Geography

Rural geography: Globalizing the countryside

Document Type

Article

Abstract

The article discusses issues regarding rural geography, focusing on the growing phenomena of amenity migration to certain types of rural areas and the proliferation of American-style exurban and suburban development. It then explores some of the ways in which rural areas are being produced through increasingly globalized forms and relationships. In this article, the author thinks about rural geographies in explicitly relational terms, acknowledging that most rural areas are in developing countries, and that the relations that shape them are more important than snapshots of the fleeting landscapes they produce.

Publication Title

Progress in Human Geography

Publication Date

1-1-2008

Volume

32

Issue

1

First Page

129

Last Page

137

ISSN

0309-1325

DOI

10.1177/0309132507082559

Keywords

rural geography, rural population, economic development emigration, immigration, urban growth, economic policy, rural conditions, developing countries

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