Modus vivendi, polycentricity, and “decolonizing” the study of the urban–rural divide

Kris Kanthak

Chapter 8 in Governing Differences, 2025, pp 172-185 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The global rise of anti-elite populism poses an existential threat to democracy worldwide. Many people outside of academia and urban centers feel excluded and maligned, potentially leading to a worldwide “revenge of places that don’t matter,” in which populist leaders can use this feeling of exclusion and disrespect to foment political strife and instability (Rodríguez-Pose 2018). But in this academic study of the deleterious consequences of the rise of “rural resentment,” there is a surprising lack of curiosity among academics about the nature of these resentments, as if somehow the insults against them emerge whole cloth from the imaginations of rural Americans. This chapter considers how the academic understanding of the urban–rural divide might change and improve if academics were willing to take the lessons learned from polycentricity and extend the perspectives in research discussions to include people who heretofore have been considered subjects, rather than producers, of research.

Keywords: Urban–rural divide; Community engaged research; Polycentricity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035348572
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