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Global Challenges ,  12/02/2023

CFP: Planetary Rural Geographies

Call for Papers: Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference, London, 29 August – 1 September 2023 Planetary Rural Geographies Convenors:     Michael Woods, Aberystwyth University, m.woods@aber.ac.uk Damian Maye, University of Gloucestershire, dmaye@glos.ac.uk Chi-Mao Wang, National Taiwan University, chimaowang@ntu.edu.tw Session Sponsored by the Rural Geography Research Group Abstract: The provocative thesis of planetary urbanization has […]

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10/01/2019

Symposium: Encountering the Global Countryside

PRESENTATIONS NOW AVAILABLE Encountering the Global Countryside Thursday 24th January 2019 The Drwm, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. A day of presentations from the ERC GLOBAL-RURAL project exploring the impacts of globalization of rural societies and economies and rural community responses, including talks on food and agriculture, land-grabbing, migration, international volunteers, rural festivals and everyday […]

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Agribusiness and alternatives, Biofuels, Counter Globalisation Movement, Food Security, Globalisation of Food, Health, Poverty, Water Resources ,  12/10/2018

Blood in bio-ethanol: how indigenous peoples’ lives are being destroyed by global agribusiness in Brazil

Written by Fois Francesca and Montenegro Machado and published in The Conversation, 30/08/2018. For more than half a century, the indigenous Kaiowá and Guarani people of Brazil have been deprived of their ancestral lands, and consigned to small reserves where it is impossible to maintain their traditional livelihoods. Generations of these indigenous peoples’ lives have been marked by […]

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Biofuels, Dairy, Economy and Trade ,  31/10/2017

Assembling Newtown – Survey Report

In September 2016 Aberystwyth University conducted a rapid face-to-face survey of residents of Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn, in Powys, Wales. These involved indepth discussions of on average 45-60 minutes with 162 residents (supplemented by an additional 72 shorter surveys). The report below provides a summary of some of the findings as they relate to Newtown.  We […]

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Economy and Trade ,  28/09/2017

Stop the world?

The presentation by Michael Woods to Devon Communities Together’s Rural Futures Conference, ‘Stop the world I want to get off? How rural communities respond to globalisation’ is now available on the ‘publications and presentations’ page. Check out presentations from earlier conferences and lectures on this paper, including from this summer’s European Society for Rural Sociology […]

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Land and Capital, Land Investment and Land Grabbing ,  28/09/2017

Assembling Newtown Exhibition – last few days

Over the last week, members of the public in mid Wales have had the chance to find out more about some of the GLOBAL-RURAL research at a pop-up exhibition reporting back on the in-depth fieldwork on ‘everyday globalization’ that we’ve been carrying out in the market town of Newtown for the past two years. The […]

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Biodiversity and Conservation, Global Challenges ,  19/09/2017

Newtown exhibition seeks residents’ views on globalization

The residents of Newtown are invited to come and discuss their views on the effects of globalisation on the town at a new exhibition. Assembling Newtown: Moving with the Times is a ‘pop-up exhibition’ based at Newtown’s Market Hall and runs from Tuesday September 19th until Saturday September 30th (open 10am til 4pm every day except […]

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15/09/2017

Notes from Shaping methods, shaping voices and the engagement of discourses in an age of uneven rural change – XXVIIth ESRS Congress organised session

It has been a busy summer, and I thought I should get in this summary from our just concluded XXVIIth ESRS conference before the new academic year and our Newtown Exhibition (Venue – Market Hall, Newtown, Powys County 19th to 28th September 2017, 10 to 4pm) starts next week. It was a very fruitful deliberation […]

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