Askins, K. (2009) Crossing divides: ethnicity and rurality. Journal of Rural Studies, 25(4), pp. 365-375. (doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2009.05.009)
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Abstract
This paper draws on research with people from African, Caribbean and Asian backgrounds regarding perceptions and use of the English countryside. I explore the complex ways in which the category ‘rural’ was constructed as both essentialised and relational: how the countryside was understood most definitely as ‘not-city’ but also, at the same time, the English countryside was conceived as part of a range of networks: one site in a web of ‘nature places’ across the country, as well as one rural in an international chain of rurals – specifically via embodied and emotional connections with ‘nature’. I argue that alongside sensed/sensual embodiment (the non-representational intuitive work of the body), we need also to consider reflective embodiment as a desire to space/place in order to address the structural socio-spatial exclusions endemic in (rural) England and how they are challenged. I suggest that a more progressive conceptualisation of rurality – a ‘transrural’ open to issues of mobility and desire – can help us disrupt dominant notions of rural England as only an exclusionary white space, and reposition it as a site within multicultural, multiethnic, transnational and mobile social Imaginaries.
Item Type: | Articles |
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Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Askins, Dr Kye |
Authors: | Askins, K. |
College/School: | College of Science and Engineering > School of Geographical and Earth Sciences |
Journal Name: | Journal of Rural Studies |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
ISSN: | 0743-0167 |
ISSN (Online): | 1873-1392 |
Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2009 Elsevier |
First Published: | First published in Journal of Rural Studies 25(4):365-375 |
Publisher Policy: | Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
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