RURAL AUTOETHNOGRAPHIES AS SITES OF...

RURAL AUTOETHNOGRAPHIES AS SITES OF MEMORY

France is now a predominantly industrial nation, part of the growing European Union, and has a highly small percentage of its population engaged in full-time farming. Les than 5 percent of the French population today are farmers. This is also a period in which Paris and its nearby region are losing population while several rural regions are gaining inhabitants--due primarily to the resettlement of urbanites (neorurals) to the countryside, and the stabilization of rural disclosed migration. The late twentieth and early twenty-first hundred in ...