<p>Moving beyond the highly visual forms of poverty characteristic of the city,&amp;nbsp;Rural Povertyexplores the nature of poverty in rural spaces in Britain and America. Setting&amp;nbsp;out&amp;nbsp;key features, it highlights the important processes that&amp;nbsp;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.</p> <p>Drawing on a broad range of new research material, the book challenges dominant assumptions.&amp;nbsp;It provides a comprehensive and critical review of the nature of poverty in rural spaces, giving particular attention&amp;nbsp;to:</p> <ul> <li>the scale, profile and causes of poverty in rural areas</li> <li>the spatial unevenness and local geographies of rural poverty</li> <li>the experiences of different forms of poverty in rural spaces</li> <li>the shifting governance of rural welfare at central and local spatial scales.</li> </ul> <p>Demonstrating that poverty represents a significant but neglected feature of rural life in Britain and America, this insightful book&amp;nbsp;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,&amp;nbsp;the ways in which poverty is experienced in local rural spaces,&amp;nbsp;and the complex governance of welfare in rural spaces. Case study material&amp;nbsp;is drawn from a wide range of locations, including Wiltshire, Northumberland and Hampshire in the UK and New England in the US.</p>