Resources: Educators

Migration, Mobility and Cosmopolitanism in the Global Countryside (7 MB)
Presentation to the International Symposium on the Global Countryside, GLOBAL-RURAL final conference, Gregynog, November 2018.

Assemblage, place and globalization: researching the global countryside (4 MB)
Presentation to International Symposium on the Global Countryside, GLOBAL-RURAL final conference, Gregynog, November 2018.

(Re-)assembling place in the global countryside (1,020 KB)
Presentation to 'Beyond Globalization' seminar, Loughborough University, January 2015.

Visualizing the Global Countryside (468 KB)
Poster presented at the Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, London, August 2014.

Global Political Disruptions, Migration and Demographic Trends (363 KB)
Poster presented to the WISERD Annual Conference, Bangor, July 2017

Rural cosmopolitanism then and now: European settlers and Chinese farmers in late colonial Queensland (760 KB)
Presentation to the New Zealand Geographical Society Annual Conference, Dunedin, February 2016.

Agribusiness assemblages and the global countryside (2 MB)
Guest lecture to Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, March 2018.

The global countryside? Rural agency and transformation under globalization (2 MB)
Guest lecture given at Ningbo University and the Central China Normal University, Wuhan, October 2017. Slides have Chinese translation.

Re-assembling rural places in the global countryside (2 MB)

New food politics in the emergent global countryside (4 MB)

Migration and Cosmopolitanism in the Global Countryside (5 MB)

Experiences and Responses to Land-grabbing in Liberia (519 KB)

Agribusiness, Rural Communities and Resistance in Brazil (7 MB)

Placing Sugar Assemblages (2 MB)

Unravelling British Wool - Article in The Conversation (2 MB)

Uniqueness and Ubiquity: making rural places in a global era (3 MB)
Presentation based on Newtown Case Study research

(Re-)Assembling the Global Countryside (11 MB)
Open lecture at Manchester Metropolitan University, 31 December 2018

From olive groves to cargo holds: the dissident assemblages of invasive species (2 MB)
Presentation by Laura Jones at RGS-IBG Annual conference, Cardiff 2018. Session on 'Global Challenges and Assemblage'

Woods, M. (2018) Precarious rural cosmopolitanism: Negotiating globalization, migration and diversity in Irish small towns
Journal  of Rural Studies, vol 64, pages 164-176. View online (Open access for all)

Woods, M. (2018) Rural cosmopolitanism at the frontier? Chinese farmers and community relations in northern Queensland, c. 1890-1920 (2 MB)
Australian Geographer, 49(1), pages 107-131. View online

Global Challenges and Rural Landscapes: An Assemblage Approach (2 MB)
Paper presented to the RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Cardiff, August 2018

The State as Broker in International Labour Migration (1 MB)
Paper presented to the Global Conference on Economic Geography, Cologne, July 2018

Finance, Risk and Family Farmers (1 MB)
Paper presented to the Global Conference on Economic Geography, Cologne, July 2018

‘(Dis-)Assembling the Global Countryside: China and the New Zealand Dairy Assemblage’
presentation for Human Geography Research Seminar Series, Aberystwyth University, November 2016.

‘Rethinking Rural Responses to Globalization: an Assemblage Approach’
key note paper to the IGU Commission on the Sustainability of Rural Systems Annual Colloquium, Lisbon, July 2015.

‘Exploring Everyday Globalization in a Rural Small Town: a Critical Topography of Newtown’
presentation to the Institute of Welsh Politics / WISERD Understanding Wales Seminar Series, Aberystwyth University, March 2015.

‘Re-assembling rural place in the global countryside’
presented to the Re-imagining Rurality conference, University of Westminster, February 2015.

‘(Re-)assembling rural place in agri-food globalization’ (3 MB)
presented to the Agri-Food XXI Conference, Sydney, November 2014.

‘New Food Politics in the Emergent Global Countryside’
presented to Food and Sustainability: Production, Consumption and Food Relations in Asia Conference, City University of Hong Kong, October 2014.

‘The Recession and Rural Wales’
presented as part of WISERD Seminar Series on Wales and the Recession, Cardiff University, September 2014.

'Grounding global challenges and the relational politics of the rural’
presented at Newcastle University, October 2013 (earlier versions presented at IGU Commission on Sustainability of Rural Systems Conference, Galway, 2011; University of Queensland, 2011; Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 2013; RGS-IBG Annual Conference, 2013)

Global Economic Restructuring and Place: Nambour in the Global Sugar Assemblage (4 MB)
Presented to the Quadrennial UK-US-Canadian Rural Geography Conference, Wales, July 2015; Geography Seminar Series, National University of Ireland, Galway, October 2015; and Institute of Geographical Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, November 2015.

Agribusiness Assemblages and the Global Countryside (2 MB)
keynote presentation at ‘Governança, Agronegócio e Redes de Produção Global’ Colloquium, Brasilia, August 2017.

Fish, Fog and Fluorescent Bulbs: Negotiating the More-than-Human, More-than-Terrestrial Place Assemblage of a Canadian Coastal Community (14 MB)
Presented to the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Conference, London, August-September 2017.

‘Designing a Data Management Plan: the GLOBAL-RURAL Experience’, (808 KB)
Presented to ERC Workshop on Ethics in Research: Challenges from the Social Sciences, Brussels, November 2015.

‘Assembling the Global Countryside’
Presented to the School of Environment, Auckland University, March 2016.

'Bottling Globalisation in Rural Localities' (10 MB)
Paper presented at the International Rural Sociology Association (IRSA) Congress, Toronto, August 2016.

'(Dis-)Assembling the Global Countryside: China and the New Zealand Dairy Assemblage' (9 MB)
Presentation for Human Geography Research Seminar Series, Aberystwyth University, November 2016.