ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|18 pages

Introduction

Local Boundaries or Embeddedness in the Global?

part I|69 pages

Globalization, Diversity and Rural Space

chapter 4|26 pages

Changing Spaces

The Effects of Macro-Social Forces on Regional Australia

part II|42 pages

Farmers and Farming Women

chapter 5|18 pages

Grounding Globalization Theory

Local Responses to Global Processes in the Light of the Global-Local Links Debate in Rural Sociology

chapter 6|22 pages

Between Global and Local

State Mediation of Gender Relations in Farming

part III|46 pages

Communities and Households

part IV|94 pages

Local and Regional Development

chapter 9|24 pages

Globalization and Rural Development

Demographic Revitalization, Entrepreneurs and Small Business Formation in the West of Ireland

chapter 10|20 pages

Seeking Local Citizenship

Towards a New Sense of the Local?

chapter 11|22 pages

Rural Development Policy in Finland in the 1990s

Towards Flexible Specialization or Spatial Taylorism?

chapter 12|26 pages

Revisiting the Rural

A Southern Response to European Integration and Globalization