Welsh Communities

by Davies, Charlotte Aull; Jones, Stephanie

• ISBN13: 9780708317822
• ISBN10: 0708317820
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-31
• Publisher: Univ of Wales Pr

Summary

"A critical examination of the diverse Welsh experiences of community, this book examines rural and urban, traditional and alternative, and inward and outward migrations. The essays advocate a contemporary theoretical approach to the study of communities. Each essay is based on original ethnographic research, using methods that involve a long-term and comparatively intimate relationship between researchers and their research subjects and locales. Contributors explore how different groups symbolically construct and experience "community" on a day-to-day basis."

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Acknowledgements	xix
List of contributors	xxi
Conceptualizing community	1	(26)
Charlotte Aull Davies
Section I: LOCALITIES and IDENTITIES
Supporting the team, sustaining the community: gender and rugby in a former mining village	27	(22)
Stephanie Jones
Research on your own doorstep: Welsh rural communities and the perceived effects of in-migration	49	(31)
Emma James
Family and social change in an urban street community	80	(18)
Martin O'Neill
Being here and there in The Field: a look at insider ethnography	98	(19)
De Murphy
Section 2: SOCIAL NETWORKS and BELONGING
Wool measurement: community and healing in rural Wales	117	(18)
Sue Philpin
Family farm businesses and the farming community: revisiting farm families in west Wales eighteen years on	135	(15)
John Hutson
Vegetarian biographies in time and space: vegetarians and alternatives in Newport, west Wales	150	(26)
Janice Williams
Constructing communities away from home: Welsh identities in London	176	(27)
Jeremy Segrott
Conclusions: reflecting on Welsh communities	203	(9)
Charlotte Aull Davies
Stephanie Jones
Personal names index	212	(3)
Subject index	215