Advancing rural as ‘something more than a human estate’: Exploring UK sheep-shaping

Halfacree, Keith; Williams, Fiona

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.09.020

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Advancing rural as ‘something more than a human estate’: Exploring UK sheep-shaping

Keith Halfacree

, Fiona Williams

Journal of Rural Studies, Volume: 87, Pages: 375 - 385

Swansea University Author: Keith Halfacree

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Periodically, the topic of defining rural is addressed within rural social science scholarship but done so in overwhelmingly human terms. This paper engages with this observation, arguing the simple but axiomatic point that the rural is not solely a human taxonomic creation but expresses a space tha...

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Advancing rural as ‘something more than a human estate’: Exploring UK sheep-shaping

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