Sian Edwards

Broschiertes Buch

Youth Movements, Citizenship and the English Countryside

Creating Good Citizens, 1930-1960

Beschreibung

This book explores the significance and meaning of the countryside within mid-twentieth century youth movements. It examines the ways in which the Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, Woodcraft Folk and Young Farmers' Club organisations employed the countryside as a space within which 'good citizenship' - in leisure, work, the home and the community - could be developed. Mid-century youth movements identified the 'problem' of modern youth as a predominantly urban and working class issue. They held that the countryside offered an effective antidote to these problems: being a 'good citizen' within this context necessitated a respectful and mutually beneficial relationship with the rural sphere. Avenues to good citizenship could be found through an enthusiasm for outdoor recreation, the stewardship of the countryside and work on the land. However, models of good citizenship were intrinsically gendered.

Autor

Sian Edwards is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Winchester, UK.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-87961-1
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9783319879611
• ISBN-10: 3319879618
• Artikelnr.: 55126617

Rezensionen

"Youth Movements, Citizenship and the English Countryside is an ambitious study that successfully sheds light on the often-overlooked relationship between young people and the countryside in the mid-twentieth century. It provides a new lens with which to view the changes to youth lifestyles over this 30 year period, and should be of interest to any historian of youth in modern Britain." (Sarah Kenny, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 54 (1), 2019)