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Budy, F.C.T, 2020. Political reactions from below to Sime Darby land grab: Generational shift, geographical reach, rural influencers and multi-stakeholder alliance. (209.00 B)
Journal of Rural Studies View Online

Migration, Mobility and Cosmopolitanism in the Global Countryside (7.35 MB)
Presentation to the International Symposium on the Global Countryside, GLOBAL-RURAL final conference, Gregynog, November 2018.

Assemblage, place and globalization: researching the global countryside (4.39 MB)
Presentation to International Symposium on the Global Countryside, GLOBAL-RURAL final conference, Gregynog, November 2018.

(Re-)assembling place in the global countryside (1,019.64 KB)
Presentation to 'Beyond Globalization' seminar, Loughborough University, January 2015.

Visualizing the Global Countryside (468.25 KB)
Poster presented at the Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, London, August 2014.

Global Political Disruptions, Migration and Demographic Trends (363.21 KB)
Poster presented to the WISERD Annual Conference, Bangor, July 2017

Rural cosmopolitanism then and now: European settlers and Chinese farmers in late colonial Queensland (759.89 KB)
Presentation to the New Zealand Geographical Society Annual Conference, Dunedin, February 2016.

Agribusiness assemblages and the global countryside (1.89 MB)
Guest lecture to Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, March 2018.

The global countryside? Rural agency and transformation under globalization (2.18 MB)
Guest lecture given at Ningbo University and the Central China Normal University, Wuhan, October 2017. Slides have Chinese translation.

Re-assembling rural places in the global countryside (2.25 MB)

New food politics in the emergent global countryside (3.61 MB)

Re-assembling the Global Countryside: Applications and Lessons for Rural Development (2.44 MB)

Migration and Cosmopolitanism in the Global Countryside (4.93 MB)

Experiences and Responses to Land-grabbing in Liberia (518.57 KB)

Agribusiness, Rural Communities and Resistance in Brazil (6.59 MB)

Placing Sugar Assemblages (1.83 MB)

The World Comes to Wales for the Weekend? (2.88 MB)

Uniqueness and Ubiquity: Making Rural Places in a Global Era (1.38 MB)

Unravelling British Wool - Article in The Conversation (1.91 MB)

Uniqueness and Ubiquity: making rural places in a global era (3.25 MB)
Presentation based on Newtown Case Study research

Impact of land grabbing on rural Liberia (2.02 MB)
Fidel Budy. Presentation to policy makers and stakeholders in Liberia on 14 December 2018

Rural transformation and multi-stakeholder alliances: the case of Senjeh District in Liberia (1.87 MB)
Fidel Budy. Paper presented at the second biennial conference of the Political Ecology Network in Oslo on 20 June 2018.

Assemblage, Place and Globalization Talk (693.54 KB)
Presentation by Michael Woods on 'Assemblage, Place and Globalization' to Assemblage Thinking Symposium, Mytilene, June 2017.

Creative Ruralities (267.74 KB)
Paper presented by Michael Woods at the 'Creativity at the Edge' Symposium, Moore Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, June 2012

(Re-)Assembling the Global Countryside (10.70 MB)
Open lecture at Manchester Metropolitan University, 31 December 2018

Faith-Based Organisations and Environmental Justice (1.66 MB)
Beth Saunders. A presentation given at the Salzburg 2017 Conference on Religion and Poverty

Faith Based International Volunteering (1.05 MB)
Beth Saunders. A presentation given at the ISTR Conference 2018: Democracy and Legitimacy:  The Role of the Third Sector in a Globalizing World.

Manufacturing Mid Wales (3.80 MB)
Paper presented to the Nordic Geographers Meeting, Stockholm, July 2017

The World Comes to Wales for the Weekend (5.95 MB)
Sam Saville and Mike Woods. Presented at the WISERD conference, July 2018, University of South Wales.

