摘要：Editor-in-chief from 2006 to 2011, the author analyses the period in which the journal, starting with a new concept and a new phase in its development, changed its name from Rural Sociology to Sociology and Space. In the introduction, circumstances are examined which brought about the change as well as the new Editorial Board. Then the new concept of the journal is looked at and the themes of articles and reviews from that period. In the conclusion, the author briefly looks back at good and bad moments of her six-year mandate and expresses an open and optimistic view of the future.
关键词：Sociology and Space; new phase of journal development; new editorial board
