Rural communities / rural life Books
Indiana University Press Global Heartland
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn Faranak Miraftab's book, Global Heartland, the life of the meatpacker is vividly brought to life. Miraftab studies the lived-realities of meatpacking laborers to understand how the industry has influenced the economic revitalization and social transformation of the small, rural community of Beardstown, Illinois, while arguing that the thriving economy and cultural diversity successes of the area obscure larger narratives about the unequal global ties that enabled these changes. * Antipode *Faranak Miraftab's powerful and, at times, very personal study of the meat-packing industry in Beardstown, Illinois, offers an exemplary analysis of the relational character of place. The book challenges us to think seriously about places that are all too often located at the periphery of mainstream urban theory. * AAG Review of Books *The depth and breadth of this book show it was a decade in the making. Miraftab has carried out a rich multi-sited ethnography to help us understand the transbordering factors and relations that produce and revitalize Beardstown, a meatpacking town in Illinois. * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I. Beardstown: A Place in the World1. Welcome to Porkopolis2. It All Changed OvernightPart II. Displaced Labor3. "Michoacán's Largest Export is People"4. "Winning the Lotto in Togo"5. Detroit: "The First Third World City of the U.S."Part III. Outsourced Lives6. Global Restructuring of Social ReproductionPart IV. We Wanted Workers, We Got People7. We Wanted Workers8. We Got PeopleConclusion: The Global in my BackyardAppendix 1: Population and Labor TablesAppendix 2: Schedule and Profile of IntervieweesNotesReferencesIndex
£56.10
Indiana University Press Global Heartland
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn Faranak Miraftab's book, Global Heartland, the life of the meatpacker is vividly brought to life. Miraftab studies the lived-realities of meatpacking laborers to understand how the industry has influenced the economic revitalization and social transformation of the small, rural community of Beardstown, Illinois, while arguing that the thriving economy and cultural diversity successes of the area obscure larger narratives about the unequal global ties that enabled these changes. * Antipode *Faranak Miraftab's powerful and, at times, very personal study of the meat-packing industry in Beardstown, Illinois, offers an exemplary analysis of the relational character of place. The book challenges us to think seriously about places that are all too often located at the periphery of mainstream urban theory. * AAG Review of Books *The depth and breadth of this book show it was a decade in the making. Miraftab has carried out a rich multi-sited ethnography to help us understand the transbordering factors and relations that produce and revitalize Beardstown, a meatpacking town in Illinois. * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I. Beardstown: A Place in the World1. Welcome to Porkopolis2. It All Changed OvernightPart II. Displaced Labor3. "Michoacán's Largest Export is People"4. "Winning the Lotto in Togo"5. Detroit: "The First Third World City of the U.S."Part III. Outsourced Lives6. Global Restructuring of Social ReproductionPart IV. We Wanted Workers, We Got People7. We Wanted Workers8. We Got PeopleConclusion: The Global in my BackyardAppendix 1: Population and Labor TablesAppendix 2: Schedule and Profile of IntervieweesNotesReferencesIndex
£21.59
Indiana University Press Transformations on the Ground
Book SynopsisIn Botswana's struggle to access international economies, few resources are as fundamental and fraught as control over land. Land, Power, and the Global considers the ways in which power in all its formslocal, international, legal, familialaffects the collision of global with local concerns over access to land and control over its use.Trade Review"An important and original contribution to scholarship. Transformations on the Ground offers a nuanced and empirically dense account of land issues —a hot and controversial topic both in academic and political discussions. This book adds a particular dimension to the very large body of literature with its specific mix of legal aspects, ethnographic data, and a global framework."—Dr. Andreas Eckert, coeditor of Afrika 1500 - 1900: Geschichte und Gesellschaft Taschenbuch [Africa 1500 - 1900: History and Society] and Director Re-Work Humboldt University Berlin"Botswana is a darling of international donors and regularly praised as an upwardly mobile, prosperous and successful country. At the same time, it is characterized by poverty and exclusion, especially of women. In her insightful case study on land politics, Anne Griffiths effectively contrasts the image of a coherent state against myriad realities and confusion of competences on the ground. Based on decades of ethnographic fieldwork, this book masterfully demonstrates how in the realm of land and law, international, national, regional and local domains intersect and overlap, and come into conflict with one another."—Andreas Eckert, Humboldt University Berlin"Anne Griffiths' ambitious and original book reveals how the 'global' is always situated in specific places and times through her insightful analysis of how land in Botswana has figured in practices, policy and politics from the standpoints of household, family, village, district, national and international levels. Griffiths' astute use of political and legal history, legal documents, observation of statutory and customary law settings, multi-generational life histories and detailed ethnography enable her to provide a rich and informative account that goes well beyond the mantra of 'the global in the local'. While insisting on foregrounding "the voices, perceptions, and experiences of people's relationships with land", Griffiths shows how these interact with national politics, policies, laws and legal practice and with the effects of international and global agencies and processes to produce inequality and class differences, despite some improvement in gendered patterns of land entitlement. "—Pauline Peters, Faculty Associate, Harvard Kennedy School and Center for African StudiesTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionSection I: Historical Dimensions of Land in Botswana: Contemporary Entanglements1. The International Landscape and its Influence on Land in Botswana2. Reframing the Governance of Land3. Institutional Frameworks and GovernanceSection II: The Bottom Up Impact of Land on Diverging Family Lifeworlds and Gender Relations4. Families, Networks and Status5. Transformations on the GroundSection III: Law and Space: Negotiating Legal Plurality in Botswana6. Negotiating Conflict: The Handling of Disputes in the Land Tribunal7. Constructing Legality in the High Court and Court of AppealFinal ReflectionsAppendixBibliographyIndex
£56.10
Indiana University Press Transformations on the Ground
Book SynopsisIn Botswana's struggle to access international economies, few resources are as fundamental and fraught as control over land. Land, Power, and the Global considers the ways in which power in all its forms—local, international, legal, familial—affects the collision of global with local concerns over access to land and control over its use.Trade Review"An important and original contribution to scholarship. Transformations on the Ground offers a nuanced and empirically dense account of land issues —a hot and controversial topic both in academic and political discussions. This book adds a particular dimension to the very large body of literature with its specific mix of legal aspects, ethnographic data, and a global framework."—Dr. Andreas Eckert, coeditor of Afrika 1500 - 1900: Geschichte und Gesellschaft Taschenbuch [Africa 1500 - 1900: History and Society] and Director Re-Work Humboldt University Berlin"Botswana is a darling of international donors and regularly praised as an upwardly mobile, prosperous and successful country. At the same time, it is characterized by poverty and exclusion, especially of women. In her insightful case study on land politics, Anne Griffiths effectively contrasts the image of a coherent state against myriad realities and confusion of competences on the ground. Based on decades of ethnographic fieldwork, this book masterfully demonstrates how in the realm of land and law, international, national, regional and local domains intersect and overlap, and come into conflict with one another."—Andreas Eckert, Humboldt University Berlin"Anne Griffiths' ambitious and original book reveals how the 'global' is always situated in specific places and times through her insightful analysis of how land in Botswana has figured in practices, policy and politics from the standpoints of household, family, village, district, national and international levels. Griffiths' astute use of political and legal history, legal documents, observation of statutory and customary law settings, multi-generational life histories and detailed ethnography enable her to provide a rich and informative account that goes well beyond the mantra of 'the global in the local'. While insisting on foregrounding "the voices, perceptions, and experiences of people's relationships with land", Griffiths shows how these interact with national politics, policies, laws and legal practice and with the effects of international and global agencies and processes to produce inequality and class differences, despite some improvement in gendered patterns of land entitlement. "—Pauline Peters, Faculty Associate, Harvard Kennedy School and Center for African StudiesTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionSection I: Historical Dimensions of Land in Botswana: Contemporary Entanglements1. The International Landscape and its Influence on Land in Botswana2. Reframing the Governance of Land3. Institutional Frameworks and GovernanceSection II: The Bottom Up Impact of Land on Diverging Family Lifeworlds and Gender Relations4. Families, Networks and Status5. Transformations on the GroundSection III: Law and Space: Negotiating Legal Plurality in Botswana6. Negotiating Conflict: The Handling of Disputes in the Land Tribunal7. Constructing Legality in the High Court and Court of AppealFinal ReflectionsAppendixBibliographyIndex