From olive groves to cargo holds: the dissident assemblages of invasive species (1.55 MB)
Presentation by Laura Jones at RGS-IBG Annual conference, Cardiff 2018. Session on 'Global Challenges and Assemblage'

The same, but different: Fanta and the placing of globalization (3.13 MB)
Sam Saville, Jesse Heley, Marc Welsh. Presentation at Centre for Welsh Politics and Society, Research Workshop for Global Connections theme, 25th January 2018, Aberystwyth University

Woods, M. (2018) Rural cosmopolitanism at the frontier? Chinese farmers and community relations in northern Queensland, c. 1890-1920 (2.32 MB)
Australian Geographer, 49(1), pages 107-131. View online

Fois, F. (2017) Shamanic spiritual activism: alternative development in the Brazilian Itamboatá valley
Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, 2 (2-3), 338-355. View online.

Moving mighty oaks: translocality and social acorns (2.54 MB)
Marc Welsh, Sam Saville & Laura Jones. Presented at the the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2018, 28th-31st August, Cardiff

Global Challenges and Rural Landscapes: An Assemblage Approach (2.13 MB)
Paper presented to the RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Cardiff, August 2018

Jones, L., Heley, J. and Woods, M. (2019) Unravelling the Global Wool Assemblage: Researching Place and Production Networks in the Global Countryside (395.46 KB)
Sociologia Ruralis, vol 59, pages 137-158. View online (Open access)

The State as Broker in International Labour Migration (1.19 MB)
Paper presented to the Global Conference on Economic Geography, Cologne, July 2018

Finance, Risk and Family Farmers (1.20 MB)
Paper presented to the Global Conference on Economic Geography, Cologne, July 2018

ESRC Festival of Social Science 2017 - Mid Wales Futures (8.85 MB)
Imagining alternative futures for mid Wales / Dychmygu dyfodol amgen ar gyfer canolbarth Cymru

Newtown Audio (3.42 MB)
Locals talking about their town (mp3 audio)

D5.3(i) Case Study Report_Alytus county (978.94 KB)

D5.3(h) Case Study Report_Jihomoravsky kraj (391.73 KB)

D5.3(g) Case Study Report_West Region of Ireland (430.44 KB)

DERREG Publishable Summary 36 months.pdf (320.05 KB)

DERREG Summary Report.pdf (402.54 KB)

WP3_Report_final-03-02-2011.PDF (1.24 MB)

Positive thinking: Rural communities can benefit from Globalization (118.01 KB)
SCOOP article

Regional Resilience and the Global Environment.pdf (154.18 KB)

Regions Engaging Globalization.pdf (218.92 KB)

D4.4 Synthesis report.pdf (1.36 MB)

D5.3(f) Case Study Report_Oberlausitz_IFL (1,015.00 KB)

D2.4 work package findings summary_updated.pdf (965.92 KB)

D5.3(e) Case Study Report_Övre Norrland (150.36 KB)

D5.3(d)Case study Report_USAAR (571.94 KB)

D5.3(c) Case Study Report_ Westerkwartier. (1.31 MB)

D1.4 Summary of WP1 Research Findings.pdf (530.77 KB)

D5.3(b) Case study Report_Comarca de Verin (502.53 KB)

D5.3(a) Case Study Report_Slovenia (1.21 MB)

DERREG European Policy Brief.pdf (1.57 MB)

The Comarca Verin Conference (943.14 KB)
Balancing bureaucracy and progress: niche actors and rural progress in Galicia, Spain

Conference7.JPG (77.63 KB)

Comarca de Verin, Spain, contextual report final (740.95 KB)

Conference6.JPG (64.61 KB)

Alytus Contextual Report (943.66 KB)

Conference5.JPG (88.81 KB)

Goriška Contextual Report _final (906.80 KB)

Conference4.JPG (87.27 KB)

Conference3.JPG (70.45 KB)

Conference2.JPG (69.52 KB)

D4.3 Well-working arrangements (final version with Appendix) (4.48 MB)

Conference1.JPG (81.02 KB)

D4.2 Summary analysis of support to joint learning and innovation (final version June 9 2011) (3.82 MB)

DERREG D4 1 Overview of learning and support strategies (25-06-2010) (1.50 MB)

Pomurska WP5 contextual report (813.86 KB)

Dresden WP5 Contextual Report (1.31 MB)

DERREG D1.3 _Best Practice_ 300811.pdf (1.37 MB)

