Was there a rural rebellion? Labour and the countryside vote in the 2001 general election

Sociology of Rural Life

“…The following chapters address substantive rural issues and the literature in these fields draw in new authors making innovative developments in rural geography. For example, in the work of Jo Little, we can see important attention being paid to the neglect of the role of women in the rural economy (Little 2003a) and, in Michael Woods's recent publications, important political questions have been raised about new social movements in the countryside and the mobilisation of traditionally disparate interest groups (Woods, M. 2002(Woods, M. , 2003. Methodologically, Martin Phillips and, in the US, Douglas Harper have contributed to the establishment of the visual sociology analytical technique in the rural arena (Harper 2001.…”

“…The 'message' underpinning the broadening of the Countryside Alliance's rhetoric towards a more generalist protection of the countryside has replaced the single-issue focus on hunting of previous rallies (Woods, M. 2002(Woods, M. , 2003. It offered a different approach to those undertaken by Rising red tape/bureaucracy -the thin end of the wedge -shooting and fishing next Milbourne (2003a, b) and Cox et al (1994) in that non-traditional forms of data (the Web and printed media) were used as a resource.…”