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This collection analyses various European rural locations through a relational lens, attending to key aspects and dimensions of the ´relational rurals´ such as cooperation, contestation, solidarity and consensus. By observing rural settings in such terms, contributors are able to rethink European rurality from a distinctly relational perspective.

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Introduction: Exploring the Rural through a Relational Lens; Edward Kasabov 1. The Character of Rural Business Relations; Robert Newbery and Gary Bosworth 2. Institutional Cooperation and Service Delivery in Rural Ireland; Mary O´Shaughnessy and Patrick Enright 3. Cross-Community Cooperation in Post-Socialist Hungarian Rural Space; Eva Fekete 4. Class Conflict and Social Change in the British Countryside, 1990-2013: Urban Values Rural Issues; Sue Bestwick 5. Performing the Rural through Game-Angling; Tom Mordue 6. Reviewing and Renewing Class: The Prospects for a 21st Century Rural Class Analysis; Jesse Heley 7. Governing Sustainable Tourism: European Networked Rural Villages; Frank Go, Maria Della Lucia, Mariapina Trunfio and Umberto Martini 8. Rural Development Policy in the Framework of the Knowledge-Based Economy: Selective Impacts and Solutions in the Case of the Czech Republic; Martin Pelucha, Eva Cudlinova and Miloslav Lapka 9. Processes of Cooperation in Rural Areas: Obstacles, Driving Forces and Options for Encouragement; Kim Pollerman 10. Toward a Post-Structuralist and Cultural Turn in Researching Rurality in Poland: A Geographical Perspective; Konrad Czapiewski and Marcin Wójcik 11. Re-Thinking Rural Conflict and Cooperation Difficulties; Alex Warlow and Edward Kasabov Conclusion; Edward Kasabov

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Susan Bestwick, University of Lincoln, UK Gary Bosworth, University of Lincoln, UK Eva Cudlinova, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic Konrad Czapiewski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Maria Della Lucia, University of Trento, Italy Pat Enright, University College Cork, Ireland Eva Fekete, University of Miskolc, Hungary Frank Go, Erasmus University, The Netherlands Jesse Heley, Aberystwyth University, UK Miloslav Lapka, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic Umberto Martini, University of Trento, Italy Tom Mordue, Northumbria University, UK Robert Newbery, Plymouth University, UK Mary O´Shaughnessy, University College Cork, Ireland Martin Pelucha, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic Kim Pollerman, Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute, Germany Mariapina Trunfio, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy Alex Warlow, West Wales Consulting, UK Marcin Wójcik, University of ?ód?, Poland

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