A Research Agenda for Global Rural Development (Elgar Research Agendas) - Hardcover

Marsden, Terry; Lamine, Claire; Schneider, Sergio

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1788974182 ISBN 13: 9781788974189

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2020

Synopsis

Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.

Setting out a new, path-breaking research agenda for global rural development, this timely book offers an innovative and embedded rural social science capable of both understanding and enacting progress towards diverse and sustainable pathways. It relocates rural development at the heart of global trends associated with widespread but uneven urbanisation, climate change and severe resource depletion, rising population growth, density and inequality, and global political, economic and health crises.

Chapters collapse traditional binary notions of development as north-south, rural-urban, global-local and traditional modern, embracing a revised conceptualisation of uneven development as a process dependent upon multiple theoretical and conceptual frameworks. It offers potential routes for substantive, interlinked research agendas, including new ruralities, governance, land rights, agro-ecology, financialisation, power relations, family farming, and the role of markets.

Scholars of geography, planning, rural sociology and rural-urban studies looking for a broader understanding of the topic will find this book essential. It will also be beneficial for those engaged in rural development policy and practice.

About this title

About the Author

Terry Marsden, Sustainable Places Research Institute, Cardiff University, UK, Claire Lamine, INRAE-Ecodéveloppement, France and Sergio Schneider, Department of Sociology and the Graduate Programs of Sociology and Rural Development, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788974182
• ISBN 13: 9781788974189
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256