City and countryside in the imagining of nations

Jonathan Hearn

doi:10.4324/9781003091714

City and countryside in the imagining of nations

Jonathan Hearn

School of Social and Political Science

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The results of recent US Presidential elections and the UK Brexit referendum reveal a deeply polarised politics along a rural–urban axis, with “left” parties dominating in cities, and “right” parties dominating the countryside. This polarised populism marks a change in the context of nation building. In liberal democracies, routinised contestation over national values and identities constantly drives nation building. This chapter analyses a shift, around 1970, between a phase of “classic nation building” associated with the rise of the modern, centralised bureaucratic state, and one of “nation deconstructing” associated with recent neoliberalism and globalisation. The former attended to the rural–urban relationship in imagining the nation, while in the latter the urban has tended to eclipse the rural, weakening national integration.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Politics and Policies of Rural Authenticity
Editors	Pavel Pospěch, Eirik Magnus Fuglestad, Elisabete Figueiredo
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	2
Number of pages	12
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9781003091714
ISBN (Print)	9780367550448
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003091714
Publication status	Published - 30 Sep 2021

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Name	Perspectives on Rural Policy and Planning
Publisher	Routledge

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