`This book raises the theoretical level of rural studies to new heightsAthe 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 questionsAan 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 scholars 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 UniversityThe 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.
PART ONE: APPROACHES TO RURAL STUDIES Pathways in the Sociology of Rural Knowledge - Terry Marsden Conceptualizing Rurality - Paul Cloke Reconfiguring Rural Resource Governance - Stewart Lockie, Geoffrey Lawrence and Lynda Cheshire The Legacy of Neo-Liberalism in Australia Rural Space - Keith Halfacree Constructing a Three-Fold Architecture Rural Society - Ruth Panelli Rural Economies - Matteo B Marini and Patrick H Mooney Rural Policy and Planning - Mark B Lapping PART TWO: RURAL RESEARCH: KEY THEORETICAL COORDINATES A Cultural Representation Landscapes of Desires? - E Melanie DuPuis Idyllic Ruralities - Brian Short Variations on the Rural Idyll - David Bell Constructing Rural Natures - 03S NatureNoel Castree and Bruce Braun Networking Rurality - Jonathan Murdoch Emergent Complexity in the Countryside Non-Human Rural Studies - Owain Jones Sustainability The Road Towards Sustainable Rural Development - Terry Marsden Issues of Theory, Policy and Practice in a European Context Sustaining the Unsustainable - Frederick H Buttel Agro-Food Systems and Environment in the Modern World Social Forestry - Paul Milbourne, Lawrence Kitchen and Kieron Stanley Exploring the Social Contexts of Forests and Forestry in Rural Areas New Economies Commodification - Harvey C Perkins Re-Resourcing Rural Areas Agricultural Production in Crisis - Jan Douwe van der Ploeg Neo-Endogenous Rural Development in the EU - Christopher Ray Power Global Capital and the Transformation of Rural Communities - Thomas A Lyson Regulating Rurality? Rural Studies and the Regulation Approach - Mark Goodwin The State and Rural Polity - Alessandro Bonanno New Consumerism The Rural Household as a Consumption Site - Sonya Salamon Consumption Culture - Mara Miele The Case of Food Tourism, Consumption and Rurality - David Crouch Identity Gender and Sexuality in Rural Communities - Jo Little Rurality and Racialized Others - Paul Cloke Out of Place in the Countryside Rural Change and the Production of Otherness - A I (Lex) Chalmers and Alun E Joseph The Elderly in New Zealand Exclusion Inclusions/Exclusions in Rural Space - David Sibley Rural Poverty - Ann R Tickamyer Rural Housing and Homelessness - Paul Milbourne PART THREE: NEW RURAL RELATIONS Rurality and Otherness - Paul Cloke Political Articulation - Michael Woods The Modalities of New Critical Politics of Rural Citizenship New Rural Social Movements and Agroecology - Eduardo Sevilla Guzman and Joan Martinez-Alier Performing Rurality - Tim Edensor
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