Mark Riley
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 118200 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mark Riley |
| PRENOMES | Mark |
| SOBRENOME | Riley |
| ASSINATURA | RILEY M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3259-323X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 53 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 595 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
Communities actively seek nature for well‐being despite constraints
While the physical and mental health benefits of greenspace exposure are well documented, ethnic minority communities in the United Kingdom continue to engage with these environments at disproportionately lower rates. This persistent disparity points to an oversight in existing literature, specifically regarding how these communities navigate everyday encounters with nature. This qualitative study employs interviews and diary methods to explore t…
Seeing the good for the trees
UK and European land-use policy increasingly promotes tree cover expansion on farmland, yet existing research has focused mainly on structural barriers rather than farmers’ motivations and socio-cultural values. This paper addresses this gap by applying the Bourdieusian concept of the ‘good farmer’ and drawing on in-depth ‘farmer journey’ interviews with farmers who have expanded tree cover. It examines how historical experiences shape decisions …
Jane Rowling, Environments of Identity – Agricultural Community, Work and Concepts of Local in Yorkshire, 1918–2018
Exploring the role of ethnicity and culture in shaping greenspace practices
Greenspaces provide multiple wellbeing and social benefits, yet ethnic minorities often have restricted engagement with these spaces which reinforces health inequalities. Addressing these requires a detailed understanding of the diversity of ethnic minorities’ perceptions, preferences, and practices relating to greenspaces. Through thematic analysis of interview and diary transcripts from 53 people from multiple ethnic minority groups in Bristol,…
In and out of place
People from all sections of society should feel welcome and included to enjoy greenspaces. However, people from ethnic minority backgrounds may experience exclusionary practices and discriminatory processes, limiting their access, enjoyment, and benefits from such spaces. This paper aims to address these issues through an in-depth qualitative study exploring how 53 individuals from UK ethnic minority backgrounds residing in Bristol perceive and e…
Communities in ecosystem restoration
Ecosystem restoration practices are gaining prominence in coping with the crisis of ecosystem degradation. To improve the long‐term effectiveness of restoration activities, community engagement in restoration projects needs to be strengthened. In communities where traditional and local values drive adaptation to environmental changes, a community‐engaged restoration approach requires the integration of restoration techniques and local value syste…
Mental health, well-being and resilience in agricultural areas
This paper offers an overview of research perspectives, gaps, and priorities within the field of mental health and well-being among farming communities in the Global North. Developed by an international working group of scholars with expertise in the mental health and well-being of agricultural and rural communities, it outlines the importance of developing an international research agenda in this subject area by presenting five propositions. Eac…
It's good to show happy cows
The interspecies interactions between farmers and livestock have provided an important conceptual and empirical focus in expanding our understanding of animal geographies, with a burgeoning literature exploring the intricate material and discursive (re)positioning of animals across different socio-spatial contexts. This paper offers a new direction for understanding these human-animal encounters by exploring the ways in which farmer and animal id…
Keeping on[line] farming
This paper explores the geographies of digital curation and self-care among young farmers in the UK, examining how virtual and digital spaces are having a significant impact on how young farmers negotiate their identities, (dis)connection and self-care within their everyday lives. Drawing on interviews with 28 young famers in the UK, we observe how farming identities are (re)produced and practiced online, via carefully curated social media, and h…
Towards an understanding of quality and inclusivity in human-environment experiences
As calls grow for relational approaches to nature and wellbeing research that consider reciprocity in human-environment interactions, the concept of affordances is gaining importance as a useful way of thinking about nature experiences. Affordances provide a framework to enable individualised conceptions of nature by focusing on what is functionally meaningful to people. However, affordance thinking is currently limited in its ability to help us …
Towards the geographies of loneliness
Loneliness is a ‘silent epidemic’, challenging people’s emotional and ontological sense of being in the world. Whilst loneliness has been the focus of medical and psychological research, often being synonymous with discourses of mental ill health, trauma and relationship breakdowns, it has remained under-theorised from a geographical perspective. In offering a critical engagement of how and where loneliness exists geographically, this paper ident…
The virtual good farmer
This paper advances the literature on the 'good farmer' by considering the role social media may play in the presentation, refinement and reworking of notions of good farming. In exploring these ideas, the paper brings current understandings of the good farmer into conversation with those literatures on online capital exchange and the extensions of Goffman's ideas of identity performance. The paper draws on analysis of 5,000 farming tweets and in…
