Paul J Cloke & Terry Marsden 
Handbook of Rural Studies 

`This book raises the theoretical level of rural studies to new heights…the Handbook of Rural Studies will likely become a key resource on the bookshelves of the next generation of graduate students…′
– Gary Paul Green, University of Wisconsin-Madison

`This Handbook powerfully demonstrates that rural spaces, rural societies and rural natures are at the very forefront of critical social science endeavour. Read this book, become a rural social scientist′ – Henry Buller, University of Exeter

`An outstandingly comprehensive review of theory, research and the study of rural questions…an essential reference for students, scholars, politicians, developers and rural activists′ – Imre Kovach, Institute for Political Sciences, Budapest

`This collection is an essential addition to any rural scholar′s library and will be a critical resource for both established rural scholars and rising graduate students interested in rural research topics′ – Peter B Nelson, Middlebury College

`The Handbook of Rural Studies is a tour de force on changing rural people and places in a rapidly urbanizing global economy — the most comprehensive interdisciplinary treatment of ‚rural‘ available anywhere. This is absolutely must reading for social scientists concerned about finding a prominent place for ‚rural‘ in scholarly discourse, institutional analysis, and public policy debates on the political economy of space′ – Daniel T Lichter, Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University

The Handbook represents the vitality and theoretical innovation at work in rural studies. It shows how political economy and the ′cultural turn′ have led to very significant new thinking in the cultural representations of: rurality; nature; sustainability; new economies; power and rurality; new consumerism; and exclusion and rurality.

It is organized in three sections: approaches to rural studies; rural research: key theoretical co-ordinates and new rural relations.

In a rich and textured discussion, the Handbook of Rural Studies explains the key moments in which the theorization of culture, nature, politics, agency, and space in rural contexts have transmitted ideas back into wider social science.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Du Puis

Idyllic Ruralities – Brian Short

Variations on the Rural Idyll – David Bell

Constructing Rural Natures – 03S Nature Noel 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 Guzmán and Joan Martinez-Alier

Performing Rurality – Tim Edensor