New rurality or Restanza? Representations of the rural, narratives of personal transformation, and the role of the rural in contemporary qualitative research on counterurbanization

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Korandei F. S. New rurality or restanza? Representations of the rural, narratives of personal transformation, and the role of the rural in contemporary qualitative research on counterurbanization // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2026. V.11. №3. P. 284-301.

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Review of the books: Melnikova Е., Kuprijanov P., Lure M. (Eds.) (2025). The Village as a Value: Ideologies and Practices of the New Rurality. Moscow: Khamovniki Foundation for Social Research; Common Place. Teti V. (2024).The Awakening of the Dragon. Cavallerizzo: The Village as a World between Abandonment and Reconstruction. Rome: Donzelli.

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Fedor S. Korandei, PhD (History), Senior Researcher, Center for Urban Studies, Tyumen State University. Volodarskogo St., 6, Tyumen, 625003, Russia.
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Submitted: Monday, 02 March 2026
Reviewed: Monday, 06 April 2026
Copyright: © Auhtors, 2026
Distribution: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

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Russian Peasant Studies

Peer-reviewed interdisciplinary academic journal in the field of theoretical and empirical peasant studies, rural sociology, economics and social geography. The journal publishes original works on the issues of socio-economic development of agricultural regions of Russia and the world, the history of the peasantry, including its formation and evolution, particularly from philosophical and cultural studies viewpoints. The journal aims at exploring the paths of Russian and international rural development and supporting cooperation of agrarian researchers representing different scientific disciplines. Read more>