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An Individual Rural Geography

Pages 511-518 | Received 01 Mar 2015, Accepted 01 Dec 2015, Published online: 09 Feb 2016
 

Abstract

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.

相较于关注农村社群重要性的研究而言, 至今仍仅有少数的研究, 聚焦农村地理中的个人。但随着农村地理学的社会文化转向及道德立场, 个人逐渐获得了更大的关联性, 但却仍被侷限于地方性社群以及边缘处境与人群的分析传统。本文综合有关个人的重要研究, 特别是农村地理学中的研究, 并指认其主要面向༚公民权 (政治与规范性面向), 情绪方面 (人们生活中的不平凡时刻), 每日生活 (人与农村地方之间的关係), 以及差异与他者化 (在他者之间与之中)。为了建立个人的农村地理学, 以上反映农村个人不同面向的四大方面, 必须以互补的方式使用之。各方面的相关性, 显示出农村地区中不同类型的个人性。本文最终提出相对于反人类的后结构方法的 “新人文主义”。

Hasta ahora, solo muy limitada investigación en geografía rural se ha centrado en el individuo, en comparación con la importancia que se concede a la comunidad rural. Sin embargo, con el giro sociocultural y las posiciones morales que se han adoptado en geografía rural, el individuo está adquiriendo mayor relevancia, aunque encerrado en tradiciones analíticas de comunidad de localidad, y de situaciones y gente afectadas de marginalidad. Este artículo sintetiza los trabajos más significativos acerca del individuo, en especial dentro de la geografía rural, e identifica sus dimensiones clave: ciudadanía (dimensión política y normativa), aspectos emocionales (los momentos extraordinarios en las vidas de la gente), vida cotidiana (la relación entre el individuo y el lugar rural), y diferencia y otredad (entre y dentro de otros). Para desarrollar una geografía rural del individuo, estas cuatro dimensiones, que reflejan diferentes aspectos del individuo rural, deben usarse de manera complementaria. La relevancia de cada dimensión sugiere diferentes tipos de individualidades en las áreas rurales. Por último, este artículo propone un “humanismo nuevo” en contraste con los enfoques posestructuralistas antihumanísticos.

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank the referees for their constructive comments.

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Angel Paniagua

ANGEL PANIAGUA is a senior researcher in The Centre of Human and Social Sciences at Spanish Council for Scientific Research (IPP-CCHS-CSIC), Madrid 28037, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]. His research focuses on four areas of interest: social, environmental, and cultural dimensions of geographical rural change in depopulated rural areas; socioenvironmental qualitative research; history and theory of rural geography; and the relationship between nature and society.

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