Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 158 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781315683904
,
9781317407553
,
9781317407560
Series Statement:
Regions and cities 88
Content:
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.
Content:
1. Introducing WISERD localities / Martin Jones, Victoria Macfarlane and Scott Orford -- 2. Reframing the devolved policy landscape in wales / Ian Stafford -- 3. Wales : a statistical perspective / Sam Jones, Scott Orford and Gary Higgs -- 4. The heads of the valleys / Stephen Burgess and Kate Moles -- 5. East, west and the bit in the middle : localities in north Wales / Robin Mann and Alexandra Plows -- 6. Locating the mid Wales economy / Jesse Heley, Laura Jones and Suzie Watkin -- 7. New localities in action and reaction / Martin Jones. [and others].
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138925205
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781138925205
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.4324/9781315683904
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