Studies in urbanormativity : rural community in urban society / edited by Gregory M. Fulkerson and Alexander R. Thomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fulkerson, Gregory M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City and town life.

Rural conditions.

Sociology, Rural.

Sociology, Urban.

Physical Description:

296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, 2014.

Summary:

The world has been witnessing a long, unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural and cultural changes rooted in urbanization are connected in complex ways to spatial arrangements that can be described in terms of inequality and uneven development. Through a focus on localities, Studies in Urbanormativity: Rural Community in Urban Society examines the implications of urbanization and its corresponding ideology. Urbanormativity justifies rural domination by holding urban life as the standard against which rural forms are compared and deemed to be irregular, inferior, or deviant. Urban production, as conceptualized in this book, is inherently exploitative of rural resources-natural, social, cultural, and symbolic. As this exploitation advances, a wake of entropic conditions is left behind in the forms of degraded landscapes, broken social institutions, and denigrated communities, cultures and identities. Edited by Gregory M. Fulkerson and Alexander R. Thomas, Studies in Urbanormativity engages a topic on which scholars have been surprisingly silent. Designed for advancing theory and practice, the chapters provide new theoretical tools for understanding the complex relationship between the urban and rural. While primarily intended for scholars and practitioners interested in rural life, rural policy, and community development, the insights of this book will also be of interest to scholars studying various forms of cultural and social domination, as well as identity politics. Book jacket.

Contents:

Urbanization, urbanormativity, and place-structuration / Gregory M. Fulkerson and Alexander R. Thomas

Critical concepts for studying communities and their built environments / Elizabeth Seale and Gregory M. Fulkerson

Historic Hartwick: reading civic character in a living landscape / Alexander R. Thomas

Stigma, reputation, and place structuration in a coastal New England town / Karen Hayden

"Taking the cure" the rural as a place of health and wellbeing in New York state during the late 1800's and early 1900's / Stephanie A. Bennett

Minority groups and the informal economy: English speakers in Quebec's eastern townships / Amy Vieira

Eaten up: urban foraging and rural identity / Barbara Ching and Gerald Creed

Fracture lines / Brian M. Lowe

"Fagging" the countryside? (de)"queering" rural queer studies / Christopher J. Stapel

Return to Ridgefield Corners: cultural continuity and change in a rural village / Polly J. Smith

Inbred horror: degeneracy, revulsion, and fear of the rural community / Karen Hayden

Matrixed inequality, rurality, and access to substance abuse treatment: a community structure analysis of North Carolina communities / Gretchen H. Thompson, Karl A. Jicha, R. V. Rikard, and Robert L. Moxley

Eliminating organizational tensions, dis-embedding farmers: a ten year retrospective on the (organizational) political-economic losses of Dakota growers pasta cooperative / Thomas W. Gray and Curtis Stofferahn

Study of sustainability: entropy and the urban/rural transition / Laura A. McKinney.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0739178768

9780739178768

OCLC:

857646010