Constructing the countryside

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BOOK-COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1 Rural restructuring; Introduction; New questions of rural change; CHAPTER 2 Restructuring the countryside; Introduction; Production and consumption; Commoditization processes: economic and political dimensions; Representation; Reintegrating property relations; Conclusion: restructuring, regulation and rurality; CHAPTER 3 Agricultural regulation and the development of rural Britain; Introduction; The Imperial food order, 1860s-1930s; The Atlanticist food order, 1940-1970s; The productivist agricultural regime in the UK. The onset of contradictions: change in the 1980sCHAPTER 4 Property rights and interests in land; Introduction; Rural landlordism in retreat, 1860-1940; The food crisis and a changed perspective; Compromising the landed interest: a productivist agriculture; Compromising the landed interest and protection of the rural environment: from custodialism to compensation; Conclusion; CHAPTER 5 Planning and the rural land development process; Introduction; Conservative planning policies; Regulating the deregulated: the emergence of rural planning; Conclusion. CHAPTER 6 Locality and power in the analysis of rural changeIntroduction; Restructuring localities: from the geological metaphor; Restructuring localities: agency, interests and the reconstitution of local space; "Meetings" in places: actors and networks of power; Analyzing local rural change: conceptual and methodological issues; Conclusion; CHAPTER 7 Researching the rural land-development process; Introduction; Approaching the land-development process: conceptual issues; Approaching the land-development process: towards a methodology; Towards a rural land-development process; Conclusion. CHAPTER 8 Constructing the countrysideIntroduction; Reconstituting corporatism: towards a new regulatory order in the British countryside?; Towards the differentiating countryside; The preserved countryside; The contested countryside; The paternalistic countryside; The clientelist countryside; Conclusion; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX