Re-imagining Contested Communities

Part One: Introductions;


What kind of book is this? ~ Elizabeth Campbell;


Policy, practice and racism: social cohesion in action ~ Zanib Rasool;


Part Two: Community histories;


Introducing Rotherham ~ Kate Pahl and Miles Crompton;


How can historical knowledge help us to make sense of communities like Rotherham? ~ Elizabeth Pente and Paul Ward;


Some poems, a song and a prose piece ~ Ray Hearne and Ryan Bramley;


Who are we now? Local history, industrial decline and ethnic diversity ~ Elizabeth Pente and Paul Ward;


Silk and steel ~ Shahin Shah;


History and co-production in the home: documents, artefacts and migrant identities in Rotherham ~ William Gould and Mariam Shah;


Tassibee: a case study ~ Khalida Luqman;


Identity ~ Zanib Rasool;


Part Three: Community ways of knowing;


Methodology: an introduction ~ Elizabeth Campbell;


Collaborative ethnography in context ~ Elizabeth Campbell, Luke Eric Lassiter and Kate Pahl;


Safe spaces and community activism ~ Zanib Rasool;


Emotions in community research ~ Zanib Rasool;


What parents know: a call for realistic accounts of parenting young children ~ Tanya Evans, Abigail Hackett, Joanna Magagula and Steve Pool;


Where I come from and where I'm going to: exploring identity, hopes and futures with Roma girls in Rotherham ~ Deborah Bullivant;


Introduction to artistic methods for understanding contested communities ~ Kate Pahl and Steve Pool with Marcus Hurcombe;


What can art do? Artistic approaches to community experiences ~ Zahir Rafiq in conversation with Kate Pahl and Steve Pool;


Using poetry to engage the voices of women and girls in research ~ Zanib Rasool;


The Tassibee 'Skin and Spirit' project ~ Cassie Limb;


'The Rotherham project': young men represent themselves and their town ~ Nathan Gibson with Zanib Rasool and Kate Pahl;


Part Four: Communities going forward;


Re-imagining contested communities: implications for policy research ~ Robert Rutherfoord and Maria O'Beirne;


What this book can teach us ~ Elizabeth Campbell, Kate Pahl, Elizabeth Pente and Zanib Rasool.