1st Edition

Rural Geographies People, Place and the Countryside

By Richard Yarwood Copyright 2023
288 Pages 60 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

288 Pages 60 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

288 Pages 60 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Rural Geographies provides a critical, contemporary and accessible introduction to rural change by using geographical ideas to understand current issues affecting the countryside. The book discusses how the countryside has been studied by geographers across a range of different scales, from village community to the global countryside. Each chapter provides a concise and well-illustrated... Read more

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part I Contexts

Chapter 2: Where Is the Country?

Chapter 3: Doing Away with Rurality?

Chapter 4: Geographies of The Rural

Part II Changes

Chapter 5: Farming and Food

Chapter 6: Economic Restructuring

Chapter 7: Changing Representations of Rurality

Chapter 8: Changing Rural Lives

Part III Contests

Chapter 9: Poverty and Social Exclusion

Chapter 10: Policy and Governance

Chapter 11: Housing, Homelessness and Home

Chapter 12: Mobility and Immobility

Chapter 13: Sustainability, Resilience and Rurality

Part IV Cultures

Chapter 14: Rural Landscapes

Chapter 15: Performing Rurality

Chapter 16: Rural Others, Other Rurals

Chapter 17: Gender, Sexuality and The Body

Chapter 18: More Than Human Ruralities

Chapter 19: Conclusions

Biography

Richard Yarwood is Professor of Human Geography and the Director of the Doctoral College at the University of Plymouth, UK.