Neil Ravenscroft
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 308221 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Neil Ravenscroft |
| PRENOMES | Neil |
| SOBRENOME | Ravenscroft |
| ASSINATURA | RAVENSCROFT N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Brighton |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7196-8420 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 62 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 406 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
The Role of Contextual Values in the Formation of Ecological Behaviours
It is commonly understood that over-arching transcendental values (TVs) play a major role in directly influencing individual and group behaviours, including those relating to the environment. This paper challenges this approach, by arguing that there is good evidence to indicate that personal contexts – rather than TVs – inform many decisions that individuals need to make. As such, the paper argues that individuals use their TVs as a guide to for…
Counterurbanization, gentrification and the potential for rural revitalisation in China
Stimulating counterurbanization has long been understood as a potential approach to revitalising rural areas. While well‐established in many countries, in China, it is taking a particular time‐limited form and characteristic dominated by issues of domicile and property rights. Rather than being characterised by long‐term life choices, counterurbanization in China is predominantly a shorter‐term leisure and tourism activity in which urbanites ‘cur…
Improving farming practice through localized land tenure reform
Collective land rights reform in developing countries is promoted as a means of optimizing the use of land resources by clarifying property rights and encouraging land transfer. However, such mechanisms remain controversial, particularly as the overall cost – transaction, social, cultural – is often judged to be greater than the benefits obtained. In seeking to address whether this is always the case, this paper reports on a study of the “Three R…
Collective forests and the community at the legal frontier of property rights reforms in China
Collective forests have long played an important economic, cultural and social role in the remote mountainous areas of China, especially before the Open and Reform Period. However, the centrist legal framework for managing and utilizing the collective forests was not sufficiently well developed to meet the demands of all community members, which led to largely unfettered overuse and illegal logging. This “tragedy of the commons” meant that the tr…
Changing community relations in southeast China
Responsibility-driven collective action in the context of rapid rural depopulation
Roses and castles
This article evaluates the cultural politics of waterfront heritage in regenerating Manchester, UK, in order to understand why the benefits envisaged for local communities have not been fully realised. Analysing a database of texts produced for an EU cultural heritage project (2015–2017) we find there is no lack of rich and diverse cultural heritage in Manchester, produced by a broad range of people. Using Lefebvre’s ideas about the social produc…
Loving the mess
This paper concludes a special feature of Sustainability Science that explores a broad range of social value theoretical traditions, such as religious studies, social psychology, indigenous knowledge, economics, sociology, and philosophy. We introduce a novel transdisciplinary conceptual framework that revolves around concepts of 'lenses' and 'tensions' to help navigate value diversity. First, we consider the notion of lenses: perspectives on val…
A new normative economics for the formation of shared social values
Governance, Gender and the Appropriation of Natural Resources
China’s rapid urbanization has created large scale of population migration, resulting in many villages being dominated by “left-behind” women, and weak governance of those collectively owned resources. The situation has required these women to take up the functions of decision-making and governance as a remedial mechanism as well as a new path. Based on a case study in a typical hollowing-out village in central China, this paper explores an examp…
The nowtopia of the riverbank
Degrowth imaginaries offer alternative ways of envisioning future societies. Those, predominantly working age and working class people, seeking to purposefully enact degrowth in the here and now are termed 'nowtopians'. Based on empirical work undertaken along the River Adur valley in West Sussex, UK, this paper argues that dynamic examples of nowtopian initiatives can develop from alternative and overlooked demographics, such as rural community …
From the hydrosocial to the hydrocitizen
This paper argues that the expansion of corporate social responsibility initiatives within the English water sector, and in particular the opening up of privately owned public spaces (POPS) in urban settings, have generated spatially fixed forms of human-environment relationships that we have termed 'hydrocitizenships'. Utilising empirical fieldwork undertaken within an emergent wetland POPS, we suggest that these novel modes of citizen agency ar…
The new urban agricultural geography of Shanghai
Collective action in implementing top-down land policy
