Rural studies have highlighted a rural idyll as something to which many aspire, perhaps as a
vision of a good place to live or as a repository of values. But harking back to an imagined …

The division of 'rural'and 'urban'is one of the oldest ideas in Geography and is deeply
engrained in our culture. Throughout history, the rural has been attributed with many …

Research on the intermediate space or interface where rural and urban boundaries become
blurred has been gaining momentum within geography and other intersecting fields. In …

What is the role of the state in promoting sustainable rural communities? Only a few years
ago any discussion of this question would have alluded to the concept of integrated rural …

An integrated, community-based perspective of “rural planning” is slowly emerging, and
other fields, such as rural development, are showing interest. This review of over 240 …

The influence of neoliberalism on culture and subjectivity is well documented. This paper
contributes to understanding of how neoliberal ideology enters into the production of …

The LEADER approach has been at the heart of E uropean rural development policy for the
last 20 years, encompassing the principles of bottom‐up endogenous development and …

An Introduction to Political Geography continues to provide a broad-based introduction to
contemporary political geography for students following undergraduate degree courses in …

Although increasingly prominent in research, policy and practice, little is known about social
innovation in a rural context. To address this knowledge gap, our paper explores how …

The issue of socio-economic well-being in resource-dependent communities has been one
of ongoing interest for geographers, rural sociologists and economists. While much research …