Tina reads "Green and Unpleasant Land" by Joe Kennedy

Tina reads "Green and Unpleasant Land" by Joe Kennedy In the lead-up to our Summer Books issue, we’re turning the spotlight on the themes and features of past issues. This week, we’re looking into Spring 2019’s Ruritania, our response to the rising tide of interest in the rural, wild and organic. In this episode, Joe Kennedy examines how has the right has used the aesthetics and signifiers of the rural to lay a comprehensive claim to the country, part a broader cultural interest in a mythic “deep”, largely non-urban Englishness which began to stir post-2000. How might the left be able to recapture the rural without confining itself to the narrow bounds of nationalism?   Tank Magazine · Tina Reads Green And Unpleasant Land By Joe Kennedy