The spread of radical-right populist movements across Europe in recent years have been explained from a geographical perspective by a differentiated political behavior in rural areas, rooted in socio-economic differences and a theory of a “revenge of the places that do not matter”. The objective of the article is to contribute to the characterization of the current populist narratives on rurality and potential new rural-urban cleavages. Using the “Narrative Policy Framework”, the article explores two complementary case studies through a qualitative analysis of media pieces. The first case study explores narratives on rurality across the European Union between 2015 and 2019, giving an overview of how rural areas are depicted in policy narratives and the role and potential for discourses rooted in perceptions of “left-behind places.” The second case study explores in depth how the Spanish radical-right party VOX articulates its policy narrative on rurality. The analysis of both cases illustrates the existence of a complex narrative fabric on rurality across rural areas in Europe and how radical-right populism reproduces a narrow concept of rurality, anchored in the idea of abandonment that may be contributing to the creation of a new rural-urban cleavage.

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从英国脱欧到 VOX：关于欧洲农村的民粹主义政策叙述和城乡鸿沟的民粹主义挑战*

近年来，激进的右翼民粹主义运动在欧洲蔓延，从地理角度解释了农村地区不同的政治行为，植根于社会经济差异和“对无关紧要的地方进行报复”的理论. 这篇文章的目的是帮助描述当前关于乡村的民粹主义叙事和潜在的新城乡分裂。使用“叙事政策框架”，本文通过对媒体片段的定性分析探讨了两个互补的案例研究。第一个案例研究探讨了 2015 年至 2019 年间整个欧盟关于农村的叙述，概述了政策叙述中如何描述农村地区，以及植根于“落后地区”观念的话语的作用和潜力。” 第二个案例研究深入探讨了西班牙激进右翼政党 VOX 如何阐明其关于农村的政策叙述。对这两个案例的分析表明，欧洲农村地区存在着复杂的农村叙事结构，以及激进右翼民粹主义如何再现狭隘的农村概念，这种概念植根于可能有助于创造新农村的遗弃观念-城市分裂。