Writing the Rural - Cloke, Paul J a Doel, Marcus A a Matless, David a Thrift, Nigel a Phillips, Martin

Respondents used it in different ways - as a bludgeon, as a badge, as a barometer - to signify many different things - security, identity, community, domesticity, gender, sexuality, ethnicity - nearly always by drawing on many different sources - the media, the landscape, friends and kin, animals.