In this groundbreaking book, Katrina Schwartz examines the intersection of environmental
politics, globalization, and national identity in a small East European country: modern-day …

This article examines the marginalisation of small‐scale semi‐subsistence farming in the
context of the European Union's sustainable development reforms as implemented in the …

The concept of alternative food networks (AFNs) has evolved in the academic literature, from
early optimistic studies on agricultural relocalization rooted in rural sociology to …

In the late 1990s the rural community development movement led mostly by educated,
professional women emerged in Lithuania. These were loose organizations, typically made …

This paper is a review of the concepts of rurality and urbanity and of various approaches to
their differentiation. The author reviews the continuum and dichotomy of rurality and urbanity …

Purpose With roots dating back to the early twentieth century, integrated rural development
(IRD) is a term that became commonplace in international development circles in the 1960s …

Today “rural diversification” is high on the agenda in rural development. This article
analyses rural diversification under conditions of post-socialist economic transition using …

Since the early 1990s, the development of agri-environmental policy in the Central and
Eastern European Countries has had to respond to the needs arising from the legacies of …

ABSTRACT After European Union expansion in the 2000s, Danish farmers went eastward in
search of cheap land. In Latvia, they encountered indebted farmers and impoverished rural …

In this chapter, I will address the main question of the volume-how rurality is being remade
under globalization–applying to social imaginaries a conceptual tool that has already been …