Market, commodity, resource, and strength: Logics of Norwegian rurality

A play for rurality – Modernization versus local autonomy

“…We do, for instance, see a trend where the rural is more and more regarded as something exotic and unmodern. In recent years we have produced TV series (Der ingen skulle tru, Røst, Himmelblå) and movies (Johnny Vang, Berlevåg mannskor) where rural communities and people are mainly interesting as exotic and different (Hidle et al, 2006). Whether the Norwegian countryside is portrayed as idyllic or disparaged in these stories is not the main issue here, but rather that the present link between the community and the ongoing value-creating activities is neglected.…”

Political Conceptions of Second Home Mobility

“…This implies that business structures and geography should be disregarded to reduce the traditional initiatives specifically aimed at the rural economy, and to think instead about general initiatives such as education and better economic terms for business development. A common denominator in the connections of these elements is that rurality is no longer constructed as an exclusive delimited category, but it is contextualised to a larger degree within general societal development in the global world (Hidle et al 2006). Because of the global economy and market logic, rurality is also treated as a resource in the global economy and in categorising rurality; prototypes rather than platonic categories are employed.…”

Logics of rurality: Political rhetoric about the Swedish North

“…Pratt, 1996). Such studies often make visible how rurality is variously constructed in relation to context in people's own accounts of rural living (Halfacree, 1995), in research programmes (Hidle et al, 2006), media representations (Bunce, 1994) and popular culture (Horton, 2008), and how different notions of rurality may be at the fore in rural conflicts (cf. Woods, 1998bWoods, , 2003Woods, , 2008Winther and Svendsen, 2012).…”