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区国家公园的空间性与黑人非洲血统的人在散居地的访问和使用。借鉴公园的文化景观和政治生态范式，我检查，通过民族志/现场笔记，参与者的“生活经验”。我的方法包括积极的口头采访/观察，通过引导散步探索研究参与者的叙述作为社会认识论的一部分，使我能够收集定性数据，了解如何以及为什么产生关于自然的特定文化叙述。本文认为，在公园的访问，不同的使用方式和多轴的差异如何历史上配置使用的民族种族差异。混合性别和年龄的黑人参与者将通过筛选过程，从谢菲尔德和德比招募，形成研究的“物理空间”。参加者在公园里进行夏季散步，接受采访，录音和转录。通过利益攸关方提供的关于政府国家公园政策和准入问题的档案旅行将构成研究的“概念空间”。这涉及利益相关者与组织的访谈，如山顶公园管理局，国家公园运动和两个地方当局（谢菲尔德和德比）。我将询问媒体关于国家公园和访问问题以及英国少数民族社区的文章。黑非洲血统的人对国家公园等空间的不同经历和看法反映了在不平等准入方面的社会不公正问题。我的论文研究了使用的山顶公园作为一个“社会空间”的黑人了解非洲为中心的文化和周围的自然环境的动态的中心地位。这项研究将有助于揭示文化资源，个人叙述和“顿悟时刻”，这些因素塑造了英国人寻求与自然接触的动机。它询问我们可以通过生活过渡课程了解自然联系，特别是关于移民，地理，心理/身体健康轨迹和代际责任;自然价值如何激励更多有意的接触;以及如何通过家庭，同龄人或卫生专业人员协商和制定改善健康和福祉。这个项目建立在我20年的经验，作为一个黑人实践者在环境领域与少数民族群体的工作，以获得自然环境。它是从环境管理硕士学位和我作为环境记者的工作发展而来的，最近在漫步者步行杂志，高峰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.