Leona J. Skelton, Tyne after Tyne
We Cows are in a Very Serious Predicament’
This article addresses understandings of a novel wartime labour force, the Women's Land Army, and of the cattle that a large proportion of its members worked with, in Britain during and after the Second World War. It draws on official records, publicity material, print media, memoirs and oral histories for an analysis of the gendered dynamics of the wartime management of the dairy herd, focusing on cultural constructions and their contradictions.…
Farming365 – Exploring farmers’ social media use and the (re)presentation of farming lives
More-Than-Human Emotional Communities
This article offers a perspective on the overlooked ‘more-than-human’ emotional dimensions of the British war effort of 1939 to 1945. We focus on the relationships between British soldiers and their mules in Burma. We argue that the British soldiers who were required to become muleteers, together with their officers and veterinary personnel, formed an ‘emotional community’ (Rosenwein), based on a shared idea of a close and mutually beneficial rel…
Knowledge flows
The move towards sustainable agriculture requires a more detailed understanding of farmers’ knowledge(s) and knowledge practices. Increasingly, it is important to understand not only what farmers understand, but how their knowledge practices incorporate others – especially given the emerging call for environmentally-orientated policy measures to move beyond an individual farmer focus. This paper considers how farmers engage with, utilise and shar…
In the autumn of their lives
Using a novel longitudinal qualitative approach of revisiting older men across an elongated period, this paper addresses the lack of geographical attention given to older age masculinities specifically, and the limited exploration of the temporal aspects of masculinity more generally. Situated within debates around intersectional and relational approaches to masculinity and the critical geographies of ageing, the paper utilises insights from Lefe…
(R)evolving masculinities in times of change amongst small-scale fishers in North Wales
Whilst fishing men have commonly been investigated through the lens of ‘hegemonic masculinity’, recent studies have highlighted a potential change and nuancing of such fishing masculinities. Inspired by the call to pay attention to masculinities as fluid, contextual and interpersonal, this paper pays attention to scalar, placed and temporal specificities to consider how ‘socially-dominant masculinities’ can develop (and persist) in specific conte…
Good farming beyond farmland – Riparian environments and the concept of the ‘good farmer’
A vibrant literature has emerged around Bourdieusian-inspired notions of the ‘good farmer’ and how such concepts might aid our understandings of agriculture and agricultural change. To date, however, studies of the good farmer have been framed largely in relation to land management, with little consideration given to riparian environments which make up a significant part of the farmed landscape. Drawing on in-depth interviews with farmers in a ri…
A flowing conversation? Methodological issues in interviewing farmers about rivers and riparian environments
Geographers are increasingly paying close attention to the importance of the place (and placing) of the research encounter. Research with farmers – who have been seen to hold very distinct people–place relations – is proving a particularly fruitful arena for developing these emplaced methodological discussions. To date, however, such emplaced methodological reflections with farmers have been largely terra‐centric, with relatively scant focus on r…
The Challenge of Oral History to Environmental History
Oral history has much to offer environmental history, yet the possibilities and promises of oral history remain underutilised in environmental history and environmental studies more broadly. Through a reflection on work in environmental history and associated disciplines, this paper presents a case for the strength and versatility of oral history as a key source for environmental history, while reflecting on questions of its reliability and scope…
Will farmers work together for conservation? The potential limits of farmers’ cooperation in agri-environment measures
Traditional Ecological Knowledge from the internet? The case of hay meadows in Europe
Adaptive biodiversity management of semi-natural hay meadows
In Norway the Agri-Environment Scheme The Action Plan for Hay Meadows (APHM) was implemented in 2009. • Using an interdisciplinary approach involving ecologists and social scientists, we examined the adaptive management approach the APHM. • The APHM showed to be a success, but perhaps only in the short term. • Safeguarding biodiversity in the red listed nature type semi-natural hay meadow depend on multiple factors. • The APHM have to allow manag…
Emplacing the Research Encounter
The article is concerned with the placing of, and making place central to, the research interview. Drawing on research on changing agricultural practices in the Peak District, the United Kingdom, the article explores how interviewing "in place," and making place the central theme of discussion, can have both practical and theoretical advantages for the research encounter. Emplacing the encounter means that often marginalized voices can be brought…
Letting them go’ – Agricultural retirement and human–livestock relations
Oral histories, farm practice and uncovering meaning in the countryside
This is the author's post print version of an article accepted for publication in Social and Cultural Geography. © 2008 Informa plc. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Volume 8, Number 3 (2007), pp. 391-415 is available at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713708888