Ecosystem services and the idea of shared values
Ecosystem services conceptualise the diverse values that ecosystems provide to humanity. This was recognised in the United Kingdom's National Ecosystem Assessment, which noted that appreciation of the full value of ecosystem services requires recognition of values that are shared. By operationalising the shared values concept, it is argued that the contribution of ecosystem services to human well-being can be represented more holistically. This p…
Shared values and deliberative valuation
Valuation that focuses only on individual values evades the substantial collective and intersubjective meanings, significance and value from ecosystems. Shared, plural and cultural values of ecosystems constitute a diffuse and interdisciplinary field of research, covering an area that links questions around value ontology, elicitation and aggregation with questions of participation, ethics, and social justice. Synthesising understanding from vari…
The spaces and times of community farming
This paper uses a multiple case study approach to researching people's everyday lives and experiences of six community farms and gardens in diverse settings in China and England. We argue that collective understandings of community are bound up in everyday action in particular spaces and times. Successful community farms and gardens are those that are able to provide suitable spaces and times for these actions so that their members can enjoy mult…
Collective action in China’s recent collective forestry property rights reform
Co-designing non-hierarchical community arts research
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential and durability of arts practice as research through developing a new approach to arts research that challenges the conventional association between dominant constructions of community and dominant modes of research. Design/methodology/approach – A co-design approach, situated in arts practice, has been used to generate a conceptual framework that offers potential to open up the worki…
Growing your own’
Growing food for personal and family consumption is a significant global activity, but one that has received insufficient academic attention, particularly in developed countries. This paper uses data from the European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) to address three areas of particular concern: the prevalence of growing your own food and how this has changed over time; the individual and household context in which growing takes place; and whether t…
What are shared and social values of ecosystems
The knowledge cultures of changing farming practices in a water town of the Southern Yangtze Valley, China
A flexible ecosystem services proto-typology based on public opinion
Growing intimate privatepublics
The Young Women's Group in Manchester is a 'young women's peer health project, run by and for young lesbian and bisexual women', which runs an allotment as one of its activities. At a time when interest in allotments and gardening appears to be on the increase, the existence of yet another community allotment may seem unremarkable. Yet we suggest that this queer allotment poses challenges for conventional theorisations of allotments, as well as f…
Beyond agriculture
What are shared and social values of ecosystems
Loving the mess
This paper concludes a special feature of Sustainability Science that explores a broad range of social value theoretical traditions, such as religious studies, social psychology, indigenous knowledge, economics, sociology, and philosophy. We introduce a novel transdisciplinary conceptual framework that revolves around concepts of 'lenses' and 'tensions' to help navigate value diversity. First, we consider the notion of lenses: perspectives on val…
The Vitality and Viability of Town Centres
Following growing concerns about the future of many town centres in the UK, this paper considers the factors that contribute to measuring and understanding their continuing health. Recognising that past studies have tended to concentrate on measures of relative performance between towns, the paper presents a methodology for analysis at the micro level, distinguishing between both the relative and the absolute performance of different areas within…
Spaces of transgression
In this essay we seek to engage with the emerging research agenda related to the analysis of deviant activities performed in times and spaces conventionally associated with leisure. Using a reading of Mikhail Bakhtin’s seminal work on the governmental structures informing medieval festivals, we suggest that much leisure research has misunderstood the role of deviance in the performance of social relations. Rather than the superficial commodificat…
Space hijacking and the anarcho-politics of leisure
Political scientists, social movement theorists and cultural geographers have made us aware of forms of micro-political resistance that have challenged the privatisation, corporatisation and securitisation of the city. An increasing tactical feature of such resistance has been the deployment of leisure practices and performances to challenge the dominant norms and ideologies governing the use of urban space. This paper focuses upon a case study o…
The Emergent Working Society of Leisure
This paper explores a contemporary trend in the sociology of work and leisure which engages with classic leisure studies concerns about the nature of peoples' uses of time and their relationship to production and consumption. Utilizing data from qualitative research into the career biographies of creative industries workers in a small coastal town in England, we posit that we are witnessing an emerging working society of leisure. This involves a …
Negotiating Recreational Access Under Asymmetrical Power Relations
This article addresses recreational conflict between anglers and boaters in England. While recognizing that interpersonal conflicts between individual anglers and boaters exist much as they do in other countries, the article argues that the position in England is mediated through complex land and property rights that position the stakeholders asymmetrically, as legal rights holders (anglers) and moral rights claimants (boaters). Under this scenar…
Land, Rights and the Gift
The Countryside and Rights of Way Act came into force at the end of 2000 with,as part of its content, new provisions relating to public access to the English and Welsh countryside. In this paper we review the main elements of the Act and assess its meaning in relation to citizenship, territoriality and the place of land in English law and society. We invoke Mauss's (1954)concept of Gift to explain the process of brokerage being made over access a…
Public leisure provision and the good citizen
In the last decade Britain has witnessed a cultural transformation from the municipal socialism enshrined in the post-war development of the Welfare State to the Thatcherite urban entrepreneurialism of the 1980s. One of the consequent effects has been a change in the way in which government services and resources are allocated. This has involved the competitive tendering of most local government services, including leisure provision, to the priva…
Collective action in implementing top-down land policy
Growing your own’
Growing food for personal and family consumption is a significant global activity, but one that has received insufficient academic attention, particularly in developed countries. This paper uses data from the European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) to address three areas of particular concern: the prevalence of growing your own food and how this has changed over time; the individual and household context in which growing takes place; and whether t…
The changing market for heritage tourism
Recognising the broad appeal, to both governments and visitors, of heritage tourism, this paper discusses the key management trends and indices associated with a particular segment of this market, concerning historic houses open to the public. While supporting the established orthodoxy that admission numbers are largely insensitive to increases in admission charges, certainly in the short term, the paper notes that wider structural changes in the…
The new urban agricultural geography of Shanghai
Responsibility-driven collective action in the context of rapid rural depopulation
Landowner responses to financial incentive schemes for recreational access to woodlands in South East England
Counterurbanization, gentrification and the potential for rural revitalisation in China
Stimulating counterurbanization has long been understood as a potential approach to revitalising rural areas. While well‐established in many countries, in China, it is taking a particular time‐limited form and characteristic dominated by issues of domicile and property rights. Rather than being characterised by long‐term life choices, counterurbanization in China is predominantly a shorter‐term leisure and tourism activity in which urbanites ‘cur…
From the hydrosocial to the hydrocitizen
This paper argues that the expansion of corporate social responsibility initiatives within the English water sector, and in particular the opening up of privately owned public spaces (POPS) in urban settings, have generated spatially fixed forms of human-environment relationships that we have termed 'hydrocitizenships'. Utilising empirical fieldwork undertaken within an emergent wetland POPS, we suggest that these novel modes of citizen agency ar…
Collective action in China’s recent collective forestry property rights reform
Countryside recreation provision in England
A new normative economics for the formation of shared social values
Beyond agriculture
Tales from the Tracks
This article examines the constraints facing those wishing to use non-motorized cycle and walking routes for sport and recreation activities. Using transcripts from six group interviews, the article identifies an emergent 'discourse of constraints', based on the development of conventional constraints models. The theoretical frame of the article is informed by Giddens's ontological uncertainty, mediated by Beck's work on individuation and the ris…
Changing community relations in southeast China
Governance, Gender and the Appropriation of Natural Resources
China’s rapid urbanization has created large scale of population migration, resulting in many villages being dominated by “left-behind” women, and weak governance of those collectively owned resources. The situation has required these women to take up the functions of decision-making and governance as a remedial mechanism as well as a new path. Based on a case study in a typical hollowing-out village in central China, this paper explores an examp…
