Social infrastructure and left behind places
This book explores the making, unmaking and remaking of social infrastructure in ‘left-behind places’. Such places, typically once flourishing industrial communities that have been excluded from recent economic growth, now attract academic and policy attention as sites of a political backlash agains...
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| author | Tomaney, John Blackman, Maeve Natarajan, Lucy Panayotopoulos-Tsiros, Dimitrios Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Florence Taylor, Myfanwy |
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| description | This book explores the making, unmaking and remaking of social infrastructure in ‘left-behind places’. Such places, typically once flourishing industrial communities that have been excluded from recent economic growth, now attract academic and policy attention as sites of a political backlash against globalisation and liberal democracy. The book focuses on the role of social infrastructure as a key component of this story. Seeking to move beyond a narrowly economistic of reading ‘left behind places’, the book addresses the understudied affective dimensions of ‘left-behindness’. It develops an analytical framework that emphasises the importance of place attachments and the consequences of their disruption; considers ‘left behind places’ as ‘moral communities’ and the making of social infrastructure as an expression of this; views the unmaking of social infrastructure through the lens of ‘root shock’; and explains efforts at remaking it in terms of the articulation of ‘radical hope’. The analysis builds upon a case study of a former mining community in County Durham, North East England. Using mixed methods, it offers a ‘deep place study’ of a single village to understand more fully the making, unmaking and remaking of social infrastructure. It shows how a place once richly endowed with social infrastructure, saw this endowment wither and the effects this had on the community. However, it also records efforts of the local people to rebuild social infrastructure, typically drawing the lessons of the past. Although the story of one village, the methods, results and policy recommendation have much wider applicability. The book will be of interest to researchers, policy makers and others concerned with the fate of ‘left behind places’. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 license. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1607552025-06-03T05:11:28Z Social infrastructure and left behind places Tomaney, John Blackman, Maeve Natarajan, Lucy Panayotopoulos-Tsiros, Dimitrios Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Florence Taylor, Myfanwy Left Behind Places Industry 4.0 Lagging Regions Social Infrastructure Social Capital Regional development thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCD Economics of industrial organization thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TN Civil engineering, surveying and building thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RP Regional and area planning This book explores the making, unmaking and remaking of social infrastructure in ‘left-behind places’. Such places, typically once flourishing industrial communities that have been excluded from recent economic growth, now attract academic and policy attention as sites of a political backlash against globalisation and liberal democracy. The book focuses on the role of social infrastructure as a key component of this story. Seeking to move beyond a narrowly economistic of reading ‘left behind places’, the book addresses the understudied affective dimensions of ‘left-behindness’. It develops an analytical framework that emphasises the importance of place attachments and the consequences of their disruption; considers ‘left behind places’ as ‘moral communities’ and the making of social infrastructure as an expression of this; views the unmaking of social infrastructure through the lens of ‘root shock’; and explains efforts at remaking it in terms of the articulation of ‘radical hope’. The analysis builds upon a case study of a former mining community in County Durham, North East England. Using mixed methods, it offers a ‘deep place study’ of a single village to understand more fully the making, unmaking and remaking of social infrastructure. It shows how a place once richly endowed with social infrastructure, saw this endowment wither and the effects this had on the community. However, it also records efforts of the local people to rebuild social infrastructure, typically drawing the lessons of the past. Although the story of one village, the methods, results and policy recommendation have much wider applicability. The book will be of interest to researchers, policy makers and others concerned with the fate of ‘left behind places’. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 license. 2025-05-29T05:30:41Z 2025-05-29T05:30:41Z 2025-05-28T08:21:43Z 2024 book ONIX_20250528T101339_9781040029008_31 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102892 9781040029008 9781032710051 9781040029039 9781032710044 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/160755 eng Regional Studies Policy Impact Books open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102892/1/9781040029008.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102892/1/9781040029008.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781032710051 10.4324/9781032710051 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 UK Research and Innovation 4c0c0c72-854a-4692-aa5c-12ec2339edf8 9781040029008 9781032710051 9781040029039 9781032710044 UK Research and Innovation Routledge 108 Oxford ES/V013696/1 open access |
| spellingShingle | Left Behind Places Industry 4.0 Lagging Regions Social Infrastructure Social Capital Regional development thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCD Economics of industrial organization thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TN Civil engineering, surveying and building thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RP Regional and area planning Tomaney, John Blackman, Maeve Natarajan, Lucy Panayotopoulos-Tsiros, Dimitrios Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Florence Taylor, Myfanwy Social infrastructure and left behind places |
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| topic | Left Behind Places Industry 4.0 Lagging Regions Social Infrastructure Social Capital Regional development thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCD Economics of industrial organization thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TN Civil engineering, surveying and building thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RP Regional and area planning |
| topic_facet | Left Behind Places Industry 4.0 Lagging Regions Social Infrastructure Social Capital Regional development thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCD Economics of industrial organization thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TN Civil engineering, surveying and building thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RP Regional and area planning |
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