The Middle-Class Colonisation of the Countryside

Economic
1. Agricultural exceptionalism
  1. Intensification
    1. Food
  2. Diversification
    1. Industry
2. Protectionism
  1. Financial incentives
    1. Farmers defined as having a place, Newby, 79
    2. 'Green and pleasant land', Williams
3. Post-production
  1. Neo-liberalism
    1. Decrease in hme prod.
      1. Economic restructuring
        Diversification
        Pressure
        Annotations:
        For new homes Environmental activism; destruction of land by chemicals
Representation
1. Leisure
  1. Actors
    1. National Trust
    2. National ramblers assoc.
2. Lifestyle
  1. Commodification
    1. Desirability/ aspirational
      1. Fetished in goods/ images/ ideology (Mullins, 1991)
        Purchases indicate class (Murdoch, 1997)
        Capital
        Annotations:
        Educational Social
        Reflexivity of our identity
        Crisis of creditentialism
        Mainstreaming/ fashion
3. Dichotomy
  1. Rural
    1. Peaceful, clean
    2. Cut-off, communication infrastructure
    3. Urban is perceived as isolating for communities
    4. Safe, Valentine, 1997; good for families
  2. Harvey, 1981
    1. Time space compression
      1. Slowing down
        Static/ insular
        Not interconnected
        Connecting back to nature
      2. Roles are protected/defined
        Urban is insecure
4. Situated knowledge
  1. Anderson, 09
    1. Rural is inscribed with different associations
    2. Interactions reinforce meaning
    3. Power-oppression-hegemony- exclusion, Sharpe et al, 00
Counterurbanisation
1. Berry, 76
  1. Turning point in settlement trends
2. Champion, 98; Haggart, 97
  1. Urban-rural migration
    1. Creation of market towns
      1. Mixed spaces of rural/urban
      2. relocation of industry
        divisions of labour
        Spatial fix, Massey; 1994
        Service/ managerial positions
        Fielding, 1998
fluctuations
1. regional specialisation
2. Cyclisation of economy
The rural and class
1. Newby, 79
  1. class stratification
    1. Cloke and Thrift, 98
      1. Local gentry
      2. Show & self
      3. Move in & join in
      4. Village regulators
  2. Conflict over ideas that infringe on the rural construct
  3. education privileges them over consultation
    1. legitimacy of education
    2. Pahl, 1987
      1. Social-consciousness- Action
    3. Retain superiority over local/ insiders; Savage, 1992
2. Cloke, et al 98
  1. Rural gentrification
  2. Polarise the community
    1. Bring back city living

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