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Francuska przestrzeń wiejska. Kategorie i wyobrażenia heterogenicznej wiejskości (Tytuł oryg.: L’espace rural français: catégories et représentations d’une ruralité composite)
French Rural Space: Categories and Representations of a Composite Rurality

Author(s): Pascal Chevalier, Guillaume Lacquement
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Geography, Regional studies, Rural and urban sociology
Published by: Instytut Rozwoju Wsi i Rolnictwa Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: rural space; representations; spatial category; France

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to analyse how the different evolutionary trajectories of the French countryside have influenced the representations of rurality and the cate gorizations of a composite rural space. Through a historical approach, we will see how the heterogeneity of situations, the trajectories of socio-economic evolution and the representations question the relevance of the term “rural” and systematically put into question the different definitions of rural France.

  • Issue Year: 178/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 79-96
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish