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Small towns, austere times, the dialectics of deracinated localism, Steve Hanson

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This thesis explores the concept of ‘deracinated localism’, as a big, dialectical, conceptual frame, in order to think through small towns - and community research - in a period of economic downturn, using the northwestern post-industrial town of Todmorden as an example. It is an ethnographic study. The thesis examines how small towns have been viewed as erroneously contained units, in terms of how the historical literature of community studies approached them, but also in terms of how declarations of particular kinds of localism emerge from ‘holistic’ community groups on the ground in Todmorden

Bibliography: leaves 180-191

Thesis: (PhD) University of London (Goldsmiths College) 2013

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Small towns, austere times

Steve Hanson

the dialectics of deracinated localism