Rural Geography Research Group (RGRG) RGS-IBG
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Rural Geography Research Group (RGRG) RGS-IBG
@ruralgrg.bsky.social
The Royal Geographical Society Rural Geography Research Group exists to encourage and promote theoretical and policy-related research in rural studies.

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101 Outdoor Arts are based at Greenham Common, Newbury, a former RAF base that once stationed 96 American nuclear missiles.

In the 1980s, a group of West Berkshire commoners rose up in response, and made a disproportionate impact on the international arms race.

merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2020/06...
Contested Countryside: Commons & the Cold War - The Museum of English Rural Life
How did a small group of West Berkshire Commoners impact on the US-USSR nuclear arms race in the 1980s? Read on and find out.
merl.reading.ac.uk
February 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
We welcome transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary sessions, which engage with a range of disciplinary and organisational perspectives, practices, expertise, and which may lead to new collaborations based on shared research interests or collective, creative visions for geography.
February 2, 2025 at 3:01 AM
We ask that proposals are both relevant to the Chair's theme of Geographies of Creativity/Creative Geography and currently topical rural themes. We are flexible as to what this may be, however, and happy to hear new ideas.
February 2, 2025 at 3:01 AM