Joanie Willett is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Exeter.

This is an excellent book, theoretically sound and featuring fascinating case studies. Willett looks comparatively at two regions across the UK and the USA, to construct a rural development model and critique existing approaches within a wider political context.

• Chapter 1. Why the Need for the Complex Adaptive Region Assemblage?Chapter 2. The Affective AssemblageChapter 3. The Evolutionary Regional Assemblage, Becoming and EconomiesChapter 4. South West Virginia and Cornwall: Constructing the Complex Adaptive Regional-AssemblageChapter 5. South West VirginiaChapter 6. CornwallChapter 7. What Do We See? Spaces of Possibility in Southwest Virginia and CornwallChapter 8. ConclusionReferences

Joanie Willett is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Exeter.

This is an excellent book, theoretically sound and featuring fascinating case studies. Willett looks comparatively at two regions across the UK and the USA, to construct a rural development model and critique existing approaches within a wider political context.

• Chapter 1. Why the Need for the Complex Adaptive Region Assemblage?Chapter 2. The Affective AssemblageChapter 3. The Evolutionary Regional Assemblage, Becoming and EconomiesChapter 4. South West Virginia and Cornwall: Constructing the Complex Adaptive Regional-AssemblageChapter 5. South West VirginiaChapter 6. CornwallChapter 7. What Do We See? Spaces of Possibility in Southwest Virginia and CornwallChapter 8. ConclusionReferences

Joanie Willett is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Exeter.

This is an excellent book, theoretically sound and featuring fascinating case studies. Willett looks comparatively at two regions across the UK and the USA, to construct a rural development model and critique existing approaches within a wider political context.

• Chapter 1. Why the Need for the Complex Adaptive Region Assemblage?Chapter 2. The Affective AssemblageChapter 3. The Evolutionary Regional Assemblage, Becoming and EconomiesChapter 4. South West Virginia and Cornwall: Constructing the Complex Adaptive Regional-AssemblageChapter 5. South West VirginiaChapter 6. CornwallChapter 7. What Do We See? Spaces of Possibility in Southwest Virginia and CornwallChapter 8. ConclusionReferences