We consider the role of industry and manufacturing in the development of Newtown and highlight how businesses from the town are finding novel ways to compete in an increasingly global marketplace.
Continue readingThe Brimmon Oak is an ancient Welsh oak tree, threatened with destruction by the building of a new bypass road. The successful social media-driven campaign to save the Brimmon Oak provides an example of translocal social action in practice.
Continue readingFive years on, 450 hours of 617 interviews and 8 participatory mapping interviews, 2 focus groups, 2 surveys of 1,235 respondents, GPS and GIS Mapping exercises of global continental coverage, the Global-Rural Project comes to an end. Here is a summary of the project’s findings in over 14 countries and 37 case study sites.
Continue readingWhat does it take to run a festival in rural Wales? What local-global relations are involved? Festivals bring an exciting array of cultural influences to the countryside and help to revitalize rural towns, but all of this does not happen magically…
Continue readingFestivals have been important cultural practices throughout history across the globe. In the last 20-30 years the number of festivals held has rapidly increased. Some see the ‘festivalization’ of culture as a characteristic, or response to wider globalization trends
Continue readingIn this story map we look at recent migration patterns into Newtown and connect the trends and experiences we observe here with wider national and international processes and events. We look at how this shaped the development and building of Newtown.
Continue readingHow exactly does globalisation work? How is it that we can buy a branded soft drink like Fanta in Newtown, Wales, just as easily as we can over the other side of the world ? A product, which is “worse than useless”, on account of it being the root of ………….
Continue readingRural areas have been integrated into multinational networks of trade; bringing benefits through access to international markets, but dependency on global firms has also made rural economies more vulnerable to distant economic events in this era of Globalization.
Continue readingWith the diversity of UK sheep industry, having approximately 45,000 registered wool producers, 22.9 million sheep producing about 68,000 tonnes of wool types yearly that goes through the BWB, it is impossible to trace the provenance of British wool back to the individual farm.
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