Synopses & Reviews
This collection seeks to uncover the nature and consequences of the 'relational rurals' across European contexts. It calls for a relational turn in rural studies and demonstrates the importance and distinctiveness of rural relationships, processes and dynamics. The volume introduces readers to current thinking about rural, peripheral areas and the challenges faced by organisations and individuals in Europe working in these areas with regard to policy, rural dynamics, development, cooperation, contestation, conflict and associated phenomena, many of which have remained unnoticed, inaccurately conceptualised, or inadequately depicted until now. The book explores the rural-urban divide, institutional cooperation, rural policy challenges and solutions and governing sustainable development.
Synopsis
This collection analyses various European rural locations through a relational lens, attending to key aspects and dimensions of the 'relational rurals' such as cooperation, contestation, solidarity and consensus. By observing rural settings in such terms, contributors are able to rethink European rurality from a distinctly relational perspective.
About the Author
Edward Kasabov is Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Exeter Business School, UK. His academic and practitioner experience is in areas of relationship management, data management, and mass communications. His work has been published in Regional Studies, European Planning Studies, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Forbes, among others.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Exploring the Rural through a Relational Lens; Edward Kasabov1. The Character of Rural Business Relations; Robert Newberry and Gary Bosworth2. Institutional Cooperation and Service Delivery in Rural Ireland; Mary O'Shaughnessy and Patrick Enright3. Cross-Community Cooperation in Post-Socialist Hungarian Rural Space; Eva Fekete4. Class Conflict and Social Change in the British Countryside, 1990-2013: Urban Values Rural Issues; Sue Bestwick5. Performing the Rural through Game-Angling; Tom Mordue6. Reviewing and Renewing Class: The Prospects for a 21st Century Rural Class Analysis; Jesse Heley7. Governing Sustainable Tourism: European Networked Rural Villages; Frank Go, Maria Della Lucia, Mariapina Trunfio and Umberto Martini8. Rural Development Policy in the Framework of the Knowledge-Based Economy: Selective Impacts and Solutions in the Case of the Czech Republic; Martin Pelucha, Eva Cudlinova and Miloslav Lapka9. Processes of Cooperation in Rural Areas: Obstacles, Driving Forces and Options for Encouragement; Kim Pollerman10. Toward a Post-Structuralist and Cultural Turn in Researching Rurality in Poland: A Geographical Perspective; Konrad Czapiewski and Marcin Wójcik11. Re-Thinking Rural Conflict and Cooperation Difficulties; Alex Warlow and Edward KasabovConclusion; Edward Kasabov