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Introduction : the hidden faces of rural homelessness / Paul Milbourne and Paul Cloke -- Rural homelessness in the United States / Laudan Y. Aron -- Homeless in the heartland : American dreams and nightmares in Indian country / Charles Geisler and Lance George -- Quasi-homelessness among rural trailer-park households in the United States / Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish -- Homelessness in rural and small town Canada / David Bruce -- Rural homelessness in the UK : a national overview / Paul Milbourne and Paul Cloke -- The hidden and neglected experiences of homelessness in rural England / David Robinson -- Knowing homelessness in rural England / Paul Cloke and Paul Milbourne -- International perspectives on rural homelessness : a sociological perspective on homelessness in rural Spain / José Antonio López Ruiz and Pedro Cabrera Cabrera -- Are there any homeless people in rural Finland? / Sakari Hänninen -- Homelessness in rural Ireland / Eoin O'Sullivan -- Inhabiting the margins : a geography of rural homelessness in Australia / Neil Argent and Fran Rolley -- Homelessness amongst young people in rural regions of Austrialia / Andrew Beer, Paul Delfabbro, Kristin Natalier, Susan Oakley, Jasmin Packer and Fiona Verity -- Places to stand but not necessarily to dwell : the paradox of rural homelessness in New Zealand / Robin Kearns -- Writing/righting homelessness / Paul Cloke and Paul Milbourne

Recent reports from federal agencies and legislation call for explicit avenues to incorporate K&ndash ; 12 STEM master teacher voice into the policy space. National initiatives, federal legislation, and teacher recognition programs have sought to identify K&ndash ; 12 STEM master teachers and harness their potential. These efforts warrant a conceptual framework to quantify attributes of K&ndash ; 12 STEM master teachers, to foster pathways for the development of current and future leaders. Using a sample of 10 individuals from two extant programs of K&ndash ; 12 STEM master teachers (Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship and Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching), data from their career trajectories (sourced from Curriculum Vitae) were sequenced to construct and confirm the STEM Master Teacher (STEMMaTe) conceptual framework. This framework may be used to guide programmatic development to increase national capacity for K&ndash ; 12 STEM master teachers. Recommendations are discussed for the creation of pathways to develop STEM master teachers and increase their participation in the broader education system.

This article examines the role of migrant workers in meat-processing factories in the UK. Drawing on materials from mixed methods research in a number of case study towns across Wales, we explore the structural and spatial processes that position migrant workers as outsiders. While state policy and immigration controls are often presented as a way of protecting migrant workers from work-based exploitation and ensuring jobs for British workers, our research highlights that the situation 'on the ground' is more complex. We argue that 'self-exploitation' among the migrant workforce is linked to the strategies of employers and the organisation of work, and that hyper-flexible work patterns have reinforced the spatial and social invisibilities of migrant workers in this sector. While this creates problems for migrant workers, we conclude that it is beneficial to supermarkets looking to supply consumers with the regular supply of cheap food to which they have become accustomed.

In this article we use a case study of opencast coal mining in the southern valleys of Wales to explore the ordinary and everyday spatialities of environmental injustice. Responding to recent geographical critiques of environmental justice research and engaging with post-colonial studies of landscape and environment, we provide an account of environmental injustice that emphasises competing geographical imaginaries of landscape and 'ordinary political injustices' within everyday spaces. We begin with a discussion of how historical environmental injustices in Wales have been framed within nationalist politics as a form of colonial exploitation of the country's natural resources. We then make use of materials from recent research on opencast mining in South Wales to examine local understandings of and everyday encounters with mining, highlighting contradictory discourses of opencast mining, landscape and place, and the injustices associated with mining developments in this region.

AbstractThe modernization of public services, with its emphasis on managerialism, choice, co‐production and outcome focused service delivery, has been implemented to a certain extent in both England and Wales. Indeed, the welfare states in both countries share a great deal, particularly in relation to policy objectives and the expectations of citizens. Devolution has chiefly meant that the instruments used to deliver policy have separated, although it remains unclear whether this amounts to formal divergence. What is also unclear is to what extent have the experiences of those living within the policy environment in both countries separated or diverged? This article addresses this question using qualitative data composed of interviews with policy actors in six rural areas of England and Wales. By focusing on the discourses of people involved in modernizing and providing services for older people in rural areas, we bring out the impact of modernization for older people. What we show is that modernization engages both service users and the wider population who may one day become service users. But the emphasis on these groups unfolds in different ways in England and Wales. In England, where there has been a commitment to a customer citizen, policy at the local level has emphasized re‐enablement, community development and individual responsibility. In Wales, where modernization has focused on collaboration and citizenship, local policies have focused on service users, and on engagement with the voluntary sector. In effect, the policy environment provides a different context for the experience of ageing in both countries.