Abstract
Rurality as a concept was originated within the framework of the migration phenomena of the nineteenth century. During the post-war period, a dichotomic approach was established for this concept, along with the emerging notion of growth, which influenced the economic models of multiple countries worldwide. However, during the last 50 years, the rurality concept acquired a polysemic nature. Thus, the main objective of this article is analyzing several definitions of rurality from the perspective of some subdisciplines of the social sciences and their lines of thought to evaluate their implications for public health within different contexts.
Highlights
GeographyBetween the classical view and the critical view Geography’s object of study is spaces, but it considers as essential concepts territories, places, and landscapes, among others
Rurality as a concept was originated within the framework of the migration phenomena of the nineteenth century
Considering the previous rationale, this paper aims at analyzing several definitions of rurality from the point of view of some social sciences subdisciplines and their lines of thought, to determine their implications for public health
Summary
Between the classical view and the critical view Geography’s object of study is spaces, but it considers as essential concepts territories, places, and landscapes, among others. García-Ramón [17] and Ávila-Sánchez [18] acknowledged Vidal de la Blache school as the precursor of rural geography Within this setting, we must acknowledge the influence that English-speaking countries postulates had, which proposed spatial modelling (getting closer to positivism). Coming from the perspective of peri-urban territories, Ávila-Sánchez has proposed to incorporate to the analysis: MONTOYA - RURALITY AS AN ANALYTIC CATEGORY Those transformations experienced by rural spaces that are in contact with urban areas, i.e., those areas absorbed by cities in their expansion; the socio-spatial situations derived from them and experienced by inhabitants at these settings (rural and urban) as mutational spaces [21,22,23]
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