Rural Identities: Ethnicity and Community in the Contemporary English Countryside

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Sarah Neal

Rural Identities

Ethnicity and Community in the Contemporary English Countryside

Sarah Neal

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Routledge
28 June 2009

European history; Rural communities; Ethnic studies; Anthropology; Human geography

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.

By: Sarah Neal
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780754673064
ISBN 10: 0754673065
Pages: 170
Publication Date: 28 June 2009
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rural Identities

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

Reviews for Rural Identities: Ethnicity and Community in the Contemporary English Countryside

'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.' Katharine Tyler, University of Surrey, UK