Rights, Symbolic Violence, and the Micropolitics of the Rural: The Case of the Parish Paths Partnership Scheme

G Parker
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G Parker: Countryside and Community Research Unit, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, Swindon Road, Cheltenham, Glos GL50 4AZ, England

Environment and Planning A, 1999, vol. 31, issue 7, 1207-1222

Abstract: In this paper microlevel politics and conflict associated with social and economic change in the countryside and linked changes in rural governance are explored with a focus upon research carried out on a recent rural policy initiative aimed at local ‘empowerment’. This acts as a touchstone for a wider theoretical discussion. The paper is theorised within a conceptual framework derived and extended from the work of Pierre Bourdieu and others in order to explore case studies of the English Countryside Commission's Parish Paths Partnership scheme. The micropolitics involved with this scheme are examined and used to highlight more general issues raised by increased ‘parish empowerment’ in the ‘postrural’.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1068/a311207

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