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Urbanormativity

Reality, Representation, and Everyday Life

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

AvGregory M. Fulkerson,Alexander R. Thomas

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This book investigates urbanormativity—a concept that privileges urban normalcy and desirability over rural deviance and undesirability. The “reality” section outlines its foundations—urbanization, urban-rural systems, and urban dependency. The “representation” section explores urbanormative culture by considering cultural capital, media, and identity. The last section, “everyday life,” examines urban-rural disparities in law and politics and in life within different communities. It concludes by calling for a rural justice approach that will revalue the rural.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-03-04
Mått154 x 219 x 15 mm
Vikt308 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Urban–Rural Dynamics
Antal sidor306
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498597043

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PrefaceIntroduction to UrbanormativityPart I: The Reality Chapter 1: The Urbanizing PlanetChapter 2: Distance and InteractionChapter 3: Urban-Rural Oikos: Economy and EcologyPart II: The RepresentationChapter 4: Cultural Capital and UrbanormativityChapter 5: Population ImaginationChapter 6: Rustic and Urbane IdentityPart III: Everyday LifeChapter 7: Policy and LawChapter 8: Urbanormative CommunitiesChapter 9: A Rural Justice EthicConclusionReferences

This book examines the tensions, both real and imagined, between urban and rural life in a predominantly American context. Fulkerson and Thomas (both, SUNY Oneonta) argue that the urban is conflated with what is normal, hence the eponymous portmanteau “urbanormativity.” Essentially, urbanormativity is part of the ideological fabric of modernity, where urbanization and progress are often viewed as synonymous with one another. Such a worldview, according to the authors, often promotes the interests and values of urbanization at the expense of rural life. This social construction has had damaging social, psychological, economic, and cultural effects on rural living. Drawing attention to these pervasive and overlooked effects is the text's greatest strength. . . this is an interesting study of the rural/urban dichotomy and would be of interest to those who live in the country, the city, or anywhere in between, especially if they are interested in questioning what is normal.Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and faculty.