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Book Review Essay : Deconstructing and reconstructing rural geographies

can be argued that the rural is a profoundly modernist category, and a modernist construction (for a more detailed discussion see Murdoch and Pratt 1993; 1994) . The dominant characterizations of the rural as an object of study can be outlined in two interrelated ways. First, via the discourse of economic activity which makes salient statistical changes in those practices commonly associated with rural areas agricultural output and employment and the structure and patterns of population movement. Constituted thus, the object of study has reduced in significance through time: through a decline in agricultural employment and patterns of migration that have, on the whole, benefited non-rural localities. Alternatively, economic activities are marked via the emergence of non-farming. As such the rural can become a subset of (modernized) economic geography or economic sociology. Analytically, the rural is thus reconstituted as a deficient