"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."

• PART ONE: APPROACHES TO RURAL STUDIESPathways in the Sociology of Rural Knowledge - Terry MarsdenConceptualizing Rurality - Paul ClokeReconfiguring Rural Resource Governance - Stewart Lockie, Geoffrey Lawrence and Lynda CheshireThe Legacy of Neo-Liberalism in AustraliaRural Space - Keith HalfacreeConstructing a Three-Fold ArchitectureRural Society - Ruth PanelliRural Economies - Matteo B Marini and Patrick H MooneyRural Policy and Planning - Mark B LappingPART TWO: RURAL RESEARCH: KEY THEORETICAL COORDINATESA Cultural RepresentationLandscapes of Desires? - E Melanie DuPuisIdyllic Ruralities - Brian ShortVariations on the Rural Idyll - David BellConstructing Rural Natures - 03S NatureNoel Castree and Bruce BraunNetworking Rurality - Jonathan MurdochEmergent Complexity in the CountrysideNon-Human Rural Studies - Owain JonesSustainabilityThe Road Towards Sustainable Rural Development - Terry MarsdenIssues of Theory, Policy and Practice in a European ContextSustaining the Unsustainable - Frederick H ButtelAgro-Food Systems and Environment in the Modern WorldSocial Forestry - Paul Milbourne, Lawrence Kitchen and Kieron StanleyExploring the Social Contexts of Forests and Forestry in Rural AreasNew EconomiesCommodification - Harvey C PerkinsRe-Resourcing Rural AreasAgricultural Production in Crisis - Jan Douwe van der PloegNeo-Endogenous Rural Development in the EU - Christopher RayPowerGlobal Capital and the Transformation of Rural Communities - Thomas A LysonRegulating Rurality? Rural Studies and the Regulation Approach - Mark GoodwinThe State and Rural Polity - Alessandro Bonanno New ConsumerismThe Rural Household as a Consumption Site - Sonya SalamonConsumption Culture - Mara MieleThe Case of FoodTourism, Consumption and Rurality - David CrouchIdentityGender and Sexuality in Rural Communities - Jo LittleRurality and Racialized Others - Paul ClokeOut of Place in the CountrysideRural Change and the Production of Otherness - A I (Lex) Chalmers and Alun E JosephThe Elderly in New ZealandExclusionInclusions/Exclusions in Rural Space - David SibleyRural Poverty - Ann R TickamyerRural Housing and Homelessness - Paul MilbournePART THREE: NEW RURAL RELATIONSRurality and Otherness - Paul ClokePolitical Articulation - Michael WoodsThe Modalities of New Critical Politics of Rural CitizenshipNew Rural Social Movements and Agroecology - Eduardo Sevilla Guzmán and Joan Martinez-AlierPerforming 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."

• PART ONE: APPROACHES TO RURAL STUDIESPathways in the Sociology of Rural Knowledge - Terry MarsdenConceptualizing Rurality - Paul ClokeReconfiguring Rural Resource Governance - Stewart Lockie, Geoffrey Lawrence and Lynda CheshireThe Legacy of Neo-Liberalism in AustraliaRural Space - Keith HalfacreeConstructing a Three-Fold ArchitectureRural Society - Ruth PanelliRural Economies - Matteo B Marini and Patrick H MooneyRural Policy and Planning - Mark B LappingPART TWO: RURAL RESEARCH: KEY THEORETICAL COORDINATESA Cultural RepresentationLandscapes of Desires? - E Melanie DuPuisIdyllic Ruralities - Brian ShortVariations on the Rural Idyll - David BellConstructing Rural Natures - 03S NatureNoel Castree and Bruce BraunNetworking Rurality - Jonathan MurdochEmergent Complexity in the CountrysideNon-Human Rural Studies - Owain JonesSustainabilityThe Road Towards Sustainable Rural Development - Terry MarsdenIssues of Theory, Policy and Practice in a European ContextSustaining the Unsustainable - Frederick H ButtelAgro-Food Systems and Environment in the Modern WorldSocial Forestry - Paul Milbourne, Lawrence Kitchen and Kieron StanleyExploring the Social Contexts of Forests and Forestry in Rural AreasNew EconomiesCommodification - Harvey C PerkinsRe-Resourcing Rural AreasAgricultural Production in Crisis - Jan Douwe van der PloegNeo-Endogenous Rural Development in the EU - Christopher RayPowerGlobal Capital and the Transformation of Rural Communities - Thomas A LysonRegulating Rurality? Rural Studies and the Regulation Approach - Mark GoodwinThe State and Rural Polity - Alessandro Bonanno New ConsumerismThe Rural Household as a Consumption Site - Sonya SalamonConsumption Culture - Mara MieleThe Case of FoodTourism, Consumption and Rurality - David CrouchIdentityGender and Sexuality in Rural Communities - Jo LittleRurality and Racialized Others - Paul ClokeOut of Place in the CountrysideRural Change and the Production of Otherness - A I (Lex) Chalmers and Alun E JosephThe Elderly in New ZealandExclusionInclusions/Exclusions in Rural Space - David SibleyRural Poverty - Ann R TickamyerRural Housing and Homelessness - Paul MilbournePART THREE: NEW RURAL RELATIONSRurality and Otherness - Paul ClokePolitical Articulation - Michael WoodsThe Modalities of New Critical Politics of Rural CitizenshipNew Rural Social Movements and Agroecology - Eduardo Sevilla Guzmán and Joan Martinez-AlierPerforming 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."

