Martin Phillips

Biographic Data

ID3688039
NAMEMartin Phillips
GIVEN NAMESMartin
FAMILY NAMEPhillips
SIGNATUREPHILLIPS M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Leicester
ORCID0000-0003-4104-0917
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS47
TOTAL CITATIONS753
AUTHOR COUNT46
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX13

  • Transition Characteristics and Drivers of Land Use Functions in the Resource-Based Region: A Case Study of Shenmu City, China

    Open AccessChao Lei, Martin Phillips et al.ARTICLEUrban Science2025References: 2

    Resource-based regions play an indispensable role as strategic bases for national energy and raw material supply in the global industrialization and urbanization process. However, intensive and large-scale natural resource exploitation—particularly mineral extraction—often triggers dramatic land use/cover changes, leading to a series of problems including cultivated land degradation, ecological function deterioration, and human settlement environ…

  • The Challenges of Being Left Behind: Peripheralisation in English Small Rural Towns

    Open AccessMartin PhillipsARTICLESociologia Ruralis2025Cited by: 1References: 9

    Rural small towns have long been viewed as places of retail and service provision for both their populations and people in surrounding rural hinterlands, although in many countries these roles are in decline, with these settlements increasingly viewed as ‘left behind places’ experiencing peripheralisation. In countries such as the United Kingdom, however, some of these towns have seen inflows of capital, residents and visitors, stimulating econom…

  • The farm shop as a retroscaped place of experiential consumption

    Open AccessRobert Geary Griffin, Martin PhillipsARTICLESociologia Ruralis2024References: 73

    Alternative food network research has referred to farm shops but rarely examined them in detail. This article argues that farm shops are not simply places of exchange but are complex, immersive, sensory-rich places of meaning and experience. These arguments are developed through a study that adopts an interpretive/embodied perspective on conventions and applies them through a multi-methods approach, incorporating autoethnography, interviews, a qu…

  • The gentrification of a post-industrial English rural village: Querying urban planetary perspectives

    Open AccessMartin Phillips, Darren Smith et al.ARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2022Cited by: 11References: 41

    Recent years have seen the growth of planetary perspectives related to urbanisation and gentrification that have challenged the significance of differentiations of rural and urban space. This paper explores the arguments advanced in these perspectives, highlighting claims that they are based on a critique of methodological territorialism that has long been employed in rural and urban studies, as well as exhibiting an urbanormativity that was argu…

  • What are the priority research questions for digital agriculture

    Open AccessJulie Ingram, Damian Maye et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2022Cited by: 3References: 66

    There is a need to identify key existing and emerging issues relevant to digitalisation in agricultural production that would benefit from a stronger evidence base and help steer policy formulation. To address this, a prioritisation exercise was undertaken to identify priority research questions concerning digital agriculture in the UK, but with a view to also informing international contexts. The prioritisation exercise uses an established and e…

  • The mobilities and immobilities of rural gentrification: Staying put or moving on

    Open AccessDarren Smith, Martin Phillips et al.ARTICLEPopulation Space and Place2021Cited by: 5References: 48

    This paper analyses census data for England and Wales to explore the ties between processes of rural gentrification and recent internal migration. Internal migrants are defined as individuals who moved subnationally to their current address in the previous 12 months, as indicated by the replies to the 2001 and 2011 census question about usual address 1 year ago. Our analysis reveals declining rural in‐migration rates between 2001 and 2011, in par…

  • The agencies of landscape in rural gentrification: Impressions from the wood, the village and the moortop

    Open AccessMartin Phillips, Darren Smith et al.ARTICLESociologia Ruralis2021Cited by: 1References: 129

    This paper brings together research on rural gentrification with emerging work on lived landscapes that has emphasized the intertwining of the human and more-than-human with the performance of activities of everyday living and their affective significance. It draws on research examining rural gentrification in three contrasting landscapes, termed 'the wood', 'the village' and 'the moortop'. These landscapes connect to earlier studies of rural soc…

