European Society for Rural Sociology Congress (ESRSC)

This congress of the european society of rural sociology will deal with  the impact of the recent and current crisis on rural trajectories. The  past months and years have led us to questioning the nature of what we  consider normal and what we consider a crisis. The COVID crisis, the war  and its consequences, the climate crisis, they are all changing the way  we think about the world and act in it. How do these rapid changes  affect rural areas, and the ways rural areas are imagined? Is the rural  newly in crisis or should it be considered as having long – or perhaps  always – been in crisis, in sometimes under-illuminated ways? Or can we  still think of the rural as a place of stability? Which crises pervade  the rural and where and when did these crises originate? With regard to  the currently most pressing crises, which of the things that were taken  for granted about the rural are now being questioned? And, conversely,  which new challenges and new paths and futures for the rural have been  opened?