Scaling the Rural: Reflections on Rural Cultural Studies

Gorman‐Murray, Andrew; Darian‐Smith, Kate; Gibson, Chris

doi:10.22459/ahr.45.2008.02

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“…Settler myths of regional Australia as “the outback” or “the bush” still forge normative meanings and practices of being and becoming a “man” in many country towns and regional centres as able‐bodied, heroic, strong, independent, “white” and heterosexual. A particular Australian version of masculinity is performed through everyday practices which, in turn, ensures heterosexuality is normalised and enforced in most regional towns and localities (Gorman‐Murray, Darian‐Smith and Gibson 2008; Gottschalk and Newton 2003). Moreover, against changing ideas about both masculinity and sexuality in Australia—such as metrosexuality and the progressive decriminalisation of sodomy, awarding of legal rights to sexual minorities and increased visibility of gay and lesbian facilities in some (more gentrified or tourism‐orientated) country towns and cities—there is a significant number of young men attempting to reclaim and protect understandings of masculinity forged by the bushman mythology.…”

Section: Interpreting Home Mobility and Subjectivitymentioning

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“It's About Time You Came Out”: Sexualities, Mobility and Home

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Gorman‐Murray

2011

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Helping redress the dominance of metropolitan narratives upon which much literature on sexuality is framed, this article interprets the narrative told by a "white" 16-year-old man living in regional Australia. Our aim is to investigate the intersections of migration and homemaking in sexual subject formation. Finding a place to call "home" can be a complex process for young men born in regional Australia and not conforming to the social formations of a "normal guy". This young man's narrative expressively reveals the fluidity and spatiality inherent in processes of negotiating sexual subjectivities. His story provides telling insights into how migration and mobility change his understandings of home and of self by making possible a third-space configured by neither the gender norms of his hometown nor the "gay scene" in Sydney.

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Section: Interpreting Home Mobility and Subjectivitymentioning

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“It's About Time You Came Out”: Sexualities, Mobility and Home

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Gorman‐Murray

2011

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“…In developing the concept of an agrarian imaginary, scholars have been inspired by the cultural turn in rural studies since the 1990s, recognising the importance of culture within rurality and its definitions (Gorman-Murray et al, 2008; Valentine, 2001) and focusing attention on representations of the rural. For example, Bell (2007) distinguishes between two types of ‘rural’.…”

Section: Place and The Rural Imaginarymentioning

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Ice towns: Television representations of crystal methamphetamine use in rural Australia

Waller

Clifford

2019

Crime, Media, Culture

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The Australian news media regularly presents crystal methamphetamine use as a non-metropolitan ‘epidemic’ sweeping through country towns with devastating consequences for affected communities. Considerations of place and the notion of rurality are therefore crucial to understanding how these media representations are constructed and their power to influence national understandings of rural people, places and policy debates. In order to explore these complexities, we apply Simon Cottle’s ‘communicative architecture of television’ methodology to an analysis of three long-form reportage television programmes on the theme of ice use in small Australian towns. Theories of ‘social imaginaries’ inform the argument that a distinctive Australian ‘agrarian imaginary’ can be discerned through the reporting’s strong associations with the connections and contradictions attached to ideas and emotions about ‘the bush’. The television programmes draw on what Cottle terms ‘mythic’ and ‘collective’ frames that reach into the cultural reservoirs of communities to reinforce national perceptions, values and narratives about how rural communities ought to be, and by extension, how they ought to deal with complex social problems, such as illicit drug distribution and use.

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“…Consequently, definitions of rurality are most readily available through personal experience and by gathering accounts of spaces that are marked as 'rural' (Pratt 1996;Gorman-Murray et al 2008). Consequently, definitions of rurality are most readily available through personal experience and by gathering accounts of spaces that are marked as 'rural' (Pratt 1996;Gorman-Murray et al 2008).…”

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Gun rites: hegemonic masculinity and neoliberal ideology in rural Kansas

Gahman

2014

Gender, Place & Culture

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Drawing upon empirical data from a qualitative research project in Southeast Kansas, this paper employs feminist and decolonial theories to analyse the interlocking relationality of hegemonic masculinity, neoliberal ideology, social conservatism, rurality, and gun culture. The first goal is to shed light on the subordinating and marginalizing tendencies that arise as a result of gendered conceptions of gun use. The second aim is to illustrate how gun culture is normalized, and often valorized, through individualistic narratives of self-reliance, security, protection, and defence. The third objective is to interrogate the ways in which particular material practices and gendered discourses regarding gun use are reinforced by settler colonialism, whiteness, heteronormativity, enabledness, and nationalism. Finally, the paper critically examines the social hierarchies that are reaffirmed as a result of culturally embedded patriarchal, white supremacist, and neoliberal ideologies, and how rurality mediates the masculinist subjectivities that are produced in such spaces.

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Scaling the Rural: Reflections on Rural Cultural Studies

Cited by 11 publications

References 21 publications

“It's About Time You Came Out”: Sexualities, Mobility and Home

“It's About Time You Came Out”: Sexualities, Mobility and Home

Ice towns: Television representations of crystal methamphetamine use in rural Australia

Gun rites: hegemonic masculinity and neoliberal ideology in rural Kansas

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