Rural Gentrification, Creative Class, and Urban-Rural Mobility

This chapter provides a critical review of the relevant literature in order to structure a theoretical and contextual background for the following empirical chapters and their detailing of how RTMs consume and produce the rural villages. As RTMs and their practices do not sit easily within existing research framework of rural gentrification, understanding this topic and answering the research questions involves reviewing existing literature on three related areas: rural gentrification, the creative class, and urban–rural mobility.