IMAJINE researcher Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins will present at the annual conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK & Commonwealth, which is taking place in Norwich, England, between the 3rd and the 6th of September 2019. The conference theme is ‘Global Challenges’, and Bryonny will be a speaker in the panel “’Left behind places’: Unequal social trajectories of progress”.
Bryonny will present a joint paper, developed with Austrian researcher Barbara Demeterova (Danube-University Krems). The paper brings IMAJINE’s research in Wales into comparative dialogue with work conducted in the Austria-Czech-Slovak-Hungarian border region for the ‘ECOnet – Economic and Political Development in Rural Areas’ project. This builds on earlier papers that both researchers presented at the European Week of Regions and Cities 2018. The paper will consider the sense of being ‘left behind’ in Europe’s rural and peripheral areas against the growing emphasis from the European Commission on communicating “What the EU does for you”. The researchers will reflect on the role that spatial justice – especially informed by a local ‘capabilities’ approach – can play in addressing territorial cohesion in Europe.
More information on the conference can be found here.