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dc.contributor.supervisorYarwood, Richard
dc.contributor.authorWheeler, Rebecca
dc.contributor.otherSchool of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciencesen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-12T09:51:48Z
dc.date.available2015-06-12T09:51:48Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier10150044en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/3366
dc.descriptionRelated publication: Wheeler, R. (2014) ‘Mining memories in a rural community: Landscape, temporality and place identity’ Journal of Rural Studies, 36 (0). pp 22-32.en_US
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This thesis examines how changes to rural places and landscapes are experienced by residents and incorporated into place attachments and identities over time. It does so through exploring findings from seventy-eight qualitative, ‘emplaced’, oral history interviews in three English villages: Mullion (Cornwall); Askam and Ireleth (Cumbria); and Martham (Norfolk). These villages are located near to at least one existing windfarm, which – as an example of rural change - provides a common focus for the research. The research is informed by a ‘middle-ground’ theoretical approach that considers discursive and experiential aspects of people-environment relationships and pays particular attention to how engagements with the past are enrolled in shaping experiences of landscape, place and change. Attitudes towards rural place-change are identified as being shaped by four complex, relational facets, viz: i) discursive interpretations of rural place, (post)nature and temporality; ii) experiential factors; iii) assessments of utility; and iv) local contexts. The thesis draws these together into a conceptual framework that helps guide analyses of place-change experiences. The framework’s value is demonstrated through applying it to the example of windfarms. The results reveal perceptions to be complex and multifarious but suggest that changes can be incorporated into place attachments and identities so long as highly-valued place assets are not harmed. The research makes a valuable contribution to geography by enhancing understandings about everyday rural lives and experiences; and revealing parallels between academic and lay discourses about landscape, ‘nature’ and place-temporality. It also adds to the considerable literature on perceptions of renewable energy by providing insights into attitudes towards windfarms at the post-construction, rather than proposal, stage.

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dc.description.sponsorshipPlymouth University Doctoral Training Centreen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPlymouth Universityen_US
dc.subjectPlace identity
dc.subjectPlace attachment
dc.subjectChange
dc.subjectWindfarms
dc.subjectRenewable energy
dc.subjectRural landscapeen_US
dc.titleExperiences of Place and Change in Rural Landscapes: Three English Case Studiesen_US
dc.typeThesis
plymouth.versionEdited versionen_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.24382/4929


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