RURAL GOVERNANCE: International Perspectives
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- ISBN13: 9.78042E+12
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher Imprint: Rawat
- Pages: 336
- Language: English
- Edition: First
- Item Weight: 500
- BISAC Subject(s): Rural Studies
Recent decades have witnessed the transition from the government of rural areas towards processes of governance in which the boundaries between the state and civil society are blurred. as a result, governance is commonly linked to ‘bottom-up’ or community-based approaches and to planning and development, which are said to ‘empower’ rural citizens and liberate them from the disabling structures of top-down government control. At the same time, however, a range of other actors beyond the local level have also become increasingly influential in determining the future of rural spaces, thereby embedding rural citizens within new configurations of power relations.
This volume critically explores the social causes and consequences of these emerging governance arrangements. In particular, it seeks to move beyond questions of empowerment in governance debates and to consider how new kinds of power relations arise between the various actors involved. The book addresses questions concerning the nature of power relations in contemporary forms of rural governance, including: how community participation is negotiated and achieved; the effects of such participation upon the formulation and delivery of rural policies; the kinds of conflicts that arise between various stakeholder groups and the capacity of each group to promote its interests; and the prospects of this new approach for enhanced democratic governance in rural areas.
This volume critically explores the social causes and consequences of these emerging governance arrangements. In particular, it seeks to move beyond questions of empowerment in governance debates and to consider how new kinds of power relations arise between the various actors involved. The book addresses questions concerning the nature of power relations in contemporary forms of rural governance, including: how community participation is negotiated and achieved; the effects of such participation upon the formulation and delivery of rural policies; the kinds of conflicts that arise between various stakeholder groups and the capacity of each group to promote its interests; and the prospects of this new approach for enhanced democratic governance in rural areas.
Lynda Cheshire is a lecturer is sociology at The University of Queensland, Australia. Her research interests include rural and regional development, governance and the state, rural protest and master planned communities.
Vaughan Higgins is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Monash University, Australia. His current areas of research focuses on market-orientated mechanism for sustainable food production and agri-environmental governance.
Geoffery Lawrence is Professor of sociology and Head of the School of Social Science at The University of Queensland. His research spans the areas of rural and regional governance, globalization and localization, bioscience and society, and the social aspects of the environment.
Vaughan Higgins is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Monash University, Australia. His current areas of research focuses on market-orientated mechanism for sustainable food production and agri-environmental governance.
Geoffery Lawrence is Professor of sociology and Head of the School of Social Science at The University of Queensland. His research spans the areas of rural and regional governance, globalization and localization, bioscience and society, and the social aspects of the environment.