£21.59
Indiana University Press The Outside
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Outside is a rich, deep, and nuanced ethnographic account of the transformations that migration generates in sending communities in the Tadla plain in central Morocco. -- Lorena Gazzotti * International Migration Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroductionTempos of LifeThe Outside InsideWives of ElsewhereBeautiful FuturesThe Gender of the CrossingThe OutsideConclusion: Migration as Life
£49.30
Indiana University Press The Outside Migration as Life in Morocco
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Outside is a rich, deep, and nuanced ethnographic account of the transformations that migration generates in sending communities in the Tadla plain in central Morocco. -- Lorena Gazzotti * International Migration Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroductionTempos of LifeThe Outside InsideWives of ElsewhereBeautiful FuturesThe Gender of the CrossingThe OutsideConclusion: Migration as Life
£17.99
MH - Indiana University Press An Amish Patchwork Indianas Old Orders in the Modern World
Book SynopsisA contemporary portrait of Indiana's Amish.Table of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Who Are These People?1. The Old Orders: In the World but Not of It2. Moving to Indiana3. Maintaining the Old Order4. Amish Ethnicity: Pennsylvania Dutch and Swiss5. Community and Family Life6. Amish Schools7. Amish Work: Farm, Factory, Carpentry, and Cottage Industry8. The Amish and Their Neighbors9. A Different Part of the Patchwork: Indiana's Old Order MennonitesAfterword: The Patchwork in the Modern WorldNotesFor Further ReadingIndex
£15.19
University of Notre Dame Press Long Road from Quito
Book SynopsisThe incredible story of David Gaus, who has dedicated his life to bringing modern health care and medicine to rural communities in Ecuador.Trade Review"The book succeeds in helping readers understand the lack of medical care in rural areas—the 'urban bias' of where doctors want to practice—and the unique geographic and social problems that complicate access to health care." —Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati Enquirer, author of A Promise in Haiti"Long Road from Quito: Transforming Health Care in Rural Latin America is well written and captures the attention of the reader; the many examples provide a colorful and vivid narrative that makes this book a page turner. Tony Hiss knows how to tell a story, and the reader gets an excellent in-depth impression of the context based on the vivid descriptions provided." —Clemens Sedmak, author of A Church of the Poor"If you are lucky, a few times in life you will come across a person who is able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. It is even rarer still to find in such a leader a genuine sense of humility and a depth of soul that radiates joy and laughter. I know you will enjoy and be inspired by this story of a modern-day man who is as holy as he is innovative, who is as determined as he is fun, and who is both visionary and focused on the set of eyes before him at any given moment." —Lou Nanni, from the foreword“[David] Gaus’ journey from an accounting undergraduate to a medical doctor hailed as a hero in Ecuador, with hesburgh as inspiration and partner, is recounted in the new book, Long Road from Quito, by journalist Tony Hiss.” —Notre Dame Magazine"Long Road from Quito by Tony Hiss is an extraordinary combination of biography and history . . . an especially and unreservedly recommended addition to community and academic library Contemporary American Biography collections in general, and Latin American Medical History supplemental studies reading lists in particular. . . . With a charming conversational style that's a pleasure to read, Hiss shows . . . Gaus's vision and determination . . . in a story with equal parts interest for Notre Dame readers, health practitioners, medical anthropologists, Latin American students and scholars, and the general public." —John Taylor, Midwest Book Review"[This] narrative has the contents, structure, and timing to engage the reader with the details of the philosophy, biography, and determination of David Gaus, a young accountant who took a charity trip to Quito in 1984. His trip ended up transforming him into a physician for the poor, a hospital builder, and an educator in rural Ecuador." —Choice“Long Road from Quito also depicts a challenge far greater than geographic isolation—namely, how rural populations differ from urban populations in their perception of health and disease. Such insights are essential not just in Ecuador but in much of the world, including industrialized nations.” —American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene"For family physicians with an interest in global health, rural medicine, and tropical disease, plus an appreciation for a well-told story, this book is a great read. Thoroughly entertaining while still conveying a message about how global health can be done well and responsibly, the book gives a sense of hope and energy." —Family Medicine
£20.89
University of Notre Dame Press Cement Earthworms and Cheese Factories
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£70.55
Pennsylvania State University Press The Complete Plays of Jean Racine Volume 3
Book SynopsisA 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.Trade Review“This is a timely and important book on a very underresearched and misunderstood topic. As numerous others point out, ‘rural’ America is not just farms and rural areas, and its problems are not all that different in some fundamental ways from urban ones. This book should be required reading for anyone interested in better understanding how global economic changes have affected not only jobs but, crucially, the people who hold them, the places they live, the people they live with. The book will be of interest to academics and nonacademics alike. Policy makers would be particularly well advised to learn from its rich empirical analysis and thoughtful discussion.”—William W. Falk,University of Maryland“This volume is a benchmark on responses to economic change in the United States. The editors have done a masterful job in showcasing a breadth of scholarship, reflected collectively in the contributing authors’ interdisciplinary approaches, attention to an array of family, demographic, and economic outcomes, and concern with theoretical as well as policy-related issues. The chapters combine rigorous analysis and detailed implications for public policy in a lucid manner that will be accessible to a variety of audiences. In confronting and comparing rural responses with those documented in urban settings, the chapters provide an innovative corrective to conventional work in sociology, family studies, demography, economics, and policy studies.”—Linda Lobao,The Ohio State University“While the troubles facing the banking and housing sectors have served as the focal points of our nation’s economic woes, it’s around the kitchen tables of many rural American families where the pain and strain have been profoundly felt. Regrettably, efforts to examine the multifaceted consequences of economic restructuring on family well-being have been virtually absent—until now. Assembling a veritable ‘who’s who’ among social and behavioral scientists, Smith and Tickamyer have guided the development of an impressive research volume that offers important insights into the array of family-related challenges playing in rural America today as a product of national and global economic forces. The value-added aspect of this volume is the attention that it devotes to policy—to the mix of investments and refinements that policy makers must pursue in order to promote the stability and the long-term vitality of families in rural America.”