Handbook on Rural-Urban Linkages in the Global South
Published on 21. February 2025
Book
Hardback
360 pages
978-1-80220-770-5 (ISBN)
Description
This Handbook offers a comprehensive review of how, in rapidly urbanizing low- and middle-income countries, the links between rural and urban areas, people and enterprises are becoming increasingly intense and complex. With a focus on how rural-urban linkages are being shaped by the intersection of the local and the global, this Handbook illustrates how and where locally specific geographic, socio-economic and political contexts interact with global dynamics.
Focussing on how planning for socially and environmentally just urban transitions requires a better understanding of changing rural livelihoods, the Handbook explores: what drives migration and mobility; how emerging small towns and peri-urban areas develop, and how demand for food and natural resources evolves with urbanization. With chapters written by a diverse array of researchers, as well as practitioners in the field, this Handbook offers a wide range of perspectives on the topic.
The Handbook on Rural-Urban Linkages in the Global South will be of particular interest to academics specializing in human geography, development economics, development studies and sociology. Development practitioners will also benefit from a better understanding of how different contexts shape diverse trajectories.
Focussing on how planning for socially and environmentally just urban transitions requires a better understanding of changing rural livelihoods, the Handbook explores: what drives migration and mobility; how emerging small towns and peri-urban areas develop, and how demand for food and natural resources evolves with urbanization. With chapters written by a diverse array of researchers, as well as practitioners in the field, this Handbook offers a wide range of perspectives on the topic.
The Handbook on Rural-Urban Linkages in the Global South will be of particular interest to academics specializing in human geography, development economics, development studies and sociology. Development practitioners will also benefit from a better understanding of how different contexts shape diverse trajectories.
Reviews / Votes
'With this new Handbook, the editors highlight a dimension that often remains hidden: the interface between rural and urban areas as a place of exchange and socio-economic interaction, crucial for livelihoods and local development. This book helps students and scholars to break silos and see the full picture: how rural and urban realities are sides of the same coin - rural-urban interfaces providing people with opportunities to benefit from both worlds.' -- Annelies Zoomers, Utrecht University, the Netherlands 'Rural-urban linkages have been debated in the social science development literature for over four decades and the debate continues with renewed vigour now. The editors have assembled a highly informative and thought-provoking Handbook. A mix of well-known and new commentators offer fresh insights over a wide geographic purview. A slew of intriguing observations and theoretical refinements inform the reader. What struck me is how the catalysts of urban transformation have altered with the role of agriculture dimmed and displaced by mining, tourism and conflict - a profound change compared to a half century ago.' -- Deborah Bryceson, The University of Edinburgh, UK 'Exceptionally rich in contrasting theories, methods, and policy paradigms, this Handbook is an outstanding collaboration on rural-urban linkages in Africa, Asia and Latin America covering pre-colonial to contemporary settings. Its wide diversity of contexts, societal actors and spatial scales provides in-depth analysis for scholars, advanced students and policy analysts alike.' -- Mike Douglass, Emeritus Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USAMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cheltenham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-80220-770-5 (9781802207705)
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Persons
Edited by Cecilia Tacoli, International Institute for Environment and Development, UK, Jytte Agergaard, Manja Hoppe Andreasen, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Donald Brown,The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU),University College London, UK
Content
Contents
1 Introduction: changing rural-urban linkages in the Global
South 1
Cecilia Tacoli, Jytte Agergaard, Manja Hoppe Andreasen
and Donald Brown
PART I URBANIZATION PROCESSES AND DATA 27
2 What is 'urban' or 'rural'? Scrutinising the importance of
urban definitions and data for understanding urban and rural
processes 29
Deborah Potts
3 Beyond boundaries: understanding Africa's rural-urban
linkages through Africapolis 47
Margherita Fadda and Philipp Heinrigs
4 The 'Great Leap Forward' of urbanisation in China: is it too
fast or too slow? 65
Bingqin Li
5 Subaltern urbanization and rural-urban linkages in India 81
Shamindra Nath Roy, Marie-Helene Zerah and Eric Denis
PART II RURAL TRANSFORMATION AND EMERGING
URBAN CENTRES 97
6 Rural-urban linkages and rural livelihoods in sub-Saharan
Africa 99
Agnes Andersson
7 The ties that bind: rural-urban entanglements in northern
Vietnam 115
Jamie Gillen, Nguyen Tuan Anh and Jonathan Rigg
8 Secondary towns and rural transformations: a translocal
perspective 129
Gerda Kuiper and Clemens Greiner
9 The Anglophone conflict, forced displacement and urban