West Region WP5 contextual report (823.49 KB)

Saarland WP5 contextual report (1.27 MB)

DERREG D1 2 Final Version (part 2).pdf (1.40 MB)

Westerkwartier WP5 contextual report (1.06 MB)

DERREG D1 2 Final Version (part 1).pdf (1.92 MB)

Jihomoravsky Kraj WP5 contextual report (1.29 MB)

DERREG D1.2 Appendix 2 Interview Guidelines.pdf (77.23 KB)

DERREG D1.2 Appendix 1 Electronic Business Survey Form.pdf (1.03 MB)

Ovre Norrland WP5 contextual report (1.81 MB)

DERREG periodic report 2010_publishable summary.pdf (238.27 KB)

WP2_D2.2_newspaper articles.pdf (3.41 MB)

D5.1 DERREG Conceptual Framework.pdf (1.36 MB)

Derreg poster (1.96 MB)

DERREG project leaflet_Spanish version (6.06 MB)

DERREG project leaflet_Slovenian version (865.89 KB)

DERREG project leaflet_Lithuanian version (1.50 MB)

‘(Dis-)Assembling the Global Countryside: China and the New Zealand Dairy Assemblage’
presentation for Human Geography Research Seminar Series, Aberystwyth University, November 2016.

‘Precarious Rural Cosmopolitanism and Neoliberal Globalization in Irish Small Towns’ (7.58 MB)
presented to RURALGEO, the European Rural Geography Conference, Braunschwig, June 2017.

Recovering Tradition in Globalizing Rural China: Handicrafts in Da’ou Village (1.47 MB)
presented to the European Society for Rural Sociology Congress, Krakow, July 2017.

‘Exploring everyday globalization with digital and visual methods’
poster presented to workshop on Digital Technologies and Visual Research Methods, Aberdeen, August 2015.

‘Rethinking Rural Responses to Globalization: an Assemblage Approach’
key note paper to the IGU Commission on the Sustainability of Rural Systems Annual Colloquium, Lisbon, July 2015.

‘Wales’s hidden global economy: uncovering the transnational networks of small town SMEs’
presented to the WISERD Annual Conference, Cardiff, July 2015.

‘Assemblage, Place, Power and Globalization’
presented to the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2015. watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l3agcxgLpQ&feature=youtu.be

‘Exploring Everyday Globalization in a Rural Small Town: a Critical Topography of Newtown’
presentation to the Institute of Welsh Politics / WISERD Understanding Wales Seminar Series, Aberystwyth University, March 2015.

‘Re-assembling rural place in the global countryside’
presented to the Re-imagining Rurality conference, University of Westminster, February 2015.

‘(Re-)assembling rural place in agri-food globalization’ (2.84 MB)
presented to the Agri-Food XXI Conference, Sydney, November 2014.

‘New Food Politics in the Emergent Global Countryside’
presented to Food and Sustainability: Production, Consumption and Food Relations in Asia Conference, City University of Hong Kong, October 2014.

‘The Recession and Rural Wales’
presented as part of WISERD Seminar Series on Wales and the Recession, Cardiff University, September 2014.

‘Visualizing the Global Countryside’ (982.67 KB)
Poster presented at the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) Annual Conference, London, August 2014.

‘Social Change and New Ruralities’ (2.01 MB)
presented to the Bertebos Conference, Falkenberg, Sweden, August 2014.

‘Everyday Globalization in a Rural Small Town’ (5.12 MB)
presented to the WISERD Annual Conference, Aberystwyth, July 2014 and the European Rural Geography Conference, Nantes, France, June 2014.

‘Assembling Rural Place’ (4.75 MB)
introduction to GLOBAL-RURAL project and conceptual approach, presented to Centre for Rural Research, Trondheim, Norway, January 2014 (earlier versions presented at New Ruralities Conference, Bamberg, Germany, November 2013 and at Wageningen University, December 2013).

McDonagh, J., Nienaber, B. and Woods, M. (eds) (2015) Globalization and Europe’s Rural Regions
Ashgate (in press).

