Rural Industrialization And The Impact On Citizens (The Shifting Of Agricultural Land Using In Henri Lefebvre’s Space Perspective)

Abstract

Industrialization in rural areas is one of the steps to equalize the development that has been centered in urban areas. Industrialization in rural areas is also a mean to absorb labor in rural areas to minimize excessive urbanization, increase rural incomes, diversify the rural employment, and increase the regional development. On the other hand, the coming of industries in the rural areas also has an impact on the diminishing of agricultural land which supports the life of farmers in the village. This paper discusses the impact of shifting use of agricultural land into industrial land from the space perspective of Henri Lefebvre. This paper explains the relation between rural communities, corporations, and countries in this context. This paper employs literature study method which combines various issues that emerge in the literatures related to the industrialization in the countryside as well as the perspectives of Henri Lefebvre's theory as the analysis. In Henri Lefebvre's point of view, space in modern capitalist society will always be competed. It happens since rural areas has cheaper wage labor and is a potential space for industries because the prices are still much cheaper than urban areas. Keywords—Citizen, Civil Society, Henri Lefebvre, Rural Industrialization, Space