Rural category: 418 books
Urbanormativity
Reality, Representation, and Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2019
This book investigates *urbanormativity—*a concept that privileges urban normalcy and desirability over rural deviance and undesirability. The “reality” section outlines its foundations—urbanization, urban-rural systems, and urban dependency. The “representation” section explores urbanormative...
For-Profit Democracy
Why the Government Is Losing the Trust of Rural America
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
A fascinating sociological assessment of the damaging effects of the for†‘profit partnership between government and corporation on rural Americans
Why is government distrust rampant, especially in the rural United States? This book offers a simple explanation: corporations and the government...
by William Cobbett
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2005
Travelling on horseback through southern England in the early 19th century, William Cobbett provides evocative and accurate descriptions of the countryside, colourful accounts of his encounters with labourers, and indignant outbursts at the encroaching cities and the sufferings of the exploited poor....
Paradise
Class, Commuters, and Ethnicity in Rural Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
What was life like in the 1950s in small communities in Ontario? Lower-class and upper-class residents might have different memories of those days, but on one thing they would agree: it is a much different world in rural Ontario today. The old guard has lost most of its power, displaced partly by...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Contradictions between impressive levels of economic growth and the persistence of poverty and inequality are perhaps nowhere more evident than in rural Brazil. While Brazil might appear to be an example of the potential harmony between large-scale, export-oriented agribusiness and small-scale family...
Those Who Work, Those Who Don't
Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
When the rural poor prioritize issues such as the right to bear arms, and disapprove of welfare despite their economic concerns, they are often dismissed as uneducated and backward by academics and political analysts. In Those Who Work, Those Who Don't, Jennifer Sherman offers a much-needed sympathetic...
The Challenges of Being a Rural Gay Man
Coping with Stigma
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Gay men often face struggles in the conservative world of rural life, due to the pervasive social stigmas associated with homosexuality and the lack of anonymity in a small-town setting. In this book, Preston and D’Augelli present the results of in-depth interviews and surveys with rural gay men,...
The Transformation of Rural Life
Southern Illinois, 1890-1990
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Jane Adams focuses on the transformation of rural life in Union County, Illinois, as she explores the ways in which American farming has been experienced and understood in the twentieth century. Reconstructing the histories of seven farms, she places the details of daily life within the context of...
War, Agriculture, and Food
Rural Europe from the 1930s to the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Between the 1930s and the 1950s rural life in Europe underwent profound changes, partly as a result of the Second World War, and partly as a result of changes which had been in progress over many years. This book examines a range of European countries, from Scandinavia to Spain and Ireland to Hungary,...
The Midwest Farmer’s Daughter
In Search of an American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
From yesterday's gingham girls to today's Google-era Farmer Janes, The Midwest Farmer's Daughter explores the resurgent role played by female agriculturalists at a time when fully 30 percent of new farms in the US are woman-owned, but when, paradoxically, America's farm-reared daughters are conspicuously...
Negotiating Adolescence in Rural Bangladesh
A Journey through School, Love and Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The book interrogates the experience of being young and becoming adult in rural Bangladesh, in a context of profound processes of socio economic change. Throughout South Asia, new educational opportunities and an increase in the age at which girls and boys get married are opening new spaces for young...
Challenging Social Inequality
The Landless Rural Workers Movement and Agrarian Reform in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
In Challenging Social Inequality, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars and development workers explores the causes, consequences, and contemporary reactions to Brazil's sharply unequal agrarian structure. They focus on the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST)—Latin America's...
Public ICT Center for Rural Development
Inclusiveness, Sustainability, and Impact
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Cybercafés play a key role in providing internet access to developing countries. This paper examines the challenges of internet connectivity in rural and remote areas and how cybercafés now serve as a model behind government efforts to set up telecenters to extend internet connectivity to rural...
Bulldozer Revolutions
A Rural History of the Metropolitan South
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
By examining the metropolitan fringes of Houston in Montgomery County, Texas, and Washington, D.C., in Loudoun County, Virginia, this book combines rural, environmental, and agricultural history to disrupt our view of the southern metropolis.
Andrew C. Baker examines the local boosters, gentlemen...