Rural Cooperation in Europe [electronic resource] : In Search of the 'Relational Rurals' /
Kasabov, Edward.author.
Kasabov, Edward.
This collection analyses various European rural locations through a relational lens, attending to key aspects and dimensions of the 'relational rurals' such as cooperation, contestation, solidarity and consensus. By observing rural settings in such terms, contributors are able to rethink European rurality from a distinctly relational perspective.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Exploring the Rural through a Relational Lens; Part I: Cooperation in Rural and Peripheral Areas: Conceptual Issues, Approaches, and Challenges; 1 The Character of Rural Business Relations; 2 Institutional Cooperation and Service Delivery in Rural Ireland; 3 Cross-community Cooperation in Post-socialist Hungarian Rural Space; Part II: Challenges to the Rural Idyll: Politics, Class Divisions, and Conflict
4 Class Conflict and Social Change in the British Countryside, 1990-2013: Urban Values, Rural Issues5 Performing the Rural through Game-Angling; 6 Reviewing and Renewing Class: The Prospects for a Twenty-first Century Rural Class Analysis; Part III: Policy Intervention, Solutions, and Lessons for Managing Rural and Peripheral Areas; 7 Governing Sustainable Tourism: European Networked Rural Villages; 8 Rural Development Policy in the Framework of the Knowledge-based Economy: Selective Impacts and Solutions in the Case of the Czech Republic
9 Processes of Cooperation in Rural Areas: Obstacles, Driving Forces, and Options for EncouragementPart IV: Taking Further the Intellectual Debates on Rurality; 10 Towards a Post-structuralist and Cultural Turn in Researching Rurality in Poland: A Geographical Perspective; 11 Re-thinking Rural Conflict, Cooperation Difficulties, and Failure: The Case of Rural Cooperatives; Conclusion; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
This collection analyses various European rural locations through a relational lens, attending to key aspects and dimensions of the 'relational rurals' such as cooperation, contestation, solidarity and consensus. By observing rural settings in such terms, contributors are able to rethink European rurality from a distinctly relational perspective.
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Engineering, general.
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Development Economics.