Experience and Use of the Peak District National Park by People of Black African Ancestry: Comparing TwoEnglish Cities

我的论文探讨了山顶地区国家公园的空间性与散居海外的非洲黑人后裔进入和使用的关系。借助公园的文化景观和政治生态范式，我通过民族志/田野笔记来审视参与者的“生活体验”。作为社会认识论的一部分，我的方法包括通过有导游的步行进行积极的口头采访/观察，以探索研究参与者的叙事，使我能够收集关于如何以及为什么产生关于自然的特定文化叙事的定性数据。本文考虑了公园通道的种族差异，不同的使用方式，以及多个不同的轴线如何历史地配置使用。不同性别和年龄的黑人参与者将通过筛选程序从谢菲尔德和德比招募，形成研究的物理空间。参与者在公园里进行夏季散步，接受采访、录音和转录。通过利益相关者提供的获取政府国家公园政策和准入问题信息的档案之旅将构成研究的“概念空间”。这包括与山顶公园管理局、国家公园运动和两个地方当局(谢菲尔德和德比)等组织的利益相关者面谈。我将采访有关英国国家公园、出入问题和少数族裔社区的媒体文章。非洲黑人后裔对国家公园等空间的不同经历和观点反映了不平等准入方面的社会不公正问题。我的论文调查了山顶公园作为黑人‘社交空间’的中心性，以了解以非洲为中心的文化和周围自然环境的动态。这项研究将有助于解开文化资源、个人叙事和顿悟时刻，这些因素塑造了那些寻求与自然接触的英国人的动机。它询问我们可以通过生命过渡课程了解自然的关联性，特别是关于移民、地理、心理/身体健康轨迹和代际责任；自然的价值观如何激励更多的有意接触；以及如何通过家庭、同龄人或卫生专业人员在改善健康和福祉方面谈判和实施这一点。这个项目建立在我作为一名环境领域黑人从业者20年的经验基础上，与少数民族群体一起接触自然环境。它是从环境管理硕士和我作为一名环境记者的工作演变而来的，最近在兰布勒斯步行街杂志、山顶生活杂志和景观研究所的景观杂志上发表了文章。

My thesis explores the spatiality of the Peak District National Park in relation to access and use by people of Black African ancestry in the diaspora. Drawing on the park's cultural landscape and political ecological paradigms, I examine, through ethnography/field notes, the 'lived experience' of participants. My methodology involves active oral interviews/observations through guided walks to explore narratives of research participants as part of social epistemology, enabling me to gather qualitative data on how and why specific cultural narratives about nature are produced. The thesis considers ethno-racial differentiations in park access, different ways of use and how multiple axes of difference historically configure usage. Black participants of mixed gender and ages will, through a screening process, be recruited from Sheffield and Derby, forming the 'physical space' of the research. Participants are taken on summer walks in the park, interviewed, audio-recorded and transcribed. Archival trips to source information on Government policies on national parks and access issues delivered through stakeholders will constitute the 'conceptual space' of the research. This involves stakeholder interviews with organisations such as the Peak Park Authority, Campaign for National Parks and the two local authorities (Sheffield and Derby). I will interrogate media articles on national parks and access issues and minority communities in the UK. People of Black African ancestry's differing experiences and perspectives of spaces such as National Parks reflect issues of social injustice in terms of unequal access. My thesis investigates the centrality of use of the Peak Park as a 'social space' by Black people to understand the dynamics of Afri-centric cultures and the surrounding natural environment. This research will help unravel the cultural resources, personal narratives and 'epiphany moments' that shape the motivations of those people seeking contact with nature in the UK. It asks what we can learn about nature connectedness through life transition courses, specifically regarding migration, geography, mental/physical health trajectories, and intergenerational responsibilities; how values of nature motivate more intentional contact; and how is this negotiated and enacted through family, peers or health professionals in terms of improving health and wellbeing. This project builds on my 20 years' experience as a Black practitioner in the environmental field working with ethnic-minority groups to access the natural environment. It evolved from an MSc in Environmental Management and my work as an environmental journalist, with recent publications in Ramblers Walk Magazine, Peak Life Magazine and the Landscape Journal of the Landscape Institute.