Sociologia Ruralis

Papers
(The median citation count of Sociologia Ruralis is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
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Loss and autonomy: Making sense of rural life at the inner periphery53
Putting social into agricultural sustainability: Integrating assessments of quality of life and wellbeing into farm sustainability indicators40
Assembling antimicrobial resistance governance in UK animal agriculture38
From crisis to sustainability: The politics of knowledge production on rural Europe38
Disciplining land through data: The role of agricultural technologies in farmland assetisation34
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Landscapes of support for farming mental health: Adaptability in the face of crisis28
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Rethinking class, capitalism and exploitation from the perspective of family farming in Aotearoa/New Zealand21
Passive endurance: An analysis of barriers to aid among Flemish farmers21
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Regulating gene editing in agriculture and food in the European Union: Disentangling expectations and path dependencies20
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Accessibility, Car Dependence and Rural Peripheralization: The Automobility Gap in the Spanish Countryside16
Narratives of Change or Changing the Narrative? An Exploration of Narratives in Rural Social Innovation16
Support structures for a plural economy in rural areas? Analysing the role of community‐based social enterprises16
How can organic farmers be good farmers? A study of categorisation in organic farmers’ talk16
In Tune With the Times? When Neo‐Peasants Choose Animal Traction to be Part of a More Sustainable Production Model15
Emergent rural–urban relations in Covid‐19 disturbances: Multi‐locality affecting sustainability of rural change15
Expanding arenas for learning hunting ethics, their grammars and dilemmas: An examination of young hunters’ enculturation into modern hunting15
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Articulating sustainable transitions, food justice and food democracy: Insights from three social experiments in France, Belgium and Brazil14
Building network for innovation and proximity in local development; sustainable farming initiatives in Izmir14
Engagement of new entrants in mountain farming through the lens of generativity: Lack of family farming background and its implications in Alpine Austria and Italy13
The Immaculate Conception of Data. Agribusiness, Activists, and Their Shared Politics of the Future by KellyBronson, Montréal: McGill‐Queen's University Press. 2022. xiv + 224 pp. $37.95 (paperback). 12
The neo‐peasant movement in Catalonia: An attempt at defining it in the light of the infrapolitical strategies of resistance12
Temporal and spatial diversification of rural social structure: The case of Poland12
Discontent and Disadvantage in Left‐Behind Places: Regional Effects on EU‐Trust and Status Attainment in Europe12
Beekeeping, stewardship and multispecies care in rural contexts11
A call to expand disciplinary boundaries so that social scientific imagination and practice are central to quests for ‘responsible’ digital agri‐food innovation11
New immigration destinations in Sweden: Migrant residential trajectories intersecting rural areas11
Constraining labour: The integration dynamics of working‐class horticultural migrants in rural areas of Norway, the UK and the US11
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Rural places and planning. Stories from the Global Countryside. MenelaosGkartzios, NickGallent, and MarkScott. 2022. Bristol: Policy Press. vii+175. 26.99 GBP. ISBN: 978‐1‐4473‐5637‐010
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The impact of rural emptiness on gender relations in postsocialist Albania10
Agroecology for migrant ‘emplacement’ in the left‐behind European countryside9
Padrón peppers or peppers from Herbón? Discussing the controversial attainment of a geographical indication in light of food (re)localisation approaches9
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Experiencing art from a field of rice: How farmers relate to rural revitalisation and art at Japan's Echigo‐Tsumari Art Festival9
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Resurgent back‐to‐the‐land and the cultivation of a renewed countryside8
Input legitimacy of bottom‐up fishery governance: Lessons from community‐led local development in two Nordic EU countries8
HealeyP. (2022). Caring for place —Community development in rural England(Routledge: New York and Abingdon), 224 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 978‐0‐367‐63201‐48
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Wellbeing, environmental sustainability and profitability: Including plurality of logics in participatory extension programmes for enhanced farmer resilience7
Can Social Capital Be Exchanged for Rural Development? Potentials and Limits Explored Through the Case of Citizen‐Initiated Rural Grocery Stores in Denmark7
