Northernness Northern Culture and Northern Narratives

Description

Northernness Northern culture and Northern narratives are a common aspect of popular culture and the North of England like other Northernnesses in Europe is a collection of narratives myths stereotypes and symbols. In politics and everyday culture Northern culture is paradoxically a site of resistance against an inauthentic South a source of working-class identity and a source of elite marginalisation. This book provides a key to theorising about Northernness and a platform to scholars working away at exposing the North in different aspects of culture. The aims of this book are twofold: to re-theorise ‘the North’ and Northern culture and to highlight the ways in which constructions of Northernness and Northern culture are constituted alongside other gender racial and regional identities. The contributions presented here theorise Northernness in relation to space leisure gender race class social realism and everyday embodied practices. A main thematic thread that weaves the whole book together is the notion that Northernness and ‘the North’ is both an imagined discursive construct and an embodied subjectivity thus creating a paradox between the reality of ‘North’ and its representation. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal for Cultural Research.