Brexit, COVID-19, and the rural British pub: assessing the adaptive resilience of the 'local' amidst contemporary crises.

在经历了20年的衰退之后，随着英国脱欧和新冠疫情的爆发，英国酒吧正经历新一轮的不确定性和风险。然而，这些危机的可能影响尚不清楚，因为它们在地理和时间上的不均匀表现是前所未有的。由于酒吧在当地社会经济中具有重要的社会、经济和文化功能，这些问题对农村地区的酒吧来说尤为严重。作为回应，这项与普伦基特基金会（Plunkett Foundation）合作的研究旨在评估英国乡村酒吧对当代危机的适应能力。在2008年金融危机之后，“韧性”的概念受到了广泛关注，但该概念应对英国脱欧和新冠肺炎独特的相互影响的能力需要得到高度重视。由于酒吧在当地经济中发挥着核心和重要的公民和经济功能，因此将这些功能集中在围绕农村弹性的基于地方的政策讨论中不仅是可能的，而且是合乎逻辑的。英国脱欧和2019冠状病毒病在地理上的不平衡性、渐进式和不确定性，对理论和政策构成了前所未有的挑战。通过多层次的制度方法，本研究将通过评估在英国下放的国家中（重新）产生适应性的正式和非正式机构来加强适应性的概念化。因此，它试图为乡村酒吧制定建议，并为英国新兴的社区弹性政策提供应用。重要的是，它将在当代经济危机中确定农村地区酒吧的主要脆弱性和机会，并将这些发现应用于弹性理论。

Following two decades of decline, British pubs are experiencing new rounds ofuncertainty and risk with the onset of Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, thepossible impacts of these crises are unclear since they are unprecedented in their unevengeographical and temporal manifestations. Such issues are acute for pubs in rural areasdue to their essential social, economic and cultural functions within their local socioeconomies.In response, this research, in collaboration with the Plunkett Foundation,aims to assess the adaptive resilience of rural British pubs in relation to contemporarycrises. While the notion of 'resilience' received much attention following the 2008 financialcrisis, the concept's ability to address the unique and interacting impacts of Brexit andCOVID-19 requires critical attention. With pubs performing central and essential civic andeconomic functions within their local economies, centralising these within place-basedpolicy discussions surrounding rural resilience is not only possible but logical. Thegeographically uneven, incremental and uncertain manifestations of Brexit and COVID-19are an unprecedented and unfolding challenge for theory and policy. Through a multilevelinstitutional approach, this research will strengthen conceptualisations of adaptiveresilience through assessing the formal and informal institutions through which it is(re)produced across the UK's devolved nations. Thus, it seeks to formulaterecommendations for rural pubs and applications for emerging community resiliencepolicy in the UK. Importantly, it will identify the key vulnerabilities of and opportunities forpubs in rural areas throughout contemporary economic crises and the application of thesefindings for theorisations of resilience.