Moving beyond the highly visual forms of poverty characteristic of the city,nbsp;Rural Poverty explores the nature of poverty in rural spaces in Britain and America. Settingnbsp;outnbsp;key features, it highlights the important processes thatnbsp;hide key components of rural poverty. The book seeks to challenge dominant assumptions about the spatialities of poverty and the nature of rural spaces in Britain and America.

Drawing on a broad range of new research material, the book challenges dominant assumptions.nbsp;It provides a comprehensive and critical review of the nature of poverty in rural spaces, giving particular attentionnbsp;to:

• the scale, profile and causes of poverty in rural areas
• the spatial unevenness and local geographies of rural poverty
• the experiences of different forms of poverty in rural spaces
• the shifting governance of rural welfare at central and local spatial scales.

Demonstrating that poverty represents a significant but neglected feature of rural life in Britain and America, this insightful booknbsp;highlights the processes through which rural poverty remains hidden from the dominant gazes of poverty researchers and policy-makers, the statistical significance and spatial unevenness of poverty in rural areas,nbsp;the ways in which poverty is experienced in local rural spaces,nbsp;and the complex governance of welfare in rural spaces. Case study materialnbsp;is drawn from a wide range of locations, including Wiltshire, Northumberland and Hampshire in the UK and New England in the US.