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Rural geography: blurring boundaries and making connections
Michael Woods*
Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth SY23 2NF, UK
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: zzp{at}aber.ac.uk.
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A number of commentaries and articles have been published in recent years reflecting
on the nature, history and practice of rural geography. The introspective mood follows a period in
which rural geography has been widely considered to have been resurgent, but indicates concerns
about the unevenness of progress in rural geography, and about the readiness of the subdiscipline
to address new challenges. This article, the first of three progress reports on rural geography,
focuses on attempts within these interventions to rethink the boundaries of rural geography and
its connections with other fields of study. First, it examines renewed debates on the definition
and delimitation of the rural, including efforts to rematerialize the rural. Second, it considers the
rejuvenation of work on rural–urban linkages, including concepts of city regions, exurbanization
and rurbanity. Third, it discusses the interdisciplinary engagement of rural geographers, including
collaboration with physical and natural scientists
First published on May 12, 2009, doi:10.1177/0309132508105001
Progress in Human Geography 2009;33:849.
A more recent version of this article appeared on December 1, 2009
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