Local responses to global integration / edited by Charalambos Kasimis, Apostolos G. Papadopoulos.

Selections of papers presented at the 17th Congress entitled 'Local responses to global integration: towards a new era of rural restructuring' held by the European Society for Rural Sociology in Crete in August 1997.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : local boundaries or embeddedness in the global? / Charalambos Kasimis and Apostolos G. Papadopoulos -- Modernity, globalization and the rural world / Göran Therborn -- Towards a theoretical understanding of the generation of diversity in rural areas / Gaston Remmers -- Changing spaces : the effects of macro-social forces on regional Australia / Geoffrey Lawrence, Ian Gray and Daniela Stehlik -- Grounding globalization theory : local responses to global processes in the light of the global-local links debate in rural sociology / Luis Llambi, Eliézer Arias and Germán Freire -- Between global and local : state mediation of gender relations in farming / Sally Shortall -- Social identification with local communities and the globalization process in rural areas of Eastern Europe / Pawel Starosta and Mariana Draganova -- Global changes and individual responses in rural areas : the dynamics of low income and household economic status / Esperanza Vera-Toscano and Pollyanna Chapman -- Globalization and rural development : demographic revitalization, entrepreneurs and small business formation in the west of Ireland / Perpetua McDonough and Patrick Commins -- Seeking local citizenship : towards a new sense of the local? / Nicholas Mack -- Rural development policy in Finland in the 1990s : towards flexible specialization or spatial Taylorism? / Petri Ruuskanen -- Revisiting the rural : a Southern response to European integration and globalization / Apostolos G. Papadopoulos.