Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/31615
Title: Rural geography III: Marketing, mobilities, measurement and metanarratives
Contributor(s): Argent, Neil  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2019-08-01
Early Online Version: 2018-05-31
DOI: 10.1177/0309132518778220
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/31615
Abstract: 

This report focuses on the individual and collective capacities of rural people to develop innovative and entrepreneurial approaches to local development (e.g. via place marketing) and to create music, art, prose and other cultural forms in place which in themselves serve to promote rural localities and regions to nonlocal people. In addition, it considers people's propensities to move to new places on a permanent or temporary basis, and how this mobility affects individuals and host and sending communities. Rural geographers are also taking advantage of new sophisticated geostatistical databases to produce more precise measurements of mobility and migration relevant to rural population geography research. However, in reviewing these two major research fields I also pay attention to the relative mobility of concepts and metanarratives developed in particular national and cultural contexts and the degree to which they successfully travel and 'take root' - in the sense of helpfully explaining empirical circumstances - in other places. Far from being a remote outpost of the broader discipline, rural geography, through its practitioners, continues to pose vital normative questions regarding the current and future directions of rural society, economy, population and environment across the globe, and developing the intellectual and practical tools to address those questions.

Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Progress in Human Geography, 43(4), p. 758-766
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
ISSN: 1477-0288
0309-1325
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 440609 Rural and regional geography
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 280123 Expanding knowledge in human society
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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