Handbook of Rural Studies
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Handbook of Rural Studies

  1. 528 pages
  2. English
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Handbook of Rural Studies

About this book

`This book raises the theoretical level of rural studies to new heights…the Handbook of Rural Studies will likely become a key resource on the bookshelves of the next generation of graduate students...? - Gary Paul Green, University of Wisconsin-Madison

`This Handbook powerfully demonstrates that rural spaces, rural societies and rural natures are at the very forefront of critical social science endeavour. Read this book, become a rural social scientist? - Henry Buller, University of Exeter

`An outstandingly comprehensive review of theory, research and the study of rural questions…an essential reference for students, scholars, politicians, developers and rural activists? - Imre Kovach, Institute for Political Sciences, Budapest

`This collection is an essential addition to any rural scholar?s library and will be a critical resource for both established rural scholars and rising graduate students interested in rural research topics? - Peter B Nelson, Middlebury College

`The Handbook of Rural Studies is a tour de force on changing rural people and places in a rapidly urbanizing global economy -- the most comprehensive interdisciplinary treatment of "rural" available anywhere. This is absolutely must reading for social scientists concerned about finding a prominent place for "rural" in scholarly discourse, institutional analysis, and public policy debates on the political economy of space? - Daniel T Lichter, Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University

The Handbook represents the vitality and theoretical innovation at work in rural studies. It shows how political economy and the ?cultural turn? have led to very significant new thinking in the cultural representations of: rurality; nature; sustainability; new economies; power and rurality; new consumerism; and exclusion and rurality.

It is organized in three sections: approaches to rural studies; rural research: key theoretical co-ordinates and new rural relations.

In a rich and textured discussion, the Handbook of Rural Studies explains the key moments in which the theorization of culture, nature, politics, agency, and space in rural contexts have transmitted ideas back into wider social science.

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Information

Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd
Year
2006
Print ISBN
9780761973324
eBook ISBN
9781446206942
Edition
1
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Geography
Index
Geography

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Editors and Contributors
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Part I: Approaches to rural studies
  7. Chapter 1 - Pathways in the sociology of rural knowledge
  8. Chapter 2 - Conceptualizing rurality
  9. Chapter 3 - Reconfiguring rural resource governance: the legacy of neo-liberalism in Australia
  10. Chapter 4 - Rural space: constructing a three-fold architecture
  11. Chapter 5 - Rural society
  12. Chapter 6 - Rural economies
  13. Chapter 7 - Rural policy and planning
  14. Part II: Rural research: Key Theoretical Coordinates
  15. A: Cultural representation
  16. Chapter 8 - Landscapes of desires?
  17. Chapter 9 - Idyllic ruralities
  18. Chapter 10 - Variations on the rural idyll
  19. B: Nature
  20. Chapter 11 - Constructing rural natures
  21. Chapter 12 - Networking rurality: emergent complexity in the countryside
  22. Chapter 13 - Non-human rural studies
  23. C: Sustainability
  24. Chapter 14 - The road towards sustainable rural development: issues of theory, policy and practice in a European context
  25. Chapter 15 - Sustaining the unsustainable: agro-food systems and environment in the modern world
  26. Chapter 16 - Social forestry: exploting the social contexts of forests and forestry in rural areas
  27. D: New economies
  28. Chapter 17 - Commodification: re-resourcing rural areas
  29. Chapter 18 - Argicultural production in crisis
  30. Chapter 19 - Neo-endogenous rural development in the EU
  31. E: Power
  32. Chapter 20 - Global capital and the transformation of rural communities
  33. Chapter 21 - Regulating rurality? Rural studies and the regulation approach
  34. Chapter 22 - The state and rural polity
  35. F: New consumerism
  36. Chapter 23 - The rural household as a consumption site
  37. Chapter 24 - Consumption culture: the case of food
  38. Chapter 25 - Tourism, consumption and rurality
  39. G: Identity
  40. Chapter 26 - Gender and sexuality in rural communities
  41. Chapter 27 - Rurality and racialized others: out of place in the countryside?
  42. Chapter 28 - Rural change and the production of otherness: the elderly in New Zealand
  43. H: Exclusion
  44. Chapter 29 - Inclusion/exclusions in rural space
  45. Chapter 30 - Rural poverty
  46. Chapter 31 - Rural housing and homelessness
  47. Part III: New rural relations
  48. Chapter 32 - Rurality and otherness
  49. Chapter 33 - Political articulation: the modalities of new critical politics of rural citizenship
  50. Chapter 34 - New rural social movements and agroecology
  51. Chapter 35 - Performing rurality
  52. Index