Handbook of Rural Studies

Editor/Author Cloke, Paul, Marsden, Terry and Mooney, Patrick
Publication Year: 2006
Publisher: Sage UK

Single-User Purchase Price: $176.00
Unlimited-User Purchase Price: $264.00
ISBN: 978-0-7619-7332-4
Category: Social Sciences - Sociology
Image Count: 15
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents

The Handbook of Rural Studies represents the vitality and theoretical innovation at work in rural studies.

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Table of Contents

  • List of Editors and Contributors
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • PART 1 Approaches to Rural Studies
  • 1 Pathways in the Sociology of Rural Knowledge - Terry Marsden
  • 2 Conceptualizing Rurality - Paul Cloke
  • 3 Reconfiguring Rural Resource Governance: The Legacy of Neo-Liberalism in Australia - Stewart Lockie, Geoffrey Lawrence, Lynda Cheshire
  • 4 Rural Space: Constructing a Three-Fold Architecture - Keith Halfacree
  • 5 Rural Society - Ruth Panelli
  • 6 Rural Economies - Matteo B. Marini, Patrick H. Mooney
  • 7 Rural Policy and Planning - Mark B. Lapping
  • PART 2 Rural Research: Key Theoretical Coordinates
  • A Cultural Representation
  • 8 Landscapes of Desires? - E. Melanie DuPuis
  • 9 Idyllic Ruralities - Brian Short
  • 10 Variations on the Rural Idyll - David Bell
  • B Nature
  • 11 Constructing Rural Natures - Noel Castree, Bruce Braun
  • 12 Networking Rurality: Emergent Complexity in the Countryside - Jonathan Murdoch
  • 13 Non-Human Rural Studies - Owain Jones
  • C Sustainability
  • 14 The Road towards Sustainable Rural Development: Issues of Theory, Policy and Practice in a European Context - Terry Marsden
  • 15 Sustaining the Unsustainable: Agro-Food Systems and Environment in the Modern World - Frederick H. Buttel
  • 16 Social Forestry: Exploring the Social Contexts of Forests and Forestry in Rural Areas - Paul Milbourne, Lawrence Kitchen, Kieron Stanley
  • D New Economies
  • 17 Commodification: Re-Resourcing Rural Areas - Harvey C. Perkins
  • 18 Agricultural Production in Crisis - Jan Douwe van der Ploeg
  • 19 Neo-Endogenous Rural Development in the EU - Christopher Ray
  • E Power
  • 20 Global Capital and the Transformation of Rural Communities - Thomas A. Lyson
  • 21 Regulating Rurality? Rural Studies and the Regulation Approach - Mark Goodwin
  • 22 The State and Rural Polity - Alessandro Bonanno
  • F New Consumerism
  • 23 The Rural Household as a Consumption Site - Sonya Salamon
  • 24 Consumption Culture: The Case of Food - Mara Miele
  • 25 Tourism, Consumption and Rurality - David Crouch
  • G Identity
  • 26 Gender and Sexuality in Rural Communities - Jo Little
  • 27 Rurality and Racialized others: Out of Place in the Countryside - Paul Cloke
  • 28 Rural Change and the Production of otherness: The Elderly in New Zealand - A.I. (Lex) Chalmers, Alun E. Joseph
  • H Exclusion
  • 29 Inclusions/Exclusions in Rural Space - David Sibley
  • 30 Rural Poverty - Ann R. Tickamyer
  • 31 Rural Housing and Homelessness - Paul Milbourne
  • PART 3 New Rural Relations
  • 32 Rurality and otherness - Paul Cloke
  • 33 Political Articulation: The Modalities of New Critical Politics of Rural Citizenship - Michael Woods
  • 34 New Rural Social Movements and Agroecology - Eduardo Sevilla Guzmán, Joan Martinez-Alier
  • 35 Performing Rurality - Tim Edensor