ABSTRACT
Migration from an urban to a more rural residential environment is commonplace in most highly developed countries. In Britain, such migration takes place with a backdrop of an agricultural industry mired in a state of crisis. Indeed, academic analysis of the depth and prolonged character of this crisis have led to suggestions that we are witnessing a shift from a ‘productivist’ to a ‘postproductivist’ era in the countryside as a whole. With such a shift comes the opening up of a space for relatively novel actors to stamp their identity upon the British countryside.