Talking geography
This is the author's post print version of an article accepted for publication in Social and Cultural Geography. © 2008 Informa plc. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Volume 8, Number 3 (2007), pp. 345-351 is available at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713708888
Student geographies and homemaking
Studies of the ‘geographies of students’ have become increasingly prevalent across the social sciences and are particularly concerned with the predilection for young UK University undergraduates to be mobile in their institutional choice. A more recent focus within this work has been upon student identities, with attention given to how the spaces to which students move and in which they settle can have both positive and negative consequences for …
Student Geographies
In recent years a growing body of literature has emerged relating to what may be termed 'student geographies'. In synthesising this literature pertinent to the geographies of higher education students, including their movements, [im]mobilities and identities, this paper seeks to achieve two objectives. First, to move beyond traditional geographical boundaries by incorporating important discussions from across the social sciences and second, to tr…
Talking on the move
Recent research has begun to pay attention to the importance of place to the research encounter. This paper makes a contribution to these discussions through an investigation into the lived experiences of higher education students. Although there is a burgeoning literature on what has been termed ‘student geographies’, there has been relatively little attention focused on the methods that we might employ in exploring these geographies. Here we co…
Still Being the 'Good Farmer
Recent discussions in this journal have observed the importance of 'good farming' ideals and the subject position of 'good farmer' to farming practices. This article explores how farmers (re)negotiate their position as a good farmer in older age. Drawing on Bourdieusian-inspired discussions of good farming, the article explores the experiences of farmers in Hampshire and West Sussex,UK, over the age of 65, who continue working on their farms. It …
Experts in Their Fields
Through a focus on farming practices this paper considers farmer-science knowledges and explores three interrelated issues. First is the hitherto neglected issue of temporal dynamicity-the paper gives attention to how past history and time are constructed, organised, and drawn upon both in the way farmers develop and understand their own practices as well as in how they understand and negotiate those practices that they are now being asked to und…
How does longer term participation in agri-environment schemes [re]shape farmers’ environmental dispositions and identities
Reconsidering conceptualisations of farm conservation activity
Will farmers work together for conservation? The potential limits of farmers’ cooperation in agri-environment measures
Moving on'? Exploring the geographies of retirement adjustment amongst farming couples
Retirement is a life transition that has been relatively underexplored by geographers. In particular, mirroring other areas of academic and policy research, studies on retirement transitions and post-retirement experiences have been relatively sparse. Drawing on case studies from research in Hampshire and West Sussex (UK), this paper considers the challenges and issues surrounding the occupational cessation and retirement relocation of former far…
Bringing the ‘invisible farmer’ into sharper focus
Women's farm work and the gendered nature of the farm space and farm practices have been important intersecting themes within feminist enquiry over the last 30 years. Much research has tended to underplay the wider evolution of these gender relations – leaving under-explored the longer-term formation and contestation of the gendered activities, spaces and identities observed in the present. This article draws on research on 64 farms in the Peak D…
The next link in the chain’
This article contributes to knowledge of children's geographies by considering the micro-geographies and associated identities of children on family farms. Through focussing on farm practices, and drawing on evidence from the Peak District (UK) it examines how farm children are placed within, and ostensibly adhere to, discourses of the family farm. It moves on to investigate how such identities are far from static and explores the discursive stra…
Interviewing fathers and sons together
From salvage to recycling – new agendas or same old rubbish
Recent years have seen increased attention paid by geographers to the phenomenon of household waste recycling. Much of this attention by geographers has focused on contemporary recycling, especially contemporary policy and behaviour. This article takes a wider temporal perspective and considers the antecedent ‘National Salvage Campaign’ of the Second World War. It considers the conceptual lessons from this recycling campaign, drawing out the impo…
Landscape Archaeology, Heritage and the Community in Devon
In the context of recent media, governmental, academic and popular attention and enthusiasm for debates surrounding the construction and meaning of the British countryside, this paper outlines the potential for oral history to make a contribution. Working in Devon, the authors outline how an oral history methodology can engage with the fields of landscape archaeology and heritage studies. As well as augmenting and supporting more traditional appr…
Good farming beyond farmland – Riparian environments and the concept of the ‘good farmer’
