Description:
Mieres Reborn is a compelling ethnographic account of how the small Catalan village of Mieres transformed itself in the wake of dictatorship, economic change, and demographic upheaval. Drawing on more than thirty years of immersive fieldwork, A. F. Robertson traces how families, neighbors, and local leaders revitalized a community once thought destined to disappear. Through carefully observed stories of work, kinship, migration, and cultural renewal, Robertson reveals how rural societies reinvent themselves in response to modern pressures. At once intimate and analytical, Mieres Reborn illuminates the broader dynamics of rural development, identity formation, and social resilience in contemporary Spain.
Review Quotes:
"Mieres Reborn is quite a remarkable and subtle portrait, intimately presented, of village life in Mieres. It is gracefully written."--James C. Scott, author of Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance