Sustaining Rural Systems: Rural Vitality in an Era of Globalization and Economic Nationalism

This book examines the interplay between rural places and the competing narratives of globalization and nationalism. Through case studies from Croatia, Belgium, Australia, the USA, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Italy and Spain, this volume highlights the contemporary status of rural change through the lens of sustainability and set within current competing narratives of globalization and economic nationalism.

The multiplicity of roles that rural communities play in economic and social...