‘Agro-ecology and organic agriculture as a counterforce to (super-) productivist farming in Brazil: innovative strategies in a time of crisis‘ – Dr Felipe da Silva Machado (University of Plymouth)
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Politics and the Rural: (New) Spaces for Contentious Politics beyond the Urban – Viktoria Noka (University of Glasgow)
Toward an integrative framework for the governance of sustainable agricultural innovation – Auvikki de Boon, University of Reading.
The latest driving force of rural gentrification? How Digital Marketing is Influencing Processes of Rural Gentrification in England – Niamh McHugh, University of Leicester.
Dissertation awards: Conditions for submissions
Undergraduate
The prize is open to any currently registered undergraduate student at a UK university and will be awarded to the dissertations that exhibit the best overall contributions to the wide range of issues relating to rural geography. Three prizes …
Ways of speaking as if through soil: The strange material of rural forgettings
Rowan Jaines (University of Sheffield, UK)
Natasha
Coleman (Swansea University, UK)
This session will focus on elements of the rural that have been disavowed, denied and dispossessed by contemporary human geography. We are particularly interested by the manner in which …
Brexit; (Re-)Bordering Britain and Northern Ireland’s Rural Regions
Exiting the EU will initiate processes of bordering, re-bordering and de-bordering across a range of policy areas (Cassidy et al., 2018; McCall, 2018). Bordering will have a fundamental impact on the political possibilities of those working in rural areas across …
CfPs RGRG RGS International Conference Sessions 2020
* Rural Populism: New Emerging Political Geographies of the Rural https://rgrg.co.uk/rural-populism-new-emerging-political-geographies-of-the-rural
* Tracing, Traversing and Transgressing Borders in Rural Geography CfPs to follow https://rgrg.co.uk/tracing-traversing-and-transgressing-borders-in-rural-geography
* Digitisation, Rurality and Changing Spaces – Panel session details to follow
* Beyond the Borderlands …
New and Emerging Rural Researchers: Rural Research in the 2020s
Call for papers: RGS-IBG Annual
Conference
London, 1st-4th September 2020
New and Emerging Rural Researchers: Rural Research in the 2020s
Session convenor: Aimee Morse, Countryside and Community Research Institute, University of Gloucestershire
This annually held Rural Geography …
Beyond the Borderlands – exploring sustainable rural futures RGRG Sponsored Session
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Rural spaces being commonly framed as marginal borderlands, are increasingly also viewed as areas for conservation, access and the promotion of wellbeing at a range of scales individual, community or regional. Such priorities, often externally determined, arise as responses to |