Critical Rural Theory Structure, Space, Culture

Name: Critical Rural Theory Structure, Space, Culture
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ISBN: 9780739135600

ISBN-10: 0739135600

ISBN-13: 9780739135600

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Authors: Alexander R. Thomas, Brian Lowe, Greg Fulkerson, Polly Smith

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Critical Rural Theory is an attempt to bring together the concepts of structure, space, and culture in order to explain the relationship between rural communities and urban society. The overarching theme revolves around the many ways-structural, spatial, and cultural-in which urban systems create and maintain a hegemonic relationship with rural areas and people. Central to this theme is the concept of urbanormativity: the cultural assumption of the dominance and superiority of urban communities and patterns of life. Urbanormativity is an outgrowth of the structural forces in an urban society that favor the interests of cities over those of the countryside, of a generally exploitative…

Book details

Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Publication date: 5/31/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.61" wide x 8.38" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



List of Figures


List of Tables


Preface


Introduction



What is Rural?



Structure



Rural Political Economy



Rural Space


Hartwick and the Social Structure



Space



Structuration in the Catskills



Space and Simulacra


Hartwick and Its Space



Culture



Rural Representations



Urbanormativity


The Culture of Hartwick



Structure, Space and Culture



Catskill Urbanization Scale



Comparing Downtowns


References


Index


About the Authors