Rurality
“On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue” (Williams 1975, 1).
“The meaning of rurality . . . nearly always carries with it the promise of self-actualisation” (Hildyard 2013, 142).
“Creating ‘nature’ as the world that is ‘not us’ is an ontological conceptualisation that struggles to be meaningful in rurality” (Parry 2013, 114).
“Race and rurality . . . seem to overlap as heirs of a history of analysis that has both privileged (and indeed fetishized) them as explanatory categories and then denied their very relevance to understanding (social) spaces and the lived experiences within them” (Crichlow, Northover, and Giusti-Cordero 2018, 11).
References
Crichlow, Northover, and Giusti-Cordero 2018
Crichlow, Michaeline A., Patricia Northover, and Juan Giusti-Cordero. “Introduction.” In Race and Rurality in the Global Economy, edited by Michaeline A. Crichlow, Patricia Northover, and Juan Giusti-Cordero, 9–26. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2018.
Hildyard 2013
Hildyard, Rupert. “A Case Study in the Literary Construction of the Rural Idyll: The English Farm.” In Interpreting Rurality: Multidisciplinary Approaches, edited by Gary Bosworth and Peter Somerville, 132–45. London: Routledge, 2013.
Parry 2013
Parry, Catherine. “Pits, Pylons and Posts: Writing under the English Rural Idyll.” In Interpreting Rurality: Multidisciplinary Approaches, edited by Gary Bosworth and Peter Somerville, 109–21. London: Routledge, 2013.
Williams 1975
Williams, Raymond. The Country and the City. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975.