Welsh Communities: New Ethnographic Perspectives

A critical examination of the diverse Welsh experiences of community, this book examines rural and urban, traditional and alternative, and inward and outward migrations. The essays advocate a contemporary theoretical approach to the study of communities. Each essay is based on original ethnographic research, using methods that involve a long-term and comparatively intimate relationship between researchers and their research subjects and locales. Contributors explore how different groups symbolically construct and experience "community" on a day-to-day basis.

About the Author:
Charlotte Aull Davies is a senior lecturer in sociology and anthropology in the school of social sciences and international development at the University of Wales, Swensea. She is the author of Welsh Nationalism in the Twentieth Century and Reflexive Ethnography. Stephanie Jones is an associate lecturer of social sciences at the Open University.