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      People, Places and Policy (Open Access)

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      People, Places and Policy (Open Access) book

      Knowing contemporary Wales through new localities

      People, Places and Policy (Open Access)

      DOI link for People, Places and Policy (Open Access)

      People, Places and Policy (Open Access) book

      Knowing contemporary Wales through new localities
      Edited ByMartin Jones, Scott Orford, Victoria Macfarlane
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2015
      eBook Published 7 September 2015
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315683904
      Pages 174
      eBook ISBN 9781315683904
      Subjects Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Geography, Global Development, Urban Studies
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      Jones, M., Orford, S., & Macfarlane, V. (Eds.). (2015). People, Places and Policy (Open Access): Knowing contemporary Wales through new localities (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315683904

      ABSTRACT

      The Open Access version of this book, available at www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.

      Set within the context of UK devolution and constitutional change, People, Places and Policy offers important and interesting insights into ‘place-making’ and ‘locality-making’ in contemporary Wales. Combining policy research with policy-maker and stakeholder interviews at various spatial scales (local, regional, national), it examines the historical processes and working practices that have produced the complex political geography of Wales.

      This book looks at the economic, social and political geographies of Wales, which in the context of devolution and public service governance are hotly debated. It offers a novel ‘new localities’ theoretical framework for capturing the dynamics of locality-making, to go beyond the obsession with boundaries and coterminous geographies expressed by policy-makers and politicians. Three localities – Heads of the Valleys (north of Cardiff), central and west coast regions (Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and the former district of Montgomeryshire in Powys) and the A55 corridor (from Wrexham to Holyhead) – are discussed in detail to illustrate this and also reveal the geographical tensions of devolution in contemporary Wales.

      This book is an original statement on the making of contemporary Wales from the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) researchers. It deploys a novel ‘new localities’ theoretical framework and innovative mapping techniques to represent spatial patterns in data. This allows the timely uncovering of both unbounded and fuzzy relational policy geographies, and the more bounded administrative concerns, which come together to produce and reproduce over time Wales’ regional geography.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|15 pages

      Introducing WISERD localities

      ByMARTIN JONES, VICTORIA MACFARLANE, SCOTT ORFORD

      Size: 0.23 MB

      chapter 2|26 pages

      Reframing the devolved policy landscape in Wales

      ByIAN STAFFORD

      Size: 0.30 MB

      chapter 3|37 pages

      Wales: a statistical perspective

      BySAMUEL JONES, SCOTT ORFORD, GARY HIGGS

      Size: 1.79 MB

      chapter 4|16 pages

      The Heads of the Valleys

      BySTEPHEN BURGESS, KATE MOLES

      Size: 0.39 MB

      chapter 5|23 pages

      East, west and the bit in the middle: localities in north Wales

      Size: 0.49 MB

      chapter 6|25 pages

      Locating the mid Wales economy

      ByJESSE HELEY, LAURA JONES, SUZIE WATKIN

      Size: 0.46 MB

      chapter 7|12 pages

      New localities in action and reaction

      ByMARTIN JONES, SCOTT ORFORD, JESSE HELEY

      Size: 0.09 MB
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