Imagining Englishness through contested English landscapes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10222075 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julia Bennett (0000-0003-3216-4424, Durham University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 5-6 |
| Pages | 835-848 |
| Publication date | 2018-08-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1367-5494 • E-ISSN: 1460-3551 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1367549418786414 |
| OpenAlex | W2886167194 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 37 |
This article adds to current debates on the nature of English identity through examining some of what Kathleen Stewart calls the ‘incommensurate qualities that ... link complexly’ to create a certain feel of a place. Based on the premise that landscape and the story of the landscape, its history, are key elements of a national identity, the article explores the shaping of an imagined community of England through memory, forgetting and ‘official’ stories by using the examples of three specific but mundane places in north west England. One is urban ex-industrial, one a formerly industrial but rural site and one rural agricultural. These stories are unravelled to show how the landscapes are integrated ‘taskscapes’ where both national and local identities are performed. Class and race are hidden behind essentialised notions of Englishness. These exemplify a particular moral vision of English landscapes as natural and timeless countryside that serves to sideline urban and working landscapes and their populations. The article proposes treating a ‘taskscape’ as a gift to future generations, thus enabling all those who are a part of the present taskscape to belong
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Forgetting · Identity (music · National identity · Place identity · Political science · Politics · Premise · Race (biology · Sense of place · Social science · Sociology · Timeless · Urban planning · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Irish and British Studies · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Ecology
Childerley
Women workers and the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850
Fields of vision
Understanding National Identity
The Making of English National Identity
Place and placelessness
Landscape and Englishness
Places on the Margin
Community and Civil Society
Non-Human Agencies
Whiteness, Class and the Legacies of Empire
Ordinary Affects
Englishness Politicised
Taking you back
Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution
British National Identity and the English Landscape
National Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life
The Archaeology of Personhood
Imagined communities
A moral economy of whiteness
The Perception of the Environment
Dwelling, Place, and Landscape
Gifted Places
Mobility/Stability
It Just Feels English Rather than Multicultural
The temporality of the landscape
Are all Communities Communities in the Mind
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
The Perception of the Environment
Open spaces and dwelling places
Homeland
Archaeologies and geographies of the post-industrial past
Dwelling and displacement
Negotiating Authentic Objects and Authentic Selves
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |