New Directions in Rural Studies

Sam Hillyard teaches and researches in the field of rural sociology at the University of Lincoln, UK. She is an ethnographer and micro sociologist and has published in the journals Qualitative Research, Symbolic Interactionism, the Journal of Rural Studies, Social and Cultural Geography, and Discover Society.

• 1. Introduction and overview.- 2. Country life and current rural scholarship.- 3. Gardening: a subject in search of a discipline?.- 4. Countrysports under scrutiny.  The future of game shooting in the UK.- 5. Rural ‘deep end’ communities.  A case study of Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire: between rock and a hard place.- 6. Conclusion.