…imagined community that might go well beyond their social, economic or cultural afterlife in any strict sense. Myth is exactly that: something we use to come to know ourselves, but…
Who Owns Wales?
…is used and how it is managed. People and communities are therefore affected by the decisions made by landowners as to what is the best use of their lands. As…
Poetryโs Place in the Face of the Climate Crisis
…the bay – or the buried forests in Borth beach) or a communal memory of the gradual, or episodic, inland creep of the shoreline committed to verse, it speaks to…
Queer Life Stories: Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow
…ahead of us, but we are formidable in our vision and ambition. The LGBT+ community will achieve it together, proving once again that when it comes to equality and our…
โโWhose Voices, Which Land?
…being displaced by second homers and Airbnbs that decimate rural communities, [leaving people] unable to afford to live in their local area. With the loss of these communities we will…
Reaping the Open-Source Benefit for Wales
…more than half of global web servers, to the mushrooming sector of the Internet of Things. The economic benefits are huge; a study recently commissioned by the European Commission estimated…
Our Land: Communities and Land Use
…England. Despite conceptions of Wales as a communitarian nation, defined by tight-knit communities, our research paints a picture of public policy divorced from this ideal, and shows Welsh communities to…
Talking the Talk but not Walking the Walk: The Contradictions of the Levelling Up White Paper
…ability to successfully highlight the problems while offering few tenable ways to fix them, and, secondly, the disparities between the Westminster Government’s comments in the paper about the opportunities of…
The IWA Calls for Community Empowerment Measures on Politics Wales
…IWA’s key recommendations are: The Welsh Government should begin work on a Community Empowerment Bill that establishes a register of community assets, and gives communities a statutory first right of…