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Engaging Farmers in Biosecurity: Making Compliance Workable Within a Devolved Responsibility Approach7
Affected by and affecting forest fires in Sweden and Spain: A critical feminist analysis of vulnerability to fire7
Initiating transformation within a Dutch grassroots agri‐food initiative: An analysis of social processes7
The limits of devolving sustainable development to the local level: The case of the Greenbelt of Fennoscandia initiative7
The mirage of research and research expertise: Reflections on leading Horizon Europe bids7
Mental health, societal expectations and changes to the governance of farming: Reshaping what it means to be a ‘man’ and ‘good farmer’ in rural Ireland7
Responsible development of digital livestock technologies for agricultural challenges: Purpose, practicality and effects are key considerations6
The virtual good farmer: Farmers’ use of social media and the (re)presentation of “good farming”6
Sustainable development and sacrifice in the rural North6
Can end‐user feedback inform ‘Responsibilisation’ of India's policy landscape for agri‐digital transition?*6
‘In a village, everybody knows the stranger’: Constructing local belonging of refugees in rural areas in Germany5
Stories of country women: Advancing feminist intersectionality for climate change adaptation in Australia5
Farming wellbeing through and beyond COVID‐19: Stressors, gender differences and landscapes of support5
Food quality in a post‐industrial economy: Alternatives to the crisis of the Spanish agricultural sector5
Farmers who tinker: Grounded alternatives to incrementalism and the growth imperative5
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Translating community resilience theory into practice: A deliberative Delphi approach4
Behind a fluttering veil of trust: The dynamics of public concerns over farm animal welfare in Norway4
The journey of staying: A transitional and mobility perspective on the staying rural preferences of rural young adults4
Two good interview questions: Mobilizing the ‘good farmer’ and the ‘good day’ concepts to enable more‐than‐representational research4
Contested diffusion of transformative innovations. Micro‐ and macrolevel social capital in South Tyrol4
Exploring farm‐to‐restaurant relations and the potential of a local food hub: A case study in the city‐region of Groningen, the Netherlands4
Hacking Hekla: Exploring the dynamics of digital innovation in rural areas4
Intersectionality, childhood disability and rurality: What does rural life mean for disabled children and their families?4
‘Land is a huge integral part of our identity’: Patriarchy and the gender asset gap3
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‘Values‐based Territorial Food Networks’—Benefits, challenges and controversies3
Managing growth in medium‐sized organic businesses: Implications for local orientation and resilience building3
Fisheries local action groups, small‐scale fisheries and territorial development3
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Institutional erosion and new strategies: Changing contexts for learning in agriculture in Northern Sweden3
How FAST are women farmers in Greece transforming contested gender identities in a (still) male‐dominant sector?3
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Good intentions in complex realities: Challenges for designing responsibly in digital agriculture in low‐income countries3
Governing resettlement beyond safety: Multilevel governance as a model for sustainable resettlement of unaccompanied refugee children in rural Sweden?3
Fertile ground, complex matter: Plurality of farmers’ attitudes towards green waste application as sustainable soil management3
Housing tactics: Searching for community resilience in depopulated rural contexts (Huertas, South West Spain)2
Frame alignment processes for locally useful agricultural soil research and extension: The role of farm advisors2
The agencies of landscape in rural gentrification: Impressions from the wood, the village and the moortop2
Production and consumption in agri‐food transformations: Rethinking integrative perspectives2
Adaptive business arrangements and the creation of social capital: Towards small‐scale fisheries resilience in different European geographical areas2
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Standard quality as a boundary object—A conceptual study2
Responsible digital agri‐food innovation in Australian and New Zealand public research organisations2
You don't want to be seen to be struggling’; identifying sociocultural barriers and facilitators for Irish farmers’ mental health help‐seeking2
‘A just price is future’: The capital–life conflict in a viticulture region (El Penedès)2
Farming women, distress and drought: Intra‐actions and entanglements with matter2
Going against the grain: Unravelling the habitus of older farmers to help facilitate generational renewal in agriculture2
Innovating digitally: The new texture of practices in Agriculture 4.02
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