Translocal Ruralism Mobility and Connectivity in European Rural Spac
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 ‘interc
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The GeoJournal Library Volume 103 Managing Editor:
Daniel Z. Sui, College Station, USA Founding Series Editor:
Wolf Tietze, Helmstedt, Germany Editorial Board: Paul Claval, France
Yehuda Gradus, Israel Sam Ock Park, South Korea Herman van der Wusten, The Netherlands
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Charlotta Hedberg · Renato Miguel do Carmo Editors
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Editors Charlotta Hedberg Stockholm University Department of Human Geography Stockholm Sweden [email protected]
Renato Miguel do Carmo Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia (CIES-IUL) Lisboa Portugal [email protected]
ISSN 0924-5499 ISBN 978-94-007-2314-6 e-ISBN 978-94-007-2315-3 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-2315-3 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011936511 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Contents
1 Translocal Ruralism: Mobility and Connectivity in European Rural Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charlotta Hedberg and Renato Miguel do Carmo Part I
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Linking Nodes: People and Networks Connecting Places
2 Between Marginalisation and Urbanisation: Mobilities and Social Change in Southern Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Renato Miguel do Carmo and Sofia Santos
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3 The Ties That Bind? Spatial (Im)mobilities and the Transformation of Rural-Urban Connections . . . . . . . . Henrike Rau
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4 “The Rural” Intervening in the Lives of Internal and International Migrants: Migrants, Biographies and Translocal Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Susanne Stenbacka 5 Youth “Settled” by Mobility: Ethnography of a Portuguese Village Vanda Aparecida da Silva 6 Migration Dynamics in Romania and the CounterUrbanisation Process: A Case Study of Bucharest’s Rural-Urban Fringe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Liliana Guran-Nica and Michael Sofer 7 Local Embeddedness and Global Links in Rural Areas: Euclidean and Relational Space in Business Networks . . . . . . . Alexandre Dubois, Andrew Copus and Moa Hedström Part II
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International Mobilities: A Tension Between Scales
8 When the World Goes Rural: Transnational Potentials of International Migration in Rural Swedish Labour Markets . . . Charlotta Hedberg, Gunnel Forsberg and Ali Najib
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9 Foreigners, Neighbours, Immigrants: Translocal Mobilities in Rural Areas in Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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