1. How not to get pregnant, 2. Between places: the walking-writing method in rural industrial space

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This thesis utilises the walking-writing method to produce a work of creative non- fiction that explores the issues of memory, time and queer identity in rural spaces. The body of work about the walking-writing method has covered rural spaces and queer geographies, but rarely do they intersect. Structured on a series of walks, or dérives, in Quantock Country and along the North Somerset coastline, the thesis returns to the site of Hinkley Point C at varying phases of construction. Beginning with an analysis of Hinkley Point as a vector of what John Urry has termed ‘technological landscape guilt’,1 the thesis turns to the industrial history of Somerset and the representation of rural spaces as menacing and uncanny.

1. How not to get pregnant, 2. Between places: the walking-writing method in rural industrial space

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