—Lionel J. “Bo” Beaulieu,Southern Rural Development Center, Mississippi State UniversityTable of ContentsContentsList of Figures List of Maps List of Tables ForewordCynthia “Mil” DuncanAcknowledgmentsIntroductionKristin E. Smith and Ann TickamyerSection 1: Changing Economic Opportunities and Changing Roles1 Rural Economic Restructuring: Implications for Children, Youth, and FamiliesDaniel T. Lichter and Deborah Roempke Graefe 2 Employment Hardship Among Rural MenLeif Jensen and Eric B. Jensen3 Changing Roles: Women and Work in Rural AmericaKristin E. Smith4 Men Without Sawmills: Job Loss and Gender Identity in Rural AmericaJennifer ShermanSection 2: Family Change, Economic Hardship, and Family Adaptive Strategies5 Economic Restructuring and Family Structure Change, 1980 to 2000: A Focus on Female-Headed Families with ChildrenDiane K. McLaughlin and Alisha J. Coleman-Jensen6 Patterns of Family Formation and Dissolution in Rural America and Implications for Well-BeingAnastasia Snyder7 Job Characteristics and Economic Survival Strategies: The Effect of Economic Restructuring and Marital Status in a Rural CountyMargaret K. Nelson8 Economic Hardship, Parenting, and Family Stability in a Cohort of Rural AdolescentsKatherine Jewsbury CongerSection 3: Low-Wage Employment9 Parents’ Work Time in Rural America: The Growth of Irregular SchedulesElaine McCrate10 Low-Wage Employment Among Minority Women in Nonmetropolitan Areas: A Decomposition AnalysisMarlene Lee11 Regional Variation of Women in Low-Wage Work Across Rural CommunitiesCynthia D. Anderson and Chih-Yuan WengSection 4: Work and Family Policy12 Strengthening Rural Communities Through Investment in Youth Education, Employment, and TrainingLiliokanaio Peaslee and Andrew Hahn13 Child Care in Rural AmericaNicole D. Forry and Susan K. Walker14 Health Insurance in Rural AmericaDeborah Roempke Graefe15 Livelihood Practices in the Shadow of Welfare ReformAnn Tickamyer and Debra Henderson16 Poverty, Work, and the Local Environment: TANF and EITCDomenico Parisi, Steven Michael Grice, Guangqing Chi, and Jed PressgroveConclusionsAnn Tickamyer and Kristin E. SmithReferencesList of ContributorsIndex
£71.06
University of Washington Press Fair Trade from the Ground Up
Book SynopsisDocuments achievements at both the producer and the consumer ends of commodity chains and assesses prospects for future growthTrade Review". . . an intriguing and informational read for anyone who is involved or interested in the fair trade movement." * Contemporary Sociology *"This volume provides a rich, detailed framework for examining and discussing fair trade and the sustainability it encourages across the developed and developing worlds. Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Fair Trade from the Ground Up 2. Fair Trade Coffee in Guatemala 3. How Do Producers Spend the Social Premium? 4. Selling and Buying Fair Trade 5. Fair Trade Activisim in the United States 6. A Fair Trade University 7. Growing Fair Trade Notes References Contributors Index
£29.66
University of Washington Press Educating the Chinese Individual
Book SynopsisInvestigates that trend, drawing on fieldwork in a rural high school in Zhejiang where students, teachers, and officials of different generations, genders, and social backgrounds form what is essentially a miniature version of Chinese society.Trade Review"Educating the Chinese Individual is an ethnographically rich and stimulating study. It enriches our knowledge about a relatively under-studied group—rural youth and young teachers—in a marginal setting. It challenges some common assumptions of the changing landscape of school education and everyday cultural practice of the younger generations in post-socialist China. . . . This book will attract a wide readership in educational studies but will also appeal to audiences in sociology and anthropology who are interested in social change and youth culture in contemporary China." -- Xuan Dong * The China Quarterly *"[E]xcellent. . . . [T]his ethnography is a fine depiction of a slice of life in China today. The important issues it handles show the value of having more ethnographies of Chinese secondary schools, including studies of first-tier, vocational, and urban high schools from many parts of the country." -- Andrew B. Kipnis * The China Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Chinese Education and Processes of Individualization 1. Discipline and Agency: Quests for Individual Space 2. Text and Truth: Visions of the Learned Person and Good Citizen 3. Hierarchy and Democracy: Controlled Rise of the Individual 4. Motivation and Examination: The Making and Breaking of the Individual 5. Dreams and Dedications: Teachers’ Views and the Construction of a Generation Gap Conclusion: Authoritarian Individualization Notes Glossary of Chinese Names and Terms Bibliography Index
£62.03
University of Washington Press Educating the Chinese Individual
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Educating the Chinese Individual is an ethnographically rich and stimulating study. It enriches our knowledge about a relatively under-studied group—rural youth and young teachers—in a marginal setting. It challenges some common assumptions of the changing landscape of school education and everyday cultural practice of the younger generations in post-socialist China. . . . This book will attract a wide readership in educational studies but will also appeal to audiences in sociology and anthropology who are interested in social change and youth culture in contemporary China." -- Xuan Dong * The China Quarterly *"[E]xcellent. . . . [T]his ethnography is a fine depiction of a slice of life in China today. The important issues it handles show the value of having more ethnographies of Chinese secondary schools, including studies of first-tier, vocational, and urban high schools from many parts of the country." -- Andrew B. Kipnis * The China Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Chinese Education and Processes of Individualization 1. Discipline and Agency: Quests for Individual Space 2. Text and Truth: Visions of the Learned Person and Good Citizen 3. Hierarchy and Democracy: Controlled Rise of the Individual 4. Motivation and Examination: The Making and Breaking of the Individual 5. Dreams and Dedications: Teachers’ Views and the Construction of a Generation Gap Conclusion: Authoritarian Individualization Notes Glossary of Chinese Names and Terms Bibliography Index
£33.98
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Family and Farm in Prefamine Ireland The Parish
Book SynopsisThis study of rural Ireland in the 1840s explicates the social, economic and demographic conditions of the era. The author argues that overpopulation and deprivation were inextricably linked to the rapid economic development of rural Ireland that was shaped by British interests.Trade ReviewThe book is a pleasure to read; the analysis is logical, precise and nuanced; the wording, rich textured and apt. It is impossible in this space to report the variety and depth of the insights that pervade O'Neill's book. - Irish Literary Supplement; ""An unrivalled picture of one small part of pre-Famine rural Ireland."" - Mary E. Daly, Irish Historical Studies; ""An important contribution both to Irish history and to the demographic study of peasant societies in general."" - Journal of Social History
£15.26
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Men Own the Fields Women Own the Crops Gender and Power in the Cameroon Grassfields
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£21.38
Yale University Press Love for the Land
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£17.63
John Wiley & Sons Inc Nonprofit Boards Roles Responsibilities
Book SynopsisInsight and guidance on board management - what works and what doesn't in the nonprofit sector Is there really that much difference between nonprofit boards and their for-profit counterparts? Definitely. And this hands-on guide geared specifically to the nonprofit sector explores that difference.Table of ContentsModels of Governance and Leadership. Accountability: A Board's Fiduciary Obligations. Structuring a Board for Maximum Effectiveness. Organizing the Board's Work. The Core Responsibilities of a Nonprofit Board. Building a Cooperative Spirit. Effective Board Meetings. Maintaining Focus on Mission. New Challenges for Nonprofit Boards. Appendices. Notes. Index.
£36.00
John Wiley & Sons Inc Fund Raising
Book SynopsisDesigned for fund-raising executives of organizations both large and small, this resource covers initial preparation and 15 areas of fund-raising, as well as discusses the ongoing management of the process. Included are numerous examples, case studies, check lists, and a unique evaluation of the audit environment of nonprofit organizations.Table of ContentsGiving Money to Charity: An American Tradition. Readiness Tests. Pyramids Are Built from the Bottom Up. The Middle Tier: Gifts from Institutions. The Final Tier: Investment Decisions. Management of the Fund Development Process. Appendices. Selected References. Index.
