Abstract

PANIAGUA-MAZORRA, Ángel. Rethinking the (rural) space: between the global countryside and the individualization. Econ. soc. territ [online]. 2013, vol.13, n.41, pp.245-267. ISSN 2448-6183.

Usually, the study of the rural category is the core of rural studies. The new rurality in Latin America, or the restructuring and rural change in Europe, are limited theoretical constructions to explain the present complexity of rural spaces and societies. These limitations open a new period founded upon mixed and transversal theoretical argumentations to explain social, spatial and environmental processes. These argumentations introduce, clearly, new approaches in the analysis of the rural category, traditionally associated with binary schemes, linked with more flexible categories bound to environmentalism, place, mobility, identity, ethnicity, with a great analytical potential for transversality and ductility. In this tendency the present contribution suggests a new concept: the global individual field.

Keywords : rural theory; space; flexible approaches.