Nostalgic Nationalism: How a Discourse of Sacrificial Reproduction Helped Fuel Brexit Britain
Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: Two years ago my partner and I moved to a small rural English village in South Cambridgeshire, close to the Suffolk border.The parish, which dates back to the tenth century, occupies a thin stretch of land along a tributary of the river Stour.It is surrounded by some of the most productive agricultural land in Europe, farmed since Neolithic times.Paths dating back to 3000 BC cross the village green, bordered by the tiny local post office and shop, a disused phone booth, the local reading room, and a bus shelter.During the Second World War, the village was used as a bomber airfield, and the legacy of the war remains a prominent feature of daily village life.The crumbling remains of air-raid shelters built between 1943 and 1945 dot the local woods, and the local war memorial is signposted from all the nearby main roads.The main sign for the village is dominated by an image of a heavy bomber from World War II, and this military theme is accentuated by the low-flying military aircraft that regularly pass over the village en route from nearby Royal Air Force bases.Also nearby is the historic airfield at Duxfield, which stages regular
Source: Cultural Anthropology
DOI: 10.14506/ca34.1.07
Author: Sarah Franklin
Institution: University of Cambridge
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2920067319