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 backl...

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Main Authors: Tomaney, John, Blackman, Maeve, Natarajan, Lucy, Panayotopoulos-Tsiros, Dimitrios, Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Florence, Taylor, Myfanwy
Format: eBook Publication
Language:English
Published: Oxford Routledge 2024
Taylor & Francis
Taylor & Francis Group
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Edition:1
Series:Regional Studies Policy Impact Books
Subjects:
Business
Civil engineering, surveying and building
Development studies
Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning
Economic development
Economics
Economics of industrial organization
Economics, Finance, Business and Management
Geography
Großbritannien
Human geography
Industry 4.0
Infrastructure (Economics)
Interdisciplinary studies
Lagging Regions
Left Behind Places
Nonfiction
Politics
Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects
Regional and area planning
Regional development
Social Capital
Social Infrastructure
Sociology
Sozialwirtschaft
Strukturschwache Region
Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes
The environment
Regional development
Lagging Regions
Social Capital
Social Infrastructure
Industry 4.0
Left Behind Places
ISBN:1032710047, 9781032710044, 9781040029039, 1040029035, 1032710055, 9781032710051, 9781040029008, 1040029000
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- About the authors -- Summary and recommendations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1: Social infrastructure and "levelling up" in the UK -- 1.2: Structure of the book -- Chapter 2: "Left behind places" and social infrastructure -- 2.1: Introduction -- 2.2: Left behind -- 2.3: Place attachments -- 2.4: Commitments to place -- 2.5: Building social infrastructure -- Chapter 3: Methods: researching the affective dimensions of "left behind places" to underpin new policy approaches -- 3.1: The methodological challenge -- 3.2: A pragmatist orientation to inquiry -- 3.3: Researching social infrastructure -- 3.4: Our approach -- 3.5: A narrative of change -- Chapter 4: Political economy of Sacriston -- Chapter 5: Moral community: the making of social infrastructure in Sacriston -- Chapter 6: Root shock: unmaking social infrastructure in Sacriston -- Chapter 7: Radical hope: remaking social infrastructure in Sacriston -- Chapter 8: Conclusions and policy implications -- 8.1: Findings -- 8.2: Beyond pride in place -- 8.3: Policy proposals -- Appendix: a timeline of Sacriston