“You Don’t Have to Go Home, But You Can Stay Here:” Resilience Amongst Ruins in the Community Pub Buyout Campaign of the Horncliffe’s Fishers Arms

Shaffrey, Bridget

Abstract

This chapter builds from literature related to the geographies of ruination, deindustrialization, and development to explore the efforts, motivations, and actions of the Fishers Arms Community Pub Buyout Campaign in Horncliffe, Northumberland. In particular, this work considers these dynamics in tangent with the pub and surrounding area’s history, the significance of this history on the pub’s identity, and participants’ narratives of place. In doing so, this chapter aims to illustrate that seemingly mundane, everyday spaces like village pubs can embody an intersecting, multi-scalar politics and act as sites of resistance against dominant, hierarchical narratives of deindustrialized places. Thus, this work aims to highlight how the spatial imaginaries and visions of futurity that exist in sites of deindustrialization and emerge through everyday activities within them might construct endurance and a ‘place-based ethics of care’ not despite ruination but within and among it (Till in Collaborative resilience: Moving from crisis to opportunity. MIT Press, 2011).

Citation

Shaffrey, B. (2023). “You Don’t Have to Go Home, But You Can Stay Here:” Resilience Amongst Ruins in the Community Pub Buyout Campaign of the Horncliffe’s Fishers Arms. In M. W. Patterson, & N. Hoalst-Pullen (Eds.), The Geography of Beer: Policies, Perceptions, and Place (349-362). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39008-1_27

• Online Publication Date: Dec 2, 2023
• Publication Date: Dec 2, 2023
• Deposit Date: Sep 6, 2024
• Publisher: Springer Nature
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 349-362
• Book Title: The Geography of Beer: Policies, Perceptions, and Place
• ISBN: 9783031390074
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39008-1_27
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2816271