Rural Poverty: Marginalisation and Exclusion in Britain and the United States

by Milbourne,Paul

• ISBN13: 9780415205948
• ISBN10: 0415205948
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This work moves beyond the highly visual forms of poverty characteristic of the city, to explore the nature of poverty in rural spaces of Britain and America. The book sets out the key features of poverty in rural areas and highlights the important processes that act to hide key components of rural poverty.

Author Biography

Paul Milbourne is a Reader in the School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	viii
Preface: an introduction to rural poverty	ix
Acknowledgements	xii
The definitional complexities of poverty in Britain and the United States	1	(14)
Rural poverty in Britain: from agricultural poverty to rural deprivation	15	(32)
The broader contexts of rural poverty: disadvantage and social exclusion in the British countryside	47	(24)
Rural poverty in the United States: statistical visibilities and persistent forms of poverty	71	(18)
Housing poverty and homelessness in rural Britain and the United States	89	(24)
The local contexts of rural poverty in Britain and the United States	113	(26)
Shifting states of rural welfare in Britain and the United States	139	(28)
Conclusion: towards new research agendas for rural poverty	167	(12)
Notes	179	(4)
Bibliography	183	(10)
Index	193