A vibrant literature has emerged around Bourdieusian-inspired notions of the ‘good farmer’ and how such concepts might aid our understandings of agriculture and agricultural change. To date, however, studies of the good farmer have been framed largely in relation to land management, with little consideration given to riparian environments which make up a significant part of the farmed landscape. Drawing on in-depth interviews with farmers in a ri…
Food Waste Bins
Recent years have seen an increasing number of councils begin separate food waste collections from domestic premises, a change that has resulted in householders having to sort food waste and keep it in separate bins until collection. Yet bins - of any kind - have been subject to little investigation, despite being a central element of the waste infrastructure. This paper attends to this omission by examining food bins. First of all, it explores t…
In the autumn of their lives
Using a novel longitudinal qualitative approach of revisiting older men across an elongated period, this paper addresses the lack of geographical attention given to older age masculinities specifically, and the limited exploration of the temporal aspects of masculinity more generally. Situated within debates around intersectional and relational approaches to masculinity and the critical geographies of ageing, the paper utilises insights from Lefe…
Exploring the socio-cultural contexts of fishers and fishing
Turning Farmers into Conservationists? Progress and Prospects
Agri‐Environment Schemes (AESs) are seen as important instruments in the delivery of sustainable countryside management. Central to the success of AESs are farmer participation and engagement. Social scientists, and geographers in particular, have now paid significant attention to these themes and this paper seeks to survey some key developments within this work. The paper begins by reflecting on the key themes emerging from AES ‘adoption’ resear…
Country stories
In the context of recent media, governmental, academic and popular attention and enthusiasm for debates surrounding the construction and meaning of the British countryside, this paper outlines the potential for oral history to make a contribution. Drawing on work in Devon, UK, we outline how an oral history methodology can engage with the fields of archaeological science and heritage management of landscape resources from the past, before outlini…
Silent meadows
The environmental impacts of British agriculture have been a popular focus in recent years within Landscape Research. However, to date, little attention has been paid to the case of hay meadows, an important feature of the landscape in cultural, agricultural and ecological terms, and one which has been threatened with decline. The paper considers the factors which have marginalized hay meadows in the discussion of agri-environment relations, show…
Narrating landscape
Reproduced with permission of the publisher. © 2004 James & James(Science Publishers) Ltd
Reconsidering conceptualisations of farm conservation activity
Country stories
In the context of recent media, governmental, academic and popular attention and enthusiasm for debates surrounding the construction and meaning of the British countryside, this paper outlines the potential for oral history to make a contribution. Drawing on work in Devon, UK, we outline how an oral history methodology can engage with the fields of archaeological science and heritage management of landscape resources from the past, before outlini…
Silent meadows
The environmental impacts of British agriculture have been a popular focus in recent years within Landscape Research. However, to date, little attention has been paid to the case of hay meadows, an important feature of the landscape in cultural, agricultural and ecological terms, and one which has been threatened with decline. The paper considers the factors which have marginalized hay meadows in the discussion of agri-environment relations, show…
Narrating landscape
The potential of an oral history approach to the study of landscape archaeology is considered. The paper presents the findings from an AHRB-funded[auquery1]project 'Landscape archaeology and the community in Devon: an oral history approach', which aims to transgress some of the epistemological boundaries of archaeology by drawing on the discursive genre of oral history in order to augment, challenge and destabilize existing landscape narratives. …
Landscape Archaeology, Heritage and the Community in Devon
In the context of recent media, governmental, academic and popular attention and enthusiasm for debates surrounding the construction and meaning of the British countryside, this paper outlines the potential for oral history to make a contribution. Working in Devon, the authors outline how an oral history methodology can engage with the fields of landscape archaeology and heritage studies. As well as augmenting and supporting more traditional appr…
John Barclay
Topographic relations
This paper considers whether the deployment of a topographical metaphor may add value to the recent discussion of networked relations. The paper discusses how viewing relations as part of a relational landscape may add a third dimension to the discussion by allowing an appreciation of the strength, or entrenchment, of relations, and how these entrenchments impact on the development of new relations and the resistance to watershed events. The heur…
Oral histories, farm practice and uncovering meaning in the countryside
This is the author's post print version of an article accepted for publication in Social and Cultural Geography. © 2008 Informa plc. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Volume 8, Number 3 (2007), pp. 391-415 is available at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713708888
Talking geography
