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    1 091

    A compilation of policy-relevant research by a multidisciplinary group of scholars on the state of families in rural America in the twenty-first century. Examines the impact of economic restructuring on rural Americans and provides policy recommendations for addressing the challenges they face.

  • - Masculinity and Rural Life
     
    547

    We see that masculinity is no less significant in rural life than in urban life. The essays in this volume offer insight into the myths and stereotypes, as well as the reality of the lives of rural men. Interdisciplinary in scope, the contributions investigate what it means to be a farming man, a logging man, or a boy growing up in a country town.

  • - Boosterism, Memory, and Rural Suburbs in the Golden State
    av J. P. Sandul
    421

    At the turn of the 20th century, the California dream was a suburban ideal where life on the farm was exceptional. Agrarian virtue existed alongside good roads, social clubs, cultural institutions, and business commerce. California Dreaminganalyses the growth, promotion, and agricultural colonization that fed this dream during the early 1900s.

  • - Problems and Prospects for the 2010's
    av Elizabeth Ransom
    717

    Provides advanced policy scholarship on rural North America during the 2010s, closely reflecting on the increasingly global nature of social, cultural, and economic forces and the impact of neoliberal ideology upon policy, politics, and power in rural areas. The chapters in this volume represent the expertise of an influential group of scholars in rural sociology and related social sciences.

  • - Citizen Empowerment for Civic Engagement
    av Kenneth Martin, Kenneth Pigg, Godwin Apaliyah, m.fl.
    481 - 1 351

    Community leadership development programmes are designed to increase the capacity of citizens for civic engagement. This volume presents the results of a five-year study tracking community-level effects of community leadership development programs drawn from research conducted in Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, South Carolina, Ohio, and West Virginia.

  • av Alessandro Bonanno & Kae Sekine
    481

    Employing original fieldwork, historical analysis, and sociological theory, Sekine and Bonanno probe how Japan's food and agriculture sectors have been shaped by the global push toward privatization and corporate power, known in the social science literature as neoliberalism. They also examine related changes that have occurred after the triple disaster of March 2011.

  • - Representation, Power and Identity in the British Countryside
     
    1 611

    A collection of 11 papers on issues of representation, power and identity within the British countryside. The work reports on research in this area which has looked to groups who feel themselves to be marginalized or excluded from the dominant ideologies in the countryside.

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    477

    A compilation of policy-relevant research by a multidisciplinary group of scholars on the state of families in rural America in the twenty-first century. Examines the impact of economic restructuring on rural Americans and provides policy recommendations for addressing the challenges they face.

  • - Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability
    av Michael Mayerfeld Bell
    327 - 1 351

    Based on interviews and years of close interaction with more than 60 Iowa farm families, Bell answers two critical questions concerning sustainable agriculture: why some farmers are becoming sustainable farmers and why, as yet, most are not.

  • - Small Farmers in the Economic Reshaping of Nicaragua, Cuba, Russia, and China
    av Laura J. Enriquez
    424

    Analyzes the reaction of existing and former socialist countries to neoliberalism. Examines economic transitions in agriculture and the reconfiguration of socialism in Russia, China, Nicaragua, and Cuba.

  • - The Irony of Schooling in a Coastal Community
    av Michael Corbett
    377

    Published with a new preface, this innovative study argues that if education is to be democratic and serve the purpose of economic, social, and cultural development, then it must adapt and respond to the specificity of its locale, the knowledge practices of the people, and the needs of those who struggle to remain in challenged rural places.

  • - A Collection of Calvin Beale's Writings
    av Peter A. Morrison & Calvin Beale
    424

  • - Sustainability and Sustenance in the American Agrifood System
    av Patricia Allen
    424 - 847

    Everywhere you look, people are more aware of what they eat and where their food comes from. This book is about people throughout the United States who are building successful alternatives to the contemporary agrifood system and their prospects for the future.

  • - Transnational Corporations, Resistance, and the State
    av Alessandro Bonanno & Douglas H. Constance
    424 - 967

    Analyses transnational corporations, groups who resist them, and the primary context within which the relationship between transnational corporations and their opponents unfold: the state. Argues that globalization is a contested terrain in which the power of transnational corporations is affected by mounting opposition and internal contradictions.

  • - Producers, Consumers, and Activists Challenge the Global Food System
     
    967

    A collection of essays which analyze and evaluate both the theoretical and historical contexts of the agrifood system and the ways in which trends of individual action and collective activity have led to an "accumulation of resistance" that greatly affects the mainstream market of food production.

  • - Women Coal Miners in Central Appalachia
    av Suzanne E. Tallichet
    451

    Introduces the women miners at a large underground coal mine in southern West Virginia, where women entered the workforce in the late 1970s after mining jobs began opening up for women throughout the Appalachian coalfields. This work explores such topics as social relations among men and women, professional advancement, and union participation.

  • - An Atlantic Coast Cultural Biography
    av David Griffith
    424

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    507,99

    The 20th century was one of profound transformation in rural America, when demographic shifts and economic restructuring dramatically altered the lives of rural people and their communities. This work defines these changes and interprets their implications for the future of rural America.

  • - Identity, Place, and Community in a Globalizing World
     
    1 037

    A collection of essays examining the various social, cultural, and economic intersections of rural place and global space, as viewed through the lens of education. Explores practices that offer both problems and possibilities for the future of rural schools and communities, in the United States and abroad.

  • - Jamaicans and Mexicans in the U.S. Labor Market
    av David Griffith
    491

    Studies the rural labor processes and their national and international effects. This book examines the socioeconomic effects of the H-2 program on both the areas where the laborers work and the areas they are from, and, taking a uniquely humanitarian stance, considers the effects of the program on the laborers themselves.

  • - Producers, Consumers, and Activists Challenge the Global Food System
     
    424

    A collection of essays which analyze and evaluate both the theoretical and historical contexts of the agrifood system and the ways in which trends of individual action and collective activity have led to an "accumulation of resistance" that greatly affects the mainstream market of food production.

  • - Identity, Place, and Community in a Globalizing World
     
    421

    A collection of essays examining the various social, cultural, and economic intersections of rural place and global space, as viewed through the lens of education. Explores practices that offer both problems and possibilities for the future of rural schools and communities, in the United States and abroad.

  • - Renewable Energy and Community Development
    av Keith Taylor
    451 - 1 351

    Asks whether revenue generated by wind power can be put to community well-being rather than corporate profit. Through case studies of a North Dakota wind energy cooperative and an investor-owned wind farm in Illinois, Keith Taylor examines how regulatory and social forces are shaping this emerging energy sector.

  • - Women, Country Life, and Early Rural Sociological Research
    av Julie N. Zimmerman & Olaf F. Larson
    847

    Examines the embeddedness of rural and farm women's lives in rural sociological research conducted by the USDA's Division of Farm Population and Rural Life (1919-1953). Explores how early rural sociologists found the conceptual space to include women in their analyses.

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