Rural Wales in the Twenty-First Century

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Description

This book explores the changing relations between people, place and environment in rural Wales in the twenty first century and provides new understandings of rural geography and rural sociology.
1. Introduction Paul Milbourne Part 1: Society and Community 2. The Englishing of Rural Wales? Migration, conflict and integration in community life Graham Day 3. The Social and Cultural Impacts of English Migration to Rural Wales Paul Milbourne 4. 'Alternative' Communities in Rural Wales Keith Halfacree 5. Community Action in Rural Wales Graham Gardner Part 2: Economy and Employment 6. Poles Apart? Migrant Workers in Rural Wales Michael Woods 7. Exploring Rural Labour Market Relationships: The persistence of the low-skills economy in rural areas of Wales Lawrence Kitchen and Terry Marsden 8. Market Towns in Rural Wales: A differentiated geography Michael Woods 9. A Regional Response to a Global Issue: The eco-economy and sustainable development in rural Wales Lawrence Kitchen Part 3: Farming and Food 10. Farming and agri-food in Wales: The new agenda. Terry Marsden 11. Foodscapes and Landscapes: The gastro-geographies of Wales Kevin Morgan Part 4: Welfare and Services 12. Deep Rural Communities: Exploring Service provision in rural Wales Kate Moles and Jonathan Radcliffe 13. Poverty in Rural Wales: Material hardships, social inclusions and landscape Paul Milbourne Part 5: Environment 14. Environmental Sustainability of, by and for Rural Wales Richard Cowell 15. Forestry and the Challenge of Post-industrial Transformation: A study of the mid-Wales uplands Nerys Owens 16. Conclusion Paul Milbourne

Sujets

• Regional Studies
• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique
• 21st century
• Wales

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 octobre 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780708324356
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait

