ABSTRACT
It is only in the past five years that rural geographers have begun to recognise their neglect of multiple forms of ‘otherness’ in the contemporary countryside. Influenced by the pervasiveness of both poststructuralist and feminist critiques in social sciences, rural researchers are beginning to address issues of power and marginalisation in their writings, critiquing their traditional paradigms, which have turned a blind eye to the possibility of other human groupings in rural society (Philo 1992).
