Paul Milbourne
Biographic Data
| ID | 265107 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Milbourne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Milbourne |
| SIGNATURE | MILBOURNE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3346-885X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 766 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Older people and food insecurity in rural places: Invisibility, complexity and sociality
Older people and rural places remain neglected subjects within the academic literature on food insecurity. In this paper, we investigate the relations between food insecurity and older people in rural England. We do this in a couple of ways. First, we utilise findings from an analysis of national survey data on food insecurity to examine levels of food insecurity and engagements with food assistance services amongst older people and those living …
Beyond 'feeding the crisis: Mobilising ‘more than food aid’ approaches to food poverty in the UK
Rising demand for emergency food during the last couple of decades in the UK has led to a great deal of academic interest in food aid provision, and food banking in particular. Efforts have also been made to examine food poverty and responses to it in more critical terms, which has entailed moving beyond a focus on emergency food support to engage with ‘more than food aid’ approaches. In this paper, I discuss how these latter approaches are begin…
Food system transformation: A progressive place-based approach
Responding to growing calls for research that engages with the complexity of food system transformation, in this paper we focus on place as an “active meso-level mediator” between the multiple tensions and contestations that surround processes of change. Drawing on Massey’s notion of a “progressive sense of place”, we identify, through a critical review of the literature, four main features of this concept that, taken together, have a unique cont…
Agriculture, food and land: Struggles for UK post-Brexit agri-food justice
Destabilizing the food regime “from within: Tools and strategies used by urban food policy actors
Migrant labour in the UK’s post-Brexit agri-food system: Ambiguities, contradictions and precarities
Growing public spaces in the city: Community gardening and the making of new urban environments of publicness
The demise of public space in cities across the Global North has received considerable scrutiny from urban scholars in recent years, with accounts of the loss, privatisation and increased regulation of public space prevalent within the academic literature. This paper seeks to complicate these dominant narratives of public space transformation by exploring the complexities of existing public spaces and the emergence of new spaces of publicness in …
Food justice for all: Searching for the ‘justice multiple’ in UK food movements
In this paper, we examine diverse political philosophical conceptualisations of justice and interrogate how these contested understandings are drawn upon in the burgeoning food justice scholarship. We suggest that three interconnected dimensions of justice—plurality, the spatial–temporal and the more-than-human—deserve further analytical attention and propose the notion of the ‘justice multiple’ to bring together a multiplicity of framings and si…
Rural Geography
Rural geography has emerged as an increasingly important subdiscipline of human geography during the last two or three decades. Rural researchers have engaged productively with critical theory and methodological innovation to make important contributions to human geography. “The rural” has also emerged as a more significant arena of investigation for other human geographers, particularly in relation to research and publications on nature and food…
Community, rurality, and older people: Critically comparing older people's experiences across different rural communities
Environmental injustice and post-colonial environmentalism: Opencast coal mining, landscape and place
In this article we use a case study of opencast coal mining in the southern valleys of Wales to explore the ordinary and everyday spatialities of environmental injustice. Responding to recent geographical critiques of environmental justice research and engaging with post-colonial studies of landscape and environment, we provide an account of environmental injustice that emphasises competing geographical imaginaries of landscape and 'ordinary poli…
The Structural Invisibility of Outsiders: The Role of Migrant Labour in the Meat-Processing Industry
This article examines the role of migrant workers in meat-processing factories in the UK. Drawing on materials from mixed methods research in a number of case study towns across Wales, we explore the structural and spatial processes that position migrant workers as outsiders. While state policy and immigration controls are often presented as a way of protecting migrant workers from work-based exploitation and ensuring jobs for British workers, ou…
Countryside Connections: Older People, Community and Place in Rural Britain
