People - States - Territories E-Book

Rhys Jones

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Serie: RGS-IBG Book Series
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 463

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011

Beschreibung

People/States/Territories examines the role of state personnel in shaping, and being shaped by, state organizations and territories, and demonstrates how agents have actively contributed to the reproduction and transformation of the British state over the long term. * A valuable corrective to recent characterizations of territory as a static and given geographical concept * An explication of the political geographies of state reproduction and transformation, through its focus on state territoriality and the variegated character of state power * Considerable empirical insight into the consolidation of the British state over the long term.

Leseprobe

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Series Editors’ Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter One Introduction:State Personnel and the Reproduction of State Forms

Chapter Two Analysing an Emergent State:State Actors and a Territorial State Apparatus

Thinking about the State . . .

Medieval and Early Modern Political Theory: Conceptualizing Political Authority

Weber and the Bureaucratic Machine of the Modern State

The Human Geographies of Strategic-Relational State Theory

The Anthropologies of the Networked State

Bringing It All Together:Analysing an Emergent State

Chapter Three Peopling the Medieval State

A Case of Stating the Obvious?

People and the Feudal State

State Leaders and the Emergence of Medieval State Forms in the British Isles

Local Government and the Validation and Contestation of State Forms

The Medieval State: Different not Worse?

Chapter Four Embodying Early Modern State Consolidation

Peopling the Central State Apparatus

The Body Politic: JPs and the Political Constitution of England and Wales

Shaping and Steering the Local State

State Personnel and the Embodiment of Early Modern State Consolidation

Chapter Five The State of High Modernity: the Age of the Inspector

The Nineteenth-Century Revolution in Government

The Age of the Inspector

Leonard Horner and the Regulation of Factory Production

Embodying a Tentative State Consolidation

Chapter Six Breaking up: People and the Late Modern UK State

The Challenges of Executive Devolution in the UK

New Devolved Organizations, New Organizational Cultures

State Personnel and the ‘Joining up’of Regional Governance

Territorial Identities and the Reproduction of Devolution

Devolution in Prospect

Chapter Seven Conclusions: Peopling the State

Notes

References

Index

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People/states/territories: the political geographies of British state transformation / Rhys Jones.

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1. Great Britain-Politics and government. 2. Professional employees in government—Great Britain. 3. Local government—Great Britain.4. State,The. I. Title. II. Title: People, states, territories.

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Figures

3.1Alfredian Wessex3.2MacSorley lands on Scotland’s western seaboard3.3The development of the segmentary gafael in north Wales4.1The systematization of local government in sixteenth-century England and Wales: the Acts of Union4.2William Lambarde, author of the Eirenarcha4.3The Wynn family’s administrative stamping grounds4.4Sir John Wynn5.1Leonard Horner, Inspector of Factories5.2The territorial reconfiguration of inspection districts during the 1830s6.1The political geographies of the UK post 19976.2The East Midlands’ Integrated Regional Strategy (from EMRA 2000)6.3The four governmental and administrative regions in Wales 1656.4The national and local framework for economic governance in Scotland

Tables

5.1The growth of the culture of inspection in nineteenth-century Britain5.2The number of mills and factories within the region controlled by Leonard Horner, factory inspector, in 18407.1The variants of state power

Series Editors’Preface

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Acknowledgements

Many debts of gratitude have been incurred in the completion of this book. I break with academic tradition somewhat by thanking first of all my friends and family who have supported me, either directly or indirectly, throughout this project. My parents, to whom this book is dedicated, have been a constant source of support throughout my academic career and have also provided strong educational, cultural and moral foundations upon which to build it. My wife, Jenny, along with my daughter and son, Glesni and Ynyr, have provided a welcome antidote to the trials and tribulations associated with producing a book such as this. Thanks very much for reminding me on numerous occasions – usually in good nature, too – that there is more to life than trying to disentangle the practices of a sixteenth-century JP in north-west Wales or of a government inspector of factories in the north of England during the nineteenth century. Diolch o galon a llawer o gariad i chi i gyd.

