Landowners and the structure of affordable housing provision in rural Scotland

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The behavior of private landowners in rural Scotland in relation to housing supply, especially in renting and low-cost housing is considered. The findings reveal that the motivations of the landowners are rarely as simple as assumed in some conventional analyses and might be counter-intuitive.

Behavior, Behavioral assessment, Sociology, Rural, Rural sociology, Landowners, Behavioural assessment

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Sentient commodities and productive paradoxes: The ambiguous nature of human-livestock relations in Northeast Scotland

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Ethnographic data is used to illustrate sociologically the paradoxical nature of commercial and hobby livestock production in the context of Northeast Scotland. Producers of livestock have contradictory productive roles, as empathetic carers and economic producers of 'sentient commodities'.

Human-animal relationships, Domestication, Livestock productivity

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Re-imagining the land, North Sutherland, Scotland

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Re-imaginings of the land in North Sutherland, Scotland that counter global and modernist discourse is discussed. The ways in which practices of the self-individual and collective resist a politics of dispossession is explained.

Evaluation, Environmental aspects, Land reclamation, Reclamation of land, Geography, Historical, Historical geography

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