Rural Identities Ethnicity and Community in the Contemporary English Countryside

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Synopsis

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.

Book details

Author:
Sarah Neal
ISBN:
9781317060826
Related ISBNs:
9780367603090, 9781315607177, 9780754673064
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
170
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2022-03-05
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2009
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Social Studies