Social construction of rurality and New Rurality An approach to the interpretation framework of rurality by politicians and social agents

Abstract

Rurality is being reduced to the phenomenon of depopulation, producing debates around proposals for action focused on a specific type of rurality. Mostly they are based on the conception of the rural as a space at the service of the functions assigned from the city. In this paper we analyze opposing discourses in the proposals, but these share the functional conception where part of the causes of depopulation may be found. We propose to assume another way of conceiving rurality as a social expression in a context of low demographic density, diverse and in continuous adaptation to the changing reality.