£81.00
John Wiley & Sons Inc Migration Into Rural Areas
Book SynopsisThis popular dream of "escaping into the countryside" has caused great change in the population structures of Western society in this century.Table of ContentsMigration, Rurality and the Post-Productivist Countryside (K. Halfacree & P. Boyle). Studying Counterurbanisation and the Rural Population Turnaround (T. Champion). Counterurbanisation and Social Class (T. Fielding). Contrasting the Counterurbanisation Experience in European Nations (T. Kontuly). Concentrated Immigration, Restructuring and the 'Selective' Deconcentration of the United States Population (W. Frey & K. Johnson). The Hypothesis of Welfare-Led Migration to Rural Areas: The Australian Case (G. Hugo & M. Bell). Inside Looking Out; Outside Looking in. Different Experiences of Cultural Competence in Rural Lifestyles (P. Cloke, et al.). Indigeneity, Identity and Locality: Perspectives on Swaledale (S. Fielding). Class, Colonisation and Lifestyle Strategies in Gower (P. Cloke, et al.). Middle Class Mobility, Rural Communities and the Politics of Exclusion (J. Murdoch & G. Day). Neo-Tribes, Migration and the Post-Productivist Countryside (K. Halfacree). Counterurbanisation, Fragmentation and the Paradox of the Rural Idyll (M. Gorton, et al.). Planning by Numbers: Migration and Statistical Governance (S. Abram, et al.). Neglected Gender Dimensions of Rural Social Restructuring (J. Agg & M. Phillips). Migration into Rural Communities: Questioning the Language of Counterurbanisation (J. Allen & E. Mooney). Migration into Rural Areas: A Collective Behaviour Framework? (P. Boyle and K. Halfacree). List of Illustrations. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Index.
£225.86
The University of Michigan Press Gardens and Neighbors
Book SynopsisFresh water in ancient Italy was a limited resource, made all the more precious by the Roman world's reliance on agriculture as its primary source of wealth. This title explores the uses of the law in controlling local water supplies. It investigates numerous issues critical to rural communities and the Roman economy.Trade ReviewGardens and Neighbors will provide an important building block in the growing body of literature on the ways that Roman law, Roman society, and the economic concerns of the Romans jointly functioned in the real world. - Michael Peachin, New York University
£76.90
The University of Michigan Press Marx Went AwayBut Karl Stayed Behind
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£35.10
University of California Press The Remembered Village
Book SynopsisDescribes and analyzes life in Rampura in the late 1940s. In addition to the rich detail of village life and of a number of individual villagers, the author gives us insights into the nature of ethnographic research. He relates how he came to study this particular village. He also discusses the factors that could and did bias his research.Trade Review"The author has managed to combine successfully the professional approach of an anthropologist with that of a novelist to the description of an Indian village community. . . . Srinivas has made a virtue out of the misfortune of losing all his field notes: The Remembered Village is a piece of art which is bound to become a classic of Indian ethnography." * Times Higher Education *""Few accounts of village life give one the sense of coming to know, of vicariously sharing in, the lives of real villagers that this book conveys. . . . The work is holistic in the best anthropological manner; the principal aspects of Rampura life are lucidly sketched and the interrelations among them are cogently considered. . . . our collective knowledge and its practical relevance become enhanced." * Economic and Political Weekly *"[Srinivas] has described and analyzed life in Rampura in the late 1940s with charm and insight. His book is enjoyable as well as illuminating. . . . In addition to the rich detail of village life and of a number of individual villagers, Srinivas gives us valuable insights into the nature of ethnographic research. He relates how he came to study this particular village. He tells us how he got established in the village, and describes vividly his living quarters. . . . He describes, at various places throughout the book, his reactions to the villagers and his perceptions of their reactions to him. He freely admits his own negative reactions to certain things and certain behavior. He discusses the factors that could and did bias his research. . . . illuminate[s] both the problems and the rewards of the ethnographer." * Sociology *"The real virtue of this most recent contribution by Dr. Srinivas is the consistently human, humane, and humanistic tone oft he observations and of the narration; the simple, straightforward style in which it is written; and the richness of anecdotal materials. . . . He writes modestly as a wise and knowledgeable man. He restores faith in the best tradition of ethnography. Without being popular, in the pejorative sense, it is a book any uninitiated reader can read with pleasure and enlightenment." * Asian Student *Table of ContentsFOREWORD PREFACE I How IT ALL BEGAN II THE FIELD SITUATION III THREE IMPORTANT MEN IV THE UNIVERSE OF AGRICULTURE V THE SEXES AND THE HOUSEHOLD VI RELATIONS BETWEEN CASTES VII CLASSES AND FACTIONS VIII THE CHANGING VILLAGE IX THE QUALITY OF SOCIAL RELATIONS X RELIGION XI FAREWELL APPENDICES GLOSSARY INDEX
£27.90
University of California Press Struggling with Destiny in Karimpur 19251984
Book SynopsisPresents a portrait of Karimpur, an Indian village, as it has changed over a sixty-year period. Using cultural documents such as songs and stories, as well as data on household budgets and farming practices, this title examines what it means to be poor or rich, female or male.
£24.30
University of California Press Crime Cultural Conflict and Justice in Rural
Book SynopsisExplores the largely unknown world of rural crime and justice in post-emancipation Imperial Russia. This title offers a major reassessment of the interactions between peasantry and the state in the decades leading up to World War I.
£49.30
University of California Press Beneath the China Boom
Book SynopsisFor nearly four decades, China's manufacturing boom has been powered by the labor of 287 million rural migrant workers, who travel seasonally between villages where they farm for subsistence and cities where they work. Yet recently local governments have moved away from manufacturing and toward urban expansion and construction as a development strategy. As a result, at least 88 million rural people to date have lost rights to village land. In Beneath the China Boom, JuliaChuang follows the trajectories of rural workers, who were once supported by a village welfare state and are now landless. This book provides a view of the undertow of China's economic success, and the periodic crisesa rural fiscal crisis, a runaway urbanizationthat it first created and now must resolve.Trade Review"This book is an outstanding new contribution to the literature on China’s urbanization as well as on socioeconomic development more broadly. Moreover, it is a very engaging read. I would highly recommend it to experts, scholars, as well as students from related disciplinary backgrounds." * Asien: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia *"Chuang’s book is a tour de force in revealing the complexities and interconnections of China’s economic boom, especially the more recent developments occurring in the country’s interior provinces." * Exertions * "Beneath the China Boom is an excellent example of unlocking large-scale social processes through multisited ethnography." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Index of Characters 1. China’s Rise 2. A Tale of Two Villages 3. Into the World of Chinese Labor 4. Rural/Urban Dualism 5. Urbanization and the New Rural Economy 6. Paradoxes of Urbanization 7. The Future of Chinese Development Appendix Notes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press Aspen and the American Dream How One Town Manages
