Belonging to a Different Landscape

Repurposing Nationalist Affects

Bibliographic Data

ID2643055
AuthorsBen Pitcher (0000-0002-8071-2643, University of Westminster, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume21
Issue1
Pages77-89
Publication date2016-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociological Research Online (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5153/sro.3837
OpenAlexW2326199092
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited39

This is an article about the embodied, sensual experience of rural landscape as a site where racialized feelings of national belonging get produced. Largely impervious to criticism and reformation by 'thin' legal-political versions of multicultural or cosmopolitan citizenship, it is my suggestion that this racialized belonging is best confronted through the recognition and appreciation of precisely what makes it so compelling. Through an engagement with the theorization of affect in the work of Divya Praful Tolia-Kelly, I consider the resources immanent to the perception of landscapes of national belonging that might be repurposed to unravel that belonging from within. I suggest that forms of environmental consciousness can unpick the mutually reinforcing relationships between nature and nation, opening up opportunities for thinking identity and belonging in different ways, and allowing rural landscapes to become more hospitable places

Aesthetics · Citizenship · Consciousness · Criticism · Embodied cognition · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Localism · Multiculturalism · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Water Governance and Infrastructure

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