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Return of a Native - Learning from the Land (Paperback, New edition)
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Return of a Native - Learning from the Land (Paperback, New edition)
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List price R522
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Discovery Miles 4 290
You Save R93 (18%)
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Rural England is a mythic space, a complex canvas on which people
from many different backgrounds project all kinds of fantasies,
prejudices, desires and fears. This book seeks to challenge many of
these ideas, showing how the artificial divide between rural and
urban works to conceal the underlying relationship between these
two fundamental poles of human settlement. This investigation of
rurality is oriented from a fixed point in north-west Hampshire,
marked by a signpost that points in four directions to two towns,
four villages and two hamlets. Through stories, interviews and
reportage gathered over two decades, the book demolishes tired
notions of rural England that cast it as a separate realm of
existence, whether marooned in a perpetual time-warp, or reduced to
a refuge for the retired, wealthy urbanites, extreme nature-lovers,
and, more recently, anyone tired of waiting out the pandemic in
towns and cities. It poses two simple questions: what does the word
rural mean today? What will it mean tomorrow? The author is an
ambivalent native, held captive to the land by an umbilical cord
but always on the verge of fleeing home to the city. Both argument
and narrative are propelled by the urgent need to reconsider the
concept of 'countryside' in the context of the climate emergency
and the patent collapse of ecosystems due to intensive farming
which has poisoned the land. She writes from a feminist,
postcolonial standpoint that is alert to the slow violence of
historical processes taking place over many centuries; enslavement,
colonialism, industrialisation, globalisation.
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