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Scaring crows

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This journal paper output is exemplary of an emerging, alternative approach being taken to the writing of geography. Notably, it appears in a thematic special issue dedicated to 'Creativity and Geography', where a variety of textual genres and presentational styles are profiled. The essay format is adopted as a vehicle for giving creative expression to the experience of field research, and more fully to shape the geographical subject-matter under investigation. Eschewing some of the usual structural conventions of a social scientific article, and also what can be critically interpreted as the ‘internalist language’ of academic geography, the essay experiments with narrative style in an effort to communicate the findings of scholarship effectively to a wider, inter-disciplinary audience. As such, and quite purposefully, research content is differently configured. The author’s long-standing scholarly interests in changing British regional cultures of landscape, human/non-human relations and the politics of rural land-use are here all extended and augmented by the essay as arguably a more elastic and capacious literary form.