Knowing Your Place: Rural Identity and Cultural Hierarchy

by Ching, Barbara
ISBN: 9780415915458
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Overview

Knowing Your Place directs groundbreaking attention to the role of rural and urban places in identity construction. Written to redress the longstanding neglect and denigration of the rural, this book argues that the cultural dominance of the city has been reinforced by postmodern theory's near fixation on the urban and the sophisticated.

The essays explore rural identity in a number of cultures and situations, and look at issues of contemporary interest. Topics covered include the uses of popular and high culture, the explosion of high technology, the social and economic impact of ecological policy, the role of labor in the global marketplace, museum curatorship, and post-colonial politics. Throughout, the essays address the many ways in which place identity alters and influences the experience of race, class, gender and ethnicity.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Ching, Barbara
  • ISBN: 9780415915458
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.95 x 0.61
  • Number Of Pages: 285
  • Publication Year: 1996