Book SynopsisHow is it possible for a town to exist where the median household income is about $73,000, but the median home price is about $4,000,000? Boring into the impossiblemath of Aspen, Colorado,Stuberexplores how middle-class people have found a way to live in thissupergentrified town. Interviewing a range of residents, policymakers, and officials,Stubershows that what resolves the math equation between incomes and home values in Aspen, Coloradothe X-factorthat makes middle-class life possibleis the careful orchestration of diverse class interests within local politics and the community. She explores how this is achieved through a highly regulatory and extractive land use code that provides symbolic and material value to highly affluent investors and part-year residents, as well as less-affluent locals, many of whom benefit from an array of subsidiesincluding an extensive affordable housing programthat redistribute economic resources in ways that make it possible for middle-class residents to live there. Stuberfurther examines how Latinos, who provide much of the service work in Aspen and who tend to live outside the town, fit into the social geography of one of the most unequal places in the country. Overall,Stuberargues that the Aspen's ability to balance the interests of its diverse class constituencies is not a foregone conclusion; rather, it is the result of efforts by local stakeholderscitizens, government, developers, and vacationersto preserve the town's unique feel and value, and keep Aspen, Aspen in all its complex dynamics.Trade Review "Stuber does an excellent job of providing answers." * CHOICE *“Astounding. . . .Aspen and the American Dream is a wonderful book for students of social class and of urban sociology and for anyone who wonders how the material landscape is made.” * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Introduction: The Impossible Math of Aspen, Colorado 1. Place-Based Class Cultures 2. Living the "Aspen Dream"? Redefining and Realizing the Good Life 3. Steadying the Pendulum 4. Place-Making and the Construction of "Small-Town Character" 5. "But Does It Deliver Value?": Negotiating Aspen's Land Use Code 6. A Mall at the Base of a Mountain? 7. Buscando el Sueño Americano: Latinos in the Valley Conclusion: The Limits and Possibilities of Place-Making in the Era of Supergentrification Acknowledgments Appendix: Methodology Notes References Index
£64.00
University of California Press Peasant Wisdom
£63.90
University of California Press Punishing Places
Book SynopsisPunishing Places applies a unique spatial analysis to mass incarceration in the United States. It demonstrates that our highest imprisonment rates are now in small cities, suburbs, and rural areas. Jessica Simes argues that mass incarceration should be conceptualized as one of the legacies of U.S. racial residential segregation, but that a focus on large cities has diverted vital scholarly and policy attention away from communities affected most by mass incarceration today. This book presents novel measures for estimating the community-level effects of incarceration using spatial, quantitative, and qualitative methods. This analysis has broad and urgent implications for policy reforms aimed at ameliorating the community effects of mass incarceration and promoting alternatives to the carceral system.Trade Review"Simes’s careful engagement with…data builds to a compelling central argument. . . .Punishing Places contributes to a broader conversation within carceral studies that analyzes domestic policing as warfare." * Public Books *"Punishing Places contributes to a growing literature on the complex relationships between race, crime, and punishment." * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *"Simes’s emphasis on community is a compelling and hopeful one, and a link between sociology and efforts to restore that which mass imprisonment has destroyed." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • A Spatial View of Punishment 2 • The Urban Model 3 • Small Cities and Mass Incarceration 4 • Social Services Beyond the City: Isolation and Regional Inequity 5 • Race and Communities of Pervasive Incarceration 6 • Punishing Places 7 • Beyond Punishing Places: A Research and Reform Agenda Appendix: Data and Methodology Notes References Index
£22.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd First Farmers
Book SynopsisFirst Farmers: the Origins of Agricultural Societies offers readers an understanding of the origins and histories of early agricultural populations in all parts of the world. Uses data from archaeology, comparative linguistics, and biological anthropology to cover developments over the past 12,000 years Examines the reasons for the multiple primary origins of agriculture Focuses on agricultural origins in and dispersals out of the Middle East, central Africa, China, New Guinea, Mesoamerica and the northern Andes Covers the origins and dispersals of major language families such as Indo-European, Austronesian, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo and Uto-Aztecan Trade ReviewWinner of the AAP PSP Award for Archaeology and Anthropology 2005 A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Peter Bellwood - 2006 SAA Book Award - The Society for American Archaeology annually awards a prize to honor a recently published book that has had, or is expected to have, a major impact on the direction and character of archaeological research, and/or is expected to make a substantial contribution to the archaeology of an area. "Do not be misled by the humble title of Bellwood's book ... this volume stands alone in its scope and depth ... No student of anthropology, irrespective of subfield, should leave this book unread. It is and will remain one of the most important anthropological volumes of the 21st century." Choice "This book is a superb advertisement for archaeology as part of a multidisciplinary approach to the problem of how, where, and why our ancestors settled to plough and pasture." Times Higher Education Supplement “Bellwood is not afraid to challenge the established orthodoxy. This is a stimulating and thought-provoking assessment of one of the most important questions in archaeology today.” Peter Bogucki, Princeton University “This wonderful book is a fascinating treasure-house of information about human history since the origins of agriculture. It deserves to be a standard reference for archaeologists, linguists, geneticists, and anthropologists interested in the formation of the modern world.” Jared Diamond, University of California, Los Angeles; author of Guns, Germs, and Steel “A tour de force of historical anthropology. Rarely does one encounter a book with the sweeping historical scope of Peter Bellwood’s convincing worldwide synthesis of agricultural origins and population dispersals.” Patrick Kirch, University of California, Berkeley “Global in its scope, Peter Bellwood’s First Farmers boldly correlates the spreads of early farming with episodes of human population and language dispersal. It offers a powerfully coherent perspective, which challengingly sets one of the great themes of human history in a new and simplified vision.” Colin Renfrew, University of Cambridge "Bellwood is a master at summarising complex information... the real strength of this volume is that it will make accessible to students such a wide range of data and interpretations." New Book Chronicle "Unlike many books, Bellwood's represents the cogent unfolding of a complex argument that draws on disparate types of information ... It is certainly the most scholarly, single-authored review of global agricultural origins on the market." Austrlian Archaeology "The book certainly contains a good deal of interesting data and analysis." Anthropology in ActionTable of ContentsDetailed Contents. List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. 1 The Early Farming Dispersal Hypothesis in Perspective. The disciplinary players. Broad perspectives. Some key guiding principles. 2 The Origins and Dispersals of Agriculture: Some Operational Considerations. The significance of agriculture: productivity and population numbers. Why did agriculture develop in the first place?. The significance of agriculture vis-à-vis hunting and gathering. Under what circumstances might hunters and gatherers have adopted agriculture in prehistory?. Group 1: The “niche” hunter-gatherers of Africa and Asia. Group 2: The “unenclosed” hunter-gatherers of Australia, the Andamans and the Americas. Group 3: Hunter-gatherers who descend from former agriculturalists. Why do ethnographic hunter-gatherers have problems with agricultural adoption? A comparative view. To the archaeological record. 3 The Beginnings of Agriculture in Southwest Asia. The domestication of plants in the Fertile Crescent. The hunter-gatherer background in the Levant, 19,000 to 9500 BC. The Pre-Pottery Neolithic and the increasing dominance of domesticated crops. How did cereal domestication begin in Southwest Asia?. The archaeological record in Southwestern Asia in broader perspective. The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A. The Pre-Pottery Neolithic B. The real turning point in the Neolithic Revolution. 4 Tracking the Spreads of Farming Beyond the Fertile Crescent: Europe and Asia. The spread of the agricultural economy through Europe. Southern and Mediterranean Europe Cyprus, Turkey and Greece. The Balkans. The Mediterranean. The Danubians and the northern Mesolithic. The TRB and the Baltic. The British Isles. Hunters and farmers in prehistoric Europe. Agricultural dispersals from Southwest Asia to the east. Central Asia. The Indian Subcontinent. The domesticated crops of the Indian Subcontinent. Regional trajectories from hunter-gathering to farming in South Asia. The consequences of Mehrgarh. Western India: Balathal to Jorwe. Southern India. The Ganges Basin and Northeastern India. Europe and South Asia in a nutshell. 