1st Edition

Citizenships, Contingency and the Countryside Rights, Culture, Land and the Environment

By Gavin Parker Copyright 2002
    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    Citizenships, Contingency and the Countryside defines citizenship in relation to the rural environment. The book expands and explores a widened conceptualization of citizenship and sets out a range of examples where citizenship, at different scales, has been expressed in and over the rural environment. Part of the analysis includes a review of the political construction and use of citizenship rhetoric over the past 20 years, alongside an historical and theoretical discussion of citizenship and rights in the British countryside. The text concludes with a call to recognise and incorporate the multiple voices and interests in decision-making, that all affect the British countryside.

    Part 1: Society, Culture and Rural Land
    Part 2: Unpacking Citizenship
    Part 3: UK Politics and the Citizenship Debate
    Part 4: On Being Modern: Consolidating Citizenship in the Countryside
    Part 5: Enacting and Contesting Rights through History
    Part 6: Political Expediency, Localness and Active Citizenship
    Part 7: Citizenship and the Countryside as Consumer Space
    Part 8: Citizenship, Contingency and the Countryside

    Biography

    Parker, Gavin