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This paper advances existing work on the geographies of homelessness by considering the phenomenon of sofa‐surfing—defined as the practice of living in a host's home, without a right to reside, in the absence of more permanent accommodation—as a distinctive, and until recently somewhat hidden, form of homelessness. Examining sofa‐surfing is importa...

This paper argues that reconsidering the disciplinary significance of the geographies of crime is timely. It has three aims. First, it identifies recent developments in the geographical study of crime, arguing that they both challenge and extend its intellectual traditions. Second, using the example of cybercrime, it identifies new forms of crime t...

Motivations for living on the UK's waterways range from lifestyle to financial, but increasing numbers have been pushed aboard in response to current, and longstanding, cost‐of‐living and housing crises. However, while more affordable than living on land, our qualitative investigation reveals a diversity of practices and experiences of marginalisat...

This paper explores the everyday experiences of crossing rivers that form local borders. It proposes and utilises the term ‘riverborderscape’ to bring together the particularities, complexities, and creativities associated with these border crossings. The term draws on three areas of scholarship. First, the riverborderscape draws on recent scholarl...

National Parks are more than landscape designations. They reflect dominant but contested ideals about what kinds of landscapes are valued, what kind of activities are allowed in them and who they are aimed at. Drawing on the Glover Review, as well as a case study of the Lake District, this article examines the formation of British National Parks and...

Craft Communities addresses the social groups 'in real life' and online which have developed around craft production and consumption, exploring the social and cultural impact of contemporary practices of making. Addressing a wide range of crafting practice, from yarnbombs to Shetland shawls, in a variety of regional and national contexts, the contr...

It is crucial to distinguish between ‘rural policing’ and ‘policing the rural’. Rural policing refers to offences that are unique to rural environments, such as poaching, rustling, theft of agricultural machinery or certain environmental crimes. Policing the rural draws attention to the idea that rurality is socially constructed. Although meanings...

This article provides an overview of work that has examined the geographies of crime and policing in rural areas. Using policing in the United Kingdom as a jumping-off point, it outlines the significance of organized crime in rural places and argues that global, rather than community-based, perspectives are needed in its study and policing. It conc...

This focus section aims to identify, conceptualize, and understand the emerging geographies of rural crime, in particular those of globalized rural crime, and evaluate their impact on different rural places. Contributions to this focus section reflect an interdisciplinary array of fields from geography, economy, and criminology to rural studies, fu...

Service in the armed forces has long been linked with ideas of citizenship but these have often been associated with serving, male personnel. We argue that ideas of military citizenship should extend to other, non-serving family members because of the expectations placed on them by the armed forces. In this article we focus on the lives of children...

Tenancy sustainment is fundamental to a sustainable exit from homelessness. Although growing attention has been placed on housing outcomes, there is limited research on the maintenance of a settled home following homelessness. The aim of this study was to understand the process for individuals as they transitioned from services to sustained tenanci...

Post‐military geographies are concerned with transitions from military to civilian space. Geographers have examined the impact and legacy of changing military activities on places, particularly where there is a reduction or cessation of military activities, largely in urban centers of the West. Recognizing that transition is a process rather than a...

There is growing interest in geography in the intersections of age, family and the lifecourse with migration. This paper furthers this work by focusing on the themes of intergenerational relationships and transmission within migrant families that have three generations. Using a case study of Greek-Cypriot families living in the UK, specifically the...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the use of small river ferries as an under-researched but novel mode of travel which enhances and brings new dimensions to tourist experiences of travelling landscapes. Design/methodology/approach The study used a mixed methods approach including participant observation, a survey and interviews wit...

This paper examines the changing importance of translocal space to three generations of Greek Cypriot migrants in the United Kingdom. Focusing on a Greek Orthodox Church, the paper draws upon participant observations and interviews to examine how translocal space is given meaning by migrants and, in turn, how the meaning and use of translocal space...

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Background: Tenancy sustainment—the maintenance of a tenancy to avoid a premature end of tenure—is fundamental to homelessness prevention. Understanding what enables a successful tenancy is essential to inform interventions to support people leave homelessness. Objective: To conduct a systematic review to identify determinants associated with tena...