5 Africa: An Independent Focus of Agricultural Development?. The spread of the Southwest Asian agricultural complex into Egypt. The origins of the native African domesticates. The development and spread of agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa. 6 The Beginnings of Agriculture in China. Environmental factors and the domestication process in China. The archaeology of early agriculture in China. The archaeological record of the Early Neolithic in the Yellow and Yangzi Basins. Later developments (post 5000 BC) in the Chinese Neolithic. The spread of agriculture south of Zhejiang. 7 The Spread of Agriculture into Southeast Asia and Oceania. The background to agricultural dispersal in Southeast Asia. Early farmers in Mainland Southeast Asia. Early farmers in Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia. Early farmers in the Pacific. The New Guinea agricultural trajectory and its role in Pacific colonization. 8 Early Agriculture and its Spread in the Americas. Some necessary background. The geography of early agriculture, and general cultural trajectories. Current opinion on agricultural origins in the Americas. The domesticated crops. Maize. The other crops. Early pottery in the Americas. Early farmers in the Americas. The Andes. Amazonia. Middle America (with Mesoamerica). The Southwest. Thank the Lord for the freeway (and the pipeline). Immigrant Mesoamerican farmers in the Southwest?. Independent agricultural origins in the Eastern Woodlands. 9 What Do Language Families Mean for Human Prehistory?. Language families and how they are studied. Issues of phylogeny and reticulation. The identification and phylogenetic study of language families. Introducing the players. How do languages and language families spread?. How do languages change through time?. Macrofamilies, and more on the time factor. Languages in competition - language shift. Languages in competition - contact-induced change. 10 The Spread of Farming: Comparing the Archaeology and the Linguistics. Western and Central Eurasia, and Northern Africa. Indo-European. Indo-European from the Pontic Steppes?. Where did PIE really originate and what can we know about it?. Colin Renfrew’s contribution to the Indo-European Debate. Afroasiatic. Elamite and Dravidian, and the Indo-Aryans. A multidisciplinary scenario for South Asian prehistory. Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Elamo-Dravidian, and the issue of Nostratic. Saharan and Sub-Saharan Africa: Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Congo. Nilo-Saharan. Niger-Congo, with Bantu. East and Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. The Chinese and Mainland Southeast Asian language families. Austronesian. Piecing it together for East Asia. “Altaic”, and some difficult issues. The Trans New Guinea Phylum. The Americas – South and Central. South America. Middle America, Mesoamerica and the Southwest Uto-Aztecan. Eastern North America. Algonguian and Muskogean. Iroquoian, Siouan and Caddoan. Did the first farmers spread their languages?. 11 Genetics, Skeletal Anthropology, and the People Factor. Are there correlations between human biology and language families?. Do genes record history?. Southwest Asia and Europe. South Asia. Africa. East Asia. Southeast Asia and Oceania (mainly Austronesians). The Americas. Did early farmers spread through processes of demic diffusion?. 12 The Nature of Early Agricultural Expansion Homeland, spread and friction zones, plus overshoot. The stages within a process of agricultural genesis and dispersal. Notes. References. Index
£93.05
John Wiley and Sons Ltd First Farmers
Book SynopsisOffers readers an understanding of the origins and histories of early agricultural populations in various parts of the world. This book focuses on agricultural origins in and dispersals out of the Middle East, central Africa, China, New Guinea, and the northern Andes. It examines the reasons for the multiple primary origins of agriculture.Trade ReviewWinner of the AAP PSP Award for Archaeology and Anthropology 2005 A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Peter Bellwood - 2006 SAA Book Award - The Society for American Archaeology annually awards a prize to honor a recently published book that has had, or is expected to have, a major impact on the direction and character of archaeological research, and/or is expected to make a substantial contribution to the archaeology of an area. "Do not be misled by the humble title of Bellwood's book ... this volume stands alone in its scope and depth ... No student of anthropology, irrespective of subfield, should leave this book unread. It is and will remain one of the most important anthropological volumes of the 21st century." Choice "This book is a superb advertisement for archaeology as part of a multidisciplinary approach to the problem of how, where, and why our ancestors settled to plough and pasture." Times Higher Education Supplement “Bellwood is not afraid to challenge the established orthodoxy. This is a stimulating and thought-provoking assessment of one of the most important questions in archaeology today.” Peter Bogucki, Princeton University “This wonderful book is a fascinating treasure-house of information about human history since the origins of agriculture. It deserves to be a standard reference for archaeologists, linguists, geneticists, and anthropologists interested in the formation of the modern world.” Jared Diamond, University of California, Los Angeles; author of Guns, Germs, and Steel “A tour de force of historical anthropology. Rarely does one encounter a book with the sweeping historical scope of Peter Bellwood’s convincing worldwide synthesis of agricultural origins and population dispersals.” Patrick Kirch, University of California, Berkeley “Global in its scope, Peter Bellwood’s First Farmers boldly correlates the spreads of early farming with episodes of human population and language dispersal. It offers a powerfully coherent perspective, which challengingly sets one of the great themes of human history in a new and simplified vision.” Colin Renfrew, University of Cambridge "Bellwood is a master at summarising complex information... the real strength of this volume is that it will make accessible to students such a wide range of data and interpretations." New Book Chronicle "Unlike many books, Bellwood's represents the cogent unfolding of a complex argument that draws on disparate types of information ... It is certainly the most scholarly, single-authored review of global agricultural origins on the market." Austrlian Archaeology "The book certainly contains a good deal of interesting data and analysis." Anthropology in ActionTable of ContentsList of Figures xii List of Tables xv Preface xvi 1 The Early Farming Dispersal Hypothesis in Perspective 1 The Disciplinary Players 3 Broad Perspectives 4 Some Key Guiding Principles 9 2 The Origins and Dispersals of Agriculture: Some Operational Considerations 12 The Significance of Agriculture: Productivity and Population Numbers 14 Why Did Agriculture Develop in the First Place? 19 The Significance of Agriculture vis-à-vis Hunting and Gathering 25 Under What Circumstances Might Hunters and Gatherers Have Adopted Agriculture in Prehistory? 28 Group 1: The “niche” hunter-gatherers of Africa and Asia 31 Group 2: The “unenclosed” hunter-gatherers of Australia, the Andamans, and the Americas 34 Group 3: Hunter-gatherers who descend from former agriculturalists 37 Why Do Ethnographic Hunter-Gatherers Have Problems with Agricultural Adoption? A Comparative View 39 To the Archaeological Record 42 3 The Beginnings of Agriculture in Southwest Asia 44 The Domestication of Plants in the Fertile Crescent 46 The Hunter-Gatherer Background in the Levant, 19,000 to 9500 bc 49 The Pre-Pottery Neolithic and the Increasing Dominance of Domesticated Crops 54 How Did Cereal Domestication Begin in Southwest Asia? 57 The Archaeological Record in Southwest Asia in Broader Perspective 59 The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A 59 The Pre-Pottery Neolithic B 61 The Real Turning Point in the Neolithic Revolution 65 4 Tracking the Spreads of Farming beyond the Fertile Crescent: Europe and Asia 67 The Spread of the Neolithic Economy through Europe 68 Southern and Mediterranean Europe 71 Cyprus, Turkey, and Greece 71 The Balkans 74 The Mediterranean 74 Temperate and Northern Europe 75 The Danubians and the northern Mesolithic 77 The TRB and the Baltic 80 The British Isles 81 Hunters and farmers in prehistoric Europe 82 Agricultural Dispersals from Southwest Asia to the East 84 Central Asia 84 The Indian Subcontinent 86 The domesticated crops of the Indian subcontinent 87 Regional Trajectories from Hunter-Gathering to Farming in South Asia 89 The consequences of Mehrgarh 89 Western India: Balathal to Jorwe 91 Southern India 92 The Ganges Basin and northeastern India 93 Europe and South Asia in a nutshell 95 5 Africa: An Independent Focus of Agricultural Development? 