b'Articles Rebecca Warnerindividually is irrelevant, in comparison to the perception ofAskins, K (2006). New countryside? New country: Visible knowing someone through prejudiced stereotyping. Thiscommunities in the English national parks in Neal, S. and racial stereotyping very often leads to racialized violence inAgyeman,J.(ed.)Thenewcountryside?ethnicity,nationand the countryside. In Askins study, a group of British-Asianexclusion in contemporary rural Britain. Bristol: Policy Press. participants encountered countryside racism when a youngpp. 149-172.man yelled, Pakis go home! from a car window at them. In the case of these participants, instead of correcting theBundy, K (2003). Accounting for Race in Environmental racistontheirethnicity,theyrepliedwithyes,weare!,Thought, Ecology Law Quarterly 30 (2), pp. 377-394.claiming back their Englishness in their reply and rendering theirancestryirrelevantindecidingwherehomeisforEdensor,T(2001).WalkingintheBritishcountryside: them. (Askins 2006: 163) For the racist shouting abuse, itReflexivity,embodiedpracticesandwaystoescape,in wasirrelevantwheretheindividualwasfrom;theywereMacnaghten, P. and Urry, J. (ed.) Bodies of Nature. London: assumed not to belong based on racial stereotypes. ThisSAGE Publications. pp. 81-106.incident is the reality that many visible communities face when meeting rural spaces.So, where are these pervasive and troubling understandings aboutracerooted?Scholarshavehighlightedthemany disturbing ways in which Englishness is tied up in the idea of whiteness. Askins suggests that this is due to an entrenched dominant Imaginary that constructs Englishness as implicit in a racialised rurality, constructed by a post-war framing of the countryside as the true keeper of Anglo-Saxon culture, permanently unchanging and timeless (Askins 2006: 168). This is, however, merely an illusion: our constantly changing landscapeshavebeenheavilymanufacturedbyhuman involvement over the ages. One potential way to encourage ethnic minorities access to rural spaces without fear of racialized violence or the barriers of socio-economics is to completely overhaul our ideas about Englishness and acknowledge it as a heavily racialized construct. We need to understand the definition as fluid and allow for positive progress by affording ethnic minorities the same funding and education opportunities so that class division may become less rigid. Hopefully, in time our ideas will change to allow visible communities access to rural spaces without the threat of being Othered.Agyeman,J(1990).Blackpeopleinawhitelandscape: Social and environmental justice, Built Environment, 16 (3), pp. 232-236.Ahmed, S (2000). Strange encounters: Embodied others in post-coloniality, London: Routledge.Anderson, J (2004). Talking whilst Walking: A Geographical Archaeology of Knowledge in Area, 36 (3), pp. 254-261.53'