Electronic Resource
Oxford, UK
:
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Antipode
28 (1996), S. 0
ISSN:
1467-8330
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Geography
Notes:
A controversial new Criminal Justice and Public Order Act in Great Britain contains measures to curb the lifestyles of a group known collectively as “New Age Travellers”. This paper examines these travellers as “folk devils” of the Conservative “New Right” on a number of levels: their lifestyle does not conform to that espoused by authoritarian or libertarian Conservatism; moreover, they violate the spatial order of contemporary British society by trespassing against the dominant social representation of the countryside — the “rural idyll”. In Parliamentary debates speakers drew on the rural idyll to defend the exclusivity of access to the countryside. Notably, whilst Gypsies were seen as having a legitimate if highly marginalized position in the rural representation, few saw any place for New Age travellers.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.1996.tb00671.x
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