Local Responses to Global Integration Book

	List of figures and tables
	List of contributors
	Preface
1	Introduction: Local Boundaries or Embeddedness in the Global?	1
Pt. I	Globalization, Diversity and Rural Space
2	Modernity, Globalization and the Rural World	21
3	Towards a Theoretical Understanding of the Generation of Diversity in Rural Areas	41
4	Changing Spaces: The Effects of Macro-Social Forces on Regional Australia	63
Pt. II	Farmers and Farming Women
5	Grounding Globalization Theory: Local Responses to Global Processes in the Light of the Global-Local Links Debate in Rural Sociology	91
6	Between Global and Local: State Mediation of Gender Relations in Farming	109
Pt. III	Communities and Households
7	Social Identification with Local Communities and the Globalization Process in Rural Areas of Eastern Europe	133
8	Global Changes and Individual Responses in Rural Areas: The Dynamics of Low Income and Household Economic Status	153
Pt. IV	Local and Regional Development
9	Globalization and Rural Development: Demographic Revitalization, Entrepreneurs and Small Business Formation in the West of Ireland	179
10	Seeking Local Citizenship: Towards a New Sense of the Local?	203
11	Rural Development Policy in Finland in the 1990s: Towards Flexible Specialization or Spatial Taylorism?	223
12	Revisiting the Rural: A Southern Response to European Integration and Globalization	245