Description
Setting out a new, path-breaking research agenda for global rural development, this timely book offers an innovative and embedded rural social science capable of both understanding and enacting progress towards diverse and sustainable pathways. It relocates rural development at the heart of global trends associated with widespread but uneven urbanisation, climate change and severe resource depletion, rising population growth, density and inequality, and global political, economic and health crises.
Chapters collapse traditional binary notions of development as north-south, rural-urban, global-local and traditional modern, embracing a revised conceptualisation of uneven development as a process dependent upon multiple theoretical and conceptual frameworks. It offers potential routes for substantive, interlinked research agendas, including new ruralities, governance, land rights, agro-ecology, financialisation, power relations, family farming, and the role of markets.
Scholars of geography, planning, rural sociology and rural-urban studies looking for a broader understanding of the topic will find this book essential. It will also be beneficial for those engaged in rural development policy and practice.
About the Author
Terry Marsden, Sustainable Places Research Institute, Cardiff University, UK, Claire Lamine, INRAE-Ecodeveloppement, France and Sergio Schneider, Department of Sociology and the Graduate Programs of Sociology and Rural Development, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Reviews
'This book makes an interesting contribution to rural studies, informed by a solid grounding in the history of the discipline. It is surely correct to work toward eroding the division between rural and urban studies and the book provides a good guide to anyone looking for a broad description of the issues facing global development.' -- Selyf Morgan, Eurasian Geography and Economics
'This book makes a significant and valuable contribution to interdisciplinary rural studies. It centres the rural and rurality while breaking down barriers, divides and binaries between the rural and the urban. It identifies key areas of rural research, as well as their relevant debates and bodies of literature, which will be indispensable for anyone interested in researching or working in and on rural spaces and places.' -- Miles Kenney-Lazar, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
'Rural spaces, while still under-threat, also represent sites of incredible experimentation, innovation and resistance. In an era of growing ecological and economic crisis, this book represents a much needed addition to the literature showing rurality as site for contestation and socio-ecological redemption.'
--Michael Carolan, Colorado State University, US
Book Information
ISBN 9781788974189
Author Terry Marsden
Format Hardback
Page Count 256
Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
