Conceptualizing New Materialism in Geographical Studies of the Rural Realm

Geographic analysis in rural areas has been dominated recent decades by socio-economic and socio-political perspectives. The new materialism can constitute a way of progress geographical studies that involve the material human form hybrid experiences. Materiality be expressed three ways: (1) surface matter corresponds to traditional elements space, (2) materiality would associated with joint undifferentiated vision artefacts village, mainly set houses (3) experimental an individual dimension, result multiple processes destruction, revival reconstruction simultaneously happen one place. is most interest for geographic since it where house are hybridized process recovery house. In materialities, binary oppositions built rigid framework modernity dissolved established fluid postmodern alternatives co-produced between people materiality. geography alternative path allows analyzing heterogeneous realities contributing practical context development policies.