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Our research group Rural Geography Research Group (RGRG) RGS-IBG has a new account on Bluesky. Please join us. bsky.app/profile/ruralg…

📢 New book: Postcapitalist Countrysides UCL Press! From land commoning and rural social enterprises, to experimental food commons, Indigenous collectives & land art practices. And more! Co-edited with Nick Gallent, Mark Scott & A Purves #OpenAccess uclpress.co.uk/book/postcapit…

Call for Papers! Shize Zhang and I organized a session on rural geography of Global South Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) 2025 Annual Conference, kindly sponsored by Rural Geography Research Group (RGRG) RGS-IBG . Abstract submission ddl: 28 Feb 2025. For details, pls see the cfp below. We sincerely welcome your contributions!

🔊New paper published in Area by Philippa Simmonds, Damian Maye, Julie Ingram, Abigail Gardner, and Sofia 🔊 'Deliberative approaches to the climate crisis: Adapting Climathons for rural communities'. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1111/area.1…

Call For Papers: We're organising a session on 'Creative Geographies of Discontent: Rural Disruption and Political Innovation' for Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Conference 2025 in Birmingham. See details: ruralspatialjustice.substack.com/p/cfp-creative… Deadline: 24 Feb. Rural Geography Research Group (RGRG) RGS-IBG

PhD Opportunity: Food ethics and food system resilience in the industrial and small-scale egg sector For more details on this PhD project please see: southampton.ac.uk/study/postgrad…

PhD Opportunity: Carbon farming: co-creation for behavioural change within a supportive AKIS For more details on this PhD project please see: jobs.harper-adams.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…

Rural Geography Research Group (RGRG) RGS-IBG sponsored sessions at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference 2025 Details of all sponsored sessions are now available on the RGRG website: rgrg.co.uk/royal-geograph…. Please check each session link on this page for more information.

European Society for Rural Sociology Congress, Riga, 7-11 July 2025 The abstract submission deadline has been extended to Friday 28 February. More details are available here: esrs2025.rsu.lv

Rural Entrepreneurship Conference, Bangor, 3-5 June 2025 The abstract submission deadline has been extended to 5pm, Monday 10 March. More details are available here: bangor.ac.uk/events/22nd-ru…

New open access paper on farmers, globalization, populism and support for Bolsonaro in southern Brazil, with reflection on qualitative methods in electoral geography. Based on Rural Politics & Spatial Justice and GLOBAL-RURAL research: periodicos.uff.br/geographia/art…

🗳️ "Rural for Rural: The 2024 Election in Colorado's 4th Congressional District" by Gabriella Subai examines rural political dynamics in our Just Rural Futures blog! Rural Geography Specialty Group American Association of Geographers Read more: bit.ly/4iZ72By

The deadline for the RGRG ESRS grant has been extended to Friday 30th May 2025. All ECRs (including PhD students) presenting a paper and/or convening a session at the ESRS are welcome to apply. More details are available here: rgrg.co.uk/our-grants

The International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Agricultural Geography and Land Engineering (AGLE) Annual Conference 2025 will be held from 5-8 November 2025 in Bangkok, Thailand. RGRG members interested in attending can find further details at agleconference2025.com