Introduction: Exploring the Rural through a Relational Lens; Edward Kasabov 1. The Character of Rural Business Relations; Robert Newbery and Gary Bosworth 2. Institutional Cooperation and Service Delivery in Rural Ireland; Mary O'Shaughnessy and Patrick Enright 3. Cross-Community Cooperation in Post-Socialist Hungarian Rural Space; Eva Fekete 4. Class Conflict and Social Change in the British Countryside, 1990-2013: Urban Values Rural Issues; Sue Bestwick 5. Performing the Rural through Game-Angling; Tom Mordue 6. Reviewing and Renewing Class: The Prospects for a 21st Century Rural Class Analysis; Jesse Heley 7. Governing Sustainable Tourism: European Networked Rural Villages; Frank Go, Maria Della Lucia, Mariapina Trunfio and Umberto Martini 8. Rural Development Policy in the Framework of the Knowledge-Based Economy: Selective Impacts and Solutions in the Case of the Czech Republic; Martin Pelucha, Eva Cudlinova and Miloslav Lapka 9. Processes of Cooperation in Rural Areas: Obstacles, Driving Forces and Options for Encouragement; Kim Pollerman 10. Toward a Post-Structuralist and Cultural Turn in Researching Rurality in Poland: A Geographical Perspective; Konrad Czapiewski and Marcin Wójcik 11. Re-Thinking Rural Conflict and Cooperation Difficulties; Alex Warlow and Edward Kasabov Conclusion; Edward Kasabov