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Multi‐sited Himalayan households and the misleading rural–urban dichotomy

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ID8360947
AuthorsTor H Aase (0000-0002-9643-3964, University of Bergen, corresponding author), Prem Sagar Chapagain (0000-0001-7316-8769, Tribhuvan University), Prem Chapagain, Hemanta Dangal (Save the Children Kathmandu Nepal)
Year2019
Volume51
Issue1
Pages174-181
Publication date2019-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArea (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0004-0894 • E-ISSN: 1475-4762
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/area.12450
OpenAlexW2807136634
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited10

The dichotomous differentiation of people into rural and urban is necessary for the purpose of enumeration, but it is important to acknowledge that the outcome of censuses is shaped by the analytic categories that are applied. Squeezing a complex and fuzzy reality into narrow analytic categories gives a simplified picture of reality that hardly reflects actual events and processes on the micro level. Defining Himalayan rural households as multi‐sited economic units is more in touch with householders’ own perceptions and practices than dividing them into urban and rural units. Urbanisation rates derived from census data may be coherent with the assumption that households are units of domicile, but they do not reflect undercurrents of ongoing settlement processes in a valid manner. The term translocis encompasses all localities where households are active. It softens the stiff dichotomy of rural–urban by directing attention to the ways in which multiple sites and sectors are interwoven in the activities of the world's most basic economic unit – the household

Census · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Population · Settlement (finance) · Sociology · Unit (ring theory) · Urbanization · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Psychology · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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Unique citing works4
Citations per year0,67
Citation span2020 - 2021 (2)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 4
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