Full Description
There has been a great deal of restructuring of rural places and communities under globalisation, highlighting the interaction of local and global actors to produce new hybrid socio-economic relations. Recent research highlights the heterogeneity of globalisation in which rural places are different to each other, but also different to how they were in the past. Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of academics, and comparative case studies from Europe (West and East) and Asia, this book explores and discusses opportunities and challenges associated with globalising rural places, and identifies possibilities for policy and practical intervention by rural development actors. Special attention is paid to multi-scalar processes through which rural places are reshaped through globalisation. Taking a geographical approach, the book produces new critical work on the interdependence between globalisation and rural spaces. It is organised into five sections: Part I focuses on 'Global-Rural Linkages' showing the multifaceted interrelation between actors at different geographical scale and demonstrating that globalisation is not only external to rural spaces. Part II on 'Rural Entrepreneurship and Labour Markets' explores the potential of business start-ups in rural spaces which are not only necessity driven. Part III 'Rural Innovation and Learning' shows that rural places are also places for innovation and learning. Part IV on 'Rural Policies and Governance' argues that regional policies for rural places should promote side activities to maintain social capital and that regional policy should take a more integrative perspective between urban and rural spaces in order to explore complementary development paths. The concluding chapter 'New Approaches to Rural Spaces' discusses new approaches to globalising rural places in relation to the preceding chapters published in this book.
Contents
1: Introduction; I: Global-Rural Linkages; 2: Economic Entanglements and the Re-shaping of Place in the Global Countryside; 3: Agriculture in Chains: Farms, Firms and Contracts; 4: The Unjust Chain? The Value Chain of Milk in Germany; 5: International Migration and Resilience: Rural Introductory Spaces and Refugee Immigration as a Resource; 6: Community Resilience under Influences of Higher Governance Structures: The Case of the Czech Rural Community Nošovice; II: Rural Entrepreneurship and Rural Labour Markets; 7: Non-farm Businesses in Rural Areas: Response to Crisis or Exploiting Opportunities? Evidence from Vietnam; 8: Immigrant Small Enterprises in Rural Sweden: Local and Transnational Resource Mobilisation; 9: The Role of Large Enterprises in Local Labour Market Development in Non-Metropolitan Rural Areas in Poland; III: Rural Innovation and Learning; 10: Entrepreneurial Innovation Capability of Rural Regions: An Underestimated Phenomena?; 11: Arranging Support for Collective Learning in Rural Areas of Germany; 12: Networks of Regional Learning in Rural Eastern Saxony; 13: The Role of Agglomeration Economies for SME Transnationalisation: Bypassing the Global Urban Service Nexus?; IV: Rural Policies and Governance; 14: The Role of Side Activities in Building Rural Resilience: The Case Study of Kiel-Windeweer (The Netherlands); 15: Metropolitan Regions and Rural Development: The Case of Bremen-Oldenburg, Northwestern Germany; 16: New Approaches to Rural Places
