural authenticity / / edited by Pave Pospech, Eirik Magnus Fuglestad and Elisabete Figueiredo.

• Superior document: Perspectives on rural policy and planning
• TeilnehmendeR: Pospěch, Pavel,; Fuglestad, Eirik Magnus,; Figueiredo, Elisabete,
• Place / Publishing House: London ;, New York, New York : : Routledge,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives on rural policy and planning.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (213 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1: Rural authenticity between commodification and populism -- Rural authenticity in a context of rising nationalist and populist sentiments -- Rising inequalities: the transformation of nations and centre-periphery relations -- The content of this book -- Note -- References -- Part I: Politics of rural authenticity -- Chapter 2: City and countryside in the imagining of nations -- Introduction -- Classic nation building -- Nation deconstructing -- Discussion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 3: Revisiting the politics of the rural and the Brexit vote -- Introduction -- The politics of the rural and electoral geography -- The rise and fall of rural protests -- From protest to populism in rural Britain? -- Frame continuity: rurality, populism and nationalism -- Trust, discontent and radicalisation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Populism of the dispossessed: Rethinking the link between rural authenticity and populism in the context of neoliberal regional governance -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Populism of the dispossessed and neoliberal use of rural authenticity: conceptualisation -- 4.3 Methodological approach and database -- 4.4 The prime example of radical neoliberalisation: case study introduction -- 4.5 Setomaa "Yours Authentically": the institutionalisation of a rural authenticity regime -- 4.5.1 Rural authenticity as an answer to neoliberal calls -- 4.5.2 Dispossession as a result of a neoliberalisation of rural authenticity -- 4.5.3 Populism of those dispossessed by the rural authenticity regime -- 4.6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- References.

Chapter 5: The Minister's tears and the strike of the invisible: The political debate on the "regularisation" of undocumented migrant farm labourers during the Covid-19 health crisis in Italy -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Hegemonic and counter-hegemonic representations of Italian agri-food systems and farm labour -- 5.3 The health crisis and the debate on the "regularisation of the invisible" migrant workers -- 5.4 Populism as method: concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix: list of documents cited -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Political and apolitical dimensions of Russian rural development: Populism "from above" and narodnik small deeds "from below" -- Introduction -- Populism "from above": Putin and typical, regional, populist leaders -- Populism "from below": rediscovery of the "theory of small deeds" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: The feeling of being robbed -- Introduction -- It has been smouldering for a long time -- The cultural turn and a downscaled rural policy -- From social democratic order to neoliberal order -- Deregulating and new regulating hand in hand -- Sustainable development -- Ecological modernisation -- Environmental economics -- New regional policies -- The fight for survival is hardening -- Us and the others -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Policies of rural authenticity -- Chapter 8: #Proudofthefarmer: Authenticity, populism and rural masculinity in the 2019 Dutch farmers' protests -- Introduction -- Farming, authenticity and nationalism -- Protesting farmers as populist heroes -- The righteous anger of the farmer as a "real" man -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9: Idyllic politics and politics of the idyll -- 9.1 Introduction: what is political about the rural idyll? -- 9.2 Idyll and anti-idyll -- 9.3 Kitsch or the second tear.

9.4 Hannah Arendt: defending disunity against harmony -- 9.5 Both sides of the garden fence: politics of the idyll -- 9.6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10: Dystopia as authenticity: Changing ruralities in Icelandic cinema -- Introduction -- The film industry and social development in Iceland -- Icelandic urban and rural films -- Internal and external orientalism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 11: Rural authenticity as cosmopolitan modernity?: Local political narratives on immigration and integration in rural Norway -- Introduction -- Immigration, integration and rurality -- Methods and analytical tools -- "It is good for us": a narrative of positive immigration and the resourceful immigrants -- "It has worked out very well": a narrative of successful integration -- "There will always be someone". A narrative of handling normalised incidents of xenophobia and opposition to immigration -- Concluding reflections -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 12: Dynamics of changes in the farmers' contestation in Poland in 1989-2018: On the way to rationality and an institutionalised model of collaboration -- Introduction -- Evolution of farmers' protests in Poland from 1989 to 2018 -- Four models of interest representation -- Model of institutionalised collaboration and farmers' consciousness -- Discussion about the model of institutionalised collaboration in Polish agriculture -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 13: Rurality: From the margins to the focus of interest -- The power of the market: consuming the countryside -- The men in ties: the rural and the urban -- Note -- References -- Index.