Thanks also to my colleagues and mentors within the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences (IGES) and further afield. The high levels of collegiality and academic endeavour within IGES – and I believe that the connections between these two attributes are significant and distinctive have provided me with an unparalleled working environment over the past ten or so years. Bob Dodgshon inspired me what seems like a long time ago now to indulge in ‘big picture history’ and for this I am, at least most of the time, extremely grateful! Other current or erstwhile colleagues also ‘appear’ in subtle ways in various chapters of this book. They have shown incredible forbearance in entertaining me all too often within their offices and in responding in positive and enlightened ways to my many queries. Thanks in particular to Tim Cresswell, Deborah Dixon, Bill Edwards, Kate Edwards, Mark Goodwin, Gareth Hoskins, Martin Jones, Gordon MacLeod, Robert Mayhew, Pete Merriman, Richard Phillips, Heidi Scott, Mark Whitehead and Mike Woods. Thanks also to Anthony Smith and Ian Gulley for producing the illustrations to a very high quality and to postgraduate and undergraduate students within IGES, who have provided inspiration and distraction in equal measure. In addition, other friends and colleagues from outside IGES have provided much support for this project. I think specifically of James Anderson, Helene Bradley, Robin Butlin, Patrick Duffy, Nick Gallent, Pyrs Gruffudd, David Harvey, Mike Heffernan, Charlie Jeffery, Keith Lilley, Miles Ogborn, Anssi Paasi, Chris Philo and Colin Williams. Thanks to you all for your patience and guidance.

Many of the ideas discussed in the book have already seen the light of day in some form or other. I have presented conference papers and seminars in Aberystwyth, Auckland, Coleraine, Belfast, Bergen, Brighton, Exeter, Guildford, Leicester, London, New York, Quebec City and Strathclyde, which have discussed, inter alia, the relationship between state personnel, state organizations and state territories. Thanks very much for the questions and comments that various audiences have made in response to these papers. Delegates, who have been present in one, some or all of these conferences, will be glad to hear that I will be giving this topic a bit of a rest for the foreseeable future. By the same token, referees for a variety of different periodicals have helped me to hone my ideas concerning the geographies of the state over a number of years. Thanks to you for seeing something that was worth publishing in the majority of these papers.

More formally, I would also like to thank the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, for its assistance, over a number of years, in providing financial support for my postgraduate and subsequent research. It has also provided regular periods of study leave, which enabled me to conduct much of the research and some of the writing contained within the pages of this book. Thanks also to the ESRC for funding a two-year research project, entitled ‘Constitutional Change and Economic Governance: Territories and Institutions’, as part of the Devolution and Constitutional Change Research Programme (Grant number: L219252013). The material from this project has fed into some of the arguments made in this book, as well as providing the bulk of the empirical material discussed in Chapter 6. Thanks again in this context to my co-researchers on this project, Mark Goodwin and Martin Jones, for providing much conceptual and empirical insight into the contemporary restructuring of the UK state. Thanks also to the two researchers on the project, Kevin Pett and Glenn Simpson, who managed to collect a lot of very useful empirical material over two years. I would like to thank Nick Henry and Kevin Ward as the editors of the book series, the two anonymous referees for the original proposal for supporting publication, and the two anonymous readers for providing valuable suggestions concerning improvements to the final script. Thanks also to Jacqueline Scott and Angela Cohen at Blackwell Publishing for making the publishing process as painless as possible.

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Chapter One

Introduction:State Personnel and the Reproduction of State Forms

Ellis Wynn was murdered in north Wales at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The murderers, William ap [son of] Thomas ap Humphry and Anne verch [daughter of] Jhon, a married couple, remained at large for a number of months afterwards, even though their identities and crimes were well known within the local community and, indeed, further afield. The lack of progress in resolving the crime generated much consternation within the emerging state apparatus. For instance, Lord President Zouche of the Council in the Marches – the ‘devolved’ branch of the English state responsible for law and order in Wales – berated the local sheriff, John Wynn of Gwydir, in a letter, complaining that ‘the murderers, in respect of their friends and kindred, are not apprehended; so that they are harboured by the Sheriff’s tenants and friends, and are seen openly in market towns in the day time’. He continued, arguing that ‘if such be the case, begs him to consider how much it concerns the breach of the peace of the land and what a plague it threatens to the country where such vipers are harboured, and what dishonour it will bring on him [the Sheriff], besides discredit and the plague of God both on him and his posterity. Will be glad if this remembrance quickens him, but more glad if zeal does the same’. Not surprisingly after such a tongue-lashing, John Wynn was quick to respond. He defended himself vigorously, contending that the fact that ‘the murderers were harboured amongst Wynn’s tenants and friends is more than he knows or is persuaded will prove true. Cannot deny that the offender is his kinsman, but he that is dead was as near in blood (by the mother), and no kinsman is more sorry than the writer. Protests that he never favoured the murderer or any other notorious malefactor. If the murderer walk within Wynn’s office he shall find neither favour nor support; but the country is wide, and he that standeth in danger of law may long escape the officers’ hands’. Evidently, in this case, John Wynn was keen to defend his honour as a key administrator of the English state in north Wales. The vigour of Wynn’s protestations, however, may lead us to suspect that there was no little truth in Lord Zouche’s accusations regarding the ignoble nature of his involvement in the case. We do not know whether William and Anne were ever caught by John Wynn nor whether they were prosecuted for the murder (quotes from Ballinger 1926: 41–2).