Old, Lost, and Forgotten Rural Materialities: Old Local Irrigation Channels and Lost Local Walking Trails

Paniagua, Ángel

doi:10.3390/land11081358

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“…In any case, it is possible to suggest a specific genealogy of place [27,28] and the houses as a confluence of multiple and variable processes. The genealogies of materiality have a double circuit with academic and new facts -empirical -routes [29] in the form of old and new materiality [30] in the wider context of post structural and postmodern geographies [31].…”

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New Geographical (Im)materialities in Rural Spaces for a Renewed Countryside in the Global North. Some Key Comments in the Rural Geography Debate

Paniagua

2024

Rural and Regional Development

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From the point of view of the new (im)materialities and the relevance of vernacular house in the process of rural change and restructuring, this contribution comments some possible innovative ways of research in rural studies. The objective of the study is to bring the attention about the relevance of vernacular houses in the process of global rural change and restructuring and their particular expressions in localities and vernacular houses. The methodology in qualitatively based on auto-biographical and ethnographical research based in three houses of study in a marginal rural area of central Spain. The main conclusions suggest a process of hybridization of people and vernacular houses with two different circuits: new comers and traditional populations.

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New Geographical (Im)materialities in Rural Spaces for a Renewed Countryside in the Global North. Some Key Comments in the Rural Geography Debate

Paniagua

2024

Rural and Regional Development

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“…But beyond rural housing, we can think of different forms of material relations [81], such as those established between lost and forgotten rural (im) materialism and renew old rural materialism. The process of rural change abandons some territories and incorporates others at different scales, the result of the interaction between different elements.…”

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“…A recent study orientation in rural geography is the analysis of landscape biographies in the form of ancient and even lost micro spatial histories of rural and agrarian materialities. They would be the other (im) materialisms in the process of rural change that generate other marginal environmental histories of hybrid landscapes [81,82].…”

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Conceptualizing New Materialism in Geographical Studies of the Rural Realm

Paniagua

2023

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

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Public Aesthetic and Recreational Preferences for Historical Irrigation Canals in Rural Areas: A Case Study in Li Canal-Gaoyou Irrigation District

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Zhang,

Xia

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As an integral part of rural built heritage, the aesthetic and recreational values of Historical Irrigation Canals (HICs) have increasingly garnered attention in recent years, providing new perspectives for heritage conservation and sustainable rural development. However, there is a scarcity of research conducted from the micro-perspective of public preferences for HICs in rural areas. The existing literature primarily focuses on how the landscape characteristics of natural and urban rivers affect public preferences, with a lack of attention to built heritage characteristics and rural settings, which are uniquely inherent to HICs in rural areas. This study aims to explore public preferences for HICs in rural areas from the perspectives of landscape characteristics and social backgrounds. The Li Canal-Gaoyou Irrigation District, one of the World Heritage Irrigation Structures, was selected as the case study. Selected HIC photos were utilized for measuring landscape characteristics and conducting survey questionnaires. Relationships among HIC landscape characteristics, social backgrounds, and aesthetic and recreational preferences were revealed through one-way ANOVA, Spearman’s correlation, and stepwise regression analyses. Key findings include the following: (1) the public can derive aesthetic and recreational value from HICs; (2) canals with large water bodies, artificial banks, and artificial vegetation are considered more aesthetically pleasing; (3) larger canals, extensive water bodies, and artificial banks are deemed more suitable for recreation; (4) factors such as age, education level, income, rural living experience and knowledge of HICs influence public preferences; (5) costs influence public aesthetic and recreational preferences, with people more willing to pay for roads and hardened banks. Finally, several recommendations for the protection and management of HICs have been summarized, offering guidance for rural managers and planners.

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Old, Lost, and Forgotten Rural Materialities: Old Local Irrigation Channels and Lost Local Walking Trails

Cited by 5 publications

References 38 publications

New Geographical (Im)materialities in Rural Spaces for a Renewed Countryside in the Global North. Some Key Comments in the Rural Geography Debate

New Geographical (Im)materialities in Rural Spaces for a Renewed Countryside in the Global North. Some Key Comments in the Rural Geography Debate

Conceptualizing New Materialism in Geographical Studies of the Rural Realm

Public Aesthetic and Recreational Preferences for Historical Irrigation Canals in Rural Areas: A Case Study in Li Canal-Gaoyou Irrigation District

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