This is the author's post print version of an article accepted for publication in Social and Cultural Geography. © 2008 Informa plc. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Volume 8, Number 3 (2007), pp. 345-351 is available at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713708888
Fighting from the fields’
From salvage to recycling – new agendas or same old rubbish
Recent years have seen increased attention paid by geographers to the phenomenon of household waste recycling. Much of this attention by geographers has focused on contemporary recycling, especially contemporary policy and behaviour. This article takes a wider temporal perspective and considers the antecedent ‘National Salvage Campaign’ of the Second World War. It considers the conceptual lessons from this recycling campaign, drawing out the impo…
Experts in Their Fields
Through a focus on farming practices this paper considers farmer-science knowledges and explores three interrelated issues. First is the hitherto neglected issue of temporal dynamicity-the paper gives attention to how past history and time are constructed, organised, and drawn upon both in the way farmers develop and understand their own practices as well as in how they understand and negotiate those practices that they are now being asked to und…
The next link in the chain’
This article contributes to knowledge of children's geographies by considering the micro-geographies and associated identities of children on family farms. Through focussing on farm practices, and drawing on evidence from the Peak District (UK) it examines how farm children are placed within, and ostensibly adhere to, discourses of the family farm. It moves on to investigate how such identities are far from static and explores the discursive stra…
Bringing the ‘invisible farmer’ into sharper focus
Women's farm work and the gendered nature of the farm space and farm practices have been important intersecting themes within feminist enquiry over the last 30 years. Much research has tended to underplay the wider evolution of these gender relations – leaving under-explored the longer-term formation and contestation of the gendered activities, spaces and identities observed in the present. This article draws on research on 64 farms in the Peak D…
Letting them go’ – Agricultural retirement and human–livestock relations
Emplacing the Research Encounter
The article is concerned with the placing of, and making place central to, the research interview. Drawing on research on changing agricultural practices in the Peak District, the United Kingdom, the article explores how interviewing "in place," and making place the central theme of discussion, can have both practical and theoretical advantages for the research encounter. Emplacing the encounter means that often marginalized voices can be brought…
Turning Farmers into Conservationists? Progress and Prospects
Agri‐Environment Schemes (AESs) are seen as important instruments in the delivery of sustainable countryside management. Central to the success of AESs are farmer participation and engagement. Social scientists, and geographers in particular, have now paid significant attention to these themes and this paper seeks to survey some key developments within this work. The paper begins by reflecting on the key themes emerging from AES ‘adoption’ resear…
Moving on'? Exploring the geographies of retirement adjustment amongst farming couples
Retirement is a life transition that has been relatively underexplored by geographers. In particular, mirroring other areas of academic and policy research, studies on retirement transitions and post-retirement experiences have been relatively sparse. Drawing on case studies from research in Hampshire and West Sussex (UK), this paper considers the challenges and issues surrounding the occupational cessation and retirement relocation of former far…
Food Waste Bins
Recent years have seen an increasing number of councils begin separate food waste collections from domestic premises, a change that has resulted in householders having to sort food waste and keep it in separate bins until collection. Yet bins - of any kind - have been subject to little investigation, despite being a central element of the waste infrastructure. This paper attends to this omission by examining food bins. First of all, it explores t…
Student Geographies
In recent years a growing body of literature has emerged relating to what may be termed 'student geographies'. In synthesising this literature pertinent to the geographies of higher education students, including their movements, [im]mobilities and identities, this paper seeks to achieve two objectives. First, to move beyond traditional geographical boundaries by incorporating important discussions from across the social sciences and second, to tr…
Interviewing fathers and sons together
Talking on the move
Recent research has begun to pay attention to the importance of place to the research encounter. This paper makes a contribution to these discussions through an investigation into the lived experiences of higher education students. Although there is a burgeoning literature on what has been termed ‘student geographies’, there has been relatively little attention focused on the methods that we might employ in exploring these geographies. Here we co…
How does longer term participation in agri-environment schemes [re]shape farmers’ environmental dispositions and identities
Still Being the 'Good Farmer
Recent discussions in this journal have observed the importance of 'good farming' ideals and the subject position of 'good farmer' to farming practices. This article explores how farmers (re)negotiate their position as a good farmer in older age. Drawing on Bourdieusian-inspired discussions of good farming, the article explores the experiences of farmers in Hampshire and West Sussex,UK, over the age of 65, who continue working on their farms. It …
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