Country Visions: Knowing The Rural World

Country Visions is a collection of essays exploring different ways of knowing rurality; of understanding the countryside. The essays suggest that we must go beyond cultural constructions of rural idyll and their accompanying political, cultural and theoretical orthodoxies, which risk both 'purification' of transgressive presences and practices, and ignorance of significant agency and performance.
Country Visions re-views the countryside as heterogeneous, dynamic and often dystopic. It emphasises that rural areas are not just known differently, they are also performed differently.