Chapter 5
Bridging the Rural–UrbanDivide: What Can the UrbanLearn from the Rural? Reflectionson the Case of Mexico
Gareth A. Jones
INTRODUCTION1
One of the most enduring organizational devices in development studies is the division of society into rural and urban. Indeed, the association of urbanization with particular notions of modernity has been a ‘normal’ part of the development discourse so that, to many people, the urban is a synonym for development itself and ‘anti-poverty measures’ are shorthand for rural programmes – note the few references to the urban in the 2000/2001 World Development report ‘Attacking Poverty’ (World Bank, 2001). ...
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