Rural category: 418 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
This wide-ranging volume, first published in 1983, reflects the increasing scope of the field of rural geography in the second half of the twentieth century. Although traditional areas of study such as agriculture and the land-use patterns of the countryside remained important, scholars also began...
Our Rural Selves
Memory and the Visual in Canadian Childhoods
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019
Life in the countryside, often perceived as either idyllic or depleted, has long been misrepresented. Challenging the stereotypes and myths that surround the idea of rurality, Our Rural Selves interrogates and represents individual and collective memories of childhood in rural landscapes and small...
by Naydene De Lange, Karren Eppley, Wendy Ewald
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Visual Encounters in the Study of Rural Childhoods brings together visual studies and childhood studies to explore images of childhood in the study of rurality and rural life. The volume highlights how the voices of children themselves remain central to investigations of rural childhoods. Contributions...
Caste, Social Inequality and Mobility in Rural India
Reconceptualizing the Indian Village
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2019
Caste, Social Inequality and Mobility in Rural India: Reconceptualising the Indian Village investigates and presents a holistic view of today’s rural India by analysing different social aspects such as caste, migration, mobility, education and inequalities. It further studies the village social...
by Jing Song
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
With China’s rapid advancements in urbanization and industrialization, there has been significant labor movement away from agriculture in the rural regions. Using four village case studies, Song examines how this restructuring process affects the rural population.
Much of her research is...
Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth
Young Rural Lives
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
This collection of international research and collaborative theoretical innovation examines the socio-cultural contexts and negotiations that young people face when growing up in rural settings across the world. This book is strikingly different to a standard edited book of loosely linked, but...
Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives
Labour and Community in the New Rural Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2002
Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives examines the repercussions of economic globalization on several manufacturing-dependent rural communities in Canada. Foregrounding a distinct interest in the 'grassroots' effects of such contemporary corporate strategies as plant closures and downsizing, authors Anthony...
Out in the Country
Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Monograph from the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists
Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Sexualities Section
Winner of the 2010 Congress Inaugural Qualitative...
by Dr. R.N. Tripathi
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
This book about Rural development of our country includes any programmed for promoting the social and economic welfare of rural population or the upliftment of the masses in rural area.
The Methodology of Political Economy
Studying the Global Rural–Urban Matrix
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
The importance of the global rural-urban matrix is often overlooked due to urban-normativity. But sometimes agrarian populism and a pastoral rural imaginary result in the equally fallacy of a rural-normativity, as in Jeffersonian nostalgia for a lost way of life that never existed. The nature of rurality...
Bearing the Brunt
Impact of Rural Distress on Women
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
This book refutes the rising general perception that the gender gap in India is decreasing.
The argument is strengthened by calculating the gender gap index at two time periods and providing quantitative information along with information pertaining to numerous case studies.
Selecting...
by Lia Bryant, Barbara Pini
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
The study of gender in rural spaces is still in its infancy. Thus far, there has been little exploration of the constitution of the varied and differing ways that gender is constituted in rural settings. This book will place the question of gender, rurality and difference at its center.
The...
The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation
Essays in the Social History of Rural America
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
This volume represents one of the first efforts to harvest the rapidly emerging scholarship in the field of American rural history. Building on the insights and methodologies that social historians have directed toward urban life, the contributors explore the past as it unfolded in the rural settings...
Opening Windows onto Hidden Lives
Women, Country Life, and Early Rural Sociological Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Building on their analysis in Sociology in Government (Penn State, 2003), Julie Zimmerman and Olaf Larson again join forces across the generations to explore the unexpected inclusion of rural and farm women in the research conducted by the USDA’s Division of Farm Population and Rural Life. Existing...