Urbanormativity: Reality, Representation, and Everyday Life

Gregory M. Fulkerson; Alexander R. Thomas

doi:10.5771/9781498597036

Summary

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.

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Edition: 1/2019
Copyright Year: 2019
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-9702-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-9703-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 191
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
An Introduction to Urbanormativity No access Pages 1 - 14
1. 1 The Urbanizing Planet No access
2. 2 Distance and Interaction No access
3. 3 Urban-Rural Oikos No access
1. 4 Cultural Capital and Urbanormativity No access
2. 5 The Public Imagination of Rural No access
3. 6 Rustic and Urbane Identity No access
1. 7 Policy and Law No access
2. 8 Urbanormative Communities No access
3. 9 A Rural Justice Ethic No access
Conclusion No access Pages 163 - 174
References No access Pages 175 - 186
Index No access Pages 187 - 190
About the Authors No access Pages 191 - 191