Full Description
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.
Contents
Part One: Introductions;
What kind of book is this? ‾ Elizabeth Campbell;
Policy, practice and racism: social cohesion in action ‾ Zanib Rasool;
Part Two: Community histories;
Introducing Rotherham ‾ Kate Pahl and Miles Crompton;
How can historical knowledge help us to make sense of communities like Rotherham? ‾ Elizabeth Pente and Paul Ward;
Some poems, a song and a prose piece ‾ Ray Hearne and Ryan Bramley;
Who are we now? Local history, industrial decline and ethnic diversity ‾ Elizabeth Pente and Paul Ward;
Silk and steel ‾ Shahin Shah;
History and co-production in the home: documents, artefacts and migrant identities in Rotherham ‾ William Gould and Mariam Shah;
Tassibee: a case study ‾ Khalida Luqman;
Identity ‾ Zanib Rasool;
Part Three: Community ways of knowing;
Methodology: an introduction ‾ Elizabeth Campbell;
Collaborative ethnography in context ‾ Elizabeth Campbell, Luke Eric Lassiter and Kate Pahl;
Safe spaces and community activism ‾ Zanib Rasool;
Emotions in community research ‾ Zanib Rasool;
What parents know: a call for realistic accounts of parenting young children ‾ Tanya Evans, Abigail Hackett, Joanna Magagula and Steve Pool;
Where I come from and where I'm going to: exploring identity, hopes and futures with Roma girls in Rotherham ‾ Deborah Bullivant;
Introduction to artistic methods for understanding contested communities ‾ Kate Pahl and Steve Pool with Marcus Hurcombe;
What can art do? Artistic approaches to community experiences ‾ Zahir Rafiq in conversation with Kate Pahl and Steve Pool;
Using poetry to engage the voices of women and girls in research ‾ Zanib Rasool;
The Tassibee 'Skin and Spirit' project ‾ Cassie Limb;
'The Rotherham project': young men represent themselves and their town ‾ Nathan Gibson with Zanib Rasool and Kate Pahl;
Part Four: Communities going forward;
Re-imagining contested communities: implications for policy research ‾ Robert Rutherfoord and Maria O'Beirne;
What this book can teach us ‾ Elizabeth Campbell, Kate Pahl, Elizabeth Pente and Zanib Rasool.
