Rural Cooperation in Europe

1. Introduction: Exploring the Rural through a Relational Lens
Edward Kasabov

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

2. The Character of Rural Business Relations
Robert Newbery, Gary Bosworth

3. Institutional Cooperation and Service Delivery in Rural Ireland
Mary O’Shaughnessy, Patrick Enright

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

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

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

6. Performing the Rural through Game-Angling
Tom Mordue

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

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

8. Governing Sustainable Tourism: European Networked Rural Villages
Frank Go, Maria Della Lucia, Mariapina Trunfio, Umberto Martini

9. 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

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

Part IV. Taking Further the Intellectual Debates on Rurality

11. Towards a Post-structuralist and Cultural Turn in Researching Rurality in Poland: A Geographical Perspective
Konrad Czapiewski, Marcin Wójcik

12. Re-thinking Rural Conflict, Cooperation Difficulties, and Failure: The Case of Rural Cooperatives
Alex Warlow, Edward Kasabov

13. Conclusion
Edward Kasabov

Keywords: Social Sciences, Sociology, general, Business and Management, general, Human Geography, Engineering, general, Area Studies, Development Economics