The New Countryside? [electronic resource] : Ethnicity, Nation and Exclusion in Contemporary Rural Britain
Neal, Sarah.
Agyeman, Julian.
Bristol, U.K. : Policy Press,
2006.
This book explores issues of ethnicity, identity and racialised exclusion in rural Britain, in depth and for the first time. It questions what the countryside 'is', problematises who is seen as belonging to rural spaces, and argues for the recognition of a rural multiculture.
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Cover; THE NEW COUNTRYSIDE? Ethnicity, nation and exclusion in contemporary rural Britain; Contents; List of illustrations and tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Introduction; Beginnings; Ways of seeing: rural spaces, whiteness and senses of nation; Rural spaces, trialectics of space and ethnicity; Rationale and organisation of the book; Part One: Notions of nation and national contexts; ONE - 'It goes without saying (well, sometimes)' - Racism, Whiteness and identityin Northern Ireland; TWO - Place matters - Exploring the distinctiveness of racism in rural Wales
THREE - 'Let's keep our heads down and maybe the problem will go away' - Experiences of rural minority ethnic households in ScotlandFOUR - Remaking English ruralities - Processes of belonging and becoming, continuity and change in racialised spaces; Part Two: Ethnicities, exclusions, disruptions; FIVE - Village People - Race, class, nation and the community spirit; Introduction; Ethnographic research in a suburban 'village'; An imagined 'village' community; The Asian shopkeepers and the 'village' community; Wealthy Asian inhabitants and the discourse of 'social isolation'; Conclusion
SIX - New countryside? New country - Visible communities in the English national parksIntroduction; Limited/ing resistance; (Dis)placing the stranger; Claiming the countryside/claiming the country; Towards new imaginations: national identity and the rural; SEVEN - Visions of England - New Age Travellers and the idea of ethnicity; Introduction; Authenticity, ethnicity and identity; Uncertainty, ethnicity and identity; Spaces of identity; Landscapes of freedom; Traditions of resistance; Earth mysteries and the countryside; Opposing England; Conclusion
EIGHT - Issues of rurality and good practice - Gypsy Traveller pupils in schoolsIntroduction; Gypsy Travellers, ethnicity and culture; Gypsy Travellers, rurality and education policy; Gypsy Travellers and achievement in schools; Working towards inclusive education; The culturally affirmative curriculum: anti-racist strategies and integration; Conclusion; NINE - Rethinking rural race equality - Early interventions, continuities and changes; Introduction; The Rural Anti-Racism Project; Building on Jay's evidence base; Working in partnership
Key successes: raising awareness and building capacityKey successes: expanding the agenda and disseminating good practice; Key difficulties: constraints and limitations; Race equality initiatives after Jay; New urgencies: the increase in racial harassment and violence in rural areas; Defining perpetrators of racial harassment and violence; Victims of racial harassment and violence; Gypsy and Traveller issues; Asylum seekers and refuges; Defining rurality; The Rural Strategy; Conclusion; Afterword; Beyond the familiar absence, unfamiliar presenceparadigm; Broken narratives
Un/settled rural spaces
This book explores issues of ethnicity, identity and racialised exclusion in rural Britain, in depth and for the first time. It questions what the countryside 'is', problematises who is seen as belonging to rural spaces, and argues for the recognition of a rural multiculture.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Sociology, Rural.
Social Conditions
Communities - Rural Groups
Sociology & Social History
Social Sciences