Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of figures v
4. Notes on contributors vii
5. Acknowledgements xii
6. Series editors’ foreword xiv
7. Introductions
8. What kind of book is this? 3
9. Policy, practice and racism: social cohesion in action 7
10. Community histories
11. Introducing Rotherham 17
12. How can historical knowledge help us to make sense of communities like Rotherham? 29
13. Some poems, a song and a prose piece 33
14. Who are we now? Local history, industrial decline and ethnic diversity 41
15. Silk and steel 53
16. History and co-production in the home: documents, artefacts and migrant identities in Rotherham 59
17. Tassibee: a case study 69
18. Identity 73
19. Community ways of knowing
20. Methodology: an introduction 87
21. Collaborative ethnography in context 91
22. Safe spaces and community activism 107
23. Emotions in community research 115
24. What parents know: a call for realistic accounts of parenting young children 123
25. Where I come from and where I’m going to: exploring identity, hopes and futures with Roma girls in Rotherham 135
26. Introduction to artistic methods for understanding contested communities 151
27. What can art do? Artistic approaches to community experiences 157
28. Using poetry to engage the voices of women and girls in research 173
29. The Tassibee ‘Skin and Spirit’ project 183
30. ‘The Rotherham project’: young men represent themselves and their town 193
31. Communities going forward
32. Re-imagining contested communities: implications for policy research 201
33. What this book can teach us 205
34. References 215
35. Index 231