1st Edition
Rural Identities Ethnicity and Community in the Contemporary English Countryside
By Sarah Neal
Copyright 2009
170 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.... Read more
Rural Identities
Biography
Sarah Neal is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Science at the Open University, 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.' Katharine Tyler, University of Surrey, UK
