报告日期：4月26日（下周二）10:00-11:00
英国卡迪夫地理与规划学院院长--Paul Milbourne 教授报告
地点：中北地理馆301会议室。
讲座题目：Austerity, welfare and older people in rural places: competing discourses of voluntarism and community?
主讲人: Prof. Paul Milbourne
讲座内容：
The presentation explores the impacts of recent national policies of austerity and welfare reform in the UK on local systems of care and support for older people in rural places. It commences with a critical review of recent academic accounts of austerity, which highlight the economic, political and moral dimensions of the austerity agenda. Attention is then given to the implementation of austerity policy in the UK and, more particularly, how academic and media commentators have discussed its impacts in relation to older people and rural places. The presentation then further utilises materials from a recent study of older people and welfare support in Wales to provide a detailed account of the relations between austerity, welfare reform, and older people in particular rural places. This case study highlights embedded cultures of local austerity and complex connections between austerity, community and empowerment that both chime with and challenge some of the underpinnings of national austerity policy.
报告人简介：
Prof. Paul Milbourne currently is head of School of Geography and Planning, and Professor of Human Geography, Cardiff University, UK. He is Director of Cardiff University's Centre for Research on Environment, Society and Space and the Wales Rural Observatory. He earned a Ph.D. in Geography from Department of Geography, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He has the following membership of organisations and other professional experience, mainly including elected fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences (2011-), member of the Royal Geographical Society’s Policy Committee (2015-), member of the Royal Geographical Society’s Research and Higher Education Committee (2012-15), member of the Council of the International Rural Sociology Association (2004-2012), member of the Executive Committee of the European Society for Rural Sociology (2003-2007), member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Rural Studies (2012-). His main research interests lie in the field of social geography and, more specifically, the geographies of welfare and poverty. He is also interested in environmental geographies, particularly the interplay between social and environmental forms of injustice. Much of his research has focused on the social geographies of rural places and the rural dimensions of poverty, homelessness and welfare reform in particular. More recently, he has broadened the spatial coverage of my work to include social geographical themes in urban and ex-industrial spaces and places. Recent and on-going funded projects include research on community gardening in the city, alternative urbanisms, climate change and spatial justice, and food justice. He have written widely on these research themes, publishing seven books, 80 journal articles and book chapters, and more than 40 policy reports.
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