The knowledge cultures of changing farming practices in a water town of the Southern Yangtze Valley, China
Recreation Planning and Development
Preface - Introduction - The Origins and Evolution of Recreation Provision - Property, Property Markets and Development - The Development Process and the Consequent Demand for Land - State Regulation of Development: The Statutory Planning System - Rural Recreation and Farm Diversification: Control of Development in the Countryside - Urban Leisure Provision and the Role of the Public Sector - The Environmental Assessment of Recreation Development …
Public leisure provision and the good citizen
In the last decade Britain has witnessed a cultural transformation from the municipal socialism enshrined in the post-war development of the Welfare State to the Thatcherite urban entrepreneurialism of the 1980s. One of the consequent effects has been a change in the way in which government services and resources are allocated. This has involved the competitive tendering of most local government services, including leisure provision, to the priva…
Leisure Policy in the New Europe
Leisure is in the vanguard of a social and cultural revolution which is replacing the former east/west political bipolarity with a globalized economic system in which the new Europe has a central role. Within this revolution, leisure, including recreation, culture and tourism, is constructed as the epitome of success ful capitalist development, the very legitimation of the global transmogrification from a production to a con sumption orientation.…
The economic evaluation of output in public leisure services
Because of its intangibility, the measurement of the final output of publicly provided leisure services as an integral element of the attainment of economic and socio-political goals has long been a problem. This paper considers, within the context of the current managerial ethos and market orientation, implicit in the introduction of Compulsory Competitive Tendering (CCT), local authority leisure provision goals are being subordinated to contrac…
Paradise postponed? The Department of National Heritage and political hegemony
This article considers the effect upon citizens of the introduction of the Department of National Heritage following the general election of April 1992. Heralded as a significant stage in the growing relevance to ,Britain of the emergent leisure industry, the paper finds inconsisten cies which suggest an altogether less prosaic objective. For rather than emphasising or underpinning its traditional welfare role, the Depart ment has signified a new…
Rural England
Strategic advice about, and management of, the rural environment in England has traditionally been the general preserve of a single profession: the Rural Practice Division member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), colloquially known as the land agent or rural practice chartered surveyor. While the profession traces its antecedence to biblical references to Joseph, son of Jacob, as a Comptroller of the Pharaoh’ s household, Mi…
The development of charging policies for the making of public path orders
The changing market for heritage tourism
Recognising the broad appeal, to both governments and visitors, of heritage tourism, this paper discusses the key management trends and indices associated with a particular segment of this market, concerning historic houses open to the public. While supporting the established orthodoxy that admission numbers are largely insensitive to increases in admission charges, certainly in the short term, the paper notes that wider structural changes in the…
Rights, citizenship and access to the countryside
This paper presents a reading of recent UK government policy on recreational access to the countryside of England, in terms of its citizenship and rights agenda. Given the continuity of traditional forms of land tenure and occupation, it is argued that the policy, as text, is less a recognition of the changing needs of a transitory society than it is a revisionist manifesto for resisting external influence and change. This is particularly so in t…
The changing regulation of public leisure provision
There is much current international interest in the effectiveness, efficiency and economy of alternative mechanisms of public service delivery. In the UK, research has concentrated on Compulsory Competitive Tendering (CCT), both in terms of its impacts and the wider socio-political project which it represents. It has been argued that CCT has been less about getting the private sector into public leisure provision than it has about commercializing…
The Popular Culture of Agricultural Law Reform
Planning for Recreation in Rural England
In this paper, we analyze recent rural strategy initiatives in England in an attempt to explore the relationship between planning policy and the provision of outdoor recreation. Notwithstanding a wider rhetoric of accessibility to the countryside, much recreational planning activity has been based on the discriminatory notion of acceptable leisure activities. Acceptability in this case is associated with a land use planning system in which land i…
Regulating Time, Regulating Society
