Beyond Backwardness: Revisiting Rural Spaces as Sites of Resistance, Renewal, and Radical Potential
Title: Beyond Backwardness: Revisiting Rural Spaces as Sites of Resistance, Renewal, and Radical Potential Organizers: David Delgado López (Visiting Assistant Professor, Carleton College), Kelly Ferguson (Assistant Professor, Miami University), Brittany Frodge (Lecturer, Ohio State University) Description: Due to varied complex historical processes such as industrialization, urbanization, and colonization, the rural has often been articulated in literature and other cultural products as an underdeveloped space tied to the past that can only progress through civilizing acts of modernization; Domingo Faustino Sarmiento’s Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism (Argentina, 1845), Camilo José