County, Nation, Ethnic Group? The Shaping of the Cornish Identity

Deacon, Bernard A.

doi:10.1179/jrl.2007.3.1.5

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“…This figure is to an extent corroborated by a finding from a survey by the financial services company Morgan Stanley: 44% of their sample of Cornish residents felt more Cornish than English or British (Deacon :228). Details of sample size or question format are, however, unknown.…”

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The Legitimation of Ethnicity: The Case of the Cornish

Husk

Williams

2012

Studies Ethnicity & National

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In this article we examine the complex processes involved in small-scale ethnicity emergence and legitimation, and highlight the multi-dimensional elements present in moving from a strong regional identity to an externally legitimate ethnic group. We use Cornwall as a case study: administered as an English county, there has been a historic ethno-cultural movement for recognition alongside recent inclusion in national statistics; however, legitimation by external elites has been problematic. The first sections outline the Cornish as a group; we argue that however one conceptualises 'ethnicity', the people of Cornwall must constitute such a group. We examine the dichotomous effects of the interplay between strong regional assertion and a Cornish ethnicity more formally. In the latter sections we apply these arguments to broader sociological discussions around the legitimation of particular groups, and show that the Cornish are indicative of the wider theoretical literature. In conclusion, we assert that the Cornish are representative of the push/pull mechanisms felt acutely in any core/periphery power relations, and should be seen as central to emerging small-scale ethnic groups more generally. Kerryn Husk and Malcolm Williams: The Legitimation of Ethnicity

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The Legitimation of Ethnicity: The Case of the Cornish

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Williams

2012

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“…Alternatively, this observation may also be attributable to a general sense of identity that is associated with these regions. Both the South West and North East of England are known to exhibit a strong sense of localised identity (Deacon, 2007; Middleton & Freestone, 2008), which is similarly translatable to the national identity that generates strong associations within Scotland and Wales that are not shared with England (Haesly, 2005).…”

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Mapping cognitive place associations within the United Kingdom through online discussion on Reddit

Berragan,

Singleton,

Calafiore

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Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper explores cognitive place associations; conceptualised as a place‐based mental model that derives subconscious links between geographic locations. Utilising a large corpus of online discussion data from the social media website Reddit, we experiment on the extraction of such geographic knowledge from unstructured text. First we construct a system to identify place names found in Reddit comments, disambiguating each to a set of coordinates where possible. Following this, we build a collective picture of cognitive place associations in the United Kingdom, linking locations that co‐occur in user comments and evaluating the effect of distance on the strength of these associations. Exploring these geographies nationally, associations were shown to be typically weaker over greater distances. This distance decay is also highly regional, rural areas typically have greater levels of distance decay, particularly in Wales and Scotland. When comparing major cities across the UK, we observe distinct distance decay patterns, influenced primarily by proximity to other cities.

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