New Localities

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Table 1. Implementing a new localities research strategy: research questions for the Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD) Knowing Localities Research Programme

How do people come to ‘know’ locality?

What are the relationships and barriers between universal, public, elite and local knowledges and how are these articulated and acted upon in everyday discourse, policy and practice?

How does locality condition and contextualize knowledge production and utilization? And how does this lead (or not lead) to effective local-level community action in tackling regeneration?

What are the possibilities for generalizing local knowledge and experience?

How can we map communities of knowledge and the related interrelationships between economic and social welfare within local settings?

How do knowledge of locality and local knowledge shape practices of citizenship and community participation, and contribute to the development of new ‘localist’ forms of governance through ‘place-shaping’?

How is local knowledge and experience enrolled in strategies for economic development, regenerations skills capacity building, and how does knowledge of locality shape engagement with exogenous capital and fluid labour market dynamics?

How can knowing of locality and local knowledge be harnessed in addressing questions of sustainability?

How do the ways in which people ‘know’ localities in intersect with ways of knowing national and regional identities and territorialities, and how do these shape practices of citizenship and civic engagement?