Introduction For individuals with complex needs, the pathway of exiting homelessness can be complicated, prolonged and cyclical. Central to leaving homelessness is achieving tenancy sustainment to avoid tenure breakdown and a return to homelessness services. Occupational therapists skills are ideally suited to supporting people to achieve tenancy s...

Central to the strategic response to homelessness is the housing led approach, in which there is immediate access to permanent housing in addition to flexible support services. There is limited research on the maintenance of a settled home following homelessness. A more nuanced understanding would inform practice. This study explored the experience...

This article considers how militarism and post-militarism impact upon places and the people who live in them. The article focuses on Plymouth in Devon, south-west UK, examining how geopolitics and militarism have contributed to change in a ‘garrison town’.

Citizenship,” like “rurality,” is a highly contested term. Yet emerging research has suggested that distinctive forms of citizenship are becoming associated with the global countryside. This entry examines the significance of citizenship to rural geography and how understandings of rurality contribute to our knowledge of citizenship. It explores ho...

THE GEOGRAPHIES OF CITIZENSHIP Richard Yarwood Topics Covered  Citizenship  Nation-state  Activism and active citizenship  Human Rights Learning Outcomes Having read this chapter you should be able to:  show how ideas of citizenship are contested over time and space;  illustrate the significance of citizenship to contemporary society using a...

Rural policing in the UK is caught between demands for efficiency on one hand and a desire for greater community accountability on the other (Yarwood and Mawby 2011). Centripetal economic forces have driven the location of police resources towards centralised, urban locations but, at the same time, have been countered by demands for visibility and...

The military offers a form of welfare-for-work but when personnel leave they lose this safety net, a loss exacerbated by the rollback neoliberalism of the contemporary welfare state. Increasingly the third sector has stepped in to address veterans' welfare needs through operating within and across military/civilian and state/market/community spaces...

Book of walks aimed at using public transport to explore Plymouth and Dartmoor

Crime and the fear of crime are significant aspects of daily life and as such have been studied closely by human geographers who have examined the interactions between crime, space and society. The occurrence of crime shows strong spatial variations and, perhaps unsurprisingly, work by geographers was initially concerned with mapping and explaining...

This paper uses the concept of ‘ordinary citizenship’ (Staeheli et al., 2012) to explore the relationship between mobility, citizenship and political space in the European Union. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Britons living in South West France, the paper examines the ways in which citizenship is meaningful to migrants as a complexity of lega...

This paper considers the roles of policing and security in the geographies of everyday public and semi-public space. We contend that while security is concerned with territory, policing relates to place. We consider the relationship between security and territory before examining the relationship between policing and place. In the final section, we...

Miniaturisation affects space in many ways: projecting it, transforming it and co-producing it with those who make and gaze upon models. This paper draws on Stewart's work On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection (Durham: Duke University Press, 1993) to demonstrate how concepts of miniaturisation have the...

The rhetoric of community is widely deployed in rural policing but can be problematic for three main reasons. The idea of community can exclude as well as include; be used as a way of shifting responsibility for policing away from the state and sometimes produces insular, bounded views of places. In response to these concerns, this paper uses a rel...

Livestock farming is an important part of agriculture in both Northern Ireland and the Republic. However, whilst many geographers have studied changes in the numbers of Irish livestock, there has been little consideration given to the contemporary distribution of different breeds of domestic farm animals in Ireland. Recent theoretical debate has en...

In the context of a wider literature on ‘deathscapes’, we map the emergence of a new mode of burial and remembrance in Britain. Since a ‘green’ burial ground was established in Carlisle in 1993, sites for so-called ‘green, ‘natural’ or ‘woodland’ funerals have proliferated. There are now over 270 such sites in Britain. Drawing on a postal and email...

This paper analyses the policing strategies of private security companies operating in urban space. An existing literature has considered the variety of ways that territory becomes of fundamental importance in the work of public police forces. However, this paper examines territory in the context of private security companies. Drawing on empirical...

This paper explores the spatiality of (post)military identities, demonstrating the continuing impact of having been part of the military community despite the passage of time. Our tri-service respondents highlighted the challenges faced even by those deemed to have ‘successfully’ transitioned to ‘Civvy Street’, articulating discourses of loss and s...

