Screen LibraryRural cooperation in Europe : in search of the 'relational rurals' /
"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...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"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"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xx, 291 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781137348883 1137348887 |
| Index Number: | HN380 |
| CLC: | F350.3 |
| Call Number: | F350.3/R948 |
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Introduction: Exploring the Rural through a Relational Lens / The Character of Rural Business Relations / Institutional Cooperation and Service Delivery in Rural Ireland / Cross-Community Cooperation in Post-socialist Hungarian Rural Space / Class Conflict and Social Change in the British Countryside, 1990-2013: Urban Values Rural Issues / Performing the Rural through Game-Angling / Reviewing and Renewing Class: The Prospects for a Twenty-first Century Rural Class Analysis / Governing Sustainable Tourism: European Networked Rural Villages / Rural Development Policy in the Framework of the Knowledge-based Economy: Selective Impacts and Solutions in the Case of the Czech Republic / Processes of Cooperation in Rural Areas: Obstacles, Driving Forces and Options for Encouragement / Toward a Post-structuralist and Cultural Turn in Researching Rurality in Poland: A Geographical Perspective / Re-thinking Rural Conflict, Cooperation Difficulties and Failure: The Case of Rural Cooperatives / Conclusion / |