DOI: https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n35.11
Amparo Albalat-Botana
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1402-3057
Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, México
amparoalbalat@hotmail.com
Carlos Guadarrama-Zugasti
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2511-1378
Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, México
carolusver@gmail.com
Laura Elena Trujillo-Ortega
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3731-6987
Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, México
lauratrujillo.ortega@gmail.com
César A. Ramírez-Miranda
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9324-4597
Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, México
cesarmr2001@yahoo.com.mx
Abstract:
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.