Rural Wales in the
Twenty-frst Century
Society, economy and environment
Edited by
Paul Milbourne
University of Wales PressRural Wales in the Twenty-frst Century
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Twenty-frst Century
Society, economy and environment
Edited by
Paul Milbourne
UNIVERSITY OF WALES
CARDIFF
2011
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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank the contributors for their dedication to this
book project and their adherence to the various deadlines imposed
by the editor. I am also grateful to Sarah Lewis for her support in
guiding the project from initial idea to fnal manuscript. Last, I
want to express my thanks to my Ph.D. supervisor, research colleague
and dear friend Bill Edwards, without whom none of this would
have been possible. It is hoped that this book will go some small way
to keeping alive his memory.
PM
Cardiff
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
List of Contributors xi
1. Introducing the Geographies of Rural Wales 1
Paul Milbourne
Part 1: Society and Community
2. The Englishing of Rural Wales? Migration, Confict and
Integration in Community Life 23
Graham Day
3. The Social and Cultural Impacts of English Migration
to Rural Wales 46
Paul Milbourne
4. ‘Alternative’ Communities in Rural Wales 65
Keith Halfacree
5. Community Action in Rural Wales 89
Graham Gardner
Part 2: Economy and Employment
6. Poles Apart? Migrant Workers in Rural Wales 109
Michael Woods
7. Exploring Rural Labour Market Relationships: the
Persistence of the Low- skills Economy in Rural Areas
of Wales 126
Lawrence Kitchen and Terry Marsden
8. Market Towns in Rural Wales: a Differentiated Geography 149
Michael Woods
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9. A Regional Response to a Global Issue: the Eco- economy
and Sustainable Development in Rural Wales 169
Lawrence Kitchen
Part 3: Farming and Food
10. Farming and Agri- food in Wales: the New Agenda 189
Terry Marsden
11. Foodscapes and Landscapes: the Gastro-geographies
of Wales 215
Kevin Morgan
Part 4: Welfare and Services
12. Deep Rural Communities: Exploring Service Provision in
Rural Wales 237
Kate Moles and Jonathan Radcliffe
13. Poverty in Rural Wales: Material Hardship and Social
Inclusion 254
Paul Milbourne
Part 5: Environment
14. Environmental Sustainability of, by and for Rural Wales 273
Richard Cowell
15. Forestry and the Challenge of Post- industrial
Transformation: a Study of the Mid Wales Uplands 301
Nerys Owens
16. Conclusion: Continuity and Change in Rural Wales 322
Paul Milbourne
Index 334
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Contributors
Richard Cowell is a senior lecturer in the School of City and
Regional Planning, Cardiff University, and director of the school’s
M.Sc. in sustainability, planning and environmental policy. His
research interests focus on the relationship between land- use
planning and sustainable development, with particular reference to
renewable energy, nature conservation and the politics of decision
making.
Graham Day is honorary senior research fellow in the School of
Social Sciences, Bangor University, where he was previously reader
in sociology and head of school. He has worked extensively on
the of Wales, with particular reference to economic and
social change, and rural and community sociology. He is the
author of Making Sense of Wales (Cardiff: University of Wales Press,
2002) and Community and Everyday Life (London: Routledge, 2006)
and co- author of Theorizing Nationalism (Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2004).
Keith Halfacree is a senior lecturer in human geography at Swansea
University. His research interests are many and varied but focus on
a number of overlapping areas: discourses and practices of rurality
in the global north, radical and alternative rural futures, human
migration (especially forms of ‘back- to- the- land’), social theory and
‘marginal geographies’ as exhibited in various spheres of everyday
life.
Graham Gardner spent ten years researching and commentating
on rural community action and local democracy, with a particular
interest in building bridges between academic research, policy
formation and local practice. His research, which culminated in an
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RCUK Fellowship, included involvement with a series of major
projects exploring community action in rural Wales, all of them
based at Aberystwyth University.
Lawrence Kitchen is a research associate with the Wales Rural
Observatory in the School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff
University. His research interests are sustainable development, the
eco- economy, rural development and social forestry. He has
published widely on these themes in a number of book chapters
and journal articles.
Terry Marsden is professor of environmental policy and planning
in the School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University. He
has written extensively on rural, agricultural and environmental
policy, and has served in a series of advisory roles for the House of
Commons, Cabinet Offce and the Wales Assembly Government.
He is also a founding and active member of the Wales Rural
Observatory.
Paul Milbourne is professor of human geography in the School of
City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University, and director of the
Wales Rural Observatory. His research interests include the
geographies of poverty and welfare, housing and homelessness and
community gardening. He has published widely on these themes,
including Rural Poverty (London: Routledge, 2004), International
Perspectives on Rural Homelessness (London: Routledge, 2006, with Paul
Cloke) and Welfare Reform in Rural Places (Bingley: Emerald, 2010).
Kate Moles is a research associate with the Wales Institute for Social
and Economic Research, Data and Methods at Cardiff University.
She is interested in the ways places are constructed, understood,
invoked and realized through various discourses and is currently
conducting research in the south Wales valleys with young people
which explores these issues.
Kevin Morgan is professor of governance and development in the
School of City and Regional Planning at Cardiff University. His
research interests revolve around sustainable food systems; the
theory, policy and practice of urban and regional development; the
dynamics of devolution and development, and the role of mutuals
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and social enterprises in business and community regeneration. He
is the co- author of Worlds of Food (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2006) and The School Food Revolution (London: Earthscan, 2010).
Nerys Owens is a research associate with the Wales Rural
Observatory in the School of City and Regional Planning at Cardiff
University. Her research interests include social forestry,
environmental governance, nature–society relations and sociocultural
constructions of place. She has worked on a series of research
projects covering a broad range of rural themes.
Jonathan Radcliffe is a research associate with the Wales Rural
Observatory in the School of City and Regional Planning at Cardiff
University. His research interests relate to rural Wales, GIS and the
visualization of rural statistics for policy making. He is currently
undertaking research for his Ph.D. on the visualization of rural data
in Wales and has published several journal articles on this theme.
Michael Woods is professor of human geography at Aberystwyth
University and is a member of the Wales Rural Observatory. As well
as undertaking a number of studies on rural Wales for the
observatory, he has also led research projects on rural protests, rural
development and globalization, participation in rural community
governance, and town and community councils in Wales. His books
include Rural (London: Routledge, 2010) and Rural Geography
(London: Sage, 2005).
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Introducing the Geographies of
Rural Wales
PaulMilbourne
Introduction
The completeness of the traditional rural society – involving the
cohesion of family, kindred and neighbours – and its capacity to give the
individual a sense of belonging are phenomena that might well be
pondered by all who seek a better social order. (Rees, 1950: 170)
This book on the geographies of rural Wales begins with the last
sentence of a previous book on the Welsh countryside published
more than sixty years earlier. Alwyn Rees’s Life in a Welsh Countryside
provided a thick description of economic and social life in the rural
comm