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Broadlands and the New Rurality

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Broadlands and the New Rurality

An Ethnography

Sam Hillyard

University of Lincoln, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India Malaysia – China

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Dedication

For Chris

Epigraphs

The most readily accessible characteristics of a phenomenon are not necessarily the most sociologically interesting ones (Crow & Takeda, 2011, p. 6).

In all interaction a basic underlying theme is the desire of each participant to guide and control the response made by the others present (Goffman, 1956, p. 2).

Why would you want to study this village? (Fieldnotes, Broadlands village).

I'm going into Tow Law

For what I need (Mark Knopfler, ‘Hill Farmer's Blues').

Acknowledgements

The research was made possible by research grants from the University of Nottingham (award no. NLF3062) and the Economic and Social Research Council (award no. RES000223412). A significant part of the text was written during a visiting fellowship at the University of Helsinki's Ruralia Institute in Seinäjoki, Finland.

My academic friends and colleagues, both at Durham University where I was formerly based and beyond, have been brill. In no order of merit, they include Carl Bagley, Graham Crow, Doug Newton, Martin Roderick, Kim Jamie, Tracey Warren, Maggie O'Neill, Staci Newmahr and Sami Kurki. It was also fun and provocative to work in Durham's Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) alongside Rob Barton, Veronica Strang, Linda Crowe, Chris Greenwell, Karen Johnson and Nick Saul. As an IAS should, its influence permeates this book on many levels. An extraordinary group of second-year undergraduates in Seminar Group Three on the module Self, Identity and Society in the academic session 2015–16 pushed me to think hard about space and the unthought. John Hensby has been a great comfort throughout.

My thanks to all of the villagers and surrounding residents of Broadlands for their time, patience and participation.

This book is an ethnography and as such is dedicated to my original Field Studies tutor and subsequent doctoral supervisor – Chris Pole. Any errors or omissions, as he would only be too happy to point out, remain my own.

SHH, Weardale, August 2019.