@article{di Campli_Catalina Mejía_2021, title={Rural discourse}, volume={2}, url={https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/contesti/article/view/13208}, DOI={10.13128/contest-13208}, abstractNote={<div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>Ruralities proposes a reconceptualization of the rural, meaning by this term a ’place of crisis’ within our design<br>and planning practices. This reconceptualization is presented through a discourse articulated on two points: Rural as a ’constitutive outside’ of the urban and as a ’political mode’, as a place where specific forms of power are manifested. Rural spaces are inhabited, produced, owned and cared for by a variety of subjects, by humans and non-humans as well as by a variety of ethnicities, cultures, social groups. In this sense we are against a common imagery where the rural is seen as a place populated by alleged traditional societies. This is an image that implicitly works as a device of racial, social and economic domination. In the same way, we question the Marxian approach to the ’agrarian question’ conceived only as a predominantly economic problem, highlighting its racial and ethnic aspects. The goal is to define a different ’rural discourse’ able to pay attention to the diversity of rural bodies and to delineate better analysis and design strategies.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div>}, number={2}, journal={Contesti. Città, territori, progetti}, author={di Campli, Antonio and Catalina Mejía, Catalina Mejía}, year={2021}, month={Dec.}, pages={5–18} }