About this ebook
In this book contributors present research across a range of subjects allowing critical reflections upon their personal and disciplinary interpretations of "rural". This resulting volume is a collection of diverse chapters that gives an emergent sense of how the notion of "rural" changes and blurs as the disciplinary lens is adjusted. In drawing together these strands, it becomes clear that human relations with rural space morph materiality into highly complex representations wherein both disadvantage and social exclusion persist within a rurality that is also commodified, consumed and cherished.
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About the author
Gary Bosworth is a Reader in Enterprise and Rural Economies at the University of Lincoln. He has published widely on issues affecting the rural economy including counterurbanisation, structural and cyclical economic changes, home-working, neo-endogenous development approaches, and the growth of rural tourism.
Peter Somerville
is Professor of Social Policy and Head of the Policy Studies Research Centre at the University of Lincoln. He has published widely on housing, community (including rural community, community enterprise, and community policing), cooperatives, equalities, homelessness, participation and social theory.
