Handbook of Rural Studies

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

"This book captures the vitality and theoretical innovation at work in the field. It explains new 'theorizations' of rural life, landscape, and work and leisure over the last 10 years. The three main sections are devoted to: key approaches to the sociology of rural knowledge, spatial, social, economic, resources, planning, key theoretical coordinates in survey of the state of the area, and 'new ruralities,' new formulations of rural citizenship and social movements." -- APADE "The Handbook of Rural Studies attempts to address that question by bringing together scholars from both sides of the Atlantic to consider key approaches, theoretical developments, and contemporary conditions in rural communities. The editors contend there is revival afoot, and their aim is to convey what they see as new intellectual excitement and heightened relevance of rural studies. The 35 diverse essays include work by scholars trained in sociology, geography, planning, economics, psychology, tourism management, and development. One of the clear strengths of the book is its broad, even eclectic, approach. The stronger chapters include well-written, thoughtful introductory road maps to their argument, review the relevant literature to date, and assess what it adds up to for the field or a particular subfield. These authors bring a rural lens to key contemporary concerns about issues such as racial, gender, and class inequality, politics, environmental degradation, and new community and regional development efforts." -- Chris R. Colocousis and Cynthia M. Duncan * Journal of Regional Science * "SAGE Handbooks set a standard amongst compendia for fields within the social sciences...The book is well produced and includes an excellent index..one that will prove useful to graduate students..." -- Paul B. Thompson * Agriculture and Human Values *