Abstract

ALBALAT-BOTANA, Amparo; GUADARRAMA-ZUGASTI, Carlos; TRUJILLO-ORTEGA, Laura Elena  and  RAMIREZ -MIRANDA, César Adrían. Counter-Geographies: Reproducing Rural Life at the Time of Neoliberal Conservation. Tabula Rasa [online]. 2020, n.35, pp.253-273.  Epub Feb 26, 2021. ISSN 1794-2489.  https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n35.11.

This article examines how rural life spaces are produced and reproduced at the space-time of development, as revealed in counter-geographies. The context framework is the times of neoliberal conservation as a representation of space cross-sectionally marked by socio-environmental inequality. On the basis of Lefebvre’s spatial triad (conceived, perceived, and lived space), the notions of (social) rural reproduction and land as a place are developed. Besides, the notion of rural counter-geography is posed as a research problem and social fact, as a relational-collective time-space, a place where humans and non-humans, living and dead, participate; it is a rural time-space mediated by emotions, affections, and daily rituals, a space of representation and spatial practice reproduced simultaneously against the grain of neoliberal conservationism.

Keywords : rural counter-geography; neoliberalism; Lefebvre; social reproduction; land as a place..

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