Geographies of ruralisation or ruralities? The death and life of a category

Abstract

The rural sphere has suffered from underrepresentation in recent years in part due to growing interest in the urban. A perhaps equally important aspect of the decline has been the troubling of the spatial boundaries that define the rural and urban among scholars of mobilities and translocality. Exploring the decline of the rural in relation to these literary works, this commentary interrogates current geographical thinking on spatial categories, positing the concept of ruralities as a means to reinvigorate rural space on its own terms.