Rural Identities

Name: Rural Identities
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780754673064
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Ethnicity and Community in the Contemporary English Countryside

By Sarah Neal

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Rural Identities explores how conceptions of the English countryside and rural nature are interwoven with narratives of Englishness. It delves into the formation of rural social relations and investigates how senses of rural belonging and attachments are created and sustained. Based on substantial research, it offers new insights into the relevance of community and ethnicity in understanding the contested nature of the English countryside, highlighting both exclusionary challenges and inclusive possibilities within rural and national discourses.
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This volume will appeal to policy makers and scholars in sociology, geography, qualitative research methods, and race and ethnicity studies interested in the dynamics of rural identities and communities.

Engages with the ways in which ideas of the English countryside and rural nature are enrolled into and fashion narratives of Englishness. This book examines the formations of rural social relations and the processes and practices through which rural attachments and senses of rural belonging are established and maintained.

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Rural Identities investigates and engages with the ways in which ideas of the English countryside and rural nature are enrolled into and fashion the narratives of Englishness. At the heart of the book is an examination of the formations of rural social relations, where the processes and practices through which rural attachments and senses of rural belonging are established and maintained.

Drawing on a substantial research project, Rural Identities presents important new empirical material in its analysis of why the concepts of community and ethnicity are relevant to understanding the contested status of the English countryside. In doing so, it outlines the exclusionary limitations and inclusionary possibilities of the relational discourses of rurality and nation.

The rich empirical material and the conceptual apparatus employed in this volume render it appealing to policy makers as well as to scholars of sociology, geography, qualitative research methods, and race and ethnicity studies.

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Katharine Tyler, University of Surrey, UK: 'In this extremely important book, Sarah Neal gets to the heart of what constitutes white people’s attachment to the countryside. The result is a fresh and incisive analysis of the role of nature, the non-human and the emotional in the construction of ethnic identity and belonging.'

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780754673064

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 28 June 2009

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 453g

Pages: 170

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Education & Reference European History History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction Sarah Neal Science & Nature

About the Author

Sarah Neal is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Science at the Open University, UK