Contested Countryside Cultures: Rurality and Socio-cultural Marginalisation

by Cloke,Paul; Cloke,Paul

• ISBN13: 9780415140744
• ISBN10: 0415140749
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-06-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Contesting Countryside Cultureexamines the "other" side of the countryside, a place inhabited (and visited) by women, children, teenagers, the elderly, gays and lesbians, black and ethnic minorities, the unemployed and the poor. These groups have remained largely excluded by rural policies and the representations of rural culture. The book charts the experiences of these marginalized groups within the context of postmodern, poststructuralist, postcolonial and late feminist analysis, and reveals how notions of the rural have been created to reflect and reinforce divisions amongst those living in the countryside. Contributors include: David Bell, Claire Fisher, Keith Halfacree, Sarah Harper, Annie Hughes, Phil Kinsman, Owain Jones, John Murdoch, Andy Pratt, David Sibley, Gill Valentine.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii	(1)
List of contributors	viii
1 INTRODUCTION: OTHER COUNTRYSIDES?	1	(18)
Paul Cloke
Jo Little
2 OF OTHER RURALS?	19	(32)
Chris Philo
3 FROM THE POWER OF TOPOGRAPHY TO THE TOPOGRAPHY OF POWER A discourse on strange ruralities	51	(19)
Jonathan Murdoch
Andy C. Pratt
4 CONTRASTING ROLES FOR THE POST-PRODUCTIVIST COUNTRYSIDE A postmodern perspective on counterurbanisation	70	(24)
Keith Halfacree
5 ANTI-IDYLL Rural horror	94	(15)
David Bell
6 MAKING SPACE Lesbian separatist communities in the United States	109	(14)
Gill Valentine
7 RURALITY AND `CULTURES OF WOMANHOOD' Domestic identities and moral order in village life	123	(15)
Annie Hughes
8 EMPLOYMENT MARGINALITY AND WOMEN'S SELF-IDENTITY	138	(20)
Jo Little
9 LITTLE FIGURES, BIG SHADOWS Country childhood stories	158	(22)
Owain Jones
10 CONTESTING LATER LIFE	180	(17)
Sarah Harper
11 ETHNICITY AND THE RURAL ENVIRONMENT	197	(21)
Julian Agyeman
Rachel Spooner
12 ENDANGERING THE SACRED Nomads, youth cultures and the English countryside	218	(14)
David Sibley
13 `I BOUGHT MY FIRST SAW WITH MY MATERNITY BENEFIT' Craft production in west Wales and the home as the space of (re)production	232	(20)
Clare Fisher
14 POOR COUNTRY Marginalisation, poverty and rurality	252	(20)
Paul Cloke
15 CONCLUSION: MARGINALITY AND RURAL OTHERS	272	(14)
Paul Cloke
Jo Little
Index	286