Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Migration, rurality and the post-productivist countryside. Keith Halfacree and Paul Boyle
  • 2. Studying counterurbanisation and the rural population turnaround. Tony Champion
  • 3. Counterurbanisation and social class. Tony Fielding
  • 4. Contrasting the counterurbanisation experience in European nations. Thomas Kontuly
  • 5. Concentrated immigration, restructuring and the 'selective' deconcentration of the United States population. William H. Frey and Kenneth M. Johnson
  • 6. The hypothesis of welfare-led migration to rural areas: the Australia case. Graeme Hugo and Martin Bell
  • 7. Inside looking out; outside looking in. Different experiences of cultural competence in rural lifestyles. Paul Cloke, Mark Goodwin and Paul Milbourne
  • 8. Indigeneity, identity and locality: perspectives on Swaledale. Shaun Fielding
  • 9. Class, colonization and lifestyle strategies in Gower. Paul Cloke, Martin Phillips and Nigel Thrift
  • 10. Middle class mobility, rural communities and the politics of exclusion. Jonathan Murdoch and Graham Day
  • 11. Neo-tribes, migration and the post-productivist countryside. Keith Halfacree
  • 12. Counterurbanisation, fragmentation and the paradox of rural idyll. Matthew Gorton, John White and Ian Chaston
  • 14. Neglected gender dimensions of rural social restructuring. Jenny Agg and Martin Phillips
  • 15. Migration into rural communities: questioning the language of counterurbanisation. Jane Allan and Elizabeth Mooney
  • 16. Migration into rural areas: a collective behavior framework? Paul Boyle and Keith Halfacree
  • List of illustrations
  • List of tables
  • List of contributors
  • Index