Browse by author
Lookup NU author(s): Dr Chris Ray
Full text for this publication is not currently held within this repository. Alternative links are provided below where available.
The re-territorialization of rural development across the EU is well under way, manifesting in a constantly evolving pan-European mosaic of territorial initiatives. This paper considers the significance of the phenomenon in terms of the emergence of a rural development system. This pan-European system has two functions: First, it represents a potential mode of capitalist production for territorial entities; and second, it functions as a system of distribution and co-ordination. The record of transnational co-operation projects created through the EU'S LEADER II Initiative is used to sketch a theory of the first mode based around the concept of interlocality connectivity. Taylor's ideas on global cities are borrowed in order to speculate on the potential for a hierarchy to emerge among the territorial entities of the rural development system. Attention then turns to the distributive function of the system in order to examine non-economic flows, using Dolowitz and Marsh's ideas on the policy transfer/learning process.
Author(s): Ray C
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Sociologia Ruralis
Year: 2001
Volume: 41
Issue: 3
Pages: 279-295
Print publication date: 01/01/2001
ISSN (print): 0038-0199
ISSN (electronic): 1467-9523
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9523.00183
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9523.00183
Altmetrics provided by Altmetric
