Call for Abstracts

Abstracts of no more than 250 words are requested by 30 January 2015, and should be submitted directly through the on-line submission system. Two page papers on accepted abstracts received by 1 May 2015 will be included in the congress proceedings, and will be eligible for consideration for access scholarships. Full papers for the student paper competition should also be based on accepted abstracts, and are due on 1 May 2015.

We request that each abstract be submitted to only one working group; in cases where an abstract is not accepted to the preferred working group, it will then be forwarded to other relevant working groups for consideration. We also ask that each participant submit no more than two first-authored abstracts.

More information on the individual working groups can be found below:

Working Group 1: Turning possibility into reality? Alternatives to neoliberal rural policy

Working Group 2: Post-neoliberal food transitions

Working Group 3: Public goods in agriculture and rural areas: Negotiating the shared social and environmental dimensions

Working Group 4: Mapping agri-food

Working Group 5: Diversity of ageing in rural communities

Working Group 6: The future of rural and environmental expertise: Transdisciplinary knowledge(s), extension, and co-production for sustainability

Working Group 7: Visions of the Rural: A new subordination?

Working Group 8: Migration and rural social change

Working Group 9: The changing concept of territorial rural development

Working Group 10: Southern and Eastern rural Europe under neo-liberal restructuring: Challenges, resistances and emancipations

Working Group 11: Neoliberalism, the "good farmer" and well-being: The effect of neoliberal policy reforms on the culture of family farming