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Class, Power and Inequality in Rural Areas

Beyond Social Exclusion

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ID4445889
AuthorsMark Shucksmith (0000-0002-8546-9582, Newcastle University, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume52
Issue4
Pages377-397
Publication date2012-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociologia Ruralis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0199 • E-ISSN: 1467-9523
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9523.2012.00570.x
OpenAlexW1947397443
LanguageEN
Citations received73
References cited72

This article reviews approaches to the study of poverty, inequality and social exclusion in rural areas and seeks to relate these to new directions in class analysis and to ideas of place and hyper-mobility. The article is primarily conceptual, drawing on Bourdievian approaches to class analysis and suggesting a new research agenda on class and inequality in rural areas. Specifically, the article argues that there is a need to research not only the ways in which those in similar social positions construct place and rurality, but also how these discursive and symbolic constructions are enlisted in class formation and domination. How does rurality itself become a vehicle for increasing and storing inequality and thence for its intergenerational transmission

Class (philosophy) · Construct (python library) · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Epistemology · Geography · Inequality · Political science · Poverty · Power (physics) · Rural area · Rurality · Social class · Social exclusion · Social inequality · Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Rural development and sustainability · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

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