Towards a revanchist British rural in post‐COVID times? A challenge to those seeking a good countryside.
The last decade has seen at least three still ongoing shocks impact strongly on rural Britain: Brexit, COVID‐19 and the Russia–Ukraine war. This paper introduces all three of these after setting the scene prior to the 2016 Brexit vote by first summarising the seeming shift across rural Britain from...
| Publicado en: | Geographical Journal Vol. 191; no. 4; pp. 1 - 10 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2025
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