User:CoyoteNomad/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Urbanormativity

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose to review urbanormativity because, in my view, spatial analysis is currently a very underexplored part of power relations and hierarchy. Additionally, I think popular culture understandings of rurality and the rural-urban relationship remain lacking or doused in uncritical stereotypes. I think this popular absence contributes to the absence of critical rurality literature in academic spaces. Thus, I hope to contribute to the public knowledge of critical rurality concepts and hopefully contribute to a wider popular critical discourse around rurality as a whole.

Evaluate the article
The Urbanormativity page is rated as a ‘start,’ a ranking that is extremely accurate. The current content is neutral in tone and well-sourced, but it has very limited information. Specifically while it defines the main concept of urbanormativity, the article leaves out quite a few important parts of the concept that should be filled in, most notably:


 * 1) Urbanormativity’s contribution/relation to other literature such as queer theory
 * 2) The varying methodologies in measuring how rurality and the urban is constructed
 * 3) The background of the field as emerging out of both urban studies/sociology, legal studies, and literature.
 * 4) Any mention of various criticisms of the concept such as suburban bias
 * 5) Lots of detail around the effects of urbanormativity. While they are hinted at in the closing sentence of the article, each of those areas could be an entire section just to itself.

All of these missing content areas make sense due to the article just recently being constructed and definitely a start of a much larger and important topic.