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Mieres Reborn - The Reinvention of a Catalan Community (Paperback)
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Mieres Reborn - The Reinvention of a Catalan Community (Paperback)
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Mieres Reborn reveals how patient observation and an analysis of
one small community have much to tell us about human progress more
generally. Not long ago Mieres, a village in the eastern foothills
of the Pyrenees, seemed destined to die. As in countless thousands
of rural communities around the world, young people in Mieres over
the years have moved to the towns and cities, leaving behind
abandoned fields and meadows, derelict houses, and their aging and
disconsolate parents and grandparents. Close observation of this
social microcosm over two decades reveals the capacity of ordinary
people in a locality to reinvent themselves, reconstruct
relationships with the wider world, and confront new threats to
their collective survival. A. F. Robertson describes how the
determination that Mieres should survive is most evident in a
vigorous round of fiestas, fairs, and other public events in which
natives, exiles, and newcomers work to create a lively sense of
belonging. Since the 1980s, Mieres has been enlivened by a reverse
flow of migrants from the cities, new settlers who have brought an
infusion of youth to the community, devised new livelihoods,
revitalized the village school, energized the native
”Mierencs,” and provided the impetus for a rediscovery of
historical roots and political identity. The regeneration of life
in the countryside, in part a reaction to urban expansion and
decay, is a global phenomenon of increasing political, economic,
and social significance.
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