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(Re)populating the countryside: (re)producing locality, (re)framing mobilities and (re)shaping imaginaries II 
Convenors:
Andrea Boscoboinik (University of Fribourg)
Hana Horakova (Palacky University Olomouc)
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Format:
Panel
Stream:
MOBILITIES
:
Room K-202
Sessions:
Wednesday 15 June, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

Considering the (re)production of locality as socio-cultural relationships, practices and imaginaries, this panel intends to explore how global forces affect rural locations by (re)shaping social and political arrangements in diverse and unpredictable ways.

Long Abstract:

New ways of living "in the mountains", "in the countryside" or "by the sea" are linked to the recent transformations in human work and mobility. One of the defining aspects of national and international migration in mountain and rural areas is the plurality of motivations behind this decision: love, work, lifestyle, amenity, imaginary, money, health, etc. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic has also shown from the first lockdowns in 2020, the high value of mountain and rural open spaces and the search for a healthier environment considered to be found outside of cities.

Thus, after a period marked by depopulation, the countryside is being repopulated by different figures of migrants and mobile people including second-home owners, high skilled workers, but also labour migrants and seasonal workers. Moreover, the demographic recovery is also a result of increased youth retention and the return of retirees. Altogether, with their different cultural and social backgrounds new and less new inhabitants can be said to find themselves in different "regimes of mobility" (Glick Schiller and Salazar 2013) leading to different positions in global and local social hierarchies.

In this panel, we welcome contributions that consider the repopulation of the countryside through the lenses of imaginaries reshaped and mobilities reframed. Research topics may revolve around various topics: the reproduction of locality; the relationship between centre and periphery; the representation of landscape; different regimes of mobility, among others. The aim is to reveal the diversity in rural repopulation practices and outcomes from anthropological perspectives.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Wednesday 15 June, 2022, -
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