Cover

Half-title

Title page

Copyright information

Table of contents

List of figures

List of contributors

1 Alternative countrysides

Ruralities, discourses, and practices

Incomers from elsewhere in West Europe

Ethnographies/travelogues

Resistance

Occupation or cooperation?

Incomers from beyond West Europe

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Notes

2 A ‘private place’?

Introduction

An Alpine valley

‘Natural’ or political landscape?

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Notes

3 Environmental attitudes, community development, and local politics in Ireland

Irish attitudes to the environment

Community development in Ireland

‘Locals’ and ‘incomers’ in Donegal.

Environmental groups in Donegal

Local politicians

Conclusion

Notes

4 Ethnic identity, power, compromise, and territory

Vineyards reinvented or ‘cultivated difference’

Wine and Protestantism

The Catholic Italians: social rise thanks to the vine

Heritage, label and wine: a feeling of belonging for whom?

At the centre of the urban–rural continuum: ‘Moroccan workers’ and their families

The ideological context of the vineyard: the exploitation

Vineyards as ‘one’s own territory’

Spaces of one’s own: a permanent construction

The healthy eating ‘heritage’: between Morocco and France, an idealised rurality?

Note

5 The new rural residents

The traditional habitat

Delocalisation, relocalisation

The independent variable

The management of the new rural sociability

New conflicts in the rural environment: the plaza as a way of life, integration, and resistance

Roots, or the consciousness of belonging

The cultural logic of the village as a construction model for a more extended social life

The space of the celebration

The agents of the new sociability

Conclusion

Notes

6 Farms, flats, and villas

Views of the village and the city

The dying of the traditional?

Inheritance

Reciprocity

The word

Village cultural decadence and the lively format for the day: storytelling

Towards today

Three innovations in housing use: the 1970s and 1980s

Flat, villa, double-family houses

Contemporary social relations

Towards a conclusion?

Notes

7 The recuperation of Galician pottery

The transformation of Galician pottery: inventing tradition

Economic reasons for change

Looking for a way to promote culture: identity as heritage

A new social consideration: what is a potter today?

Clay pieces as cultural symbols: new meanings for old objects

The politics of tradition and the recovery of Galician pottery

Conclusion

Notes

8 Fear and loving in the west of Ireland

The blows

The locals

Of individuals and innovators

Blows against pollution

Evolution

Acknowledgements

Notes

Index