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Mieres Reborn - Alexander F. Robertson

Mieres Reborn

The Reinvention of a Catalan Community
Buch | Softcover
256 Seiten
2023
The University of Alabama Press (Verlag)
978-0-8173-6086-3 (ISBN)
CHF 45,30 inkl. MwSt
Reveals how patient observation and an analysis of one small community have much to tell us about human progress more generally. Close observation of Mieres, a village in the foothills of the Pyrenees, over two decades reveals the capacity of ordinary people in a locality to reinvent themselves and reconstruct relationships with the wider world.
Mieres Reborn reveals how patient observation and an analysis of one small community have much to tell us about human progress more generally.

Not long ago Mieres, a village in the eastern foothills of the Pyrenees, seemed destined to die. As in countless thousands of rural communities around the world, young people in Mieres over the years have moved to the towns and cities, leaving behind abandoned fields and meadows, derelict houses, and their aging and disconsolate parents and grandparents.

Close observation of this social microcosm over two decades reveals the capacity of ordinary people in a locality to reinvent themselves, reconstruct relationships with the wider world, and confront new threats to their collective survival. A. F. Robertson describes how the determination that Mieres should survive is most evident in a vigorous round of fiestas, fairs, and other public events in which natives, exiles, and newcomers work to create a lively sense of belonging. Since the 1980s, Mieres has been enlivened by a reverse flow of migrants from the cities, new settlers who have brought an infusion of youth to the community, devised new livelihoods, revitalized the village school, energized the native ”Mierencs,” and provided the impetus for a rediscovery of historical roots and political identity.

The regeneration of life in the countryside, in part a reaction to urban expansion and decay, is a global phenomenon of increasing political, economic, and social significance.
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Zusatzinfo 17 b&w figures - 3 maps - 2 tables
Verlagsort Alabama
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Gewicht 272 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-10 0-8173-6086-7 / 0817360867
ISBN-13 978-0-8173-6086-3 / 9780817360863
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