Class, Culture and the Agrarian Myth

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-25997-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 64, 447 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 839 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

Using examples from different historical contexts, this book examines the relationship between class, nationalism, modernity and the agrarian myth. Essentializing rural identity, traditional culture and quotidian resistance, both aristocratic/plebeian and pastoral/Darwinian forms of agrarian myth discourse inform struggles waged 'from above' and 'from below', surfacing in peasant movements, film and travel writing. Film depictions of royalty, landowner and colonizer as disempowered, ‘ordinary’ or well-disposed towards ‘those below’, whose interests they share, underwrite populism and nationalism. Although these ideologies replaced the cosmopolitanism of the Grand Tour, twentieth century travel literature continued to reflect a fear of vanishing rural ‘otherness’ abroad, combined with the arrival there of the mass tourist, the plebeian from home.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brass, Tom

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Agrarökonomie, Ernährungswirtschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction

I. CULTURE, TRADITION AND MODERNITY
1 Cultural Struggle ‘From Below’
2 Cultural Struggle ‘From Above’
3 Development caught between Tradition and Modernity

II. SCREEN IMAGES OF RURAL STRUGGLE
4 Horror, Humour, Fiends and Fools
5 Best of Friends, or Worst of Enemies?

III. CULTURE, CLASS STRUGGLE AND TRAVEL
6 The Grand Tour, or From Cosmopolitanism to Nationalism
7 Mass Tourism, or the Mob-in-the-streets Travels Abroad
8 Venice – Being There

Conclusion
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tom Brass, D.Phil (1982) formerly lectured in the SPS Faculty at Cambridge University and directed studies for Queens' College. He edited The Journal of Peasant Studies for almost two decades, and has published extensively on agrarian issues and rural labour relations.