Woods, M. (2011) Rural, Routledge

Woods M. (2005) Rural Geography: Processes, Responses and Experiences in Rural Restructuring

Woods, M. (2014) Regions engaging globalization: a typology of regional responses in Europe (218.92 KB)
Journal of Rural and Community Development, 8(3), 113-126. Full paper (open access).

Welsh, M. (2014) Resilience and responsibility: governing uncertainty in a complex world
The Geographical Journal, 180, 15-26. Full paper (subscription or paid download required).

Cheshire, L., Meurk, C. and Woods, M. (2013) Decoupling farm and place: recombinant attachments of globally-engaged family farmers (20.00 B)
Journal of Rural Studies, 30, 64-74. Full paper (subscription or paid download required).

Cheshire, L. and Woods, M. (2013) Globally engaged farmers as transnational actors: navigating the landscape of agri-food globalization (20.00 B)
Geoforum, 44, 232-242. Full paper (subscription or paid download required).

Woods, M. (2013) Rural development, globalization and European regional policy (20.00 B)
Geographia Polonica, 86, 95-109. Full paper (open access).

Heley, J. and Jones, L. (2012) Relational Rurals: some thoughts on relating things and theory in rural studies (20.00 B)
Journal of Rural Studies, 28, 208-217. Full paper (subscription or paid download required).

Heley, J., Gardner, G. and Watkin, S. (2012) Brave new localities? Cultures of local economy in a Celtic fringe region, European Urban and Regional Studies (90.00 B)
19, 366-382. Full paper (subscription or paid download required)

Woods, M. and McDonagh, J. (2011) Rural Europe and the World: rural development and globalization, European Countryside
3, 153-163

Woods, M. (2011) The local politics of the global countryside: boosterism, aspirational ruralism and the contested reconstitution of Queenstown, New Zealand
Geojournal, 76, 365-381. Full paper (subscription or paid download required), Pre-publication draft (open access).

Woods M. (2007) Engaging the global countryside: globalization, hybridity and the reconstitution of rural place (253.33 KB)
progress in Human Geography, 31, 485-507. Full paper (subscription or paid download required) or open access copy.

Jones, L., Heley, J. and Watkin, S. (2015) Local cultures of the Ceredigion economy: Practices of endogenous development in rural mid Wales
in J. McDonagh, B. Nienaber and M Woods (eds) Globalization and Europe’s Rural Regions. Ashgate.  pp. 57-67 (in press).

Woods, M. (2013) ‘The elite countryside: shifting rural geographies of the transnational super-rich’
in I. Hay and S. Muller (eds) Geographies of the Super-Rich. Edward Elgar.

Woods, M. (2013) ‘Economic entanglements and the reshaping of place in the global countryside’
Diez, J. R. and Tamasay, C. (eds) Regional Resilience, Economy and Society. Ashgate

Jones, L. and Lever, J. (2014) Migrant workers in Rural Wales and the South Wales Valleys
Wales Rural Observatory Report.

Woods, M. et al. (2012) Developing Europe’s Rural Regions in the Era of Globalization
Final Summary Report of the DERREG Project.

‘International mobility, local agency and regional development in the emergent global countryside’
findings from the DERREG project presented to the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, February 2012.

‘Rural resilience and the global economy: vulnerability and adaptation in a time of crisis’
findings from the DERREG project presented to the World Congress of Rural Sociology, Lisbon, July 2012.

'Grounding global challenges and the relational politics of the rural’
presented at Newcastle University, October 2013 (earlier versions presented at IGU Commission on Sustainability of Rural Systems Conference, Galway, 2011; University of Queensland, 2011; Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 2013; RGS-IBG Annual Conference, 2013)

Rural Cosmopolitanism Then and Now? Chinese Farmers in Colonial Queensland (1.35 MB)
presented to European Society for Rural Sociology Congress, Aberdeen, August 2015.

Power and Place in the Global Sugar Assemblage
presented to the RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Exeter, September 2015.

Global Economic Restructuring and Place: Nambour in the Global Sugar Assemblage (4.38 MB)
Presented to the Quadrennial UK-US-Canadian Rural Geography Conference, Wales, July 2015; Geography Seminar Series, National University of Ireland, Galway, October 2015; and Institute of Geographical Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, November 2015.

