Re-imagining the rural: From rural idyll to Good Countryside
Re-imagining the rural: From rural idyll to Good Countryside
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.07.019
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发表时间：
2016-08
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5.1
通讯作者：
M. Shucksmith
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作者：
M. Shucksmith
农村研究强调农村田园诗是许多人向往的东西，也许是一个居住的好地方的愿景，或者是一个价值观的宝库。但回顾想象中的过去被认为是规范性的，充满权力，往往符合权势者的利益。这种对想象中的不确定日期的黄金时代的怀旧应该在多大程度上影响对理想未来的愿景？本文旨在开始，事实上，挑起，讨论什么可能构成的愿景，农村的未来，或我们的集体财产的农村地方进入21世纪，一个良好的农村工作。什么样的道德可以支撑这样的冒险？我们如何才能完成这样的任务呢？一种方法可能是采用乌托邦思维作为识别和想象所期望的替代未来的手段，借鉴莱维塔斯的论点，即乌托邦是一种预期意识的形式-尚未-与基本上向后看的农村田园诗形成对比。从城市研究的四个寄存器-修复，相关性，权利，复魅-然后作为一个出发点，审议什么道德可能支撑一个好的农村，这是否可能在城市和农村环境之间的差异。讨论如何在实践中进行，既消除邪恶，又追求集体的前瞻性梦想和预期意识，例如通过塑造场所或网络化的农村发展。最后，讨论反映了农村社会学家在这些过程中可能发挥的学术和实践作用。
Rural studies have highlighted a rural idyll as something to which many aspire, perhaps as a vision of a good place to live or as a repository of values. But harking back to an imagined past is recognized as normative and power-infused, often serving the interests of the powerful. How far should this nostalgia for an imagined golden age of indeterminate date inform a vision for a desired future? This paper seeks to begin, and indeed to provoke, discussion of what might constitute visions for rural futures, or our collective imaginaries of rural places into the twenty-first century, of a Good Countryside to work towards. What morality might underpin such imaginaries? And how might we approach such a task? One approach might be to employ utopian thinking as a means of identifying and imagining desired alternative futures, drawing upon Levitas' argument for utopia as a form of anticipatory consciousness - the not yet - in contrast to the essentially backward looking rural idyll. Four registers from urban studies - repair, relatedness, rights, re-enchantment - are then taken as a point of departure for deliberation on what morality might underpin a Good Countryside, and whether this might differ between urban and rural contexts. A discussion ensues on how to proceed in practice, both in eliminating evils and in pursuing collective forward dreaming and anticipatory consciousness, for example through place-shaping or networked rural development. Finally, the discussion reflects on what scholarly and practical roles rural sociologists might play in these processes.