Remaking English ruralities: Processes of belonging and becoming, continuity and change in racialised spaces

Neal, Sarah and Agyeman, Julian (2006). Remaking English ruralities: Processes of belonging and becoming, continuity and change in racialised spaces. In: Neal, Sarah and Agyeman, Julian eds. The new countryside? Ethnicity, nation and exclusion in contemporary rural Britain. UK: The Policy Press, pp. 99–125.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781861347961.003.0005

Abstract

This chapter argues that while the geographical space of the English countryside has been particularly filled with a sense of nation of an ‘old England’, it has also been a space which has always been fiercely contested. It uses the concept of ‘rural citizenship’ to examine the changing contours of the rural, as well as to map a racialised landscape where questions of legitimacy, inclusion, exclusion, and authenticity have been particularly struggled over. The chapter also uses the story of the Black Environment Network and empirical data from a recent research project to view what happens when certain claims to rural citizenship are made in multicultural Britain.

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