The idea of citizenship is widely used in daily life. ‘Citizenship tests’ are used to determine who can inhabit a country; ‘citizen charters’ have been used to prescribe levels of service provision; ‘citizens’ juries’ are used in planning or policy enquiries; ‘citizenship’ lessons are taught in schools; youth organisations attempt often aim to inst...

This paper reviews research on livestock and landscape. It argues that farm animals have started to occupy a central position in landscape studies, opening up many new pastures for research. Using the example of cattle in the UK, we consider how livestock have been understood as text, as social constructions and as beings with their own lives. In e...

This paper explores the concept of the post-secular city by examining the growing presence of Street-Pastors in the night-time economy of British cities. Street-Pastors are Christian volunteers who work to ensure the safety of people on a night out'. We contribute to work that has called for greater attention to be placed on the ways in which relig...

Neighbourhood watch is a community-based crime prevention scheme that relies on residents acting together to reduce or prevent crime through surveillance of their neighbourhood. It is a remarkably popular scheme that is now present in most first-world countries. This article explores the growth of the scheme and critically evaluates its social sign...

Children's geographies have become established as an important sub-discipline of geography. Work in this field is diverse, but is united by a recognition that children experience the world in very different ways from adults. This has led to innovative methodologies being deployed in an effort to listen to children's voices and understand how childr...

This special section of Area demonstrates the multiple ways that geographers engage with the outdoors. Human and physical geographers have pursued different paths of academic research on the outdoors, ranging from ‘objective’ empirical epistemologies to understandings of outdoor spaces as socially constructed. The special section highlights that mo...

The voluntary sector is playing increasingly important roles in the delivery of services. With greater regulation, some commentators have speculated that a bifurcation of voluntary groups is occurring between large-scale corporatist organisations and poorly funded grassroots organisations. Using the example of voluntary search and rescue teams in N...

Drawing on an ethnographic account of a Mountain Rescue training exercise, this paper uses Halfacree's threefold model of rurality in an effort to reconcile structural and experiential research on the outdoors. It highlights the importance of understanding the diverse emotional, physical and technical ways that agencies engage with outdoor space an...

Hobbies and crafts have been neglected by geographers concerned with leisure activities. Drawing upon a study of model railway layouts, we use Campbell's concept of the craft consumer to re-focus attention on the geographies of indoor leisure (Campbell 2005 The craft consumer: culture, craft and consumption in a postmodern society Journal of Consum...

This paper considers the role of the emergency services in society and, in particular, their role in controlling, mitigating and resolving risk. Using a network approach, Mountain Rescue Teams are studied in order to examine how people, agencies, animals, technology and knowledge are deployed to resolve emergencies. The paper traces the changing na...

Using the example of two English villages, this paper examines whether rural crime concern is evidence of an ‘exclusive society’ in the countryside. Specific attention is given to concerns expressed by residents as part of a consultation exercise to establish community-based policing partnerships in rural areas of the West Mercia Constabulary. Base...

Policing reveals much about rural society. It refers to the way that the police, the public and other agencies regulate themselves and each other according to the dominant ideals of society. This can be formally, through the ever-growing spectrum of policing partnerships in neo-liberal countries, or informally, through the performance and enforceme...

This paper examines changes in the entries of livestock to competitions at the Perth Royal Show in the course of the twentieth century. It identifies trends in the showing of animals at the Show and explains these with reference to the wider geographies of state and national agricultural change in Western Australia (WA). In doing so, it provides a...

The geographies and histories of the introduction of cattle breeds to Australia in the period since white settlement are documented as an example of the diffusion of agricultural innovations. Three phases of development are identified: a colonial expansion phase from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century during which a number of primar...

This paper examines the contribution of folk music to understanding the dynamic, fluid and multi-experiential nature of the countryside. Drawing from literature on the geographies of music, it examines the work of ‘Show of Hands’, a contemporary folk band from Devon in England. Three areas are studied. First, the paper examines the musical style of...

This chapter discusses policies for crime and policing in rural areas in Great Britain under the Labour government. It examines some of the contexts behind changes to Labour's policing policies and evaluates rural policing under New Labour. The chapter identifies three main phases of policy development that have had different implications for the p...

Introduction In 2002 the annual ‘State of the Countryside’ report (Countryside Agency, 2002) contained, for the first time, a chapter dedicated to rural crime. Its inclusion suggested that policy makers and practitioners were taking greater interest in crime and policing in the countryside than had hitherto been the case in the 1990s (Yarwood and E...

