Submission guidelines
Research in Rural Sociology and Development is open to receiving book proposals from prospective guest editors or monograph authors. If interested, please reach out to the series editors:
Apostolos G. Papadopoulos
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María Jesús Rivera Escribano
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See our guidance on how to write a proposal
The following topics of interest for book proposals are indicative and not exhaustive:
- Social impact of digital transformation in agriculture
- Food studies and rural sustainability
- Digital platforms and rurality
- Rural-urban transformations
- Research methods in rural studies
- Socioeconomic conditions in rural areas and rural housing
- Rural population and demographic trends
- Developments in rural migration and/or ‘counterurbanization’
- Generational perspectives on rurality
- Social welfare and infrastructures in rural areas
- Rural revitalization
- Rural heritage and social memory
- Rural commons
- Rural development policies
- Social impact of the climate crisis in rural areas
- Rural futures
Contributions that focus on the intersectionality of topics within rural sociology and rural studies are welcome. Contributions to different perspectives of rurality enabling the widening of dialogue between local and global approaches and various world regions (e.g. between Global North and Global South) will also be welcome. Critical rural studies and comparative studies across the globe are particularly invited.
All contributions should include strong synthetic and/or theoretical perspectives that stimulate further discussion and reflection on rurality, rural theories, and the pertinence of the rural in today’s world.
Calls for submissions
Research in Rural Sociology and Development is a long-established book series in the field of rural sociology and rural studies in general. The series covers a wide range of topics while maintaining an important and valuable sociological perspective for a better understanding of today’s globalized and cosmopolitan societies and economies.
Aims and scope
Research in Rural Sociology and Development publishes scholarly content at the cutting edge of rural sociology.
Addressing issues such as rural development and economic growth, globalization, labour relations, agrarian dynamics, agricultural transformation, population dynamics, mobilities and migrations, resilience, sustainability, and social and individual implications of rural and agricultural change, this series provides in-depth and up-to-date research on the local and global systems affecting rural dynamics.
The series aims to expand the interdisciplinarity and intersectionality that can be observed in rural sociology and rural studies in general, while maintaining its sociological focus. Innovative, comparative and critical contributions are sought on rural theory, methodology, research, and policy at different spatial scales and regions of the world.
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We are passionate about working with researchers globally to deliver a fairer, more inclusive society. This perhaps has never been more important than in today’s divided world.
