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Conceptualizing New Materialism in Geographical Studies of the Rural Realm

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  • Angel Paniagua

    (Spanish Council for Scientific Research, CSIC, 28007 Madrid, Spain)

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Geographic analysis in rural areas has been dominated in recent decades by socio-economic and socio-political perspectives. The new materialism can constitute a way of progress in rural geographical studies that involve the material and the human in the form of hybrid experiences. Materiality can be expressed in three ways: (1) the surface matter that corresponds to the traditional elements of the material rural space, (2) the materiality that would be associated with a joint and undifferentiated vision of human artefacts in a village, mainly the set of rural houses and (3) the experimental materiality that has an individual dimension, the result of the multiple processes of destruction, revival and reconstruction that simultaneously happen in one place. The experimental materiality is of the most interest for geographic analysis since it is where the materiality of the rural house and the individual are hybridized in the process of recovery of the traditional rural house. In the process of recovery of materialities, binary oppositions built in the rigid framework of modernity can be dissolved and established fluid postmodern alternatives co-produced between people and materiality. The new materialism in rural geography can be an alternative path that allows analyzing heterogeneous realities in a hybrid way and contributing in a practical context to the development of new rural policies.

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  • Angel Paniagua, 2023. "Conceptualizing New Materialism in Geographical Studies of the Rural Realm," Land, MDPI, vol. 12(1), pages 1-13, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jlands:v:12:y:2023:i:1:p:225-:d:1031783
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    1. Angel Paniagua, 2023. "Smart and Novelty Villages as the Quality Place of Virtuality," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(15), pages 1-10, July.

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