Rural and urban oppression differ in how their command centers operate

Evidence

Peasants live in a “closed” reality with a single, compact center of oppressive decision; the urban oppressed live in an expanding context in which the oppressive command center is plural and complex. Peasants are under the control of a dominant figure who incarnates the oppressive system; in urban areas, the oppressed are subjected to an “oppressive impersonality.” In both cases the oppressive power is to a certain extent “invisible”: in the rural zone, because of its proximity to the oppressed; in the cities, because of its dispersion. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 563

Categorization

• QUESTION: Useful framework for adapting pedagogy to different settings — worth holding while redesigning a real learning situation, since the reader’s own context is presumably urban.