In this paper, we seek to review state reconstruction of public sector leisure provision in the UK. We suggest that there is a need to consider more fully the role (and similar reconstruction) of the individual as leisure consumer. In doing this, we question the constructions of both the "modern" state and of the notion of free" time. Adopting a regulationist approach, we suggest that analyses of the state and free-time should be shifted from an …
Post-Feudalism’ and the changing structure of agricultural leasing
Benevolence, nationalism and hegemony
This paper reviews the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 fifty years since its enactment. The Act is assessed in the light of fifty years of access policy and within the present context of political debates and manoeuvres over the ‘right to roam’. It is concluded that benevolence is still the prevailing attitude towards access provision, maintaining as it does the scope for alternative freedoms and opportunities to exploit lan…
The Vitality and Viability of Town Centres
Following growing concerns about the future of many town centres in the UK, this paper considers the factors that contribute to measuring and understanding their continuing health. Recognising that past studies have tended to concentrate on measures of relative performance between towns, the paper presents a methodology for analysis at the micro level, distinguishing between both the relative and the absolute performance of different areas within…
Leisure, Property, and the Viability of Town Centres
Much has been written about the positive benefits associated with the growth in town centres of leisure enterprises, particularly those associated with the 'evening economy'. Coinciding as it has with concerns about the future viability of many of these centres, the promotion of leisure and tourism businesses-and the concomitant conversion of property-has become a core strategy for many local authorities and town-centre managers. Informed by the …
Countryside recreation provision in England
Going to the movies
Using readings of Foucault's heterotropia and Friedberg's imaginary mobility, this paper analyses movie-going as leisure practice. In highlighting the paucity of research in this area, the paper argues that such practice should be understood as a symbolic interaction between people's behaviour and the spaces that they occupy. This theorization is applied to Singapore, where per capita movie-going is amongst the highest in the world. The paper ill…
Going to the movies
Using readings of Foucault's heterotropia and Friedberg's imaginary mobility, this paper analyses movie-going as leisure practice. In highlighting the paucity of research in this area, the paper argues that such practice should be understood as a symbolic interaction between people's behaviour and the spaces that they occupy. This theorization is applied to Singapore, where per capita movie-going is amongst the highest in the world. The paper ill…
Land, Rights and the Gift
The Countryside and Rights of Way Act came into force at the end of 2000 with,as part of its content, new provisions relating to public access to the English and Welsh countryside. In this paper we review the main elements of the Act and assess its meaning in relation to citizenship, territoriality and the place of land in English law and society. We invoke Mauss's (1954)concept of Gift to explain the process of brokerage being made over access a…
The Festival as Carnivalesque
Using empirical data from a questionnaire survey of residents and visitors attending the 1998 San Fermin fiesta in Pamplona, Spain, this article offers a critique of the contemporary construction of festivals as interpretive devices.Informed by the work of Bakhtin, this article makes the case that festivals should be understood as carnivalesque inversions of the everyday, deployed to maintain and reinforce social order and, thus, the discipline o…
Constraints to Participation in Countryside Recreation in England
This paper addresses the already substantial literature on constraints to participation in outdoor recreation, by offering a European perspective on what has largely been a North American debate and by grounding constraints within a participative rather than a predominantly non-participative framework. Using the findings from a telephone survey of nearly 2000 households in southern England, the paper argues that constraints have to be understood …
Tales from the Tracks
This article examines the constraints facing those wishing to use non-motorized cycle and walking routes for sport and recreation activities. Using transcripts from six group interviews, the article identifies an emergent 'discourse of constraints', based on the development of conventional constraints models. The theoretical frame of the article is informed by Giddens's ontological uncertainty, mediated by Beck's work on individuation and the ris…
Developing the cultural agenda
This paper examines the role of regional cultural strategies in England as a signifier of Labour's emerging policy on central–regional political relations. While entreating the cultural consortiums responsible for the strategies to view regional development in an absolute sense—such that all regions can have equal and distinct aspirations—the strategies simultaneously perpetuate existing boundaries, inequalities and political formations. As a res…
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