Beyond Bluff oysters? Place identity and ethnicity in a peripheral coastal setting

Panelli, Ruth; Allen, Deborah I.; Ellison, Brett; Kelly, Anna; John, Alistair; Tipa, Gail

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2007.05.008

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“…It has become clear that an increasing number of rural locales across the developed world are undergoing a ''de-coupling'' (Lawrence, 1996) from traditional, production-based economic activity 6 and are struggling to re-establish an identity in the midst of rapid global change (O'Rourke, 1999;Clout, 2006;Praestholm and Kristensen, 2007;Panelli et al, 2008). In some cases, these new identities have been forged by the arrival of newcomers (both temporary and permanent) who are drawn to rural space in search of a better quality of life.…”

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Revisiting the model of creative destruction: St. Jacobs, Ontario, a decade later

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2009

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Revisiting the model of creative destruction: St. Jacobs, Ontario, a decade later

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“…Exciting work on 'ethnicity' and 'rurality' is emerging that problematises the urban-as-multicultural and rural-as-monocultural dichotomy (see Bressey, 2009;Panelli et al, 2008;Tolia-Kelly, 2004;2006a;, and challenges singular notions of and experiences in 'the rural' (Neal and Agyeman, 2006). There are also new approaches to 'landscape' and space/place in terms of embodiment and affect (Macpherson, 2009a;Massey, 2006;Probyn, 2005;Rose, 2006;Tolia-Kelly, 2006b;Wylie, 2005).…”

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Crossing divides: Ethnicity and rurality

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2009

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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 I explored issues regarding ethnicity, rurality and national belonging in contemporary England, and was tasked with writing a policy report alongside the thesis 2 . As I read the academic work around my research, I increasingly became aware of a dichotomy. There was a rich body of literature around ethnic identity, diversity, hybridity, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, etc., including critical perspectives problematising these concepts and how they play out in society, but always and only embedded in the urban sphere (eg. Alexander, 2000;Amin, 2002; Back and Solomos, 2003;Brah,et al. 1999;Hesse, 2000;Mirza, 1997;Parekh, 2000a;2000b). At the same time, especially within geography, there was interest in the ways in which rurality/rural space is implicated within national identity construction, notions of belonging and spatial practices 3 . In the English context, the national imagery of rural space appeared to exclude ethnic minorities, among other groups, from accessing the countryside, both physically and emotionally (Cloke & Little, 1997;Milbourne, 1997). The connection between the rural as the 'genuine' England and not multicultural was highlighted in the Henderson and Kaur, 1999;Kinsman, 1995;Malik, 1992). However, there had been a lack of empirical work at that time to examine these issues further: ethnic minorities were perhaps too easily theorised and written as excluded 'rural others'. Indeed, Little (1999:438) voiced concern regarding the use of the term 'rural others' in general, "the lack of theoretical discussion around 'the other' and 'the same'", the paucity of recognition of the power relations complicit in such a categorisation, and the "static treatment of both individual and group identity".

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“…Scholars specialising in these fields do not deny the power of notions such as 'rural', 'remote', 'frontier' or 'rural idyll' (Bunce, 2003;Gill, 2005). Rather, they point to the selective and frequently hegemonic meanings of rural life and environments based on predominantly agrarian populations, private property, White histories and highly managed nature-society relations (Gill, 2005;Hetherington, 2000;Panelli et al, 2008). As Prout and Howitt (this issue) contend: '.…”

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De-centring White ruralities: Ethnic diversity, racialisation and Indigenous countrysides

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Beyond Bluff oysters? Place identity and ethnicity in a peripheral coastal setting

Cited by 42 publications

References 51 publications

Revisiting the model of creative destruction: St. Jacobs, Ontario, a decade later

Revisiting the model of creative destruction: St. Jacobs, Ontario, a decade later

Crossing divides: Ethnicity and rurality

De-centring White ruralities: Ethnic diversity, racialisation and Indigenous countrysides

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