Rural Cooperation in Europe: In Search of the ‘Relational Rurals’

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Introduction: Exploring the Rural through a Relational Lens....Pages 1-25
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
The Character of Rural Business Relations....Pages 29-48
Institutional Cooperation and Service Delivery in Rural Ireland....Pages 49-67
Cross-community Cooperation in Post-socialist Hungarian Rural Space....Pages 68-97
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Class Conflict and Social Change in the British Countryside, 1990–2013: Urban Values, Rural Issues....Pages 101-120
Performing the Rural through Game-Angling....Pages 121-134
Reviewing and Renewing Class: The Prospects for a Twenty-first Century Rural Class Analysis....Pages 135-158
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Governing Sustainable Tourism: European Networked Rural Villages....Pages 161-187
Rural Development Policy in the Framework of the Knowledge-based Economy: Selective Impacts and Solutions in the Case of the Czech Republic....Pages 188-209
Processes of Cooperation in Rural Areas: Obstacles, Driving Forces, and Options for Encouragement....Pages 210-227
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
Towards a Post-structuralist and Cultural Turn in Researching Rurality in Poland: A Geographical Perspective....Pages 231-265
Re-thinking Rural Conflict, Cooperation Difficulties, and Failure: The Case of Rural Cooperatives....Pages 266-282
Conclusion....Pages 283-286
Back Matter....Pages 287-291