Urbanormativity

Reality, Representation, and Everyday Life
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Product description

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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Details

  • ISBN13 9781498597036
  • Released 2019
  • Publisher Lexington Books
  • Format Elektronisk medie
  • Edition 1
  • Language English