1985

Whither rural studies?
Volume 1, Issue 1, 1985, Pages 1-9
Paul J. Cloke

1989

The country in the town: the role of real estate developers in the construction of the meaning of place
Volume 5, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 61-74
Harvey C. Perkins

The British rural community: an overview of perspectives
Volume 5, Issue 2, 1989, Pages 161-184
Sarah Harper

Sustainable development and the analysis of rural systems
Volume 5, Issue 4, 1989, Pages 405-414
Barry Smit, Michael Brklacich

1990

Let's do away with rural
Volume 6, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 245-257
Keith Hoggart

1992

Neglected rural geographies: A review
Volume 8, Issue 2, April 1992, Pages 193-207
Chris Philo

1993

Locality and social representation: Space, discourse and alternative definitions of the rural
Volume 9, Issue 1, January 1993, Pages 23-37
K. H. Halfacree

Rural studies: Modernism, postmodernism and the ‘post-rural’
Volume 9, Issue 4, October 1993, Pages 411-427
Jonathan Murdoch, Andy C. Pratt

Postmodern rural geography? A reply to Murdoch and Pratt
Volume 9, Issue 4, October 1993, Pages 429-436
Chris Philo

1995

Lay discourses of the rural: Developments and implications for rural studies
Volume 11, Issue 1, January 1995, Pages 35-49
Owain Jones

1997

Heartlands or neglected geographies? Liminality, power, and the hyperreal rural
Volume 13, Issue 1, January 1997, Pages 1-17
Mark Lawrence

Country backwater to virtual village? Rural studies and ‘the cultural turn’
Volume 13, Issue 4, October 1997, Pages 367-375
Paul Cloke

1998

New rural territories: Regulating the differentiated rural spaces
Volume 14, Issue 1, January 1998, Pages 107-117
Terry Marsden

2000

New energies for an old idea: reworking approaches to ‘community’ in contemporary rural studies
Volume 16, Issue 1, January 2000, Pages 23-35
Ruth Liepins

Contemporary strategies for rural community development in Australia: a governmentality perspective
Volume 16, Issue 2, April 2000, Pages 203-215
Lynda Herbert-Cheshire

Networks — a new paradigm of rural development?
Volume 16, Issue 4, October 2000, Pages 407-419
Jonathan Murdoch

2002

Re-discovering the social: neo-liberalism and hybrid practices of governing in rural natural resource management
Volume 18, Issue 4, October 2002, Pages 419-428
Vaughan Higgins, Stewart Lockie

2003

Deconstructing rural protest: the emergence of a new social movement
Volume 19, Issue 3, July 2003, Pages 309-325
Michael Woods

2004

Making sense of counterurbanization
Volume 20, Issue 1, January 2004, Pages 15-34
Clare J. A. Mitchell

2005

Across the divide (?): Reconciling farm and town views of agriculture–community linkages
Volume 21, Issue 3, July 2005, Pages 281-295
John Smithers, Alun E. Joseph, Matthew Armstrong

2007

The two-ness of rural life and the ends of rural scholarship
Volume 23, Issue 4, October 2007, Pages 402-415
Michael M. Bell