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What is rural ? - Coggle Diagram
What is rural ?
Rural horror
A shadowy, malign underbelly, turning gemeinschaft on itself
People vanishing, bush hosting some of the most publicized crimes (The Gatton murders etc) home to atavistic types who prey on the (urban) innocent.
Solidaroty/homogeneity (idyll) becomes a source of abject eg Deliverence, The Hills have Eyes, Texas Chainsaw Massacre
55% of the worlds population lives in urban areas, expected to increase by 68% by 2050
India, China and Nigeria will account for 35% of the projected growth of the worlds urban population between 2018 to 2050
The exodus from the rural happened sooner in Western counties, 50% of Aust lived in rural at Federation, now less than 20% give or take
The rural "idyll" : the simple life - A space from social problems associated with modernity (and the city)
City (Threat of crime, disease, sexual defilement, racial degeneration and CRIME)
Crime = the destructive process and effects of the modernisation on traditional "organic" forms of community and socially, for which rural communities are invoked as examples of...
If crime is encountered in rural areas it is treated as a smaller scale version of the urban problem.
Land area of 7.7 million square kilometres, but 88% of the population live within 50KM of the coastline, the remaining is scattered in the outback
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Demographic definitions, population numbers, density and isolation - A way of life, an identity...the role of cultural memories how "rurality" given meaning - Multiple "rurals" often used to describe anything that is not urban yet vast variations.
Most urbanised places 1) Hong Kong, 2) Singapore, 3)Bermuda, 10) Belgium 11) Malta, 12) US Virgin Islands 30) Australia
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Population Density - counting the number of people living in urban communities is not always the best way to understand rurality - Major cities 74%, Inner Regional 19% Outer Regional 6% and Remote Australia 0.4% in very remote and 0.11% in remote
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Problems with agricultural development - poor soil, irregular rainfall and drought
Mythmaking/folklore/legendary narratives "Tyranny of distance" with floods, droughts, bushfires
Yeoman pioneers, small family farms - Rural men are seen to be tougher, more masculine
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