  • Re-placing displacement in gentrification studies: Temporality and multi-dimensionality in rural gentrification displacement

    Open AccessMartin Phillips, Darren Smith et al.ARTICLEGeoforum2020Cited by: 45References: 28

    This paper explores how conceptions of displacement have been challenged and adapted as the study of gentrification has expanded to encompass a series of new contexts, including post-industrial conversions and new-build urban developments within and beyond the Global North. Attention is draw to Peter Marcuse's work on displacement, and how some of his conceptualisations of different forms of displacement have been significant in cross-contextual …

  • Handbook of Gentrification Studies

    Loretta Lees, C Hochstenbach et al.BOOKHandbook of Gentrification Studies2018Cited by: 10

  • Gentrification and landscape change

    Martin PhillipsCHAPTERHandbook of Gentrification Studies2018

    This chapter seeks to foster greater reflection on the significance of landscape within the study of gentrification. It begins by highlighting claims that landscape is a central, even a defining, feature of gentrification. A feature that has arguably been taken-for-granted. Then four distinct understandings of landscape are identified and discussed: landscape as material/physical world; landscape as space of social life and social relations of po…

  • Comparative ruralism and ‘opening new windows’ on gentrification

    Open AccessMartin Phillips, Darren SmithARTICLEDialogues in Human Geography2018Cited by: 11References: 35

    In response to the five commentaries on our paper 'Comparative approaches to gentrification: lessons from the rural', we open up more 'windows' on rural gentrification and its urban counterpart. First, we highlight the issues of metrocentricity and urbanormativity within gentrification studies, highlighting their employment by our commentators. Second, we consider the issue of displacement and its operation within rural space, as well as gentrifi…

  • Moving to or from a carbon dependent countryside

    Open AccessMartin Phillips, Jennifer DickieARTICLEJournal of Transport Geography2018References: 32

    First paragraph: "Within the revisiting of counterurbanisation ... attention has been paid primarily to the types of people involved - counterurbanisation as practice - and their motivations for moving towards a more residential environment" (Halfacree, 2011: 210); 2As the extensive literature on moving to a low-carbon society attests there are ... many ... ways of motivating people ... to move to low carbon energy" (Caney, 2011: 549). This paper…

  • Comparative approaches to gentrification: Lessons from the rural

    Open AccessMartin Phillips, Darren SmithARTICLEDialogues in Human Geography2018Cited by: 43References: 27

    The epistemologies and politics of comparative research are prominently debated within urban studies, with 'comparative urbanism' emerging as a contemporary lexicon of urban studies. The study of urban gentrification has, after some delay, come to engage with these debates, which can be seen to pose a major challenge to the very concept of gentrification. To date, similar debates or developments have not unfolded within the study of rural gentrif…

  • Contested Worlds: An Introduction to Human Geography

    Martin PhillipsBOOKContested Worlds2017

    Introduction Contested worlds: an introduction Philosophical arguments in human geography. Global Worlds: Unravelling the web of theory: changing geographical perspectives on development Global crises? Issues in population and the environment Nation states and super-states: the geopolitics of the new world order. Regional Worlds: Inequalities at the core: a discussion of regionality in the EU and UK Southeast Asian development: miracle or mirage …

  • Material, Cultural, Moral and Emotional Inscriptions of Class and Gender: Impressions from Gentrified Rural Britain

    Martin PhillipsCHAPTERReshaping Gender and Class in…2016

    This chapter explores some of the issues and tensions, considering their relevance to the understanding of rural communities. It considers studies of social, economic and cultural boundary marking as outlined in studies such as Lamont and Bennett, before turning its attention to concepts of culture employed within class analyses. It has been argued that the renewed 'culturalist' approach to class needs to pay greater attention to the concepts of …

  • Assets and Affect in the Study of Social Capital in Rural Communities

    Open AccessMartin PhillipsARTICLESociologia Ruralis2016Cited by: 8References: 109