97 The Spread of the Southwest Asian Agricultural Complex into Egypt 99 The Origins of the Native African Domesticates 103 The Development and Spread of Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa 106 The Appearance of Agriculture in Central and Southern Africa 107 6 The Beginnings of Agriculture in East Asia 111 Environmental Factors and the Domestication Process in China 117 The Archaeology of Early Agriculture in China 119 The Archaeological Record of the Early Neolithic in the Yellow and Yangzi Basins 120 Later Developments (post-5000 bc) in the Chinese Neolithic 122 South of the Yangzi – Hemudu and Majiabang 124 The spread of agriculture south of Zhejiang 125 7 The Spread of Agriculture into Southeast Asia and Oceania 128 The Background to Agricultural Dispersal in Southeast Asia 130 Early Farmers in Mainland Southeast Asia 131 Early Farmers in Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia 134 Early farmers in the Pacific 141 The New Guinea Agricultural Trajectory and its Role in Pacific Colonization 142 8 Early Agriculture in the Americas 146 Some Necessary Background 148 The Geography of Early Agriculture, and General Cultural Trajectories 150 Current Opinion on Agricultural Origins in the Americas 153 The Domesticated Crops 154 Maize 155 The other crops 157 Early Pottery in the Americas 158 Early Farmers in the Americas 159 The Andes 159 Amazonia 164 Middle America (with Mesoamerica) 165 The Southwest 168 Thank the Lord for the freeway (and the pipeline) 171 Immigrant Mesoamerican farmers in the Southwest? 173 Independent Agricultural Origins in the Eastern Woodlands 174 9 What Do Language Families Mean for Human Prehistory? 180 Language Families and How They Are Studied 181 Issues of Phylogeny and Reticulation 183 The Identification and Phylogenetic Study of Language Families 185 Introducing the Players 189 How Do Languages and Language Families Spread? 190 How Do Languages Change through Time? 193 Macrofamilies, and more on the time factor 195 Languages in Competition – Language Shift 196 Languages in competition – contact-induced change 198 10 The Spread of Farming: Comparing the Archaeology and the Linguistics 200 Western and Central Eurasia, and Northern Africa 201 Indo-European 201 Indo-European from the Pontic steppes? 201 Where did PIE really originate and what can we know about it? 204 Colin Renfrew’s contribution to the Indo-European debate 206 Afroasiatic 207 Elamite and Dravidian, and the Indo-Aryans 210 A multidisciplinary scenario for South Asian prehistory 213 Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Elamo-Dravidian, and the issue of Nostratic 216 Saharan and Sub-Saharan Africa: Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Congo 217 Nilo-Saharan 217 Niger-Congo, with Bantu 218 East and Southeast Asia, and the Pacific 222 The Chinese and Mainland Southeast Asian language families 222 Austronesian 227 Piecing it together for East Asia 229 “Altaic,” and some difficult issues 230 The Trans New Guinea Phylum 231 The Americas – South and Central 232 South America 233 Middle America, Mesoamerica, and the Southwest 237 Uto-Aztecan 240 Eastern North America 244 Algonquian and Muskogean 245 Iroquoian, Siouan, and Caddoan 247 Did the First Farmers Spread Their Languages? 250 11 Genetics, Skeletal Anthropology, and the People Factor 252 Are There Correlations between Human Biology and Language Families? 253 Do genes record history? 254 Southwest Asia and Europe 256 South Asia 262 Africa 263 East Asia 264 Southeast Asia and Oceania (mainly Austronesians) 265 The Americas 271 Did Early Farmers Spread through Processes of Demic Diffusion? 272 12 The Nature of Early Agricultural Expansion 273 Homeland, Spread, and Friction Zones, plus Overshoot 274 The Stages within a Process of Agricultural Genesis and Dispersal 277 Notes 280 References 292 Index 350
£33.20
Harvard University Press Famine Relief in Warlord China
Book SynopsisFamine Relief in Warlord China explores disaster responses during the greatest ecological crisis of the pre-Nationalist Chinese republic. Pierre Fuller details how indigenous action from the household to the national level, not international intervention, sustained the lives of millions of the destitute in Beijing.Trade ReviewFuller has mined, collected, and juxtaposed material from dozens of sources to weave together a compelling portrait of an understudied period in Chinese history…All historians of twentieth century China would benefit from reading his work. -- Jonathan Tang * Journal of Chinese History *Fuller’s richly researched study is a prime example of a new generation of scholarship that relies on local sources from a Chinese perspective to provide new insights for a wide range of audiences from historians of modern China to transnational policymakers…An exceptional study. -- Matthew Noellert * Agricultural History *
£26.06
Princeton University Press Tobacco Capitalism
Book SynopsisTells the story of the people who live and work on US tobacco farms at a time when the global tobacco industry is undergoing profound changes. This book explores the cultural and ethical ambiguities of tobacco farming and offers concrete recommendations for the tobacco-control movement in the United States and worldwide.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2012 James Mooney Award, Southern Anthropological Society Winner of the 2013 Delmos Jones and Jagna Sharff Memorial Prize for the Critical Study of North America, Society for the Anthropology of North America / American Anthropological Association Finalist for the 2012 Society for the Anthropology of Work Book Prize "Anthropologist Benson explains the shifts in US Growers' role in the multinational tobacco industry in the last half century through his focus on North Carolina's Wilson County, at the heart of US tobacco production. He bases his work on archival and ethnographic analysis of North Carolina tobacco growers and farmworkers and, more broadly, of government and industry perspectives."--Choice "This is a big, angry, brickbat of a book. The focus of most social science research on tobacco is its consumption, so it is good to have its modes of production put under the spotlight... Its 323 pages are a worthy contribution to the literature on agribusiness and agricultural capitalism and the pernicious role of the tobacco industry in manipulating the production as well as the consumption of its product for its own immoral ends."--Andrew J. Russell, Durham Anthropology Journal "[T]his book constitutes a significant contribution to the field of the anthropology of (corporate) capitalism and will definitely appeal to a broader readership in other social sciences, anti-smoking activists and possibly even to corporate employees."--Marian Viorel Anastasoaie, Social AnthropologyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Foreword by Allan M. Brandt ix Preface xi Introduction 1 PART I:The Tobacco Industry, Public Health, and Agrarian Change Chapter 1: Most Admired Company 37 Chapter 2: The Jungle 63 Chapter 3: Enemies of Tobacco 96 PART II: Innocence and Blame in American Society Chapter 4: Good, Clean Tobacco 135 Chapter 5: El Campo 166 Chapter 6: Sorriness 210 Conclusion: Reflections on the Tobacco Industry (and American Exceptionalism) 258 Bibliography 275 Index 307
£28.80
Princeton University Press Waiting for Jos233 The Minutemens Pursuit of
Book SynopsisThey live in the suburbs of Tennessee and Indiana. They fought in Vietnam and Desert Storm. They speak about an older, better America, an America that once was, and is no more. And for the past decade, they have come to the U.S. / Mexico border to hunt for illegal immigrants. Who are the Minutemen? Patriots? Racists? Vigilantes? Harel Shapira livedTrade ReviewWinner of a 2013 Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association "A valuable look at the birth of a populist paramilitary formation, one whose opponents may not dismiss so easily after reading this evenhanded book."--Kirkus Reviews "This fascinating study is an honest, nuanced, and intimate look at not so much a movement but the people who make it happen. Shapira offers enough sociological theory to appeal to sociologists, but his stories of the Minutemen make this work appealing to all who want to understand the movement and immigration issues in general."--Library Journal "Regardless of one's political leanings, this is a promising, accessible book by a first-time academic author who describes the Minutemen he finds as, at heart, the detritus of lost wars and people who are 'afraid of America turning into Mexico.'"--Lee Maril, Times Higher Education "Applying basic principles of ethnographic research, Shapira was interested not so much in what the Minutemen had to say, but what they did and why. In describing, what they wear, what they carry, and how they spend their time, his book has the kind of authenticity that comes from painstaking observation. You can't phone it in. You have to go."