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Over 30 years of excellence in Rural Research

The Journal of Rural Studies publishes cutting-edge research that advances understanding and analysis of contemporary rural societies, economies, cultures and lifestyles; the definition and representation of rurality; the formulation, implementation …

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Professor Darren Smith, FAcSS

Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom

Articles

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‘Cropaganda’: Mythology of Corn Belt agriculture

Anaya L. Hall

May 2024View PDF

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Unpacking the effects of rural homestead development rights reform on rural revitalization in China

Qianyu Zhao, ... Shurong Yao

May 2024View PDF

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“Agricultural diversity, farmers’ definitions and uses: The case of Tasmanian farms”

Francesco Tacconi, ... Caroline Mohammed

May 2024View PDF

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Farmers' perceptions of multiple stressors: access to and exclusion from an irrigation district in Jalisco, Mexico

David Leroy

May 2024

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Territorial capital and place attachment: A psychological approach of rural out-migration

Ivan Dufeu, ... Danielle Lecointre-Erickson

April 2024View PDF

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Cultural tourism and rural community resilience: A framework and its application

Ozgur Gocer, ... Pranita Shrestha

April 2024View PDF

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Wealth or health? Haze pollution, intergenerational migration experience and settlement intentions of rural migrant workers

Xiaoxin Guo, ... Zhiyi Qiu

April 2024

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A holistic framework for evaluating and planning sustainable rural drinking water projects in sub-Saharan Africa

Ornit Avidar

April 2024View PDF

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Calls for papers

Dynamics of Social Innovations in Rural Communities

Mary O’Shaughnessy, Gabriela Christmann, Ralph Richter

Rural-urban interfaces and changing forms of rurality

Junxi Qian, Shenjing He, Darren Smith

Rural hinterland development in sparsely populated areas: new challenges and opportunities arising from urbanisation within the periphery

Doris Anna Carson, Dean Bradley Carson, Neil Argent

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Special issues and article collections

Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining and Rural Transformation: Critical Insights on Five Decades of Development, Livelihoods and Policy Interventions

Edited by Gavin Hilson

29 November 2023

Dynamics of Social Innovations in Rural Communities

Edited by Gabriela Christmann, Mary O’Shaughnessy, Ralph Richter

21 March 2023

Race and Place-Making in the Rural Global North

Edited by Victoria Stead, Rose Butler, Christopher Mayes

1 November 2022

Governing Food Futures: Towards a ‘Responsibility Turn’ in Food and Agriculture

Edited by Nadine Arnold, Gianluca Brunori, Joost Dessein, Francesca Galli, Ritwick Ghosh, Allison Marie Loconto, Damian Maye

27 May 2022

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Online ISSN: 1873-1392

Print ISSN: 0743-0167

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