Re-imagining Contested Communities : : Connecting Rotherham through Research / / ed. by Elizabeth Campbell, Kate Pahl, Elizabeth Pente, Zanib Rasool.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Bramley, Ryan,; Bullivant, Deborah,; Campbell, Elizabeth,; Crompton, Miles,; Evans, Tanya,; Facer, Keri,; Gibson, Nathan,; Gould, William,; Hackett, Abigail,; Hearne, Ray,; Hurcombe, Marcus,; Lassiter, Luke Eric,; Limb, Cassie,; Luqman, Khalida,; Magagula, Joanna,; McKay, George,; O’Beirne, Maria,; Pahl, Kate,; Pente, Elizabeth,; Pool, Steve,; Rafiq, Zahir,; Rasool, Zanib,; Rutherfoord, Robert,; Shah, Mariam,; Shah, Shahin,; Ward, Paul,
• HerausgeberIn: Campbell, Elizabeth,; Pahl, Kate,; Pente, Elizabeth,; Rasool, Zanib,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Connected Communities
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)

This is a book that challenges contemporary images of ‘place’. Too often we are told about ‘deprived neighbourhoods’ but rarely do the people who live in those communities get to shape the agenda and describe, from their perspective, what is important to them. In this unique book the process of re-imagining comes to the fore in a fresh and contemporary look at one UK town, Rotherham. Using history, artistic practice, writing, poetry, autobiography and collaborative ethnography, this book literally and figuratively re-imagines a place. It is a manifesto for alternative visions of community, located in histories and cultural reference points that often remain unheard within the mainstream media. As such, the book presents a ‘how to’ for researchers interested in community collaborative research and accessing alternative ways of knowing and voices in marginalised communities.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Series editors’ foreword -- Introductions -- What kind of book is this? -- Policy, practice and racism: social cohesion in action -- Community histories -- Introducing Rotherham -- How can historical knowledge help us to make sense of communities like Rotherham? -- Some poems, a song and a prose piece -- Who are we now? Local history, industrial decline and ethnic diversity -- Silk and steel -- History and co-production in the home: documents, artefacts and migrant identities in Rotherham -- Tassibee: a case study -- Identity -- Community ways of knowing -- Methodology: an introduction -- Collaborative ethnography in context -- Safe spaces and community activism -- Emotions in community research -- What parents know: a call for realistic accounts of parenting young children -- Where I come from and where I’m going to: exploring identity, hopes and futures with Roma girls in Rotherham -- Introduction to artistic methods for understanding contested communities -- What can art do? Artistic approaches to community experiences -- Using poetry to engage the voices of women and girls in research -- The Tassibee ‘Skin and Spirit’ project -- ‘The Rotherham project’: young men represent themselves and their town -- Communities going forward -- Re-imagining contested communities: implications for policy research -- What this book can teach us -- References -- Index