Rural Development - Global North
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Group members
- Ildiko Asztalos Morell
- Katarina Pettersson
- Jonathan Rahn
- Emil Sandstrom
- Arvid Stiernstrom
- Seema Arora-Jonsson
- Marie Christine Dusingize
- Patrik Cras
- Robin Eriksson
- Matilda Eriksson Sjöstedt
- Marien González Hidalgo
- Ida Gustafsson
- Clara Gustafsson
- Saga Holmgren
- Brian Kuns
- Kajsa Kuoljok
- Linus Linse
- Thomas Norrby
- Emil Planting Mollaoglu
- Jonathan Rigg
- Emma Sahlström
- Nora Wahlström
- Erik Westholm
Related researchprojects
- Migrant Relations and Rural Environments: A neglected dimension of sustainable development
- GRASS Ceiling — Gender Equality in Rural and Agricultural Innovation Systems
- Climate Transitions in Contested Forests: Justice and governance in digital times
- Healthy ageing for Indigenous communities in India and Sweden with focus on nutricous and culturally adequate food provision
- Civil society, collaborative governance platforms and local climate change policy
- Food security, food sovereignty and collective action during the war in Ukraine - Ukrainian and global perspectives
- Back-to-the-land and the cultivation of a renewed countryside? Exploring the scope and impact of back-to-the-land migration in rural Sweden
Related research topics
The subject of Rural development in Sweden and Europe (Gobal North) was established in 2005 due to the urgent need for research on Swedish and European rural development. The increasing importance of attention to rural development in the global North had brought attention to the scattered and the meagre research on the subject in Sweden.
Changes in the world since 2005 have only shown the astuteness of SLU’s decision to establish the subject. Our research is sought after like never before as we face challenges of sustainability and need a critical perspective on development and environmental questions today. We are one of very few academic institutions in Europe, and the only in Sweden, dedicated to the study of European rural development. Our research is grounded in the major challenges confronting rural areas in Sweden and Europe today and our work shows how there is no sustainability without social justice. To deal with sustainability challenges, we work towards better understandings of the social, political and cultural contexts of policy interventions and everyday life in rural areas. Together with our division's ›cooperation and extension team‹, we nurture a network of researchers working on rural development and collaborate with practitioners and policymakers.
By bringing to bear intersectional perspectives of power on the issues of rural development, forestry and forest lives, energy, climate interventions, rural governance and local democracy, rural entrepreneurship, food security, agricultural and forest labor markets as well as migration we challenge mainstream imaginations of the rural as residual, uninhabited, spaces for extraction and passive providers of food and natural resources.