A collection of 11 papers on issues of representation, power and identity within the British countryside. The work reports on research in this area which has looked to groups who feel themselves to be marginalized or excluded from the dominant ideologies in the countryside.

Introduction - challenging the rural - representation, power and identity in the British countryside, Paul Milbourne; re-negotiating the boundaries of race and citizenship - the Black Environmental Network, Phil Kinsman; the march of the earth dragon - a new radical challenge to traditional land rights in Britain? Nick Fiddes; environmental "others" and "elites" - rural pollution and changing power relations in the countryside, Susanne Seymour, Philip Lowe, Neil Ward and Judy Clark; the beleaguered "other" - Hunt followers in the countryside, Graham Cox and Michael Winter; poverty, deprivation and marginalization in the British countryside, Paul Milbourne; New Age travellers in the countryside - incomers with attitude, Jim Davis; diverging voices in a rural Welsh community, Noragh Jones; from cream-making to coq au vin - finding images in rural Devon, Jacqueline Sarsby; women and rurality - gendered experiences of "community" in village life, Annie Hughes; "others" in the rural - leisure practices and geographical knowledge, David Crouch.