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Postponed until 2021 RGS with IBG International Conference 2020
Unfortunately due to Covid 19 the RGS with IBG International Conference 2020 has been postponed until 2021. We will have additional news on how this will be taken forward in due course.
We hope the great sessions proposed for RGRG …
Special issue of Sustainability
Dr Pratyusha Basu (UTEP) calls for articles, special issue of Sustainability, ‘Gender and Rural Devt: Sustainable Livelihoods in a Neoliberal Context.’ (via RGRG News editor BA Scholten): https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/gender_rural …
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 …
Tracing, Traversing and Transgressing Borders in Rural Geography
Session Sponsored by the Rural Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG
Session organisers: Felipe Dr Felipe da Silva Machado, University of Plymouth and Martin Phillips, University of Leicester
Borders, and associated notions such as of boundaries and borderlands, have long …
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 |