Reimagining Rural: Urbanormative Portrayals of Rural Life (Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics)
Description :
Reimagining Rural Urbanormative Portrayals of Rural Life examines
the ways in which rural people and places are being portrayed by popular television reality television film literature and news media in the United States It is also an examination of the social processes that reinforce urbanormative standards that normalize urban life and render rural life as something unusual exotic or deviant This includes exploring the role of the media as agenda setting agent informing people what and how to think about rural life Further it includes scrutinizing the institution of formal education that promotes a homogenous urbanoriented curriculum while in the process marginalizing the unique characteristics of local rural communities These contributions are some of the only studies of their kind investigating popular cultural representations of rural life while providing powerful evidence and unique challenges for an urban society to rethink and reimagine rural life while confronting the many stereotypes and myths that exist