Publications by category
Books
Bache I, Scott K (2017).
The Politics of Wellbeing Theory, Policy and Practice., Palgrave Macmillan.
Abstract:
The Politics of Wellbeing Theory, Policy and Practice
Abstract.
Scott K (2012).
Measuring Wellbeing Towards Sustainability?., Routledge.
Abstract:
Measuring Wellbeing Towards Sustainability?
Abstract.
Journal articles
Scott KE, Black N, Shucksmith M (2018). Social inequalities in rural England: impact on young people post 2008.
Journal of Rural Studies Full text.
Saxby H, Gkartzios M, Scott K (2018). ‘Farming on the Edge’: Wellbeing and Participation in Agri-Environmental Schemes.
Sociologia Ruralis,
58(2), 392-411.
Abstract:
‘Farming on the Edge’: Wellbeing and Participation in Agri-Environmental Schemes
© 2017 the Authors. Sociologia Ruralis © 2017 European Society for Rural Sociology. This article investigates aspects of farmers’ wellbeing in the context of their participation in an agro-environmental scheme (AES), the North Yorkshire Cornfield Flowers Project (CFP) in the North East of England. Recent developments in wellbeing studies have informed data collection and analysis. Ethnographic data was gathered via observation, field notes and semi-structured interviews with farmers and non-farmer volunteers. The article discusses how farmers’ social activity, identity, status and place belonging are enhanced through participation in CFP, and how this might promote their continued AES work. Recognising the potential for AES participation to enhance farmer's wellbeing may demonstrate added value of AES and strengthen the argument for AES funding once the UK leaves the European Union. There is currently little existing evidence in the literature to support this since with only a few exceptions, wellbeing has been characteristically neglected in rural studies research.
Abstract.
Scott KE, Rowe F, Pollock V (2016). Creating the good life? a wellbeing perspective on cultural value in rural development.
Journal of Rural StudiesAbstract:
Creating the good life? a wellbeing perspective on cultural value in rural development
In the last two decades academic and policy interest in the economic growth potential of the cultural sector has risen
sharply in UK, as well as in other OECD countries. Alongside this there has been a shift in cultural policies away from
a focus on the public value of culture to the economic value of creativity. Where public funds are allocated to arts and
culture this is heavily and increasingly skewed towards London. Although there is wide recognition of the intrinsic value
of the arts and the inequalities of provision, culture is increasingly invoked as a narrowly instrumental concept for other
policy aims. The new discourses of creative economies have been slow to reach rural studies and where discussions of
the 'creative countryside' have taken place, notions of rural cultural value remain largely within an instrumentalist discourse.
This paper is an attempt to shift the discussion to new ground by exploring cultural value through the lens of a
social justice approach to wellbeing, based on the capabilities approach, using material from an AHRC funded year-long
knowledge exchange project with rural arts organisations in Northumberland. The paper argues against the narrow instrumentalism
of culture as a delivery mechanism for other policy agendas and offers a different conceptual framework based
on social justice for considering the value of culture in conceptions of a 'good life'. It finds that using such an approach
allows a different conceptual space and a clearer normative basis for understanding and arguing for the intrinsic value of
culture in rural development.
Abstract.
Gkartzios M, Scott K (2015). A Cultural Panic in the Province? Counterurban Mobilities, Creativity, and Crisis in Greece. Population, Space and Place, 21(8), 843-855.
Scott K (2014). Happiness on your doorstep: disputing the boundaries of wellbeing and localism. The Geographical Journal, 181(2), 129-137.
Atkinson S, Scott K (2014). Stable and destabilised states of subjective well-being: dance and movement as catalysts of transition. Social & Cultural Geography, 16(1), 75-94.
Scott K, Bell D (2012). Trying to measure local wellbeing: indicator development as a site of discursive struggles. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 31, 522-539.
Chapters
Scott K (2012). A 21st Century Sustainable Community: Discourses of Local Wellbeing. In Atkinson S, Fuller S, Painter, J (Eds.) Wellbeing and Place, Routledge.
Conferences
Kirsop-Taylor NA, Scott K, hejnowicz A (2018). Towards cultures-of-systems in natural resource management institutions: the case of Natural Resources Wales’. Royal Geographic Society. 28th - 30th Aug 2018.
