Rural gentrification and the processes of class colonisation

Phillips, Martin

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“…The Broads, along with a flat, scenic landscape, traditional windmills and picturesque villages, make Norfolk a popular destination for tourists and urban-rural migrants who are attracted to the countryside by (often idealised, nostalgia-imbued) notions of landscape, nature and community (Bunce, 2003;Matless, 1998). Martham has thus grown steadily since World War II and is inevitably prone to the social issues associated with counter-urbanisation, such as debates over the increase in second-homes and gentrification (Phillips, 1993(Phillips, , 2002 and frictions between 'local' and 'incomer' groups (Bell, 1994;Day, 1998;Woods, 2011).…”

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Local history as productive nostalgia? Change, continuity and sense of place in rural England

Wheeler

2016

Social & Cultural Geography

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Local history groups are often negatively associated with a tendency to indulge in nostalgic practices that yearn for a romanticised past and propagate resistance to change. Their role in local politics and power networks (particularly in relation to planning and development processes) has also been critiqued as exacerbating issues of social inequality and exclusion. While not contesting the realities of such arguments, this paper adds nuance to such debates by using the notion of 'productive' or 'mobile' nostalgia to explore possibilities for more positive renderings of local history and heritage activities. Empirical evidence from qualitative research in a rural village in Norfolk, England, is drawn on to demonstrate the role of these practices in providing a sense of continuity amid a continuously changing locale through the reassertion of place identities and attachments. Although by no means apolitical, this process need not necessarily be one of preservationism and resistance to change, but can be a mechanism through which residents are able to accept, or even welcome, changes to the social and physical constitution of their village. The paper also critically considers the value of productive nostalgia as a concept through which to explore local history practices and wider heritage movements.

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Local history as productive nostalgia? Change, continuity and sense of place in rural England

Wheeler

2016

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…While population changes in rural areas were first defined in 1960s and 1970s as rural repopulation, rural regeneration, rural development, and rural renaissance (Phillips, 2005;Phillips, 2009), research which drew attention to the class dimension of this population change began increasing in the 1980s (Cloke & Thrift, 1987;Cloke & Thrift, 1990;Urry, 1995). Some pioneering studies (Phillips, 1993;Chaney & Sherwood, 2000;Smith & Phillips, 2001;Smith N., 2002) demonstrated that a class change and displacement process which is similar to urban areas is also experienced in rural areas.…”

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“…Urban to rural migration and its effects on rural areas are commonly discussed within the framework of the concepts of counterurbanization, suburbanization and rural gentrification. (Cloke, 1985;Weekley, 1988;Van den Berg & Klaassen, 1987;Dean, 1984;Phillips, 1993;Phillips, 2010). Within the process, while the migration to the rural from the city has diversified, the conceptual ground of studies on the subject has expanded and new definitions have emerged through these concepts which interact with each other.…”

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“…Rural gentrification literature has to a significant extent developed with research that addresses the United Kingdom (Phillips, 1993;Chaney & Sherwood, 2000;Smith D. P., 2002;Phillips, 2004;Phillips, 2007;Stockdale, 2010;Heley, 2010) and United States of America countryside (Ghose, 2004;Friedberger, 1996;Darling, 2005;Walker & Fortmann, 2003;Hines, 2010;Gosnell & Abrams, 2011;Nelson et al, 2010). Researches that discuss gentrification processes in rural areas of other developed countries (Bijker et al, 2012;Guimond & Simard, 2010) and Mediterranean countries (Solana-Solana, 2010) are informative, but are limited in number and point to a significant gap in the literature.…”

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Rural gentrification in the North Aegean Countryside (Turkey)

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Sakarya

2018

ICONARP

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This article examines rural gentrification as experienced on the North Aegean coasts of Turkey. The study area chosen is the closest Aegean coast to İstanbul and it attracts attention because of its archeological and mythological values, as well as its natural beauty and vernacular landscape. The most important element determining the rural landscape of the region is olive production. The study is based principally on indepth interviews with village mukhtars, local people, newcomers, tourism entrepreneurs, and professionals.While the rural gentrification process in Turkey, a Mediterranean country, shows similarities with the gentrification process in rural areas of developed Western countries, differences can be observed as well. Depopulation in rural areas since 1950s and development of tourism in coastal areas after 1980 has brought about the investmentdisinvestment cycle, which is in the rural gentrification theory. It has been observed that in the rural area where tourism facilities have been improved, gentrification occurs in parallel. The migration of middle class to the villages has transformed the traditional land use and rural

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“…There might be a significant difference between urban and rural gentrification, argues Phillips (1993), and rural studies appeared to lag behind urban studies 'in recognizing the diversity of ways one can interpret and understand gentrification'. Phillips further draws attention 'to the need to delimit precisely how one is conceptualizing the term gentrification, while at the same time linking the understanding of gentrification into wider debates over social restructuring and the process of class constitution' (Phillips 1993: 138).…”

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The social role of food and new producer-consumer relations The Case of Sundom, Vaasa, Finland

Ehrström¹

2016

Socio.hu

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This paper will discuss the social role of food and new producer-consumer relations influenced by socioeconomic and demographic transformation in an urban rurality. These topics will be addressed and enlightened through a case study, Sundom, a small urban rurality and district of Vaasa, on the west coast of Finland.Interviews highlight that transformation may influence the creation of new producer-consumer relations, but these may also be regional rather than local. New demands and tastes in food are influenced by an inflow of well-off, well-educated, new consumers. It is argued that conscious new preferences of demands and tastes may, for example, result in local consumer food circles. It is also suggested that it is not solely concerns for the quality of food that initiates the circles, but also aims to strengthen and create new social bonds in the neighborhood.

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Rural gentrification and the processes of class colonisation

Cited by 328 publications

References 28 publications

Local history as productive nostalgia? Change, continuity and sense of place in rural England

Local history as productive nostalgia? Change, continuity and sense of place in rural England

Rural gentrification in the North Aegean Countryside (Turkey)

The social role of food and new producer-consumer relations The Case of Sundom, Vaasa, Finland

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