The Urbanization of rural areas and juridicalization of disputes a study on the experience and dispute resolution in urban-rural spaces

Mohammadi, Jamal; Khalegh Panah, Kamal; Zare, Masoumeh

doi:10.22059/jrd.2013.50585

The Urbanization of rural areas and juridicalization of disputes a study on the experience and dispute resolution in urban-rural spaces

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Authors

Jamal Mohammadi ¹

Kamal Khalegh Panah ¹

Masoumeh Zare ²

¹ Assistant Professor of Sociology, University Of Kurdistan

² M.A. Social Sciences, Allameh Tabataba'I University

10.22059/jrd.2013.50585

Abstract

The globalizing processes indicate some deep changes in time-space relations. These processes at the same time have eradicated most of the phenomena, ideas and people. One of these ideas and spheres eradicated are rural areas. In the conceptual space of globalization, it is not defendable to speak of the duality of urban-rural in contemporary social sciences. dispute and the ways of its solution in rural areas is one of the phenomena which has been disemeded. This article is an attempt to investigate the dispute and the ways of solution in rural areas. The main theoretical assumption is that ways of dispute resolution in rural areas show the eradication of rurality in the age of globalization. We used grounded theory to uncover the lived experiences of respondents. The sample includes Tehran and the rural areas around. The findings show that people in rural areas have abandoned their main cultural traits. The juridicalization of disputes and the loss of traditional social mediations in rural disputes necessitate reviewing conceptualization of urban-rural. The juridicalization of disputes in rural areas and abandoning the traditional ways of dispute resolution which are recently taken in some countries due to defeat of juridicalization, is one the sign of reviewing the urban-rural duality.

Keywords

Rural Areas

Controversy

Globalization

Juridicalization

Urban-Rural Duality