Publications by year
2018
Scott KE, Black N, Shucksmith M (2018). Social inequalities in rural England: impact on young people post 2008.
Journal of Rural Studies Full text.
Kirsop-Taylor NA, Scott K, hejnowicz A (2018). Towards cultures-of-systems in natural resource management institutions: the case of Natural Resources Wales’. Royal Geographic Society. 28th - 30th Aug 2018.
Saxby H, Gkartzios M, Scott K (2018). ‘Farming on the Edge’: Wellbeing and Participation in Agri-Environmental Schemes.
Sociologia Ruralis,
58(2), 392-411.
Abstract:
‘Farming on the Edge’: Wellbeing and Participation in Agri-Environmental Schemes
© 2017 the Authors. Sociologia Ruralis © 2017 European Society for Rural Sociology. This article investigates aspects of farmers’ wellbeing in the context of their participation in an agro-environmental scheme (AES), the North Yorkshire Cornfield Flowers Project (CFP) in the North East of England. Recent developments in wellbeing studies have informed data collection and analysis. Ethnographic data was gathered via observation, field notes and semi-structured interviews with farmers and non-farmer volunteers. The article discusses how farmers’ social activity, identity, status and place belonging are enhanced through participation in CFP, and how this might promote their continued AES work. Recognising the potential for AES participation to enhance farmer's wellbeing may demonstrate added value of AES and strengthen the argument for AES funding once the UK leaves the European Union. There is currently little existing evidence in the literature to support this since with only a few exceptions, wellbeing has been characteristically neglected in rural studies research.
Abstract.
2017
Bache I, Scott K (2017).
The Politics of Wellbeing Theory, Policy and Practice., Palgrave Macmillan.
Abstract:
The Politics of Wellbeing Theory, Policy and Practice
Abstract.
2016
Scott KE, Rowe F, Pollock V (2016). Creating the good life? a wellbeing perspective on cultural value in rural development.
Journal of Rural StudiesAbstract:
Creating the good life? a wellbeing perspective on cultural value in rural development
In the last two decades academic and policy interest in the economic growth potential of the cultural sector has risen
sharply in UK, as well as in other OECD countries. Alongside this there has been a shift in cultural policies away from
a focus on the public value of culture to the economic value of creativity. Where public funds are allocated to arts and
culture this is heavily and increasingly skewed towards London. Although there is wide recognition of the intrinsic value
of the arts and the inequalities of provision, culture is increasingly invoked as a narrowly instrumental concept for other
policy aims. The new discourses of creative economies have been slow to reach rural studies and where discussions of
the 'creative countryside' have taken place, notions of rural cultural value remain largely within an instrumentalist discourse.
This paper is an attempt to shift the discussion to new ground by exploring cultural value through the lens of a
social justice approach to wellbeing, based on the capabilities approach, using material from an AHRC funded year-long
knowledge exchange project with rural arts organisations in Northumberland. The paper argues against the narrow instrumentalism
of culture as a delivery mechanism for other policy agendas and offers a different conceptual framework based
on social justice for considering the value of culture in conceptions of a 'good life'. It finds that using such an approach
allows a different conceptual space and a clearer normative basis for understanding and arguing for the intrinsic value of
culture in rural development.
Abstract.
2015
Gkartzios M, Scott K (2015). A Cultural Panic in the Province? Counterurban Mobilities, Creativity, and Crisis in Greece. Population, Space and Place, 21(8), 843-855.
2014
Scott K (2014). Happiness on your doorstep: disputing the boundaries of wellbeing and localism. The Geographical Journal, 181(2), 129-137.
Atkinson S, Scott K (2014). Stable and destabilised states of subjective well-being: dance and movement as catalysts of transition. Social & Cultural Geography, 16(1), 75-94.
2012
Scott K (2012). A 21st Century Sustainable Community: Discourses of Local Wellbeing. In Atkinson S, Fuller S, Painter, J (Eds.) Wellbeing and Place, Routledge.
Scott K (2012).
Measuring Wellbeing Towards Sustainability?., Routledge.
Abstract:
Measuring Wellbeing Towards Sustainability?
Abstract.
Scott K, Bell D (2012). Trying to measure local wellbeing: indicator development as a site of discursive struggles. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 31, 522-539.