New countryside? New countryVisible communities1 in the English national parks

Askins, Kye

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“…[insert Figure 3 Askins, 2006), generally men felt less fear (or articulated less fear) about being in rural areas: such a gendered engagement with rurality has been well documented elsewhere (eg. Little, 2002;Little and Austin, 1996).…”

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“…Rather than simply mirroring the dominant national park staff narrative, though, there are complex issues surrounding 'strategic essentialism' and identity politics involved in such essentialist/essentialising constructions of visible community-ness among visible communities that I have tried to address elsewhere (Askins, 2006; see also Gilroy, 2001;Hall, 2003;Hesse, 2000). Importantly, socio-economic position among visible communities is embedded in majority/minority social inequalities in England (Sivanandan, 2001), and throughout the research, most 'anti-nature' discourses encountered in fieldwork were partly articulated through resistance to exclusion and racism in English society more broadly.…”

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Crossing divides: Ethnicity and rurality

Askins

2009

Journal of Rural Studies

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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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Crossing divides: Ethnicity and rurality

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2009

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…Hence the stranger is somebody we know as not-knowing, rather than somebody we simply do not know' (Ahmed, 2000, p. 55). The moment of 'knowing the not-known' is one that includes a number of co-ordinates not least those pertaining to ethnicity and nation, sameness and difference (Askins, 2006). As researchers we inhabited the place of the 'professional stranger finding out about strangers' (Agar, 1980, p. 44 cited in Ahmed, 2000.…”

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“…This methodological examination occurs through the consideration of the intersection of three key fields-the notion of the researcher as a stranger; the 'bleed' of our autobiographies into the data collection process and our dialogical encounters in the focus group interviews. While cultural geographers such as Cresswell (1996), Hetherington (2000) and Askins (2006) have drawn on the concept of the stranger to analyse rural social relations we use it as the 'hinge' between the epistemological and the methodological. It is through the presentation of a stranger-self intersection that we simultaneously offer a specific, reflexive scrutiny of 'ways of seeing' in qualitative data collection and evidence some of the contemporary contestations, desires and tensions which characterize claims to rural belonging.…”

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Strangers asking strange questions? A methodological narrative of researching belonging and identity in English rural communities

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2006

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“…Ironically, asBrody (2000) points out, this is in contrast to many Western, agrarian 'settled' societies in which expansion and migration is often the norm.5 We cannot offer a fully comprehensive record of the silencing, erasure and disciplining of Indigenous, visible and other ethnicity-based groups within rural societies (and within academia and geography itself, for example, seeHowitt and Jackson, 1998) nor does this paper enable a full review of the contrasting strategic and innovative ways in which these groups variously create struggles or alternatives -but see individual articles in this issue as wellAskins, 2006;Gelder and Jacobs, 1998;Gibson, 1998;Holloway, 2007;Jackson et al, 2005;Koschade and Peters, 2006;Marika and Ngurruwutthun, 1992; Neal and Agyeman, 2006a;Pollard, 2004).Editorial / Journal of Rural Studies 25 (2009) 355-364…”

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