Description
Book SynopsisDespite the unprecedented incorporation of information and communications tools (ICTs) by
marginalized communities worldwide, there is still a clear urban/non-urban access (and effective use) gap in ICT access across the world.
This gap turns into a crucial infrastructure need as attention is turned to pressing issues faced by cities. The internet access gap is identifiable not only in the Global South—perceived as peripheral—but also in the Global North—regarded as advanced and the motor of technological development. This suggests the emergence and endurance of peripheries based on the level of techno-social development. Locally, this process accords with existing socio-spatial practices and with the ways ICTs are being introduced in the everyday.
This book explores the recursive interaction between socio-spatial practices and the late introduction of the internet in three marginalized rurban communities in Brazil and in the UK. It brings to the fore challenges that cross North-South divides to propose an open theory of the connected rurban as a framework that addresses and accommodates the specificities of these communities in the first two decades of the twentieth-first century.
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: The Emergence of the Connected Rurban: An Introduction to the Process of Socio-Technological Peripheralization
Part 1: Developing An Appropriate Lens To Look At The Connected Rurban: A Multilevel Approach
Chapter 2: Setting The Context
- Chapter 3: Peripherality And The Everyday Of The Rurban: Rethinking Methodology
Part 2: An Introduction To The Everyday: On People, Places And The Internet
Chapter 4: Santo Antônio do Salto
Chapter 5: Pendeen
Chapter 6: Noiva do Cordeiro
Part 3: From The Global To The Everyday And Back Again: Bottom-Bottom Tactics As Means To Social Transformation?
Chapter 7: Understanding Multilevel Peripherality In The Connected Rurban
Chapter 8. A Conclusion, Or The Opening For Another Conversation: For An Open Theory Of The Connected Rurban
References
Index
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