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The village in the city: urban experiences through accounts of rural life in Belize

The village in the city: urban experiences through accounts of rural life in Belize
The village in the city: urban experiences through accounts of rural life in Belize
While conducting fieldwork in Belize City, Belize, I heard many comments and anecdotes about the villages that city dwellers or their parents came from. I initially took these glimpses of the rural as a somewhat nostalgic yet interesting feature of the everyday city conversations that provided me with some ideas about Belizean village life (of which I had little or no experi-ence). However, I came to realise that in talking of the rural, my interlocutors were in fact saying much about their own lives in the city.
village, indeterminacy, autonomy, open signifier, Belize
0921-5158
51-66
Troccoli, Giuseppe
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Troccoli, Giuseppe
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Troccoli, Giuseppe (2019) The village in the city: urban experiences through accounts of rural life in Belize. Etnofoor, 31 (2), 51-66.

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While conducting fieldwork in Belize City, Belize, I heard many comments and anecdotes about the villages that city dwellers or their parents came from. I initially took these glimpses of the rural as a somewhat nostalgic yet interesting feature of the everyday city conversations that provided me with some ideas about Belizean village life (of which I had little or no experi-ence). However, I came to realise that in talking of the rural, my interlocutors were in fact saying much about their own lives in the city.

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Accepted/In Press date: 4 October 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: November 2019
Published date: November 2019
Keywords: village, indeterminacy, autonomy, open signifier, Belize

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Local EPrints ID: 437723
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/437723
ISSN: 0921-5158
PURE UUID: 76c30d85-b747-4632-9921-f8a2844323a8
ORCID for Giuseppe Troccoli: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5411-2188

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Date deposited: 13 Feb 2020 17:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 06:16

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