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Place, identity and social conflict in post-industrial England: cases from South Lincolnshire in the 1980s
Contemporary British History ( IF 0.6 ) Pub Date : 2020-01-28 , DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2020.1716732
James L. Broun 1
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ABSTRACT This article examines a case of social conflict in an overlooked corner of England (Lincolnshire) in the late 1980s when self-described ‘local’ people opposed private housing developments and the migration of ‘southerners’, ‘townies’ and ‘commuters’ into their towns and villages. Protestors lamented change and disliked newcomers. This was a reaction to the arrival of affluent, ‘post-industrial’ workers on the back of a booming service sector. They personified a series of complex, interconnected socioeconomic and cultural changes which disrupted patterns of life rooted in disappearing productive industries and destabilised communities amidst factory closures, agricultural mechanisation, job losses and now suburbanisation. This affected meanings ascribed to places and introduced hierarchies and conflicts structured around Britain’s transition towards a service economy. Opposition was expressed through nostalgia, conservationism, inverse snobbery, anti-metropolitanism, attachment to ‘local’ identities, and concerns about declining independence, community and power. This paper argues that these protests demonstrate the emergence of new ideas about social relations, difference and distinction in post-industrial England. The findings also highlight feelings which would slowly seep into a new, reactionary politics foreshadowing the way that many towns and rural areas (including Lincolnshire) embraced a new political right in the first decades of the next millennium.

中文翻译:

后工业时代英格兰的地点、身份和社会冲突:1980 年代南林肯郡的案例

摘要 本文考察了 1980 年代后期英格兰(林肯郡)一个被忽视的角落发生的社会冲突案例,当时自称为“本地”的人反对私人住房开发以及“南方人”、“城镇居民”和“通勤者”迁移到他们的城镇和村庄。抗议者哀叹改变,不喜欢新来者。这是对富裕的“后工业”工人在蓬勃发展的服务业的支持下到来的反应。它们代表了一系列复杂、相互关联的社会经济和文化变化,这些变化扰乱了根植于消失的生产性行业和在工厂关闭、农业机械化、失业和现在郊区化中不稳定社区的生活模式。这影响了赋予地方的意义,并引入了围绕英国向服务经济转型的等级制度和冲突。反对派通过怀旧、保护主义、逆势势利、反大都会主义、对“本地”身份的依恋以及对独立性、社区和权力下降的担忧来表达。本文认为,这些抗议表明后工业时代的英国出现了关于社会关系、差异和区别的新观念。调查结果还强调了会慢慢渗透到新的、反动的政治中的情绪,这预示着许多城镇和农村地区(包括林肯郡)在下一个千年的头几十年接受新的政治权利的方式。反大都市主义,对“地方”身份的依恋,以及对独立性、社区和权力下降的担忧。本文认为,这些抗议表明后工业时代的英国出现了关于社会关系、差异和区别的新观念。调查结果还强调了会慢慢渗透到新的、反动的政治中的情绪,这预示着许多城镇和农村地区(包括林肯郡)在下一个千年的头几十年接受新的政治权利的方式。反大都市主义,对“地方”身份的依恋,以及对独立性、社区和权力下降的担忧。本文认为,这些抗议表明后工业时代的英国出现了关于社会关系、差异和区别的新观念。调查结果还强调了会慢慢渗透到新的、反动的政治中的情绪,这预示着许多城镇和农村地区(包括林肯郡)在下一个千年的头几十年接受新的政治权利的方式。
更新日期:2020-01-28
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