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The second in the "Restructuring Rural Areas" series, this work
presents an examination of the way in which the rural, and the
concept of rurality is being reconstructed within urban regions.;
It argues that the rural is not a fixed category but the outcome of
political, economic and socio- cultural pressures. These pressures
are exacerbated in southeast England - an area dominated by London
and the patterns of growth associated with that city. Through close
analysis of key land development processes and a series of village
studies, the authors give a forceful demonstration of the way in
which certain social groups are becoming increasingly influential
in determining the material and social shape of rural areas in the
United Kingdom. The formation of class identity, it is argued, is
closely bound up with the formation of certain local spaces; class
and space must be considered as combined elements in the
development of rural locales. To illustrate this the authors
document in detail the means by which dominant groups represent
themselves within the development process and show how the
exclusion of certain kinds of development leads to the exclusion of
certain social groups.
In the wake of BSE, the threat to ban fox hunting and Foot and
Mouth disease, the English countryside appears to be in turmoil.
Long-standing uses of rural space are in crisis and,
unsurprisingly, political processes in rural areas are marked by
conflicts between groups, such as farmers, environmentalists,
developers and local residents. Using an innovative theoretical
approach based on 'networks of conventions', this book investigates
the 'regionalisation' of the English countryside through a series
of case-studies. These studies are based on a set of 'ideal types':
'the preserved' countryside, where environmental pressures are
strongly expressed; the 'contested' countryside, where development
processes are shaped by disputes between agrarian and environmental
interests; and the 'paternalistic' countryside, where large
landowners continue to oversee patterns of land development. It
looks in detail at landowners, residents, politicians, planners,
farmers, and environmentalists and shows how these groups compete.
The Differentiated Countryside argues that the countryside is
increasingly governed by regional policies. It becomes hard to
discern a single English countryside; we see the emergence of
multiple countrysides, places where diverse modes of identity are
expressed and differing forms of development take place. Such
diversity, it is argued, now lies at the heart of rural England.
In the wake of BSE, the threat to ban fox hunting and Foot and Mouth disease, the English countryside appears to be in turmoil. Long-standing uses of rural space are in crisis and, unsurprisingly, political processes in rural areas are marked by conflicts between groups, such as farmers, environmentalists, developers and local residents. Using an innovative theoretical approach based on 'networks of conventions', this book investigates the 'regionalisation' of the English countryside through a series of case-studies. These studies are based on a set of 'ideal types': 'the preserved' countryside, where environmental pressures are strongly expressed; the 'contested' countryside, where development processes are shaped by disputes between agrarian and environmental interests; and the 'paternalistic' countryside, where large landowners continue to oversee patterns of land development. It looks in detail at landowners, residents, politicians, planners, farmers, and environmentalists and shows how these groups compete. The Differentiated Countryside argues that the countryside is increasingly governed by regional policies. It becomes hard to discern a single English countryside; we see the emergence of multiple countrysides, places where diverse modes of identity are expressed and differing forms of development take place. Such diversity, it is argued, now lies at the heart of rural England.
What are the key rationalities that underpin planning policy
discourses and how do they 'frame' seemingly irreconcilable
conflicts around development and environmental protection?
Providing a thorough assessment of these important questions, this
stimulating book reviews planning policy in the UK and the
rationality of 'sustainable development'. Supported by a wealth of
empirical material collected over the past ten years, the study
examines the national, regional and local tiers of planning for
housing. It analyzes whether the rationality of planning for
'sustainable development' allows a new spatial sensibility to
inform planning policy, and whether it still responds to the social
demands that were previously incorporated within the developmental
method. The overriding concern, which the authors respond to and
expand upon, is whether planning for sustainable development can
provide a satisfactory basis upon which to re-establish
contemporary planning.
What are the key rationalities that underpin planning policy
discourses and how do they 'frame' seemingly irreconcilable
conflicts around development and environmental protection?
Providing a thorough assessment of these important questions, this
stimulating book reviews planning policy in the UK and the
rationality of 'sustainable development'. Supported by a wealth of
empirical material collected over the past ten years, the study
examines the national, regional and local tiers of planning for
housing. It analyzes whether the rationality of planning for
'sustainable development' allows a new spatial sensibility to
inform planning policy, and whether it still responds to the social
demands that were previously incorporated within the developmental
method. The overriding concern, which the authors respond to and
expand upon, is whether planning for sustainable development can
provide a satisfactory basis upon which to re-establish
contemporary planning.
The volume presents a range of critical perspectives on the
contemporary agri-food sector. The starting point is the
recognition that geography matters in agri-food more than ever, and
it plays a diverse range of roles in shaping production-consumption
relations. With hindsight, it may be argued that the extensive
rural sociological literature on the globalisation of food over the
past twenty years has tended to over-emphasise the degree to which
food products and processes have indeed been industrialised and
standardised. But if diversity and variety have become increasingly
significant in distinguishing food commodities, spaces of
production, and the practices of consumption, how are we to
critically understand and theorise this complexity? What are the
features of the institutional, private, public and civic frameworks
that work to promote and sustain diversity and complexity in the
international food sector both within and between the global and
the local? What new or reconfigured sets of power relations are
developing through the unfolding of this complexity; and what do
these suggest for the sustainability or vulnerability of rural
locales and natures?
Through the two sections of the book- first concerning Theorising
Complexity, and the second, problematising Local development and
Local complexities- and bringing together under this theme
international theoretical and empirical comparisons, the book
begins to explore this rich rural sociological and development
field. The chapters examine in detail the ways that constellations
of organisations, cultures and entrepreneurial practices become
embedded in discrete spatial areas. They show the importance of
these areas and theirassociated institutions to the contemporary,
and increasingly contingent development of the international food
system.
*Both sections of the volume take a critical perspective when
examining the agri-food sector
*Explores the sociological and developmental impact of the
contemporary food sector
From farm to fork, the conventional food chain is under enormous
pressure to respond to a whole series of new challenges - food
scares in rich countries, food security concerns in poor countries,
and a burgeoning problem of obesity in all countries. As more and
more people demand to know where their food comes from, and how it
is produced, issues of place, power, and provenance assume
increasing significance for producers, consumers, and regulators,
challenging the corporate forces that shape the 'placeless
foodscape'. Far from being confined to niche products, questions
about the origins of food are also surfacing in the conventional
sector, where labelling has become a major political issue. Drawing
on theories of multi-level governance, three leading scholars in
the field explore the geo-politics of the food chain in different
spatial arenas: the World Trade Organization, where free trade
principles clash with fair trade concerns in the debate about
agricultural reform; the European Union, where producers are under
pressure from environmentalists for a more traceable and
sustainable food system; and the US, where there is a striking
contradiction between the rhetoric of free markets and the reality
of a heavily subsidised farming sector. To understand the local
impact of these global trends, the authors explore three different
regional worlds of food: the traditional world of localised quality
in Tuscany, the peripheral world of commodity production in Wales,
and the frontier world of agri-business in California.
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