Chapter 3 Rural Spain : Social Landscapes at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century

Abstract

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain charts the key ideas, practices and imaginings that characterize Spain’s cultural, historical, social and political history in the contemporary period. The volume brings together internationally acknowledged scholars from around the globe and from diverse disciplines, from cinema and sociology, to sociolingusitics, politics and history, as well as various other cultural studies approaches. It offers an integrated multi-disciplinary volume that provides a more complete and nuanced multi-perspective assessment of modern and contemporary Spanish culture, with a special emphasis on recent decades. This interdisciplinary and thematically organized Companion includes essays on literature and art, history, politics, religion, economics, linguistics and visual culture and covers an extensive period of time, with a focus on key events. The volume explores cutting-edge areas and engages with current debates, controversies and questions in the field of Hispanic studies. Offering a nuanced, multi-disciplinary assessment of modern and contemporary Spanish culture through a dichotomic organizing principle, The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain is an expansive resource which will be of interest to students and scholars of Hispanic studies, and those with a particular interest in Spanish history, politics and culture.