ABSTRACT
This chapter argues the transformative geopolitics that not only attempts to juggle with simultaneous difference and similarity within identities, but also encapsulates the ways in which space as different and similar is interwoven through identity production. It argues the rural as positioned within a web of spaces, local, national and international, and call for a serious commitment to conceiving space relationally in order to shift exclusive constructions of ethnic difference. Throughout the research, visible community participants reiterated a desire to be together, to sustain mutual support and sense of security, as well as emphasising that they should be encouraged and actively enabled to visit national parks. People described this need for positive action as necessary to redress imbalances endemic in English society, drawing on a discourse of strategic essentialism. The political concern that cultural pluralism hasn't worked, especially apprehension surrounding the sense that society is increasingly segregated has led to a shift towards the ideology and rhetoric of community cohesion.
