There is a war of words about whether these adjustments occur or whether the pandemic has just accelerated resettlement decisions that were already underway. political implications for rural and urban communities.
Rural escape
Earlier this spring, I talked about the tensions that have evolved in rural areas as we seek a balance between individual movements and effects on the community. As the pandemic continues, record sales are driving demand for genuine real estate in the huts, turning the nature of the conversation.
Comparative affordability and the area presented through rural communities and small towns remains attractive. Some others move full-time to their seasonal properties, while others examine its outdoor features of the city, now that they run from home or elsewhere. it’s more permanent.
The demanding situations of fleeing to the countryside and who has to do so pre-pandemic, as examples come with ongoing demand for water rights negotiations between first nations and settlers and the pressures of suburbanization and loss of farmland pushing Mennonite farmers to other parts of the country.
COVID-19 brought new waves of “disaster gentrification,” which raised some considerations for new approaches to rural progression and rural-urban dynamics.
Cities full of resources
The resolution of going to the hills is confusing and not entirely rational; density and disease are not necessarily correlated and rurality and safety are not synonymous; urban centres are better equipped to respond to crises due to decades of political resolutions that have concentrated resources in cities.
Leaving the village requires the replacement of urban resources with individual reserves: a guaranteed salary, the option of fleeing the house and the social and economic capital to accompany the relocation.
And while many rural communities have taken steps to ensure that newcomers are welcomed, disorders of racism and xenophobia persist. Changing these discourses is not a new challenge for rural leaders, and like many other communities, rural Canada has things to do to combat systemic problems and structural racism.
Growing vulnerabilities
Urban sociologist Junia Howell noted that “the crisis not only shows inequalities, it aggravates them. “Although environmental and economic dissatisfventures are other pandemics, they have the same quality of deterioration in outcomes for vulnerable communities.
Policymakers and advocates can glorify human resilience, rather than addressing the processes that force others to build resilience in the first place. Tracie Washington of the Louisiana Justice Institute has been an obstacle to complaints about this phenomenon in New Orleans while the region is in trouble. ups and recovery initiatives.
COVID-19 encouraged me to reconsider how I frame my paintings to be more critical of why rural resilience concepts might seem so appealing. In this way, as the American writer Rebecca Solnit observed, “gentrification is just the fin over water” We deserve to take a thorough look at what it is before we get too excited about the interest of moving to rural communities.
Rural attraction, push
The key is: who is it intended for?
We have a tendency to focus mainly on cities in discussions about the complex nature of urban-rural migration. Anywhere else, it’s peripheral. This tells us a lot about the position and perspectives of other people who shape decisions about the rural future: whether you are at the center of the story or at its limits depends entirely on who tells it.
A recent assignment through a Toronto couple mapped knowledge about communities within 90 minutes of Toronto, highlighting the social and spatial points that would possibly play a role in people’s decisions to move out of the city. It’s an attractive assignment, but it positions Toronto like the sun in a provincial galaxy that revolves around it.
It also shows that other people still decide to move to communities with the infrastructure and amenities their lifestyle aspires to and allows them to be relatively close to their existing urban networks, making rural communities more remote or those with less physical power. (particularly broadband) social and physical infrastructure is unlikely to benefit.
Investing wisely
Rural communities deserve our commitment and investment in their future, however, there is a transparent difference in how others spend their time, resources and attention on a network about their investment in their future.
Rural Canada is home to more than 18% of the national population and plays an important role in the national economy, contributing approximately 23% of national gross domestic product. Rural Canada also faces significant demanding situations in terms of investment in critical infrastructure (such as broadband), demographic changes, remote markets and decision-making facilities, and the disproportionate influence of specific economic sectors.
If more people need to live in rural Canada, this can go a long way to addressing these challenges, but only if this replacement is accompanied by policies and investments than those transitions. However, the best-known models of successful rural progression are disguised developments.