What does the proliferation of food festival tell us about rural areas? How can these celebrations pave the way to a better future for the local communities? This book is addressing these questions contributing to the ongoing debate about the future of rural peripheries in Europe. The volume is...

Chapter 1: Introduction: Rural marginality and its development -- Chapter 2: Food festivals and the Italian foodscape -- Chapter 3: Food festivals as identity devices -- Chapter 4: Food festivals as political devices -- Chapter 5: Food festivals as economic devices -- Chapter 6: Conclusions:...

This paper examines how the introduction of the Fiscal Decentralization (FD) at the turn of the Century that offered greater freedom in local governance affected grassroots politics and local development in Indonesia. We find that socio-culturally homogenous communities are more likely to...