From Ambridge to the world? Class returns to rural population geographies. Issue 1 (March 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Halfacree, Keith
• Is Part Of: Dialogues in human geography. Volume 8:Issue 1(2018)
• Page Start: 26
• Page End: 30
• Publication Date: 2018-03
• Subjects: class -- counterurbanization -- language -- rural gentrification; Human geography -- Periodicals; Human ecology -- Periodicals; Environmental ethics -- Periodicals; 304.205
• DOI: 10.1177/2043820617752003
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2043-8206

Abstract

Smith and Phillips make a powerful case both for investigating rural population change within much of the Global North from a class-foregrounded gentrification perspective and for undertaking this investigation in an internationally comparative manner. Neither aspect has been sufficiently developed within scholarship to date. While endorsing such a call, this commentary briefly presents three additional contextual framings: describing and explaining the very late coming of age of explicit 'rural gentrification' research; reiterating the challenge that geographical transferability of concepts and terminology presents; and insisting on the central but not exclusive role class must play within critical discourse on populations in the contemporary countryside.