Rural Cosmpolitanism Then and Now: European Settlers and Chinese Farmers in Late Colonial Queensland
presented to the New Zealand Geographical Society Conference, Dunedin, February 2016.

Assembling Globalization and Restructuring Rural Infrastructure: China and the New Zealand Dairy Assemblage (7.51 MB)
paper presented at the American Association of Geographers conference, Boston, April 2017

Agribusiness Assemblages and the Global Countryside (2.41 MB)
keynote presentation at ‘Governança, Agronegócio e Redes de Produção Global’ Colloquium, Brasilia, August 2017.

Fish, Fog and Fluorescent Bulbs: Negotiating the More-than-Human, More-than-Terrestrial Place Assemblage of a Canadian Coastal Community (14.38 MB)
Presented to the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Conference, London, August-September 2017.

‘Stop the world I want to get off? How rural communities respond to globalisation’ (34.98 MB)
Talk to Devon Communities Together Rural Futures Conference, September 2017.

'Assemblage, Place, Power and Globalization’ (635.90 KB)
Presented to the RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Exeter, September 2015.

‘Chinese Rural Development in Global Perspective’ (2.43 MB)
Presented to the Rural Reconstruction Forum, Beijing, November 2015.

‘Designing a Data Management Plan: the GLOBAL-RURAL Experience’, (808.25 KB)
Presented to ERC Workshop on Ethics in Research: Challenges from the Social Sciences, Brussels, November 2015.

'Rural Cosmpolitanism Then and Now: European Settlers and Chinese Farmers in Late Colonial Queensland’
Presented to the New Zealand Geographical Society Conference, Dunedin, February 2016.

‘Assembling the Global Countryside’
Presented to the School of Environment, Auckland University, March 2016.

‘(Re-)Assembling Foreign Direct Investment in an Irish Small Town’ (991.99 KB)
Presented to the American Association of Geographers’ Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March 2016.

‘Researching Rural Change and Globalization’ (6.38 MB)
Presented to the SUSPLACE Training Network, Wageningen University, April 2016.

‘Rural Development and Globalization’ (1.31 MB)
Lecture presented to the Estonian Ministry of Rural Affairs and Estonian National Rural Network, Tallinn, May 2016.

'The Rural Routes of Globalization' (1.44 MB)
Keynote lecture to the Journee d’etude, ‘Les espaces ruraux periurbains au prisme du capital’, MSH Paris Nord St-Denis, May 2016.

'Newtown and the World: Everyday globalisation in a Powys town' (4.73 MB)
2016 J.D.K. Lloyd Lecture to the Powysland Club, Newtown, May 2016

'Assemblage, Globalization and the State' (1.13 MB)
Plenary lecture to the Warwick Political Geography Graduate Conference, Warwick University, May 2016.

'Globalization, China and the New Zealand Dairy Assemblage' (3.93 MB)
Plenary paper presented to the International Farming Systems Association (IFSA) Symposium, Harper Adams University, July 2016.

'Precarious Rural Cosmopolitanism and Everyday Spaces of Engagement' (7.39 MB)
Paper presented at International Rural Sociology Association (IRSA) Congress, Toronto, August 2016.

'Bottling Globalisation in Rural Localities' (9.66 MB)
Paper presented at the International Rural Sociology Association (IRSA) Congress, Toronto, August 2016.

'(Dis-)Assembling the Global Countryside: China and the New Zealand Dairy Assemblage' (9.16 MB)
Presentation for Human Geography Research Seminar Series, Aberystwyth University, November 2016.

Woods, M. (2016) International migration, agency and regional development in rural Europe (522.22 KB)
Documents d’Analisi Geografica, 62(3), 569-593. Click link for full paper (open access).

Woods, M. (2015) Territorialisation and the assemblage of rural place: examples from Canada and New Zealand
in J. Dessein, E. Battaglini and L. Horlings (eds) Cultural Sustainability and Regional Development: Theories and Practices of Territorialisation. Routledge. View book details.

Woods, M. (2014) Family farming in the global countryside (364.58 KB)
Anthropological Notebooks, 20(3), 31-48. Click for full paper (open access).