| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 270 pages) : illustrations |
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Routledge revivals |
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Routledge revivals.
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| Contents |
Introduction : local boundaries or embeddedness in the global? / Charalambos Kasimis and Apostolos G. Papadopoulos -- Modernity, globalization and the rural world / Göran Therborn -- Towards a theoretical understanding of the generation of diversity in rural areas / Gaston Remmers -- Changing spaces : the effects of macro-social forces on regional Australia / Geoffrey Lawrence, Ian Gray and Daniela Stehlik -- Grounding globalization theory : local responses to global processes in the light of the global-local links debate in rural sociology / Luis Llambi, Eliézer Arias and Germán Freire -- Between global and local : state mediation of gender relations in farming / Sally Shortall -- Social identification with local communities and the globalization process in rural areas of Eastern Europe / Pawel Starosta and Mariana Draganova -- Global changes and individual responses in rural areas : the dynamics of low income and household economic status / Esperanza Vera-Toscano and Pollyanna Chapman -- Globalization and rural development : demographic revitalization, entrepreneurs and small business formation in the west of Ireland / Perpetua McDonough and Patrick Commins -- Seeking local citizenship : towards a new sense of the local? / Nicholas Mack -- Rural development policy in Finland in the 1990s : towards flexible specialization or spatial Taylorism? / Petri Ruuskanen -- Revisiting the rural : a Southern response to European integration and globalization / Apostolos G. Papadopoulos |
| Summary |
First published in 1999, this volume features articles from 19 contributors on local responses to global integration, with a focus on rural areas and their adoption of new functions as both producers and consumers. It responds to a crisis in the regulatory framework and reconsiders globality, revealing new forms of production and consumption developing in diverse ways amongst these global rural communities. Authors from Australia, Bulgaria, Finland, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Venezuela are represented |
| Notes |
Selections of papers presented at the 17th Congress entitled 'Local responses to global integration: towards a new era of rural restructuring' held by the European Society for Rural Sociology in Crete in August 1997 |
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Originally published: Aldershot, Hants, England; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, 1999 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 26, 2018) |
| Subject |
Sociology, Rural -- Congresses
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International economic integration -- Congresses
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Rural.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development.
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International economic integration
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Sociology, Rural
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kasimēs, Ch. P. (Charalampos P.), 1954- editor.
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Papadopoulos, Apostolos G., editor
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| ISBN |
9780429445736 |
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0429445733 |
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0429819595 |
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9780429819599 |
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