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Successful lives tend to be led and defined through vocabularies of material possessions, economic growth, social connections, and increasing mobility. This approach emphasizes standards of living, the level of which is commonly measured in terms of gross domestic product. As a result, the everyday lives of people in rural areas (by definition faraway and scarcely populated, and typically less economically vibrant than their urban counterparts) are often considered unsuccessful and unproductive by the standards of the wider society.
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Rautio, P., Lanas, M. (2013). The Making of “Good-Enough” Everyday Lives: Literacy Lessons from the Rural North of Finland. In: Green, B., Corbett, M. (eds) Rethinking Rural Literacies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137275493_12
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