Rural studies of power and the power of rural studies: a reply to Philo |
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| Institution: | 1. Centre for Rural Economy, Department of Agricultural Economics and Food Marketing, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K.;2. Department of Geography, London School of Economics, London, U.K.;1. Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration & Development, PetroChina, Beijing 100083, China;2. China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China;3. PetroChina Xinjiang Oilfield Company, Kelamay 834000, China;1. Nanophotonics and Applications (NPA) Lab, Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef 62514, Egypt;2. Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef 62514, Egypt;1. Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China;2. Sichuan Center for Rural Development Research, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China;3. College of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China;4. China Western Economic Research Center, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu 610074, China;5. Institute of Rural Development, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China;1. Shanghai Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, PR China;2. School of Mathematics and Statistics, Hefei Normal University, Hefei, Anhui 230601, PR China;3. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Mechanics in Energy Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, PR China;1. Department of Computer Engineering, Islamic Azad University-Tabriz Branch, Tabriz, Iran;2. Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tabriz, 29 Bahman Blvd, Tabriz, East Azerbaijan, Iran |
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| Abstract: | We seek to clarify some of the issues raised by Chris Philo (1993), Journal of Rural Studies 9, 429–436] in his reply to our paper entitled ‘Rural studies: modernism, postmodernism and the ‘post-rural’’ Murdoch, J. and Pratt, A.C. (1993),Journal of Rural Studies 9, 411–427]. We argue that a sociology of postmodernism would allow orthodox sociological tools to be used in the analysis of a changing social situation. These tools should be used reflexively and should be employed to show how the rural is the outcome of multiple sets of power relations. Sociological and geographical analyses can also be considered as social processes which give rise to particular conceptions of the rural. Thus, the practice of rural studies is also the practice of power. |
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