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RURAL RACISM PROJECT- Dr Viji Kuppan
Dr Viji Kuppan is the Research Associate at The Centre for Hate Studies-School of Criminology & School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, Visiting Research Fellow Leeds Beckett University
Despite the significant growth of research into issues of ‘race’ and racism, most investigations focus on urban areas of significant diversity. By recruiting, training and working alongside 20 community research partners from minority ethnic backgrounds, the project generated new, co-produced knowledge about the nature, extent and impacts of racism experienced within the English countryside.
The English countryside is enduringly represented as a rural idyll, a repository of Englishness and a place of retreat from urban spaces. However, popular perceptions of the countryside as representing safety, familiarity, and neighbourliness obscure the prevalence of rural racism. These potent and persistent representations are also challenged by the historic and contemporary presence of ethnic minorities in the countryside, masking the genuine diversity within rural communities and the exclusionary processes which are likely to ostracise minority ethnic households and visitors who do not align with dominant constructions of the countryside as a white space.
Despite the significant growth of research into issues of ‘race’ and racism, most investigations focus on urban areas of significant diversity. By recruiting, training and working alongside 20 community research partners from minority ethnic backgrounds, the project generated new, co-produced knowledge about the nature, extent and impacts of racism experienced within the English countryside.
The English countryside is enduringly represented as a rural idyll, a repository of Englishness and a place of retreat from urban spaces. However, popular perceptions of the countryside as representing safety, familiarity, and neighbourliness obscure the prevalence of rural racism. These potent and persistent representations are also challenged by the historic and contemporary presence of ethnic minorities in the countryside, masking the genuine diversity within rural communities and the exclusionary processes which are likely to ostracise minority ethnic households and visitors who do not align with dominant constructions of the countryside as a white space.
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By Rural RacismProject.Dr Viji Kuppan is the Research Associate at The Centre for Hate Studies-School of Criminology & School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, Visiting Research Fellow Leeds Beckett University
Despite the significant growth of research into issues of ‘race’ and racism, most investigations focus on urban areas of significant diversity. By recruiting, training and working alongside 20 community research partners from minority ethnic backgrounds, the project generated new, co-produced knowledge about the nature, extent and impacts of racism experienced within the English countryside.
The English countryside is enduringly represented as a rural idyll, a repository of Englishness and a place of retreat from urban spaces. However, popular perceptions of the countryside as representing safety, familiarity, and neighbourliness obscure the prevalence of rural racism. These potent and persistent representations are also challenged by the historic and contemporary presence of ethnic minorities in the countryside, masking the genuine diversity within rural communities and the exclusionary processes which are likely to ostracise minority ethnic households and visitors who do not align with dominant constructions of the countryside as a white space.
Despite the significant growth of research into issues of ‘race’ and racism, most investigations focus on urban areas of significant diversity. By recruiting, training and working alongside 20 community research partners from minority ethnic backgrounds, the project generated new, co-produced knowledge about the nature, extent and impacts of racism experienced within the English countryside.
The English countryside is enduringly represented as a rural idyll, a repository of Englishness and a place of retreat from urban spaces. However, popular perceptions of the countryside as representing safety, familiarity, and neighbourliness obscure the prevalence of rural racism. These potent and persistent representations are also challenged by the historic and contemporary presence of ethnic minorities in the countryside, masking the genuine diversity within rural communities and the exclusionary processes which are likely to ostracise minority ethnic households and visitors who do not align with dominant constructions of the countryside as a white space.