Migrant workers and migrant entrepreneurs: Changing established/outsider relations across society and space
Drawing on Elias and Scotson's theory of established/outsider relations, in this paper we argue that migrants can be outsiders in one spatial context and established in another simultaneously. Our empirical focus is the situations and experiences of migrant workers from Central and Eastern Europe in four towns across Wales. While their position as outsiders is reinforced in the occupational spaces of meat-processing factories, outside the workpla…
Rural mobilities: Connecting movement and fixity in rural places
Recent work within mobilities studies has pointed to the ways in which mobility shapes people's identities and everyday lives. Mobility is also inherently geographical in nature, not only in the sense that movements of people and objects transcend space but that the ubiquity of mobility within society raises important questions about the fixities of place. Much of the recent geographical scholarship on mobilities has focused on the city, with ‘th…
Constructing a ‘landscape justice’ for windfarm development: The case of Nant Y Moch, Wales
Poverty, Place, and Rurality: Material and Sociocultural Disconnections
Recent academic critiques of poverty have pointed to the need to pay more attention to the relations between the material, social, and cultural dimensions of poverty as well as to the lived worlds of those on low income. This paper addresses these themes by exploring the ways in which people living in situations of material poverty discuss their everyday lives. Drawing on survey and interview materials from a recent study of poverty in rural Wale…
Modernization and Devolution: Delivering Services for Older People in Rural Areas of E ngland and W ales
The modernization of public services, with its emphasis on managerialism, choice, co‐production and outcome focused service delivery, has been implemented to a certain extent in both E ngland and W ales. Indeed, the welfare states in both countries share a great deal, particularly in relation to policy objectives and the expectations of citizens. Devolution has chiefly meant that the instruments used to deliver policy have separated, although it …
Older people and poverty in rural Britain: Material hardships, cultural denials and social inclusions
Growing old in rural places
Thematic Review: Putting poverty and welfare in place
Recent years have witnessed increased interest in the geographies of poverty and welfare. This article provides a critical review of three important themes emerging from this growing body of literature. First, it explores the spatial unevenness of poverty and the persistence of poverty in particular regions and places. Second, attention is given to the complex relationship between poverty and place, and the ways in which poverty is shaped by the …
The Geographies of Poverty and Welfare
This article provides a critical review of recent geographical work on the themes of poverty and welfare. It begins with a discussion of the historical development of welfare geography and the recent resurgence of interest in welfare geographies within and beyond the discipline. Attention then shifts to the definitional complexities of poverty and, in particular, some of the difficulties associated with conventional labellings of poverty, poor pe…
Scaling Post‐Industrial Forestry: The Complex Implementation of National Forestry Regimes in the Southern Valleys of Wales
Recent years have witnessed increased geographical interest in the changing nature of forestry in the UK. Critical attention has been given to a transition from a previously dominant regime of industrial forestry, primarily concerned with the mass production of timber, to a post‐industrial regime, within which timber production sits alongside a broader range of social, economic and environmental objectives. Investigations of this transition, howe…
Re-populating rural studies: Migrations, movements and mobilities
Community forests and regeneration in post-industrial landscapes
Rural mobilities: Connecting movement and fixity in rural places
Recent work within mobilities studies has pointed to the ways in which mobility shapes people's identities and everyday lives. Mobility is also inherently geographical in nature, not only in the sense that movements of people and objects transcend space but that the ubiquity of mobility within society raises important questions about the fixities of place. Much of the recent geographical scholarship on mobilities has focused on the city, with ‘th…
Re-populating rural studies: Migrations, movements and mobilities
Homelessness and Rurality: Out-of-Place' in Purified Space
In this paper we discuss the apparent failure to couple together the constructs of 'rurality' and 'homelessness', and propose a critical deconstruction of this noncoupling. Three principal lines of arguments are employed. First, there are a range of physical and material reasons why rural and urban spaces have varying qualities for hiding or revealing homeless people, and why the embodied experiences of homelessness have varying geographies. Seco…
Deprivation and lifestyles in rural Wales. —II. Rurality and the cultural dimension
The complex mobilities of homeless people in rural England
Ethics, Reflexivity and Research: Encounters with Homeless People
This paper reflects on ethical issues raised in research with homeless people in rural areas. It argues that the significant embracing of dialogic and reflexive approaches to social research is likely to render standard approaches to ethical research practice increasingly complex and open to negotiation. Diary commentaries from different individuals in the research team are used to present self-reflexive accounts of the ethical complexities and d…
Deprivation, poverty and marginalization in rural lifestyles in England and Wales
Hunting ruralities: Nature, society and culture in ‘hunt countries’ of England and Wales
Partnership and Policy Networks in Rural Local Governance: Homelessness in Taunton
In this paper we discuss the importance of ‘partnership’ and ‘policy networks’ in the new contemporary governance of rural areas. We use these notions to contextualize the representation of, and policy response to the particular issue of homelessness in the rural service centre of Taunton in Somerset. Here particular partnership networks have been brokered by the local authority which bring together a wide range of business, voluntary and communi…
Growing old in rural places
The local geographies of poverty: A rural case-study
Constructing a ‘landscape justice’ for windfarm development: The case of Nant Y Moch, Wales
Making the homeless count? Enumerating rough sleepers and the distortion of homelessness
English This article traces the power of numbers in discourses relating to homelessness in Britain. It argues that enumeration has played a formative role in the recording of homelessness as a ‘problem’, and in the public policy response to homelessness in specific locations. In particular,the use of rough sleeper counts as popular defining representations of the problem of, and response to, homelessness is analysed in terms of their wider pivota…
The English National Forest: Local Reactions to Plans for Renegotiated Nature-Society Relations in the Countryside
Paul Cloke, Paul Milbourne, Chris Thomas, The English National Forest: Local Reactions to Plans for Renegotiated Nature-Society Relations in the Countryside, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 21, No. 3 (1996), pp. 552-571
Destabilizing the food regime “from within: Tools and strategies used by urban food policy actors
Local responses to central state restructuring of social housing provision in rural areas
Regulation Theory and Rural Research: Theorising Contemporary Rural Change
In this paper we have tried to develop a theoretical and conceptual framework for analysing contemporary rural change. Initial results from a recent research project on changing lifestyles in rural Wales are used to investigate the potential contribution of regulation theory in rural research. The paper consists of four main sections. In the first and second sections, the main theoretical characteristics presented by a regulationist analysis of c…
Older people and poverty in rural Britain: Material hardships, cultural denials and social inclusions
The Geographies of Poverty and Welfare
This article provides a critical review of recent geographical work on the themes of poverty and welfare. It begins with a discussion of the historical development of welfare geography and the recent resurgence of interest in welfare geographies within and beyond the discipline. Attention then shifts to the definitional complexities of poverty and, in particular, some of the difficulties associated with conventional labellings of poverty, poor pe…
Growing public spaces in the city: Community gardening and the making of new urban environments of publicness
The demise of public space in cities across the Global North has received considerable scrutiny from urban scholars in recent years, with accounts of the loss, privatisation and increased regulation of public space prevalent within the academic literature. This paper seeks to complicate these dominant narratives of public space transformation by exploring the complexities of existing public spaces and the emergence of new spaces of publicness in …
Food justice for all: Searching for the ‘justice multiple’ in UK food movements
In this paper, we examine diverse political philosophical conceptualisations of justice and interrogate how these contested understandings are drawn upon in the burgeoning food justice scholarship. We suggest that three interconnected dimensions of justice—plurality, the spatial–temporal and the more-than-human—deserve further analytical attention and propose the notion of the ‘justice multiple’ to bring together a multiplicity of framings and si…
The Complexities of Hunting in Rural England and Wales