This is a postprint of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in Children's Geographies © 2008 Copyright Taylor & Francis; Children's Geographies is available online at http://www.informaworld.com In this paper, we address the issue of giving young people a voice by involving them as interviewers in the research process. Whil...

In 1991 Nicolas Fyfe published a paper in this journal arguing that studies of the police were `conspicuously absent from the landscapes of human geography' (Fyfe, 1991: 249). This article reviews geographical progress in this area and argues that attention should be shifted from the police towards policing. Consideration is given to the increasing...

This paper examines the perceived shift from police to policing in developed world countries. It focuses on the development of multi-agency policing in rural Western Australia and, using ideas from governance theory, questions whether these partnerships are leading to more inclusive policing and new forms of rural governance. Evidence is taken from...

In this paper we use Bourdieu’s concept of habitus to examine human – animal relationships within capitalist agricultural systems. In the first part of the paper we examine how Bourdieu’s ideas have been used by academics to provide insights into the ways that livestock affect and are affected by farming practice. In the second part we build on the...

A comment on "A Lleyn sweep for local sheep? Breed societies and the geographies of Welsh livestock" Dominic Medway, John Byrom Lambs' tales and sheepish comments: a response to Medway and Byrom Richard Yarwood, Nick Evans

Voluntary work with local communities has been advocated as beneficial for geography students, higher education institutions and the public. In England, the Higher Education Active Community Fund (HEACF) has recently been established by the Government to encourage staff and students in higher education to undertake voluntary work in local communiti...

This book, consisting of 24 chapters, draws upon selected, revised, and edited papers from the 5th British-American Rural Geography Symposium held in Devon in July 2003. It focuses on rural regions in the UK, the USA, and Canada that are facing conflicting demands, pressures and challenges, having far-reaching implications for rural space and socie...

This article contributes to knowledge of children's geographies by considering how the micro-geographies of children change as they grow up in a rural locality. Drawing upon evidence from a Hampshire village, it explores how children of different ages are imagined, positioned and regulated in different public spaces, inside and outside the village,...

It has been recognized that the fear of crime is problematic for people living in the countryside, but less is known about society and policing in rural areas. This article focuses on parish councillors in West Mercia Constabulary, England, and examines their attitudes towards fear of crime and policing. The article reveals that crime concern is lo...

This article contributes to the Conference theme of 'Images in Geography' by arguing that the effective analysis of imagery can help geographers to understand countryside change. It begins by examining the different ways in which geographers have sought to conceptualise rurality and notes that qualitative, subjective approaches have provided new pe...

Geographers and policy-makers alike have, until recently, ignored the importance of specific breeds of livestock in agricultural systems. However, the European Union has recently introduced a series of regulations aimed at protecting breeds of livestock with a local tradition. Some British rural agencies, notably the Countryside Council for Wales,...

Despite a recent emphasis on conflicts in rural areas, differences between members of the farming community over issues such as conservation remain to be fully explored. Focusing upon rare breeds of domestic farm animals, this paper investigates the Rare Breeds Survival Trust (rbst)and discusses its importance in the politicization of livestock.Act...

Partnerships between public, private and voluntary sectors have been feted as an effective strategy to broaden engagement with policy delivery. However, their legitimacy has been questioned as some of the power relations within and between partnerships raise doubts over their inclusiveness and effectiveness. In light of these concerns, this paper e...

The study of crime has emerged as a rich and diverse area of human geography. However, the majority of research has been conducted in an urban environment and rural places have been neglected by comparison. Emphasizing the British countryside, this paper draws upon current thinking in rural geography to suggest a research agenda to fill this gap. I...

Summary This paper argues that the study of crime and the fear of crime in rural areas reveals much about the geography of crime, policing and rural society. Drawing upon a crime and safety survey conducted with residents of a rural parish in Worcestershire it establishes a link between fear of crime and ‘cultural threats’ to residents' dominant co...

This article looks at postwar farming change in the UK. It focuses on two main trends: productivism and post-productivism. Insights into agricultural change can be gained by studying the types of livestock kept by farmers, which represent a visible and 'everyday' expression of change. They are also a major element in rural ecosystems and an importa...