Richard Gale
Biographic Data
| ID | 234933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Gale |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Gale |
| SIGNATURE | GALE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5027-8102 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 260 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Community culture and development challenges in left behind places: The impact of historical legacies in the South Wales Valleys
So-called ‘left behind places’ often face significant development challenges due to entrenched path dependencies. A key policy issue is that interventions may fail to account for the influence of community culture, which remains shaped by historical legacies. This paper examines how historical continuity and adaptive change interact to form contemporary community culture in the Rhondda and Cynon Valleys of South Wales, UK. It finds that in these …
Racism and the uneven geography of welfare sanctioning in England
This paper presents the first spatial analysis of racial disparities in the UK welfare sanction regime. As part of their austerity programme, the UK government tightened the conditionality of welfare programmes and intensified the use of financial penalties against welfare claimants who failed to demonstrate compliance with these conditions. Analysing Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) data from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Office f…
Religion, neoliberalism, planning: An analysis of Northern Ireland’s ‘superchurch’
This article adds to and develops extant work on the comparatively under-explored but important link between religion, neoliberalism, and planning. It is noticeable that mega/giga-churches are recalibrating the religious and physical landscapes of cities around the world; in so doing they raise important implications for professional planners. We focus on Green Pastures Church in Northern Ireland. The church has initiated a significant urban deve…
Race at the margins: A Critical Race Theory perspective on race equality in UK planning
Despite evidence of the growing ethnic diversity of British cities and its impact on urban governance, the issue of racial equality in UK planning remains marginal, at best, to mainstream planning activity. This paper uses Critical Race Theory to consider the reasons why the ‘race’ and planning agenda continues to stall. Critical Race Theory, it is argued, offers a compelling account of why changes in practice over time have been patchy at best, …
National Child Health Information Programme
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
The elusive genealogy of liberalism’s ‘Islam’: Towards a new humanism
Religious Residential Segregation and Internal Migration: The British Muslim Case
Concerns over British Muslim integration have been to the fore of public debate over much of the last decade, with Muslim segregation constituting a key issue. Recent analyses have usefully shown that current concerns over segregation levels in the UK are exaggerated. However, these analyses continue to rely on census ethnicity data, which are used as proxy for religion to draw inferences about Muslim residential phenomena. Focusing on Birmingham…
Muslim Youth, Faith-based Activism and ‘Social Capital’: A Response to Annette
Generation NXT: Building Young Engineers With Legos
This paper describes key success factors for the implementation and development of a LEGO robotics engineering outreach program for elementary school students in West Texas. The outreach program not only aims at getting young students excited about engineering but at the same time aims at improving retention rates among electrical and computer engineering freshman-level college students by involving them as paid mentors. It particularly takes int…
Contemporary grammars of political action among ethnic minority young activists
Despite public and media attention on ethnic minority young people's political engagement in recent times, often expressed in crisis narratives about disengagement, disaffection or extremism, there has been little consideration of the range, or distinctive forms, of political action among ethnic minority young people. The purpose of this article is to address this by presenting qualitative research on political activism among ethnic minority youn…
Muslims in Britain: Race, Place and Identities
1. Introduction: Muslims in Britain, Peter Hopkins (University of Lancaster) and Richard Gale (University of Birmingham) Section 1: Gender, Place and Culture 2. Creating Home-Spaces: Young British Muslim Women's Identity and Conceptualisation of Home, Deborah Phillips (University of Leeds) 3. 'You Seem Very Westernised to Me': Place, Identity and Othering of Muslim Workers in the UK Labour Market, Sophie Bowlby and Sally Lloyd-Evans (University o…
Muslims in Britain: Race, Place and Identities
Locating Religion in Urban Planning: Beyond ‘Race’ and Ethnicity
This article aims to expand the scope of existing research on ‘race’, ethnicity and planning by exploring the relationship between planning and religion, drawing on field research in Birmingham into the effects of urban planning procedure on British Muslims. The article moves away from the understanding—implicit in much of the literature on planning and ‘difference’—that religion is simply an epiphenomenon of ethnicity. It achieves this, firstly,…
Learning from Political Sociology: Structure, Agency and Inclusive Governance
In this article, we consider the inclusion of children and young people in participatory governance processes. Whilst limitations are often evident in such processes, we argue that even participatory opportunities that are provided by the state and regarded as spaces into which citizens are invited can be "conquered by civil society demands for inclusion" (Cornwall and Coelho, 2006: 1). To this end, we suggest a practice-based and diachronic appr…
The Place of Islam in the Geography of Religion: Trends and Intersections
This article reviews recent geographical research on Islam and Muslim identities. In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, the forms taken by public debate surrounding Muslim communities and societies have been manifold and not always edifying. In the present political climate, where public attitudes to a particular suite of issues are often as misinformed as they are deeply held, the need for academics to furnish insights born out of robu…
