Introduction - Rural Marginalisation

Question 1

What are you going to talk about in the introduction?

Answer 1

• Talk about the challenges rural areas are facing
• Poverty
• Rural Youth Migration
• Rural Elderly
• Cloke 2003 - Idyllic representations of the rural hide social problems like poverty and homelessness also establish political and cultural expectations of orthodoxy - seeks to purify rural space from Transgressive presences

Question 2

Marginalisation in rural areas - Citation

Answer 2

• Cloke 2006 - poverty can be hidden or rejected culturally by both my decision makers who refuse to expect that poverty can exist in rural areas.
• Recognises that the social construction of rural life is often dominated by white, middle-class narratives