Ontological foundations of the townspeople moving to the village

Онтологические основания переезда горожан в деревню

Vinogradskaya, Olga (Виноградская, Ольга) ()
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Vinogradskaya, Olga (Виноградская, Ольга): Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Russian Peasant Studies, 2018, vol. 3, 123-135

Abstract: The article considers key reasons for townspeople moving to the village as a permanent residence. The author believes that the main reason is that the technological world of the big city forcibly deprives the man of subjectivity and does not allow him to influence continuous plunge into mandatory daily household routine and everyday endless cycle. The daily technological routine of urban life enhances the feeling of hopelessness and even danger of everyday practices, isolates people from each other. Some townspeople believe that rural world can provide them with a place and nature to live as “human beings”. Townspeople try to at least temporarily escape from the technological world that seized them by getting out of the city to visit one’s country house, by taking a journey, by visiting one’s relatives in the village or, sometimes and today more and more often, by moving to the countryside. Townspeople, unlike villagers, consider the village an unusual expolar space that makes them happier and more creative and provides opportunities for activities that are possible only in this new world. The difference of the new world from the urban “mechanized” one is not the degree of mechanization but that the “technology” no longer subjugates the man but frees him from dangers and provides with opportunities to skillfully and effectively master a variety of innovations.

Keywords: city; village; former townspeople; villagers; migration; economic practices; technological world; technological development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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