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Baroque rurality in an English village
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4104-0917
Abstract The paper explores the concept of baroque rurality through employing concepts of affect and affordance within a study of an English village experiencing rural gentrification. The paper begins by outlining the concept of baroque rurality, contrasting it with so-called romantic approaches that have employed abstract notions of environmental or natural factors in accounts of rural in-migrational decision making. This paper then outlines conceptions of affect, affordance and more-than-representational perspectives before moving to an empirical examination of the relations that residents in a gentrifying village in the East Midlands of England have with the natures that surrounds them. The presence of positive and negative emotions with respect to a range of actants taken to be natural is highlighted, along with the significance of non-representation and pre- or semi-conscious relations with these actants. Attention is also drawn to the range of material affordances and ecologically embedded positionings and sensings described in accounts of rural living and rural in-migrational decision making. The paper concludes by considering the diversity of such positioning and the complexity associated with studies of baroque ruralities.
Highlights Outlines concept of baroque rurality. Explores significance of nature to rural in-migration and subsequent living in rural space. Reveals the affective significance of a range of natural actants to rural residents. Considers the affordances provided by these natural actants.
Baroque rurality in an English village
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4104-0917
Abstract The paper explores the concept of baroque rurality through employing concepts of affect and affordance within a study of an English village experiencing rural gentrification. The paper begins by outlining the concept of baroque rurality, contrasting it with so-called romantic approaches that have employed abstract notions of environmental or natural factors in accounts of rural in-migrational decision making. This paper then outlines conceptions of affect, affordance and more-than-representational perspectives before moving to an empirical examination of the relations that residents in a gentrifying village in the East Midlands of England have with the natures that surrounds them. The presence of positive and negative emotions with respect to a range of actants taken to be natural is highlighted, along with the significance of non-representation and pre- or semi-conscious relations with these actants. Attention is also drawn to the range of material affordances and ecologically embedded positionings and sensings described in accounts of rural living and rural in-migrational decision making. The paper concludes by considering the diversity of such positioning and the complexity associated with studies of baroque ruralities.
Highlights Outlines concept of baroque rurality. Explores significance of nature to rural in-migration and subsequent living in rural space. Reveals the affective significance of a range of natural actants to rural residents. Considers the affordances provided by these natural actants.
Baroque rurality in an English village
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4104-0917
Abstract The paper explores the concept of baroque rurality through employing concepts of affect and affordance within a study of an English village experiencing rural gentrification. The paper begins by outlining the concept of baroque rurality, contrasting it with so-called romantic approaches that have employed abstract notions of environmental or natural factors in accounts of rural in-migrational decision making. This paper then outlines conceptions of affect, affordance and more-than-representational perspectives before moving to an empirical examination of the relations that residents in a gentrifying village in the East Midlands of England have with the natures that surrounds them. The presence of positive and negative emotions with respect to a range of actants taken to be natural is highlighted, along with the significance of non-representation and pre- or semi-conscious relations with these actants. Attention is also drawn to the range of material affordances and ecologically embedded positionings and sensings described in accounts of rural living and rural in-migrational decision making. The paper concludes by considering the diversity of such positioning and the complexity associated with studies of baroque ruralities.
Highlights Outlines concept of baroque rurality. Explores significance of nature to rural in-migration and subsequent living in rural space. Reveals the affective significance of a range of natural actants to rural residents. Considers the affordances provided by these natural actants.
Baroque rurality in an English village
Phillips, Martin (author)
Journal of Rural Studies ; 33 ; 56-70
2013-01-01
15 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Baroque rurality in an English village
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