Rural Restructuring - Global Processes and Their Responses

Originally published in 1990, this volume discusses the broad theme of rural restructuring looking at the nature of rural related responses to global processes of change.

List of contents

Introduction: Questions of Rurality Terry Marsden, Philip Lowe and Sarah Whatmore 1. Who is Rural? Or, How to Be Rural: Towards a Sociology of the Rural Marc Mormont 2. Restructuring Agriculture in Advanced Societies: Transformation, Crisis and Responses Patrick Commins 3. Paradigmatic Shift in Agriculture: Global Effects and the Swedish Response Martin Peterson 4. Agricultural Restructuring and Rural Social Change in Australia Geoffrey Lawrence 5. Rural Labour-Market Changes in the United States Gene F. Summers, Francine Horton and Christina Gringeri 6. Class and Change in Rural Britain Paul Cloke and Nigel Thrift 7. Household, Consumption and Livelihood: Ideologies and Issues in Rural Research Nanneke Redclift and Sarah Whatmore.

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Terry Marsden, Philip Lowe and Sarah Whatmore

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Originally published in 1990, this volume discusses the broad theme of rural restructuring looking at the nature of rural related responses to global processes of change.

Product details

• Authors: Terry Lowe Marsden
• Assisted by: Philip Lowe (Editor), Lowe Philip (Editor), Terry Marsden (Editor), Marsden Terry (Editor), Sarah Whatmore (Editor), Whatmore Sarah (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.06.2023
• EAN: 9781032496047
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3249604-7
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: Critical Perspectives on Rural Change
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness, Agricultural science, Human Geography, Regional Geography, Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness and primary industries, Agricultural and rural economics, Primary industries