The recent 'Liberty and Livelihood' March in London highlights how the issue of hunting with dogs, which directly involves only a small minority of people in the British countryside and, opinion polls indicate, is opposed by the majority of the British population, can still dominate national political and media agendas. A key tactic of the March organisers, the Countryside Alliance, was to present hunting as an embedded part of rural life, emphas…
The Structural Invisibility of Outsiders: The Role of Migrant Labour in the Meat-Processing Industry
This article examines the role of migrant workers in meat-processing factories in the UK. Drawing on materials from mixed methods research in a number of case study towns across Wales, we explore the structural and spatial processes that position migrant workers as outsiders. While state policy and immigration controls are often presented as a way of protecting migrant workers from work-based exploitation and ensuring jobs for British workers, ou…
Community forests and regeneration in post-industrial landscapes
Nature — Society — Rurality: Making Critical Connections
Deprivation and lifestyles in rural Wales. —II. Rurality and the cultural dimension
Deprivation, poverty and marginalization in rural lifestyles in England and Wales
Regulation Theory and Rural Research: Theorising Contemporary Rural Change
In this paper we have tried to develop a theoretical and conceptual framework for analysing contemporary rural change. Initial results from a recent research project on changing lifestyles in rural Wales are used to investigate the potential contribution of regulation theory in rural research. The paper consists of four main sections. In the first and second sections, the main theoretical characteristics presented by a regulationist analysis of c…
The English National Forest: Local Reactions to Plans for Renegotiated Nature-Society Relations in the Countryside
Paul Cloke, Paul Milbourne, Chris Thomas, The English National Forest: Local Reactions to Plans for Renegotiated Nature-Society Relations in the Countryside, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 21, No. 3 (1996), pp. 552-571
From wasteland to wonderland: Opencast mining, regeneration and the English National Forest
Housing Conflict and Domestic Property Classes in Rural Wales
Recent years have witnessed a growing interest amongst rural researchers in housing issues in the British countryside. While much of this work has consisted of policy reports highlighting the plight of low-incomed, predominantly younger members of rural society in their search for affordable housing opportunities, in two recent publications Shucksmith has attempted to introduce elements of Weberian housing theory into rural housing research. In t…
Local responses to central state restructuring of social housing provision in rural areas
Cultural Change and Conflict in Rural Wales: Competing Constructs of Identity
In this paper we suggest that understandings of social and cultural recomposition in areas of rural Wales need to consider issues of interacting and competing identities. We explore notions of cultural identity, change, and conflict in four areas of rural Wales, based on recent research involving interviews with around 1000 households. Attention is focused on the interplay between different scales of identity constructs: national-scale constructs…
Changing Operations: Building Society and Estate Agency Activities in Rural Housing Markets
Recent years have witnessed the deregulation and restructuring of (mortgage) financial markets in Britain. While such changes have been widely discussed by housing researchers, relatively little attention has been given to their impacts at the local level. This paper explores these impacts in two local housing markets located in rural Wales by focusing on the (changing) operations of building society branches and estate agencies in these areas
Ethics, Reflexivity and Research: Encounters with Homeless People
This paper reflects on ethical issues raised in research with homeless people in rural areas. It argues that the significant embracing of dialogic and reflexive approaches to social research is likely to render standard approaches to ethical research practice increasingly complex and open to negotiation. Diary commentaries from different individuals in the research team are used to present self-reflexive accounts of the ethical complexities and d…
Ethics, Place and Environment, reflexivity and research: Encounters with homeless people
This paper reflects on ethical issues raised in research with homeless people in rural areas. It argues that the significant embracing of dialogic and reflexive approaches to social research is likely to render standard approaches to ethical research practice increasingly complex and open to negotiation. Diary commentaries from different individuals in the research team are used to present self‐reflexive accounts of the ethical complexities and d…
Change but no Change: Dealing with Homelessness under the 1996 Housing Act
