The rural space between the production and the consumption: some references for the Argentine case

Abstract

In this short article we want to reflect about the modifications that have been occurred in the rural means as well as in the conceptualizations that have been elaborated at this respect. In the developed countries, and in the South countries too, the rural area at the end of the century is different in so many aspects that we could observe some decades ago. It is not only about changes in the functional or physical aspects, but also we face some deep mutations in the way of valuing to the rural by the urban, this implicate that is modeled (structural and functionality) in base to these valuations. An of the most complete expressions of these modifications are the changes in the conceptualization of the use of rurals space: before this changes it was a space for the production, nowadays it is a space for the consumption. But not for the consumption of the produced, but for the consumption of the space in itself. The rural tourism, in their multiple facets is a clear example of this.

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