VENKOV BEZPEČNÝ A NEBEZPEČNÝ: AMBIVALENCE KAŽDODENNÍCH INTERAKCÍ A VNÍMÁNÍ ODLIŠNOSTI VE VENKOVSKÉM PROSTORU

Rurality is socially constructed, and what we imagine about the countryside is very much in contrast to what is part of everyday interactions in rural spaces. One of the basic ideas we form about the countryside in comparison to life in the city is the countryside as a space of safety and harmony, a countryside imbued with friendly personal relationships. In this paper, however, I show that the countryside is ambivalent. One source of this ambivalence, of villagers acting ambivalently, friendly and hostile at the same time, is a reaction to difference. Difference that is constructed on the basis of different attributes.