Handbook of rural studies / edited by Paul Cloke, Terry Marsden and Patrick Mooney.
Material type: TextPublisher: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2006Description: xii, 511 p. ill. 25 cmISBN: 076197332X (hbk.)Other title: Rural studiesSubject(s): Sociology, Rural | Rural geography | Rural development | Land use, RuralDDC classification: 307.72 LOC classification: HT409.H36 | Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents onlyItem type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA - MAIN LIBRARY General Stacks | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA - MAIN LIBRARY | HT409.H36 (Browse shelf) | 1329/12 | Available | 1928/12 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Pathways in the sociology of rural knowledge -- Conceptualizing rurality -- Reconfiguring rural resource governance: the legacy of neo-libearalism in Australia -- Rural space: constructing a three-fold architecture -- Rural society -- Rural economies -- Rural policy and planning -- Landscapes of desires? -- Idyllic ruralities -- Variations on the rural idyll -- Constructing rural natures -- Networking rurality: emergent complexity in the countryside -- Non-human rural studies -- The Road towards sustainable rural development: issues of theory, policy and prctice in a European context -- Sustaining the unsustainable: agro-food systems and environment in the modern world -- Social forestry: exploring the social contexts of forests and forestry in rural areas -- Commodification: re-sourcing rural areas -- Agricultural production in crisis -- Neo-endogenous rural development in the EU -- Global capital and the transformation of rural communities -- Regulating rurality: rural studies and the regulation approach -- The State and rural polity -- The Rural household as a comsumption site -- Consumption culture: the case of food -- Tourism, consumption and rurality -- Gender and sexuality in rural communities -- Rurality and racialized others: out of place in the countryside -- Rural change and the production of otherness: the elderly in New Zealand -- Inclusions/exclusions in rural space -- Rural poverty -- Rural housing and homelessness -- Rurality and otherness -- Political articulation: the modalities of new critical politics of rural citizenship -- New rural social movements and agroecology -- Performing rurality.
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