The English Rural Community
Title | The English Rural Community PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Short |
Publisher | CUP Archive |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1992-06-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521405676 |
This book examines the English rural community, past and present, in its variety and dynamism. The distinguished team of contributors brings a variety of disciplinary perspectives to bear upon the central issues of movement and migration; the farm family and rural labour force; the development of contrasting rural communities; the portrayal of rural labour in both 'high' and popular culture; the changing nature of religious practice in the English countryside; the rural/urban fringe, and the spread of notions of a rural English arcadia within a predominantly urban society. Fully illustrated with accompanying maps, paintings and photographs, The English Rural Community provides an important and innovative overview of a subject where history, myth and debate are inseparably entwined. A full bibliography will assist a broad range of general readers and students of social history, historical geography and development studies approaching the subject for the first time, and the whole should establish itself as the central analytical account in an area where image and reality are notoriously hard to unravel.
Teaching English in Rural Communities
Title | Teaching English in Rural Communities PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Petrone |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 183 |
Release | 2021-04-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1475849184 |
Showcasing the voices, perspectives, and experiences of rural English teachers and students, Teaching English in Rural Communities promotes equity, diversity, and inclusivity within rural education. Specifically, this book develops a Critical Rural English Pedagogy (CREP), which draws attention to issues of power, representation, and justice related to rurality. Based on the assumption that “rurality” is a social construct, CREP critiques deficit-laden stereotypes and renderings of rural places and people that circulate in media, popular discourse, and even education at times. In doing so, CREP opens up possibilities for educators and students to use the English classroom as a space to better understand the complex issues they face as rural people and ways to promote more nuanced and comprehensive representations of rurality. In particular, this book highlights English rural classrooms whereby students examine representations of rurality in literary and media texts; decenter dominant settler-colonist narratives of rural spaces, places, and people; develop understandings of Indigenous perspectives and cultural practices, particularly related to land stewardship; and engage in local outreach to promote inclusivity within rural communities. This book also gives special attention to ways race and racism may factor into literacy education in rural contexts and possibilities for rural educators to attend to these issues.
An English Rural Community: Myddle Under the Tudors and Stuarts
Title | An English Rural Community: Myddle Under the Tudors and Stuarts PDF eBook |
Author | David Hey |
Publisher | Burns & Oates |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Rural Identities
Title | Rural Identities PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Neal |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 2016-04-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317060822 |
Rural Identities investigates and engages with the ways in which ideas of the English countryside and rural nature, are enrolled into and fashion the narratives of Englishness. At the heart of the book is an examination of the formations of rural social relations, where the processes and practices through which rural attachments and senses of rural belonging, are established and maintained. Drawing on a substantial research project Rural Identities presents important new empirical material in its analysis of why the concepts of community and ethnicity are relevant to understanding the contested status of the English countryside. In doing so, it outlines the exclusionary limitations and inclusionary possibilities of the relational discourses of rurality and nation. The rich empirical material and the conceptual apparatus employed in this volume render it appealing to policy makers as well as to scholars of sociology, geography, qualitative research methods and race and ethnicity studies.
The English Countryside
Title | The English Countryside PDF eBook |
Author | David Haigron |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2017-08-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3319532731 |
This collection of essays examines representations of the English countryside and its mutations, and what they reveal about a nation’s, communities’ or individuals’ search for identity – and fear of losing it. Based on a pluridisciplinary approach and a variety of media, this book challenges the view that the English countryside is an apolitical space characterised by permanence and lack of conflict. It analyses how the pastoral motif is actually subverted to explore liminal spaces and temporalities. The authors deconstruct the “rural idyll” myth to show how it plays a distinctive and yet ambiguous part in defining Englishness/Britishness. A must read for both scholars and students interested in British rural and cultural history, media and literature.
Rural Communities
Title | Rural Communities PDF eBook |
Author | Cornelia Butler Flora |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2018-03-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0429974329 |
Communities in rural America are a complex mixture of peoples and cultures, ranging from miners who have been laid off in West Virginia, to Laotian immigrants relocating in Kansas to work at a beef processing plant, to entrepreneurs drawing up plans for a world-class ski resort in California's Sierra Nevada. Rural Communities: Legacy and Change uses its unique Community Capitals framework to examine how America's diverse rural communities use their various capitals (natural, cultural, human, social, political, financial, and built) to address the modern challenges that face them. Each chapter opens with a case study of a community facing a particular challenge, and is followed by a comprehensive discussion of sociological concepts to be applied to understanding the case. This narrative, topical approach makes the book accessible and engaging for undergraduate students, while its integrative approach provides them with a framework for understanding rural society based on the concepts and explanations of social science. This fifth edition is updated throughout with 2013 census data and features new and expanded coverage of health and health care, food systems and alternatives, the effects of neoliberalism and globalization on rural communities, as well as an expanded resource and activity section at the end of each chapter.
English Rural Life
Title | English Rural Life PDF eBook |
Author | H. E. Bracey |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780415176996 |
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.