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Writing the Rural - Five Cultural Geographies (Paperback)
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Writing the Rural - Five Cultural Geographies (Paperback)
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This book arises out of an ESRC project devoted to an examination
of the economic, social and cultural impacts of the 'service class'
on rural areas. The research was an attempt to document these
impacts through close empirical work in a set of three rural
communities, but something happened on the way. The authors found
that the 'rural' became a real sticking point. Respondents used it
in different ways - as a bludgeon, as a badge, as a barometer - to
signify many different things - security, identity, community,
domesticity, gender, sexuality, ethnicity - nearly always by
drawing on many different sources - the media, the landscape,
friends and kin, animals. It became abundantly clear that the
'rural', whatever chameleon form it took, was a prime and deeply
felt determinant of the actions of many respondents. Yet it was
also clear that to the authors they possessed no theoretical
framework that could allow them to negotiate the 'rural' to
deconstruct its diverse nature as a category. Rather each of the
extended essays in the book is an attempt by each author to draw
out one aspect of the 'rural' by drawing on different traditions in
social and cultural theory.
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