Representing the City: Mosques and the Planning Process in Birmingham
There has been very little research into the effects of urban planning policy and practice upon religious groups amongst the South Asian diaspora in Britain. This paper attempts to make up some of this shortfall by examining the role of urban planning procedure in regulating the location, architectural form and use by Muslims of mosques and religious education establishments in Britain. Birmingham, in the West Midlands, provides the empirical foc…
Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs in the New Religious Landscape of England
This article examines the dramatic changes brought to English townscapes by Islam, Hinduism, and Sikhism. These “new” religions have arrived with the large-scale immigration and subsequent natural growth of the minority ethnic populations of Great Britain since the 1950s. The article traces the growth and distribution of these populations and religions, as well as the development of their places of worship from front-room prayer rooms to cathedra…
Religion, planning and the city: The spatial politics of ethnic minority expression in British cities and towns
This article examines the debates that have arisen in relation to the establishment of sites of worship by Britain's minority religious groups. Frequently, the buildings of non-Christian religious communities have been portrayed as `alien' and incommensurate with surrounding urban landscapes, and there are numerous cases in which such opposition has had a decisive bearing on the success or failure of plans to develop such sites of worship. Howeve…
FM Reviews
The Overall Argument of Alston's Perceiving God
Alston's overall aim in Perceiving God is to show that we are rationally justified in believing that our apparent direct perceptions of God's presence (called ‘M-experiences’) are reliable and thus for the most part veridical, the objective, existentially-committed beliefs based on these experiences thereby being prima facie justified, subject to defeat by certain overriders supplied by some background religion. It is argued that our rational jus…
Making Sense of Sustainability: Nine Answers to 'What Should Be Sustained?'1
The concept of sustainability is central to many current natural resource debates. While the concept has substantial appeal, consensus on its meaning is lacking, especially concerning what combinations of resources or practices should be sustained. The many meanings of sustainability are addressed by first presenting four defining questions: what is sustained, why sustain it, how is sustainability measured, and what are the politics? These questi…
A Reply to Paul Helm
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Bureaucracy, Pluralism, and Governmental Conflict
The United States Ocean Resources Service: A Proposal
Responding to recent calls for a multiple use, multiple resource approach to marine resource management, this paper sketches the organizational and legislative features of a hypothetical U. S. Ocean Resources Service modeled on the land‐based U.S. Forest Service. The organization of the Washington, DC headquarters of the USDRS and the staff groups within what is called the National Ocean System of the USORS are outlined. USORS field units which c…
Social Movements and the State: The Environmental Movement, Countermovement, and Government Agencies
This article modifies resource mobilization theory to emphasize interaction among social movements, countermovements, and government agencies. The framework developed for tracing social movement-state relationships gives special attention to movement and countermovement agency alignments. There are six stages of movement-state relationships illustrated with an analysis of the contemporary environmental movement
Religion, planning and the city: The spatial politics of ethnic minority expression in British cities and towns
This article examines the debates that have arisen in relation to the establishment of sites of worship by Britain's minority religious groups. Frequently, the buildings of non-Christian religious communities have been portrayed as `alien' and incommensurate with surrounding urban landscapes, and there are numerous cases in which such opposition has had a decisive bearing on the success or failure of plans to develop such sites of worship. Howeve…
Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs in the New Religious Landscape of England
This article examines the dramatic changes brought to English townscapes by Islam, Hinduism, and Sikhism. These “new” religions have arrived with the large-scale immigration and subsequent natural growth of the minority ethnic populations of Great Britain since the 1950s. The article traces the growth and distribution of these populations and religions, as well as the development of their places of worship from front-room prayer rooms to cathedra…
Conservation: An Upper-middle Class Social Movement
Membership in the conservation movement appears to be composed largely of upper-middle class occupations, especially professional occupations. In addition, it is primarily an urban-based movement that is somewhat isolated ideologically from the main streams of both liberal and conservative political thought. Data are presented on the members of a large Pacific Northwest outdoor recreation and conservation association. Further, the patterns of mem…
Representing the City: Mosques and the Planning Process in Birmingham
There has been very little research into the effects of urban planning policy and practice upon religious groups amongst the South Asian diaspora in Britain. This paper attempts to make up some of this shortfall by examining the role of urban planning procedure in regulating the location, architectural form and use by Muslims of mosques and religious education establishments in Britain. Birmingham, in the West Midlands, provides the empirical foc…
Contemporary grammars of political action among ethnic minority young activists
