Subject(s): Sociology -- Rural geography -- Rural development -- Land use in Rural Area -- Approaches to Rural Studies :Sociology of Rural Knowledge -- Conceptuality Rurality -- Reconfiguring Rural Resources Governance Neo-Liberalism in Australia -- Rural Space : Constructing a Three-Fold Architecture -- Rural Society -- Rural Economics -- Rural Policy and Planning -- Rural Research: key Theoretical Coordinates -- Cultural Representation : Idyllic Rurality, -- Nature : Constructing Rural Nature, Networking Rurality, Non-Human Rural Studies -- Sustainability : Agro-Food System, Social Forestry -- Economics : commodification , Re-Resourcing Rural Areas, Agricultural Production, Neo-Endogenous Rural Development in the EU -- Power : Global Capital and Transformation of Rural Communities, Regulating Rurality, State and Rural Polity -- New Consumerism : Rural Household as a Consumption Site -- Consumption Culture -- Tourism, Consumption and Rurality -- Identity : Gender, Sexuality in Rural Communities, Rurality and Racialized Others, Rural Change and Production of Otherness -- Exclusion : Inclusion and Exclusion in Rural Space , Rural Poverty, Rural Housing and Homelessness -- New Rural Relations : Rurality and Otherness, political Articulation, New Rural social movement ,