Media Rurality
Darin Barney editor Patrick Brodie editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Duke University Press
Publishing:14th Apr '26
£100.00
This title is due to be published on 14th April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
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- Paperback£24.99(9781478033257)
Media Rurality investigates the centrality of rural places and people within the media systems and technologies that shape daily life in and across rural and urban settings alike. From the boglands of Ireland to data centers in the Oregon countryside to the homemade media systems of rural Tanzania, the contributors to this volume show how rural territories are highly mediated, technologized spaces profoundly enmeshed with global capitalism and colonialism. Approaching the study of rurality through a materialist lens that foregrounds infrastructure, this collection shows how rural spaces often bear the environmental brunt of capitalist development while being relegated to the economic and cultural periphery.
“This remarkably original collection offers a much needed intervention, centering the role of rural spaces to media and infrastructure. The way the contributors engage with issues of uneven connections and energy transitions, and with rural entanglements within global supply chains and planetary mines, is superb.”—Rahul Mukherjee, author of, Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty
“A rural of omnidirectional connectivity; sites of roiling metabolisms of extraction, resistance, and media intensiveness; a rurality of emergence and theoretical complexity. This volume expands the boundaries of rural spaces, lives, and politics as media ruralities that are peopled and place-based, enduring and vital, and essential for research addressing contemporary debates in global media studies.”—Rafico Ruiz, author of, Slow Disturbance: Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier
ISBN: 9781478029793
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 572g
352 pages