LEADER 03391nam 2200385 450 001 9910476810203321 005 20230608221018.0 035 $a(CKB)5470000000566444 035 $a(NjHacI)995470000000566444 035 $a(EXLCZ)995470000000566444 100 $a20230511d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aPeople, Places and Policy $eknowing contemporary Wales through new localities /$fedited by Martin Jones, Scott Orford, Victoria Macfarlane 210 1$aFlorence :$cTaylor & Francis,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 158 pages) 225 1 $aRegions and cities 311 $a1-317-40755-5 327 $aIntroducing wiserd localities / Martin Jones, Victoria Macfarlane & Scott Orford -- Reframing the devolved policy landscape in wales / Ian Stafford -- Wales : a statistical perspective / Sam Jones, Scott Orford & Gary Higgs -- The heads of the valleys / Stephen Burgess & Kate Moles -- Locating the mid-wales economy : the central and west coast locality / Jesse Heley, Laura Jones & Suzie Watkin -- Economic inactivity and unemployment rates / Unitary Authority -- New localities in action and reaction / Martin Jones, Scott Orford, Jesse Heley & Victoria Macfarlane. 330 $aSet within the context of UK devolution and constitutional change, People, Places and Policy offers important and interesting insights into 'place-making' and 'locality-making' in contemporary Wales. Combining policy research with policy-maker and stakeholder interviews at various spatial scales (local, regional, national), it examines the historical processes and working practices that have produced the complex political geography of Wales. This book looks at the economic, social and political geographies of Wales, which in the context of devolution and public service governance are hotly debated. It offers a novel 'new localities' theoretical framework for capturing the dynamics of locality-making, to go beyond the obsession with boundaries and coterminous geographies expressed by policy-makers and politicians. Three localities - Heads of the Valleys (north of Cardiff), central and west coast regions (Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and the former district of Montgomeryshire in Powys) and the A55 corridor (from Wrexham to Holyhead) - are discussed in detail to illustrate this and also reveal the geographical tensions of devolution in contemporary Wales. This book is an original statement on the making of contemporary Wales from the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) researchers. It deploys a novel 'new localities' theoretical framework and innovative mapping techniques to represent spatial patterns in data. This allows the timely uncovering of both unbounded and fuzzy relational policy geographies, and the more bounded administrative concerns, which come together to produce and reproduce over time Wales' regional geography. 410 0$aRegions and cities. 607 $aWales$xEconomic conditions 676 $a330.9429 702 $aOrford$b Scott 702 $aMacfarlane$b Victoria 702 $aJones$b Martin 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910476810203321 996 $aPeople, Places and Policy$91970843 997 $aUNINA