Rural Cooperation in Europe

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Exploring the Rural through a Relational Lens

   1. Introduction: Exploring the Rural through a Relational Lens

      • Edward Kasabov

      Pages 1-25

3. Cooperation in Rural and Peripheral Areas: Conceptual Issues, Approaches, and Challenges

   1. Front Matter

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   2. The Character of Rural Business Relations

      • Robert Newbery, Gary Bosworth

      Pages 29-48

   3. Institutional Cooperation and Service Delivery in Rural Ireland

      • Mary O’Shaughnessy, Patrick Enright

      Pages 49-67

   4. Cross-community Cooperation in Post-socialist Hungarian Rural Space

      • Eva Fekete

      Pages 68-97

4. Challenges to the Rural Idyll: Politics, Class Divisions, and Conflict

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Class Conflict and Social Change in the British Countryside, 1990–2013: Urban Values, Rural Issues

      • Sue Bestwick

      Pages 101-120

   3. Performing the Rural through Game-Angling

      • Tom Mordue

      Pages 121-134

   4. Reviewing and Renewing Class: The Prospects for a Twenty-first Century Rural Class Analysis

      • Jesse Heley

      Pages 135-158

5. Policy Intervention, Solutions, and Lessons for Managing Rural and Peripheral Areas

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159

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   2. Governing Sustainable Tourism: European Networked Rural Villages

      • Frank Go, Maria Della Lucia, Mariapina Trunfio, Umberto Martini

      Pages 161-187

   3. 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, Miloslav Lapka

      Pages 188-209

   4. Processes of Cooperation in Rural Areas: Obstacles, Driving Forces, and Options for Encouragement

      • Kim Pollerman

      Pages 210-227

6. Taking Further the Intellectual Debates on Rurality

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   2. Towards a Post-structuralist and Cultural Turn in Researching Rurality in Poland: A Geographical Perspective

      • Konrad Czapiewski, Marcin Wójcik

      Pages 231-265

   3. Re-thinking Rural Conflict, Cooperation Difficulties, and Failure: The Case of Rural Cooperatives

      • Alex Warlow, Edward Kasabov

      Pages 266-282

   4. Conclusion

      • Edward Kasabov

      Pages 283-286

7. Back Matter

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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.

• Rural
• Europe
• cooperation
• conflict
• disagreement
• solidarity
• periphery
• agriculture
• business
• community
• Cultural turn
• development
• economy
• Institution
• network
• research
• service
• social change
• tourism
• area studies

• University of Exeter, UK

  Edward Kasabov

Susan Bestwick, University of Lincoln, UK Gary Bosworth, University of Lincoln, UK Eva Cudlinova, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic Konrad Czapiewski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Maria Della Lucia, University of Trento, Italy Pat Enright, University College Cork, Ireland Eva Fekete, University of Miskolc, Hungary Frank Go, Erasmus University, The Netherlands Jesse Heley, Aberystwyth University, UK Miloslav Lapka, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic Umberto Martini, University of Trento, Italy Tom Mordue, Northumbria University, UK Robert Newbery, Plymouth University, UK Mary O'Shaughnessy, University College Cork, Ireland Martin Pelucha, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic Kim Pollerman, Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute, Germany Mariapina Trunfio, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy Alex Warlow, West Wales Consulting, UK Marcin Wójcik, University of ?ód?, Poland

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