Despite public and media attention on ethnic minority young people's political engagement in recent times, often expressed in crisis narratives about disengagement, disaffection or extremism, there has been little consideration of the range, or distinctive forms, of political action among ethnic minority young people. The purpose of this article is to address this by presenting qualitative research on political activism among ethnic minority youn…
Social Movements and the State: The Environmental Movement, Countermovement, and Government Agencies
This article modifies resource mobilization theory to emphasize interaction among social movements, countermovements, and government agencies. The framework developed for tracing social movement-state relationships gives special attention to movement and countermovement agency alignments. There are six stages of movement-state relationships illustrated with an analysis of the contemporary environmental movement
Religious Residential Segregation and Internal Migration: The British Muslim Case
Concerns over British Muslim integration have been to the fore of public debate over much of the last decade, with Muslim segregation constituting a key issue. Recent analyses have usefully shown that current concerns over segregation levels in the UK are exaggerated. However, these analyses continue to rely on census ethnicity data, which are used as proxy for religion to draw inferences about Muslim residential phenomena. Focusing on Birmingham…
Making Sense of Sustainability: Nine Answers to 'What Should Be Sustained?'1
The concept of sustainability is central to many current natural resource debates. While the concept has substantial appeal, consensus on its meaning is lacking, especially concerning what combinations of resources or practices should be sustained. The many meanings of sustainability are addressed by first presenting four defining questions: what is sustained, why sustain it, how is sustainability measured, and what are the politics? These questi…
The Place of Islam in the Geography of Religion: Trends and Intersections
This article reviews recent geographical research on Islam and Muslim identities. In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, the forms taken by public debate surrounding Muslim communities and societies have been manifold and not always edifying. In the present political climate, where public attitudes to a particular suite of issues are often as misinformed as they are deeply held, the need for academics to furnish insights born out of robu…
Comparative Perspectives on Social Change
Learning from Political Sociology: Structure, Agency and Inclusive Governance
In this article, we consider the inclusion of children and young people in participatory governance processes. Whilst limitations are often evident in such processes, we argue that even participatory opportunities that are provided by the state and regarded as spaces into which citizens are invited can be "conquered by civil society demands for inclusion" (Cornwall and Coelho, 2006: 1). To this end, we suggest a practice-based and diachronic appr…
The Environmental Movement and the Left: Antagonists or Allies
This paper examines the potential impact of the Left on the goals, issues, strategies, and constituencies of the contemporary environmental movement, Contrasting the earlier disparagement of the movement by the Left with increased Leftist attraction to the mature movement, it is argued that the Left could contribute a theoretical context for environmental issues and influence segments of the environmental movement through an emphasis on protest s…
Race at the margins: A Critical Race Theory perspective on race equality in UK planning
Despite evidence of the growing ethnic diversity of British cities and its impact on urban governance, the issue of racial equality in UK planning remains marginal, at best, to mainstream planning activity. This paper uses Critical Race Theory to consider the reasons why the ‘race’ and planning agenda continues to stall. Critical Race Theory, it is argued, offers a compelling account of why changes in practice over time have been patchy at best, …
Concern for Environmental Rights Among College Students
Conservation: An Upper-middle Class Social Movement
Membership in the conservation movement appears to be composed largely of upper-middle class occupations, especially professional occupations. In addition, it is primarily an urban-based movement that is somewhat isolated ideologically from the main streams of both liberal and conservative political thought. Data are presented on the members of a large Pacific Northwest outdoor recreation and conservation association. Further, the patterns of mem…
Comparative Perspectives on Social Change
The Sociology of Political Independence: A Study of Nationalist Attitudes Among West Indian Leaders
Concern for Environmental Rights Among College Students
Technology, Power, and Social Change
The Environmental Movement and the Left: Antagonists or Allies
This paper examines the potential impact of the Left on the goals, issues, strategies, and constituencies of the contemporary environmental movement, Contrasting the earlier disparagement of the movement by the Left with increased Leftist attraction to the mature movement, it is argued that the Left could contribute a theoretical context for environmental issues and influence segments of the environmental movement through an emphasis on protest s…
New Ethnographies
The United States Ocean Resources Service: A Proposal
Responding to recent calls for a multiple use, multiple resource approach to marine resource management, this paper sketches the organizational and legislative features of a hypothetical U. S. Ocean Resources Service modeled on the land‐based U.S. Forest Service. The organization of the Washington, DC headquarters of the USDRS and the staff groups within what is called the National Ocean System of the USORS are outlined. USORS field units which c…
Social Movements and the State: The Environmental Movement, Countermovement, and Government Agencies
This article modifies resource mobilization theory to emphasize interaction among social movements, countermovements, and government agencies. The framework developed for tracing social movement-state relationships gives special attention to movement and countermovement agency alignments. There are six stages of movement-state relationships illustrated with an analysis of the contemporary environmental movement
