Rural Studies

This collection includes twelve review articles on rural politics in China, focusing on intellectual debates about the status and future of the peasantry, everyday practices of governance, forms of contentious politics, the mutual constitution of the rural and urban, and a range of environmental iss..

The book stresses the processes which underlie rural settlement structure and, consistent with its geographical bias, the functional and cultural foundations of settled landscapes. While the main emphasis is on Europe and North America, the diversity of expression of general trends in rural settleme..

This book examines and compares the transformation of rural society and economy in the US and UK during the last half-century, and explores the significance of these transformations for community sustainability, the quality of life, and environmental quality...

This book examines and compares the transformation of rural society and economy in the US and UK during the last half-century, and explores the significance of these transformations for community sustainability, the quality of life, and environmental quality...

The book addresses the nature and importance of the interaction between ‘urban’ and ‘rural’ areas within Third World national territories, providing much-needed comparative, cross-cultural, and cross-national material...

This collection explores the complex dynamics of current global land grabbing from a broad agrarian political economy perspective, with a special focus on the implications for property and labour regimes, labour processes and structures of accumulation. It goes beyond the descriptive ‘what’ and ‘who..

Provides an introduction to the historical geography of viticulture and the wine trade from prehistory to the present, considering wine as a symbol, rich in meaning and a commercial product of great economic importance to specific regions...