Alienation, Authenticity, and Populism in Rural Areas

Pavel Pospěch is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic and Faculty Fellow of the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology. Eirik Magnus Fuglestad is a researcher at Ruralis, Trondheim, Norway. Elisabete Figueiredo is Associate Professor, with Habilitation, of Sociology at the Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences and a Full Researcher at GOVCOPP – Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies – University of Aveiro, Portugal.

• 1. Introduction Part one: Rurality and Populist Politics 2. Reviving Rural Portugal: CHEGA’s Populist Narratives and the Ideal of the Upstanding Farmer 3. Rural Dimensions of Infrastructural Populism 4. Green discontent in rural areas: rural identity, place resentment, and resistance to the green transition 5. Rural youths and right-wing populism un Argentina: emergence and consolidation in dispersed spaces 6. Right-wing and left-wing populists on the fields: strategies and challenges in rural policy making in Greece and Turkey 7. Precarious Present and Future? The Situation of Young Agricultural Wage Earners in Uruguay and Chile Part two: Rurality between Alienation and Authenticity 8. Model villages and rural authenticity 9. Rural images of rurality: between the rural gap and the social empowerment 10. Moving back and forward with Back-to-the-land: Progressive reforms and authentic expressions 11. Individualism and autonomy at the periphery 12. The rural re-awakening: A bonapartist counter-revolution to end the final victory of neoliberalism, or to perpetuate it 13. Conclusion