An Individual Rural Geography

To date, only limited research has focused on the individual in rural geography compared to the importance given to the rural community. With the sociocultural turn and moral positions in rural geography, however, the individual is acquiring more relevance but encapsulated in analytical traditions o...

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Published in:The Professional geographer 2016-07, Vol.68 (3), p.511-518
Main Author: Paniagua, Angel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Citizenship
community
comunidad, individuo, localidad, moralidad, geografía rural
Emotions
Everyday life
Geography
Humanism
individual
Locality
morality
Otherness
Rural areas
Rural communities
Rural geography
Sociocultural factors
Traditions
社群, 个人, 地方性, 道德规范, 农村地理学
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Summary:To date, only limited research has focused on the individual in rural geography compared to the importance given to the rural community. With the sociocultural turn and moral positions in rural geography, however, the individual is acquiring more relevance but encapsulated in analytical traditions of locality community and of marginal situations and people. This article synthesizes the most significant works about the individual, especially within rural geography, and its key dimensions are identified: citizenship (political and normative dimension), emotional aspects (the extraordinary moments in peoples' lives), everyday life (the relationship between the individual and the rural place), and difference and otherness (between and within others). To develop an individual rural geography, these four dimensions, which reflect different aspects of the rural individual, must be used in a complementary manner. The relevance of each dimension suggests different types of individualities in rural areas. Ultimately, this article proposes a "new humanism" in contrast with antihumanistic poststructural approaches.
ISSN:0033-0124
1467-9272
DOI:10.1080/00330124.2015.1129909