Henk De Haan - Images And Realities Of Rural Life

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<strong>IMAGES AND REALITIES OF RURAL LIFE</strong> Wageningem Perspectives on Rural Transformations celebrates fifty years of sociology at Wageningen Agricultural University. This book offers a sample of recent work by sociology staff members and sketches out possible future trajectories. The contributions provide theoretical and/or methodological insights into critical areas of rural research, covering a wide spectrum of social, cultural, economic, political and ecological contexts and phenomena. <br /><strong>IMAGES AND REALITIES OF RURAL LIFE</strong> attempts to capture several of the main themes of research and debate that characterize Wageningen rural development sociology. Throughout the book rural life is portrayed as a multi-dimensional and contested reality. The central issue is raised of how different social actors conceptualize and respond to this diversity, and thus engage in a contestation of images and discourses on the meaning of rurality. The contributions analyze how these images (by local actors, the political domain and social scientists) are actively constructed and mobilized in everyday social life, politics and science. The editors are social anthropologists affiliated to the Centre for Rural Development Sociology, Wageningen Agricultural University, the Netherlands. Henk de Haan is a lecturer in rural sociology, Norman Long is professor of development sociology.