Resources: Researchers

Budy, F.C.T, 2020. Political reactions from below to Sime Darby land grab: Generational shift, geographical reach, rural influencers and multi-stakeholder alliance. (209 B)
Journal of Rural Studies View Online

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)

Re-assembling the Global Countryside: Applications and Lessons for Rural Development (2 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)

The World Comes to Wales for the Weekend? (3 MB)

Uniqueness and Ubiquity: Making Rural Places in a Global Era (1 MB)

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

The Future is Rural?
Video presentation by Michael Woods to Hyper-rurality Conference, Manchester, November 2017

Assemblage, Place and Globalization Talk (694 KB)
Presentation by Michael Woods on 'Assemblage, Place and Globalization' to Assemblage Thinking Symposium, Mytilene, June 2017.

Creative Ruralities (268 KB)
Paper presented by Michael Woods at the 'Creativity at the Edge' Symposium, Moore Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, June 2012

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

Manufacturing Mid Wales (4 MB)
Paper presented to the Nordic Geographers Meeting, Stockholm, July 2017

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

Fois, F. (2017) Shamanic spiritual activism: alternative development in the Brazilian Itamboatá valley
Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, 2 (2-3), 338-355. View online.

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

Jones, L., Heley, J. and Woods, M. (2019) Unravelling the Global Wool Assemblage: Researching Place and Production Networks in the Global Countryside (395 KB)
Sociologia Ruralis, vol 59, pages 137-158. View online (Open access)

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.

‘Exploring everyday globalization with digital and visual methods’
poster presented to workshop on Digital Technologies and Visual Research Methods, Aberdeen, August 2015.

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

‘Social Change and New Ruralities’ (2 MB)
presented to the Bertebos Conference, Falkenberg, Sweden, August 2014.

‘Everyday Globalization in a Rural Small Town’ (5 MB)
presented to the WISERD Annual Conference, Aberystwyth, July 2014 and the European Rural Geography Conference, Nantes, France, June 2014.

McDonagh, J., Nienaber, B. and Woods, M. (eds) (2015) Globalization and Europe’s Rural Regions
Ashgate (in press).

Woods, M. (2011) Rural, Routledge

Woods M. (2005) Rural Geography: Processes, Responses and Experiences in Rural Restructuring

Woods, M. (2014) Regions engaging globalization: a typology of regional responses in Europe (219 KB)
Journal of Rural and Community Development, 8(3), 113-126. Full paper (open access).

Welsh, M. (2014) Resilience and responsibility: governing uncertainty in a complex world
The Geographical Journal, 180, 15-26. Full paper (subscription or paid download required).

Cheshire, L., Meurk, C. and Woods, M. (2013) Decoupling farm and place: recombinant attachments of globally-engaged family farmers (20 B)
Journal of Rural Studies, 30, 64-74. Full paper (subscription or paid download required).

Cheshire, L. and Woods, M. (2013) Globally engaged farmers as transnational actors: navigating the landscape of agri-food globalization (20 B)
Geoforum, 44, 232-242. Full paper (subscription or paid download required).

Woods, M. (2013) Rural development, globalization and European regional policy (20 B)
Geographia Polonica, 86, 95-109. Full paper (open access).

Heley, J. and Jones, L. (2012) Relational Rurals: some thoughts on relating things and theory in rural studies (20 B)
Journal of Rural Studies, 28, 208-217. Full paper (subscription or paid download required).

Heley, J., Gardner, G. and Watkin, S. (2012) Brave new localities? Cultures of local economy in a Celtic fringe region, European Urban and Regional Studies (90 B)
19, 366-382. Full paper (subscription or paid download required)

Woods, M. and McDonagh, J. (2011) Rural Europe and the World: rural development and globalization, European Countryside
3, 153-163

Woods, M. (2011) The local politics of the global countryside: boosterism, aspirational ruralism and the contested reconstitution of Queenstown, New Zealand
Geojournal, 76, 365-381. Full paper (subscription or paid download required), Pre-publication draft (open access).

Woods M. (2007) Engaging the global countryside: globalization, hybridity and the reconstitution of rural place (253 KB)
progress in Human Geography, 31, 485-507. Full paper (subscription or paid download required) or open access copy.

Jones, L., Heley, J. and Watkin, S. (2015) Local cultures of the Ceredigion economy: Practices of endogenous development in rural mid Wales
in J. McDonagh, B. Nienaber and M Woods (eds) Globalization and Europe’s Rural Regions. Ashgate.  pp. 57-67 (in press).

Woods, M. (2013) ‘The elite countryside: shifting rural geographies of the transnational super-rich’
in I. Hay and S. Muller (eds) Geographies of the Super-Rich. Edward Elgar.

Woods, M. (2013) ‘Economic entanglements and the reshaping of place in the global countryside’
Diez, J. R. and Tamasay, C. (eds) Regional Resilience, Economy and Society. Ashgate

Woods, M. (2010) ‘Political economies of place in the emergent global countryside: stories from rural Wales’
in G. Halseth, S. Markey and D. Bruce (eds) The Next Rural Economies: Constructing Rural Place in Global Economies. CABI, pp 166-178

Jones, L. and Lever, J. (2014) Migrant workers in Rural Wales and the South Wales Valleys
Wales Rural Observatory Report.

Woods, M. et al. (2012) Developing Europe’s Rural Regions in the Era of Globalization
Final Summary Report of the DERREG Project.

‘International mobility, local agency and regional development in the emergent global countryside’
findings from the DERREG project presented to the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, February 2012.

‘Rural resilience and the global economy: vulnerability and adaptation in a time of crisis’
findings from the DERREG project presented to the World Congress of Rural Sociology, Lisbon, July 2012.

'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.

‘Chinese Rural Development in Global Perspective’ (2 MB)
Presented to the Rural Reconstruction Forum, Beijing, November 2015.

‘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.

'Rural Cosmpolitanism Then and Now: European Settlers and Chinese Farmers in Late Colonial Queensland’
Presented to the New Zealand Geographical Society Conference, Dunedin, February 2016.

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

‘Researching Rural Change and Globalization’ (6 MB)
Presented to the SUSPLACE Training Network, Wageningen University, April 2016.

'The Rural Routes of Globalization' (1 MB)
Keynote lecture to the Journee d’etude, ‘Les espaces ruraux periurbains au prisme du capital’, MSH Paris Nord St-Denis, May 2016.

'Assemblage, Globalization and the State' (1 MB)
Plenary lecture to the Warwick Political Geography Graduate Conference, Warwick University, May 2016.

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