People,culture and nature in the rural‐urban fringe: impressions from a study of rural gentrification in the English Midlands

摘要：

Key points This paper explores the value of four different conceptions of culture‐ classical, descriptive, symbolic and critical‐to understanding social change and relationships to nature in a rural‐fringe area. Drawing on a research project examining rural gentrification and nature in an area of permanent improved and unimproved grassland in the English Midlands, it is argued that whilst studies of culture in grasslands have often adopted a classical perspective on culture linked to a pastoral or anti‐pastoral perspective, or else a descriptive approach often focused on urban and rural social groups, symbolic and critical perspectives may be of more analytical value.

关键词： culture nature rural‐urban fringe gentrification

作者: Martin Phillips

作者单位: University of Leicester,Department of Geography,Leicester LE1 7RH

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2008世界草地与草原大会

会议地点: 呼和浩特

会议语种:英文

在线出版日期: 2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）