• PART ONE: APPROACHES TO RURAL STUDIESPathways in the Sociology of Rural Knowledge - Terry MarsdenConceptualizing Rurality - Paul ClokeReconfiguring Rural Resource Governance - Stewart Lockie, Geoffrey Lawrence and Lynda CheshireThe Legacy of Neo-Liberalism in AustraliaRural Space - Keith HalfacreeConstructing a Three-Fold ArchitectureRural Society - Ruth PanelliRural Economies - Matteo B Marini and Patrick H MooneyRural Policy and Planning - Mark B LappingPART TWO: RURAL RESEARCH: KEY THEORETICAL COORDINATESA Cultural RepresentationLandscapes of Desires? - E Melanie DuPuisIdyllic Ruralities - Brian ShortVariations on the Rural Idyll - David BellConstructing Rural Natures - 03S NatureNoel Castree and Bruce BraunNetworking Rurality - Jonathan MurdochEmergent Complexity in the CountrysideNon-Human Rural Studies - Owain JonesSustainabilityThe Road Towards Sustainable Rural Development - Terry MarsdenIssues of Theory, Policy and Practice in a European ContextSustaining the Unsustainable - Frederick H ButtelAgro-Food Systems and Environment in the Modern WorldSocial Forestry - Paul Milbourne, Lawrence Kitchen and Kieron StanleyExploring the Social Contexts of Forests and Forestry in Rural AreasNew EconomiesCommodification - Harvey C PerkinsRe-Resourcing Rural AreasAgricultural Production in Crisis - Jan Douwe van der PloegNeo-Endogenous Rural Development in the EU - Christopher RayPowerGlobal Capital and the Transformation of Rural Communities - Thomas A LysonRegulating Rurality? Rural Studies and the Regulation Approach - Mark GoodwinThe State and Rural Polity - Alessandro Bonanno New ConsumerismThe Rural Household as a Consumption Site - Sonya SalamonConsumption Culture - Mara MieleThe Case of FoodTourism, Consumption and Rurality - David CrouchIdentityGender and Sexuality in Rural Communities - Jo LittleRurality and Racialized Others - Paul ClokeOut of Place in the CountrysideRural Change and the Production of Otherness - A I (Lex) Chalmers and Alun E JosephThe Elderly in New ZealandExclusionInclusions/Exclusions in Rural Space - David SibleyRural Poverty - Ann R TickamyerRural Housing and Homelessness - Paul MilbournePART THREE: NEW RURAL RELATIONSRurality and Otherness - Paul ClokePolitical Articulation - Michael WoodsThe Modalities of New Critical Politics of Rural CitizenshipNew Rural Social Movements and Agroecology - Eduardo Sevilla Guzmán and Joan Martinez-AlierPerforming Rurality - Tim Edensor