Neal, Sarah (2009). Rural Identities: Ethnicity and Community in the Contemporary English Countryside. Farnham: Ashgate.
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Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Authored Book |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2009 The Author |
| ISBN: | 0-7546-7306-5, 978-0-7546-7306-4 |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Social Sciences > Social Policy and Criminology |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) OpenSpace Research Centre (OSRC) |
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| Item ID: | 26028 |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Neal |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jan 2011 17:19 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Oct 2012 14:38 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/26028 |
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