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2 books match the query 'Gallent, Nick'
Postcapitalist Countrysides
From Commoning to Community Wealth BuildingEdited by Nick Gallent, Menelaos Gkartzios, Mark Scott, and Andrew Purves
University College London, 2025
Reimagining rural life beyond capitalism, this volume reviews alternative economic structures that center on sustainability and community wealth-building.
Postcapitalist Countrysides exposes the entrenched inequalities that capitalism has imposed on rural communities and charts a path toward more just and sustainable futures. Built upon case studies from around the world, the book critiques the failures of privatization and market-driven development while showcasing alternative economic models that reclaim land and wealth for the many, not the few.
Through analyses of land reform and community wealth building, contributors depict how local initiatives can reshape rural economies and empower communities when reinforced by structural change. From challenging exploitative land ownership to confronting the encroachment of platform capitalism, this volume engages with urgent global crises while offering tangible strategies for transformation. Postcapitalist Countrysides presents a bold vision for rural life beyond capitalism—one rooted in collective prosperity and resilience.
Postcapitalist Countrysides exposes the entrenched inequalities that capitalism has imposed on rural communities and charts a path toward more just and sustainable futures. Built upon case studies from around the world, the book critiques the failures of privatization and market-driven development while showcasing alternative economic models that reclaim land and wealth for the many, not the few.
Through analyses of land reform and community wealth building, contributors depict how local initiatives can reshape rural economies and empower communities when reinforced by structural change. From challenging exploitative land ownership to confronting the encroachment of platform capitalism, this volume engages with urgent global crises while offering tangible strategies for transformation. Postcapitalist Countrysides presents a bold vision for rural life beyond capitalism—one rooted in collective prosperity and resilience.
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Village Housing
Constraints and Opportunities in Rural EnglandNick Gallent, Iqbal Hamiduddin, Phoebe Stirling, and Meiling Wu
University College London, 2022
An examination of housing access and affordability barriers in rural England.
Village Housing explores the housing challenges faced by England’s amenity villages, rooted in post-war counter-urbanization and a rising tide of investment demand for rural homes. It tracks solutions to date and considers what further actions might be taken to increase the equity of housing outcomes and thereby support rural economies and alternate rural futures. The authors examine first the interwar reliance on landowners to provide tied housing and post-war diversification of responses to rising housing access difficulties, including from the public and third sectors; second, recent community-led responses; and third, actions that disrupt established production processes: self-build, low impact development, and a re-emergence of council provision. These responses to the village housing challenges are set against a broader backdrop of structural constraints and opportunities to reduce those constraints through planning, land, and tax reforms that can broaden the social inclusivity and diversity of villages and support their economic well-being.
Village Housing explores the housing challenges faced by England’s amenity villages, rooted in post-war counter-urbanization and a rising tide of investment demand for rural homes. It tracks solutions to date and considers what further actions might be taken to increase the equity of housing outcomes and thereby support rural economies and alternate rural futures. The authors examine first the interwar reliance on landowners to provide tied housing and post-war diversification of responses to rising housing access difficulties, including from the public and third sectors; second, recent community-led responses; and third, actions that disrupt established production processes: self-build, low impact development, and a re-emergence of council provision. These responses to the village housing challenges are set against a broader backdrop of structural constraints and opportunities to reduce those constraints through planning, land, and tax reforms that can broaden the social inclusivity and diversity of villages and support their economic well-being.
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