Call for Papers! I co-organized a session on rural geography in Global South Regions @rgsibg.bsky.social 2025 Annual Conference, kindly sponsored by @ruralgrg.bsky.social . Abstract submission ddl: 28 Feb 2025. For details, pls see the cfp below. We sincerely welcome your contributions!

Farmers report missing millions of dollars of funding they were promised by the U.S. Agriculture Department, despite promises from the Trump administration that a federal funding freeze would not apply to projects directly benefiting individuals.

📢 New book: ‘Postcapitalist Countrysides’ @uclpress.bsky.social! From land commoning and rural social enterprises, to experimental food commons, Indigenous collectives & land art practices. And more! Co-edited with N Gallent, @markscott-ucd.bsky.social & A Purves uclpress.co.uk/book/postcapit…

In my previous article on JRS, I introduced neo-exogenous development to explain China’s state-led rural networked development model under Rural Revitalization/RRS. In my new paper, I examine this model’s governance implications, arguing that RRS has fostered a form of “rural party-statecraft”.

In other news, I am in Newcastle, Wenky just completed her 1 year at Newcastle University, and tomorrow returns to Tongji University in Shanghai to finish her PhD. We will miss you Wenky, but hope to see you at AESOP Istanbul later in July 👋👋👋 Greetings to @dr-ericxin.bsky.social and team there 🙌

Many scholars use neo-endogenous development to explain multi-actor participation in China’s Rural Revitalization Strategy. However, in my paper coauthored with Prof Nick Gallent, we argue it is essentially state-led networked development

The rationale of rural planning authorities is that housing and service needs can more effectively be met in towns than in the countryside | Prof Nick Gallent