Naslov
Rurality: Myth and Reality

Autori
Šiljković, Željka

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Contemporary Development of European Rural Areas / Šiljković Željka, Čuka Anica, Pejdo Ana - Zadar : Sveučilište u Zadru, 2014, 6-7

Skup
Contemporary Development of European Rural Areas

Mjesto i datum
Zadar, Hrvatska, 04.09.2014. - 06.09.2014

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Pozvano predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
rural areas; rurality; urbanity

Sažetak
Urbanity has become the synonymy of the contemporary world. In 2013 47% of overall population lived in rural areas. In the second half of the 20th century, rural areas have experienced their radical civilization, technological and social turnover in comparison to millennium long traditions. Once cores of social life, traditional values and self- sufficient and autarchic economy, rural areas nowadays in a technologically advanced Western civilization, are marginalised regions where agriculture is no longer the main economic activity. Almost all urbanization elements are becoming cultural standards and patterns of planned approach towards the development of rural communities. Increasingly non-agricultural activities, especially tourism and rural crafts, same as orientation towards ecology are given the main role in renewal, or better said transformation and newer vision of life in rural areas. Oppositely, urban centres turn to agriculture by creating vertical, urban gardens. Accordingly, what is rurality and how is it perceived depends on our culture, area and social groups we belong to, contact with urbanity and rurality, social values, intellectual surroundings, life experience and even political orientations. For some, rural areas present the return to romanticism, tradition, mysticism of past times, places of our primeval beginnings, legends and myths, but also the area which lives completely differently than it once has.‏It is a cultivated area, arranged and organised, or, on the other hand, abandoned and neglected. From our viewpoint it is often seen or imagined as a place where people live slowly without stress and urgency surrounded by preserved environment.‏ Regrettably for some rural regions are primitive, undeveloped areas where people of lower social status and without education live. This can be explained as the burdensome and agonizing trace of past times, but also of individual and social prejudices, trace of the similar primitive culture which has created its physiognomies, judgements and viewpoints in the same urban surrounding. Rural areas are currently in position between utopia and anti- developmental attitudes. They are living organisms whose cells (individuals, families, economy) pulsate as anywhere else in perfect harmony that is not completely understandable neither acceptable. However it can be said that civilization and culture, truths of different intensity and appearances similarly encompass both urbanity and rurality, both urban and rural areas and the population dwelling in places, villages and towns, hamlets belonging to individuals and not geographical units.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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