This paper examines the impacts of the 1996 Housing Act on homelessness policy and practice in England and Wales. It begins by setting out the national context within which the Act was framed, highlighting some key motivations for reforming homelessness legislation and responses to the proposed changes. Attention is then given to the principal provisions of the 1996 Act. The main body of the paper draws on a national survey of, and in-depth inter…
Partnership and Policy Networks in Rural Local Governance: Homelessness in Taunton
In this paper we discuss the importance of ‘partnership’ and ‘policy networks’ in the new contemporary governance of rural areas. We use these notions to contextualize the representation of, and policy response to the particular issue of homelessness in the rural service centre of Taunton in Somerset. Here particular partnership networks have been brokered by the local authority which bring together a wide range of business, voluntary and communi…
Homelessness and Rurality: Out-of-Place' in Purified Space
In this paper we discuss the apparent failure to couple together the constructs of 'rurality' and 'homelessness', and propose a critical deconstruction of this noncoupling. Three principal lines of arguments are employed. First, there are a range of physical and material reasons why rural and urban spaces have varying qualities for hiding or revealing homeless people, and why the embodied experiences of homelessness have varying geographies. Seco…
The Hidden and Emerging Spaces of Rural Homelessness
In this paper we explore key issues bound up with the existence of homelessness in rural England. Attention is directed to a variety of factors that combine to reduce the visibility or even deny the presence of homelessness in rural spaces. We suggest that the complexities of rural homelessness are such that it may only become visible in particular spaces; spaces that tend to be constructed as nonrural. The paper begins with a critical discussion…
Interconnecting housing, homelessness and rurality: Evidence from local authority homelessness officers in England and Wales
The Geographies of Homelessness in Rural England
CLOKE P., MILBOURNE P. and WIDDOWFIELD R. (2001) The geographies of homelessness in rural England, Reg. Studies 35,23–37. Relatively little attention has been given to the geographies of homelessness in England, still less to the nature and scale of homelessness in rural areas. In this paper we draw on analyses of unpublished official statistics on local homelessness and a national survey of local authorities to investigate the geographies of hom…
Making the homeless count? Enumerating rough sleepers and the distortion of homelessness
English This article traces the power of numbers in discourses relating to homelessness in Britain. It argues that enumeration has played a formative role in the recording of homelessness as a ‘problem’, and in the public policy response to homelessness in specific locations. In particular,the use of rough sleeper counts as popular defining representations of the problem of, and response to, homelessness is analysed in terms of their wider pivota…
The local spaces of welfare provision: Responding to homelessness in rural England
Homelessness and Rurality: Exploring Connections in Local Spaces of Rural England
Homelessness remains a neglected component of rural studies in Britain and Europe. Research has tended to skirt around the subject, focusing either on groups in need located within rural housing markets or on those people experiencing rural poverty living within conventional properties. In this paper we want to connect homelessness with rurality by drawing on key findings from recently completed research on rural homelessness in England. We want …
Nature — Society — Rurality: Making Critical Connections
The complex mobilities of homeless people in rural England
Hunting ruralities: Nature, society and culture in ‘hunt countries’ of England and Wales
Communities in Nature: The Construction and Understanding of Forest Natures
The paper outlines three different but interrelated theoretical strands associated with contemporary society-nature debates; namely social constructionism, realism and ecological modernisation. By using empirical evidence from a case study of community and forestry interactions in a South Wales ex-mining village, the paper argues for the need to incorporate into these theoretical debates a deeper analysis of community understandings and practices…
The Complexities of Hunting in Rural England and Wales
The recent 'Liberty and Livelihood' March in London highlights how the issue of hunting with dogs, which directly involves only a small minority of people in the British countryside and, opinion polls indicate, is opposed by the majority of the British population, can still dominate national political and media agendas. A key tactic of the March organisers, the Countryside Alliance, was to present hunting as an embedded part of rural life, emphas…
Political science (44 works) · Sociology (43 works) · Geography (31 works) · Rural development and sustainability (27 works) · Economics (24 works) · Law (24 works) · Economic growth (23 works) · Rural area (22 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (17 works) · Law (15 works)