International Rural Gentrification Project: England Data, 2014-2018

The project aimed to thoroughly examine the rural geographies of gentrification in France, the UK, and the USA through a comparative study of its theory, forms, and dynamics. It sought to determine whether rural gentrification could be used as a concept to explain changes in rural areas in these countries. he project began by using the concept of "sociologies of translation" to understand how the term "rural gentrification" was used in academic, policy, and popular discourses in the past and present in these countries. To identify the presence and use of social assets within rural gentrification, an asset-based theory was developed. National datasets were mapped using empirical indicators and comparable measures of rural, urban, and peri-urban spaces to analyse the geographies of gentrification in these countries and develop a typology of rural gentrification. The archive consists of the UK element of the International Rural Gentrification (iRGENT) project The dataset contains material from a questionnaire survey conducted in 9 villages, located in 6 local authority Districts in EnglandThis project will deliver the first in-depth examination of the cross-national rural geographies of both the concept and phenomenon of gentrification, through an integrated comparative study of the theory, forms and dynamics of gentrification across rural France, UK and USA. The project aims to investigate the salience of rural gentrification as a concept that is capable of explaining rural change in France, the UK and the USA. As a starting point, the project draws upon the concept of 'sociologies of translation' to understand past and current differential meanings and uses of the term rural gentrification within academic, policy and popular discourses in France, UK and USA. An asset-based theorisation of rural gentrification will be developed to create empirical indicators of the presence and use of social assets within rural gentrification. Using these empirical indicators and comparable measures of rural, urban and peri-urban spaces, census and other national datasets will be mapped to analyse the geographies of gentrification in rural France, UK and USA, and to develop a typology of rural gentrification. Using this typology, detailed comparative studies of rural gentrification spanning a contrasting range of rural regions and rural settlement areas within France, UK and USA will be undertaken using comparable interviews, surveys, and focus groups.