- Title Pages
- List of figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Series editors’ foreword
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One What kind of book is this? -
Two Policy, practice and racism: social cohesion in action -
Three Introducing Rotherham -
Four How can historical knowledge help us to make sense of communities like Rotherham? -
Five Some poems, a song and a prose piece -
Six Who are we now? Local history, industrial decline and ethnic diversity -
Seven Silk and steel -
Eight History and co-production in the home: documents, artefacts and migrant identities in Rotherham -
Nine Tassibee: a case study -
Ten Identity -
Eleven Methodology: an introduction -
Twelve Collaborative ethnography in context -
Thirteen Safe spaces and community activism -
Fourteen Emotions in community research -
Fifteen What parents know: a call for realistic accounts of parenting young children -
Sixteen Where I come from and where I’m going to: exploring identity, hopes and futures with Roma girls in Rotherham -
Seventeen Introduction to artistic methods for understanding contested communities -
Eighteen What can art do? Artistic approaches to community experiences -
Nineteen Using poetry to engage the voices of women and girls in research -
Twenty The Tassibee ‘Skin and Spirit’ project -
Twenty-One ‘The Rotherham project’: young men represent themselves and their town -
Twenty-Two Re-imagining contested communities: implications for policy research -
Twenty-Three What this book can teach us - References
- Index
Who are we now? Local history, industrial decline and ethnic diversity
Who are we now? Local history, industrial decline and ethnic diversity
- Chapter:
- (p.41) Six Who are we now? Local history, industrial decline and ethnic diversity
- Source:
- Re-Imagining Contested Communities
- Author(s):
Elizabeth Pente
Paul Ward
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This chapter challenges what might be called a ‘local history paradigm’, whereby immigration to Britain and the decline of industry are linked and local history is considered to ‘end’ in the 1980s. It explores representations of past and present in Rotherham, and draws on examples of heritage projects undertaken there by people from minority ethnic communities. This chapter emerged from the experience of many of the participants living in and researching the town during the child sexual exploitation scandal. Nonetheless, while about Rotherham, its interpretation might be applicable to a variety of post-industrial towns and cities in northern England and elsewhere. The chapter also considers ways in which the heritage projects add to the local history narrative of the town.
Keywords: local history, industrial decline, ethnic diversity, ethnic minority communities, child sexual exploitation scandal, heritage projects
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- Title Pages
- List of figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Series editors’ foreword
-
One What kind of book is this? -
Two Policy, practice and racism: social cohesion in action -
Three Introducing Rotherham -
Four How can historical knowledge help us to make sense of communities like Rotherham? -
Five Some poems, a song and a prose piece -
Six Who are we now? Local history, industrial decline and ethnic diversity -
Seven Silk and steel -
Eight History and co-production in the home: documents, artefacts and migrant identities in Rotherham -
Nine Tassibee: a case study -
Ten Identity -
Eleven Methodology: an introduction -
Twelve Collaborative ethnography in context -
Thirteen Safe spaces and community activism -
Fourteen Emotions in community research -
Fifteen What parents know: a call for realistic accounts of parenting young children -
Sixteen Where I come from and where I’m going to: exploring identity, hopes and futures with Roma girls in Rotherham -
Seventeen Introduction to artistic methods for understanding contested communities -
Eighteen What can art do? Artistic approaches to community experiences -
Nineteen Using poetry to engage the voices of women and girls in research -
Twenty The Tassibee ‘Skin and Spirit’ project -
Twenty-One ‘The Rotherham project’: young men represent themselves and their town -
Twenty-Two Re-imagining contested communities: implications for policy research -
Twenty-Three What this book can teach us - References
- Index