Bureaucracy, Pluralism, and Governmental Conflict
A Reply to Paul Helm
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Overall Argument of Alston's Perceiving God
Alston's overall aim in Perceiving God is to show that we are rationally justified in believing that our apparent direct perceptions of God's presence (called ‘M-experiences’) are reliable and thus for the most part veridical, the objective, existentially-committed beliefs based on these experiences thereby being prima facie justified, subject to defeat by certain overriders supplied by some background religion. It is argued that our rational jus…
Making Sense of Sustainability: Nine Answers to 'What Should Be Sustained?'1
The concept of sustainability is central to many current natural resource debates. While the concept has substantial appeal, consensus on its meaning is lacking, especially concerning what combinations of resources or practices should be sustained. The many meanings of sustainability are addressed by first presenting four defining questions: what is sustained, why sustain it, how is sustainability measured, and what are the politics? These questi…
FM Reviews
Religion, planning and the city: The spatial politics of ethnic minority expression in British cities and towns
This article examines the debates that have arisen in relation to the establishment of sites of worship by Britain's minority religious groups. Frequently, the buildings of non-Christian religious communities have been portrayed as `alien' and incommensurate with surrounding urban landscapes, and there are numerous cases in which such opposition has had a decisive bearing on the success or failure of plans to develop such sites of worship. Howeve…
Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs in the New Religious Landscape of England
This article examines the dramatic changes brought to English townscapes by Islam, Hinduism, and Sikhism. These “new” religions have arrived with the large-scale immigration and subsequent natural growth of the minority ethnic populations of Great Britain since the 1950s. The article traces the growth and distribution of these populations and religions, as well as the development of their places of worship from front-room prayer rooms to cathedra…
Representing the City: Mosques and the Planning Process in Birmingham
There has been very little research into the effects of urban planning policy and practice upon religious groups amongst the South Asian diaspora in Britain. This paper attempts to make up some of this shortfall by examining the role of urban planning procedure in regulating the location, architectural form and use by Muslims of mosques and religious education establishments in Britain. Birmingham, in the West Midlands, provides the empirical foc…
The Place of Islam in the Geography of Religion: Trends and Intersections
This article reviews recent geographical research on Islam and Muslim identities. In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, the forms taken by public debate surrounding Muslim communities and societies have been manifold and not always edifying. In the present political climate, where public attitudes to a particular suite of issues are often as misinformed as they are deeply held, the need for academics to furnish insights born out of robu…
Locating Religion in Urban Planning: Beyond ‘Race’ and Ethnicity
This article aims to expand the scope of existing research on ‘race’, ethnicity and planning by exploring the relationship between planning and religion, drawing on field research in Birmingham into the effects of urban planning procedure on British Muslims. The article moves away from the understanding—implicit in much of the literature on planning and ‘difference’—that religion is simply an epiphenomenon of ethnicity. It achieves this, firstly,…
Learning from Political Sociology: Structure, Agency and Inclusive Governance
In this article, we consider the inclusion of children and young people in participatory governance processes. Whilst limitations are often evident in such processes, we argue that even participatory opportunities that are provided by the state and regarded as spaces into which citizens are invited can be "conquered by civil society demands for inclusion" (Cornwall and Coelho, 2006: 1). To this end, we suggest a practice-based and diachronic appr…
Muslims in Britain: Race, Place and Identities
1. Introduction: Muslims in Britain, Peter Hopkins (University of Lancaster) and Richard Gale (University of Birmingham) Section 1: Gender, Place and Culture 2. Creating Home-Spaces: Young British Muslim Women's Identity and Conceptualisation of Home, Deborah Phillips (University of Leeds) 3. 'You Seem Very Westernised to Me': Place, Identity and Othering of Muslim Workers in the UK Labour Market, Sophie Bowlby and Sally Lloyd-Evans (University o…
Muslims in Britain: Race, Place and Identities
Generation NXT: Building Young Engineers With Legos
This paper describes key success factors for the implementation and development of a LEGO robotics engineering outreach program for elementary school students in West Texas. The outreach program not only aims at getting young students excited about engineering but at the same time aims at improving retention rates among electrical and computer engineering freshman-level college students by involving them as paid mentors. It particularly takes int…
Contemporary grammars of political action among ethnic minority young activists
Despite public and media attention on ethnic minority young people's political engagement in recent times, often expressed in crisis narratives about disengagement, disaffection or extremism, there has been little consideration of the range, or distinctive forms, of political action among ethnic minority young people. The purpose of this article is to address this by presenting qualitative research on political activism among ethnic minority youn…
Muslim Youth, Faith-based Activism and ‘Social Capital’: A Response to Annette
Political science (24 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Law (17 works) · Politics (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Geography (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · History (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works)