    Shucksmith (2012) has recently suggested that rural research might be refreshed by incorporating theoretical insights that have emerged through a renewal of class analysis. This article seeks to advance this proposed research agenda by exploring the concept of asset-based class analysis and its association with the concept of social capital. The article explores connections between social capital, class analysis and understandings of community, n…

  • Climate change, carbon dependency and narratives of transition and stasis in four English rural communities

    Open AccessMartin Phillips, Jennifer DickieARTICLEGeoforum2015Cited by: 4References: 23

    This paper explores the carbon dependency of life in four villages in England, the degree to which residents in these villages are aware of and concerned about this dependency and its relationship to climate change, and the extent to which they undertake actions that might mitigate or adapt to this dependency. The paper identifies high degrees of carbon dependency and awareness and concern about climate change and carbon dependency, although rela…

  • Foucault and museum geographies: A case study of the English 'Renaissance in the Regions

    Martin Phillips, Adrine Woodham et al.ARTICLESocial & Cultural Geography2015Cited by: 10References: 53

    This paper explores the subject of museum geographies, focusing particularly on the development of museum policies in a changing political context. The empirical focus is the emergence and transformation of the museum programme Renaissance in the Region, which is linked to the concepts of primary, secondary and tertiary spatialisations presented by Michel Foucault. The paper discusses the development of the programme and how it transformed aspect…

  • Society and exploitation through nature

    Martin Phillips, Tim MighallBOOKSociety and Exploitation Through…2014

    Society and Exploitation Through Nature offers an integrated approach to the environment, linking the philosophical, social and physical sciences to environmental problems and issues. The text covers three main themes; exploitation of nature and society; the limits of exploitation through sustainability and managing environmental problems. These themes are illustrated throughout the book with global case studies

  • Narratives of transition/non-transition towards low carbon futures within English rural communities

    Open AccessMartin Phillips, Jennifer DickieARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2014Cited by: 10References: 29

    Drawing on Anderson's (2010) identification of calculative, imaginative and performative modes of anticipatory action where futures are made present in the present day, this article explores how rural studies have explored futures before focusing its attention on the degree to which residents in four villages in England make evaluations of rural futures linked to issues of low carbon lifestyles and climate change. Particular attention is paid to …

  • Baroque rurality in an English village

    Open AccessMartin PhillipsARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2013Cited by: 29References: 47

    The paper explores the concept of baroque rurality through employing concepts of affect and affordance within a study of an English village experiencing rural gentrification. The paper begins by outlining the concept of baroque rurality, contrasting it with so-called romantic approaches that have employed abstract notions of environmental or natural factors in accounts of rural in-migrational decision making. This paper then outlines conceptions …

  • Counterurbanisation and rural gentrification: An exploration of the terms

    Open AccessMartin PhillipsARTICLEPopulation Space and Place2009Cited by: 38References: 61

    This paper examines the interrelationships between the concepts of counterurbanisation and rural gentrification, suggesting that four different positions can be identified. Firstly, these concepts are highly commensurable and could usefully be more closely aligned. Secondly, rural gentrification has a political/critical dimension that is missing from conceptualisations of counterurbanisation, and hence rural gentrification might usefully displace…

  • Museums, schools and geographies of cultural value

    Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean Hooper‐greenhill et al.ARTICLECultural Trends2009Cited by: 4References: 11

    This article explores a paradox and a possibility that have emerged from two pieces of policy-related research concerning educational use of museums within England. The paradox relates to the use of museums which, whilst widely perceived as rather elitist institutions, appear from a postcode analysis of school visits to museums to be visited by large numbers of schools located in areas of social deprivation. The present analysis further explores …

  • Rurality as a Globalised Mediascape? Impressions from Television Drama Production and Distribution at the Turn of the Millennium in Australia, Britain and New Zealand

    Open AccessMartin PhillipsARTICLECritical Studies in Television…2008Cited by: 3

  • Changing class complexions on and in the British countryside

    Open AccessMartin PhillipsARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2007Cited by: 14References: 30