The diverse geographies of rural gentrification in Scotland

2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aileen Stockdale
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2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 736-755
Author(s):  
Antonio di Campli

Purpose This essay looks at how various forms of residential tourism or lifestyle migration, produced by people arriving from the cities and territories of the so-called Global North, have triggered complex processes of social-spatial modification in the landscapes and rural environments of Vilcabamba, Ecuador, a small Andean village of approximately 5,000 inhabitants in the southern part of the canton of Loja. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach Residential tourism in rural areas is a phenomenon that can be investigated by combining socio-economic studies with spatial analyses to define the specific characteristics of territories and environments affected by this phenomenon. In the case of Vilcabamba, the relationships and conflicts between imaginations, spaces, ecologies and desires have taken the form of a complex “implicit project”, a “palimpsest-project” intended as a set of territorial descriptions, interpretations and transformation actions triggered by a plot featuring migrant tourists, activists, eco-institutions, schools, artisans, intellectuals and artists. Though weakly connected to one another, these subjects nonetheless produce substantially coherent actions. Findings Two main hypotheses are given as: the first is that in particular rural contexts, such as the Andean area around Vilcabamba, dwelling practices and economies related to residential tourism have triggered processes through which these areas have progressively become peripheries to distant metropolitan territories and are reconfigured as sets of specialised places. The second hypothesis is that Vilcabamba and its rural surroundings can be viewed as a particular “contact zone” in which different types of residential tourists and local dwellers interact, together with different economies of tourism. In this case the reference is, on the one hand, to the logics and discourses of the so-called extractive tourism, a concept that describes the processes of “extracting” and converting local cultural characteristics, and “indigenousness”. To support these hypotheses, the result is the construction of a spatial representation of the ways in which specific practices of residential tourism are territorialised, and how they modify the meaning and functioning of rural spaces. Originality/value What is new in the paper is the attempt to define a spatial representation of transnational spaces trying to highlight relationships between extractive tourism and remittance urbanism.


2012 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 527-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myriam Simard ◽  
Laurie Guimond
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L’embourgeoisement rural, lié notamment à la migration de la ville vers la campagne d’urbains de classes sociales moyennes ou aisées, touche de plus en plus les milieux ruraux au Québec. Or, contrairement aux recherches foisonnantes sur le concept de rural gentrification au Royaume-Uni, ce phénomène n’a que peu retenu l’attention dans la production scientifique québécoise. Cet article propose donc d’explorer les représentations contrastées de divers acteurs locaux à propos de l’embourgeoisement et de ses incidences dans deux municipalités régionales de comté (MRC) : Brome-Missisquoi et Arthabaska. Il s’appuie sur les résultats d’entrevues réalisées auprès de quatre types d’acteurs : néo-ruraux, ruraux de longue date, dirigeants d’organismes locaux et régionaux, élus municipaux. Il montre la complexité de ce phénomène sur divers plans de la vie rurale, soit sociodémographique, économique, résidentiel, communautaire, culturel, environnemental et politique. Les résultats révèlent la nécessité de dépasser les seules représentations des « gentrifieurs », en l’enrichissant de celles d’autres acteurs concernés par l’embourgeoisement rural. Ils montrent l’importance de scruter les effets globaux de ce phénomène pour en arriver à une meilleure compréhension.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Phillips ◽  
Darren P Smith

In response to the five commentaries on our paper ‘Comparative approaches to gentrification: lessons from the rural’, we open up more ‘windows’ on rural gentrification and its urban counterpart. First, we highlight the issues of metrocentricity and urbanormativity within gentrification studies, highlighting their employment by our commentators. Second, we consider the issue of displacement and its operation within rural space, as well as gentrification as a coping strategy for neoliberal existence and connections to more-than-human natures. Finally, we consider questions of scale, highlighting the need to avoid naturalistic conceptions of scale and arguing that attention could be paid to the role of material practices, symbolizations and lived experiences in producing scaled geographies of rural and urban gentrification.


Author(s):  
Frédéric Richard ◽  
Julien Dellier ◽  
Greta Tommasi
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2019 ◽  
pp. 29-45
Author(s):  
Giovanni Carrosio ◽  
Natalia Magnani ◽  
Giorgio Osti

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