Rural cooperation in Europe
Subtitle: in search of the 'relational rurals'
By: [edited by] Edward Kasabov
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9781137348883
Subjects: Rural development; Rural-urban relations; Cooperation; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies
Description: "This collection seeks to uncover the nature and consequences of the 'relational rurals' across European contexts. It calls for a relational turn in rural studies and demonstrates the importance and distinctiveness of rural relationships, processes and dynamics. The volume introduces readers to current thinking about rural, peripheral areas and the challenges faced by organisations and individuals in Europe working in these areas with regard to policy, rural dynamics, development, cooperation, contestation, conflict and associated phenomena, many of which have remained unnoticed, inaccurately conceptualised, or inadequately depicted until now. The book explores the rural-urban divide, institutional cooperation, rural policy challenges and solutions and governing sustainable development"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction: Exploring the Rural through a Relational Lens; Edward Kasabov1. The Character of Rural Business Relations; Robert Newberry and Gary Bosworth2. Institutional Cooperation and Service Delivery in Rural Ireland; Mary O'Shaughnessy and Patrick Enright3. Cross-Community Cooperation in Post-Socialist Hungarian Rural Space; Eva Fekete4. Class Conflict and Social Change in the British Countryside, 1990-2013: Urban Values Rural Issues; Sue Bestwick5. Performing the Rural through Game-Angling; Tom Mordue6. Reviewing and Renewing Class: The Prospects for a 21st Century Rural Class Analysis; Jesse Heley7. Governing Sustainable Tourism: European Networked Rural Villages; Frank Go, Maria Della Lucia, Mariapina Trunfio and Umberto Martini8. Rural Development Policy in the Framework of the Knowledge-Based Economy: Selective Impacts and Solutions in the Case of the Czech Republic; Martin Pelucha, Eva Cudlinova and Miloslav Lapka9. Processes of Cooperation in Rural Areas: Obstacles, Driving Forces and Options for Encouragement; Kim Pollerman10. Toward a Post-Structuralist and Cultural Turn in Researching Rurality in Poland: A Geographical Perspective; Konrad Czapiewski and Marcin Wójcik. 11. Re-Thinking Rural Conflict and Cooperation Difficulties; Alex Warlow and Edward KasabovConclusion; Edward Kasabov.