Wapke Feenstra
Description: RURALIMAGINATIONS is an ERC-funded project on contemporary cultural imaginations of the rural based at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis.
Image: Jakub Różalski , "1920 - before the storm”
“People are very unwilling to let go of these imaginations and that is why they are so often receptive when such ideas are used in a political way.” “That’s central to the project – asking why people are so resistant to different images of the countryside and why there is this denial of the reality of much of rural life?”
Extracts from an interview with Principal Investigator Esther Peeren
Wapke Feenstra