transformations in Buea, Cameroon 147
Emile Sunjo and Tata Emmanuel Sunjo
10 Mineralised urbanisation: rural-urban linkages, migration and
mobility, and the making and unmaking of cities in Africa 167
Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues, Karen Buescher and Patience Mususa
PART III MOBILITIES AND MIGRATION 185
11 Rapid urbanisation but incomplete migration? Dissecting the
dilemma behind China's magnificent urbanisation from a
family perspective 187
Jin Zhu and Jiayao Liu
12 Resilient roots: voluntary non-migration despite climate risk
in Bangladesh 205
Sara Hanan Chowdhury and Bishawjit Mallick
13 Circular male migration, rural-urban linkages and household
food security in India 221
Chetan Choithani
14 Continuity, complexity and change: revisiting rural-urban
links in post-apartheid South Africa 237
Jonathan Crush
PART IV RURAL-URBAN INTERFACES 253
15 Peri-urban transformation as suburbanization: drivers and
dynamics of urban expansion in African cities 255
Manja Hoppe Andreasen and Jytte Agergaard
16 Unravelling Don Virgilio: tracing the cultural, network and
territorial embeddedness of land trafficking in Lima 273
Rita Lambert
17 Inscribing justice into peri-urban planning 291
Adriana Allen
18 Peri-urban interfaces and peri-urbanization 309
David Simon
PART V PLANNING URBAN TRANSITIONS 325
19 Rural-urban planning and governance in 'transitional spaces':
comparative insights from Southern Africa 327
Donald Brown and Mtafu Manda
20 Urban-rural linkages and the (re)emergence of territorial
approaches and policies 343
Remy Sietchiping, Grace Githiri, Jackson Kago and Antonio Kipyegon
21 Urban-rural solidarity builds a rice supply chain during the
COVID-19 pandemic in Java, Indonesia 357
Bosman Batubara, Michelle Kooy, Guntoro and Mokh Sobirin
22 Mapping food flows across the urban-rural gradient[s] in
secondary cities in Uganda: Lessons from Mbale City and
Kasese Municipality 371
Paul Isolo Mukwaya, Frank Mugagga, Shuaib Lwasa, Peter
Kasaija, Ritah Nakanjako, Patricia Nagawa Kiggundu,
Daniel Ochieng Ologe, Magnus Jistrom, Heather Mackay,
Anthony Philip Emenyu, Allen Kizza, Mary Kemigisha,
Eunice Muyama and Juma Wepukhulu
1 Introduction: changing rural-urban linkages in the Global
South 1
Cecilia Tacoli, Jytte Agergaard, Manja Hoppe Andreasen
and Donald Brown
PART I URBANIZATION PROCESSES AND DATA 27
2 What is 'urban' or 'rural'? Scrutinising the importance of
urban definitions and data for understanding urban and rural
processes 29
Deborah Potts
3 Beyond boundaries: understanding Africa's rural-urban
linkages through Africapolis 47
Margherita Fadda and Philipp Heinrigs
4 The 'Great Leap Forward' of urbanisation in China: is it too
fast or too slow? 65
Bingqin Li
5 Subaltern urbanization and rural-urban linkages in India 81
Shamindra Nath Roy, Marie-Helene Zerah and Eric Denis
PART II RURAL TRANSFORMATION AND EMERGING
URBAN CENTRES 97
6 Rural-urban linkages and rural livelihoods in sub-Saharan
Africa 99
Agnes Andersson
7 The ties that bind: rural-urban entanglements in northern
Vietnam 115
Jamie Gillen, Nguyen Tuan Anh and Jonathan Rigg
8 Secondary towns and rural transformations: a translocal
perspective 129
Gerda Kuiper and Clemens Greiner
9 The Anglophone conflict, forced displacement and urban
transformations in Buea, Cameroon 147
Emile Sunjo and Tata Emmanuel Sunjo
10 Mineralised urbanisation: rural-urban linkages, migration and
mobility, and the making and unmaking of cities in Africa 167
Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues, Karen Buescher and Patience Mususa
PART III MOBILITIES AND MIGRATION 185
11 Rapid urbanisation but incomplete migration? Dissecting the
dilemma behind China's magnificent urbanisation from a
family perspective 187
Jin Zhu and Jiayao Liu
12 Resilient roots: voluntary non-migration despite climate risk
in Bangladesh 205
Sara Hanan Chowdhury and Bishawjit Mallick
13 Circular male migration, rural-urban linkages and household
food security in India 221
Chetan Choithani
14 Continuity, complexity and change: revisiting rural-urban
links in post-apartheid South Africa 237
Jonathan Crush
PART IV RURAL-URBAN INTERFACES 253
15 Peri-urban transformation as suburbanization: drivers and
dynamics of urban expansion in African cities 255
Manja Hoppe Andreasen and Jytte Agergaard
16 Unravelling Don Virgilio: tracing the cultural, network and
territorial embeddedness of land trafficking in Lima 273
Rita Lambert
17 Inscribing justice into peri-urban planning 291
Adriana Allen
18 Peri-urban interfaces and peri-urbanization 309
David Simon
PART V PLANNING URBAN TRANSITIONS 325
19 Rural-urban planning and governance in 'transitional spaces':
comparative insights from Southern Africa 327
Donald Brown and Mtafu Manda
20 Urban-rural linkages and the (re)emergence of territorial
approaches and policies 343
Remy Sietchiping, Grace Githiri, Jackson Kago and Antonio Kipyegon
21 Urban-rural solidarity builds a rice supply chain during the
COVID-19 pandemic in Java, Indonesia 357
Bosman Batubara, Michelle Kooy, Guntoro and Mokh Sobirin
22 Mapping food flows across the urban-rural gradient[s] in
secondary cities in Uganda: Lessons from Mbale City and
Kasese Municipality 371
Paul Isolo Mukwaya, Frank Mugagga, Shuaib Lwasa, Peter
Kasaija, Ritah Nakanjako, Patricia Nagawa Kiggundu,
Daniel Ochieng Ologe, Magnus Jistrom, Heather Mackay,
Anthony Philip Emenyu, Allen Kizza, Mary Kemigisha,
Eunice Muyama and Juma Wepukhulu