Shaping Rural Areas in Europe

1. What Is Shaping Rural Areas in Europe? Introduction
Luís Silva, Elisabete Figueiredo

Part I. Living in the Rural: New and Old Actors and Their Visions on Rurality

2. Running Wild in the Country?: Mobilising Rural In-Migration
Keith Halfacree

3. Translating Ex-Urban Dwellers’ Rural Representations into Residential Practices and Rural Futures
María Jesús Rivera

4. Perceptions and Appropriations of Discourses in the National Park Island of Ons (Galicia, Spain)
Juan Martín Dabezies, Paula Ballesteros-Arias

5. Having, Loving, Being in the Periphery: Interpretations of Locality in the National Landscape of Koli, Eastern Finland
Eeva Uusitalo, Laura Assmuth

6. Projecting the ‘Disadvantaged’: Project Class, Scale Hopping and the Creation of Ruralities
Alexandra Szőke

Part II. Consuming and Representing the Rural

7. The Pastoral Ideal in Portugal: From Literature to Touristic Practices
Luís Silva

8. Mediating Rurality, History and Exclusivity in Pousadas de Portugal

Marta Lalanda Prista

9.
McRural, No Rural or What Rural? – Some Reflections on Rural Reconfiguration Processes Based on the Promotion of Schist Villages Network, Portugal
Elisabete Figueiredo

10. Connecting Food Memories with the Rural: The Case of Portuguese and British Consumers
Mónica Truninger

11. Does the Countryside Still Feed the Country? Producing and Reproducing the Rural in Transylvania
Árpád Töhötöm Szabó

12. In Search of the Rurban Idyll? Developing the Residential Rural Areas in Finland
Pilvi Hämeenaho

13. The Foraged Countryside: Perceptions of Nature and Culture in Four Encounters with Fungi
Maria Kennedy

14. The Rurality Reinvention Discourse: Urban Demands, Expectations and Representations in the Construction of an Urban Rurality Project
Ana Matos Fernandes

15. Cross-Cultural Perceptions and Discourses Between Rural and Urban in Galicia
Xerardo Pereiro, Santiago Prado

16. Concluding Remarks on Perceived and Lived Ruralities and the Future of Rural Europe
Luís Silva

Keywords: Social Sciences, Human Geography, Regional and Cultural Studies, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Sociology, general