Our spring webinar series is happening!
You can view the first webinar here: https://zoom.us/signin?_x_zm_rtaid=BKmW0dF8QcuQyJJYsYtV5g.1776288095574.46575c3a9687785e4258fd3982b16768&_x_zm_rhtaid=577#/login
The first seminar discussed neo-endogenous rural development, conceptualised in the early 2000s as an approach to rural development that is locally rooted yet outward-looking, and characterised by dynamic interactions between local areas and their wider environments.
Rather than being a theoretical and normative framework, it was a contribution that aimed to explain how things work on the ground, highlighting a dynamic urban-rural and local-global relationship, as well as various actors in the production of rural development discourse (within and beyond rural areas).
A quarter of a century later, what is the relevance of neo-endogenous rural development today? How have such approaches been adapted and evolved? And what do these contributions mean for the Global South?
In our first webinar, Prof Bettina Bock and Dr Shengxi Xin introduced spatially differentiated versions of neo-endogenous rural development and considered the implications of such theorisations for both the practice of rural development and rural planning scholarship.