--Julia Ann Grimm, Santa Fe New Mexican "Deeply insightful... Reading Waiting for Jose to learn about the mythic Minuteman movement doesn't simply satisfy the sociological curiosity of comprehending anti-immigrant warriors whose heyday may soon be coming to a close. It's also instructive in helping us realize that immigrants are not the only ones finding it difficult to 'assimilate' themselves to a very different America than the one many of us grew up in."--Esther Cepeda, Anchorage Daily News "Although the book will be of specific interest to those with an interest in migration, security, social movements, and masculinities, it invites a much broader readership. Its narrative style and uncomplicated prose make it accessible to a wider public. This, coupled with its accessible length and topical nature, makes it an ideal text for teaching at any level. Undergraduates and graduate students alike will find this a readable, refreshing, and insightful work."--Maryann Bylander, Journal on Migration and Human Security "Shapira, an ethnographer, writes with sensitivity and professional detachment."--John Paul Rathbone, Financial Times "Harel Shapira has crafted a fascinating and insightful account of the complex practices of civic identity in contemporary US society. In all, Waiting for Jose represents a significant contribution to current scholarship on social movements, border rhetorics, and the formation of the US civic imaginary."--D. Robert DeChaine, International Review of Modern Sociology "Shapira explores the Minutemen's varied motivations exceptionally well, even noting the organization's internal conflicts. His sociological explanations are relevant and help to interpret the Minutemen's culture... Waiting for Jose provides a unique vantage point of individuals experiencing a loss of place in an ever-increasing diverse America."--Leah N. Diaz, Contemporary Rural Social Work "Shapira has written a fine book about identity construction and masculinity fueled by racism and a longing for community. Very few books on politics do that."--Ronnee Schreiber, Perspectives on Politics "Shapira provides us with a window into the lives and practices of a group of ideologically inconsistent, sometimes confrontational, yet ultimately sympathetic, civic-minded actors."--Justin Allen Berg, American Journal of Sociology "Waiting for Jose brings the Minutemen's experience to the reader still warm. If the explanation is not airtight, it is because the Minutemen in the book are alive."--Nicolas Eilbaum, Contemporary Sociology "Shapria's balanced approach is quite rare, because he spends much time revealing close details of a conservative movement that was a precursor to the Tea Party; and he accomplishes this by writing with a level of empathy, balanced with professionalism that is refreshingly rare in today's political climate. Waiting for Jose would be a very suitable supplemental textbook for any Sociology or Political Science course dealing with issues of immigration on the United States southern border."--John R. Lewis, Journal of American Studies of TurkeyTable of ContentsThe Minutemen Chain of Command viii Acknowledgments xi Preface: A Place on the Border xv Introduction: All Quiet on the Southern Front 1 Chapter 1: American Dreams 27 Chapter 2: Camp Vigilance 39 Chapter 3: Gordon and His Guns 73 Chapter 4: Scenes from the Border 97 Chapter 5: Encounters 125 Conclusion: Belonging in America 145 Appendix: A Note on Methodology 153 Notes 163 Works Cited 171 Index 175
£29.75
Princeton University Press Billionaire Wilderness
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Spur Award for Best Western Contemporary Nonfiction, Western Writers of America""Finalist for the Reading the West Book Award in Adult Narrative Nonfiction""One of Amazon's Best Books of 2020 in Business and Leadership""Excellent and inspiring."---Nathan Deuel, Los Angeles Times"One of the most fascinating and important portraits of modern American life."---Dylan Schleicher, Porchlight"This is the sort of book you didn’t know you needed until after you pick it up."---Ryan Driskell Tate, Los Angeles Review of Books"I just ordered the book Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West, on the strength of a recommendation by an architect friend who builds homes for the elite in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. I’m only a chapter in, but I’m already fascinated by how conservation can become a way to salve guilt."---Rana Foroohar, Financial Times
£19.80
Princeton University Press Waiting for Jos233 The Minutemens Pursuit of
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of a 2013 Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association "A valuable look at the birth of a populist paramilitary formation, one whose opponents may not dismiss so easily after reading this evenhanded book."--Kirkus Reviews "This fascinating study is an honest, nuanced, and intimate look at not so much a movement but the people who make it happen. Shapira offers enough sociological theory to appeal to sociologists, but his stories of the Minutemen make this work appealing to all who want to understand the movement and immigration issues in general."--Library Journal "Regardless of one's political leanings, this is a promising, accessible book...[Shapira] describes the Minutemen he finds as, at heart, the detritus of lost wars and people who are 'afraid of America turning into Mexico.'"--Lee Maril, Times Higher Education "Applying basic principles of ethnographic research, Shapira was interested not so much in what the Minutemen had to say, but what they did and why. In describing, what they wear, what they carry, and how they spend their time, his book has the kind of authenticity that comes from painstaking observation. You can't phone it in. You have to go."--Julia Ann Grimm, Santa Fe New Mexican "Deeply insightful... Reading Waiting for Jose to learn about the mythic Minuteman movement doesn't simply satisfy the sociological curiosity of comprehending anti-immigrant warriors whose heyday may soon be coming to a close. It's also instructive in helping us realize that immigrants are not the only ones finding it difficult to 'assimilate' themselves to a very different America than the one many of us grew up in."--Esther Cepeda, Anchorage Daily News "Although the book will be of specific interest to those with an interest in migration, security, social movements, and masculinities, it invites a much broader readership. Its narrative style and uncomplicated prose make it accessible to a wider public."--Maryann Bylander, Journal on Migration and Human Security "Although the book will be of specific interest to those with an interest in migration, security, social movements, and masculinities, it invites a much broader readership. Its narrative style and uncomplicated prose make it accessible to a wider public. This, coupled with its accessible length and topical nature, makes it an ideal text for teaching at any level. Undergraduates and graduate students alike will find this a readable, refreshing, and insightful work."--Maryann Bylander, Journal on Migration and Human Security "Shapira, an ethnographer, writes with sensitivity and professional detachment."--John Paul Rathbone, Financial Times "Harel Shapira has crafted a fascinating and insightful account of the complex practices of civic identity in contemporary US society. In all, Waiting for Jose represents a significant contribution to current scholarship on social movements, border rhetorics, and the formation of the US civic imaginary."--D. Robert DeChaine, International Review of Modern Sociology "Shapira explores the Minutemen's varied motivations exceptionally well, even noting the organization's internal conflicts. His sociological explanations are relevant and help to interpret the Minutemen's culture... Waiting for Jose provides a unique vantage point of individuals experiencing a loss of place in an ever-increasing diverse America."--Leah N. Diaz, Contemporary Rural Social Work "Shapira has written a fine book about identity construction and masculinity fueled by racism and a longing for community. Very few books on politics do that."--Ronnee Schreiber, Perspectives on Politics "Shapira provides us with a window into the lives and practices of a group of ideologically inconsistent, sometimes confrontational, yet ultimately sympathetic, civic-minded actors."--Justin Allen Berg, American Journal of Sociology "Waiting for Jose brings the Minutemen's experience to the reader still warm. If the explanation is not airtight, it is because the Minutemen in the book are alive."--Nicolas Eilbaum, Contemporary Sociology "Shapria's balanced approach is quite rare, because he spends much time revealing close details of a conservative movement that was a precursor to the Tea Party; and he accomplishes this by writing with a level of empathy, balanced with professionalism that is refreshingly rare in today's political climate. Waiting for Jose would be a very suitable supplemental textbook for any Sociology or Political Science course dealing with issues of immigration on the United States southern border."--John R. Lewis, Journal of American Studies of Turkey
£18.00
Princeton University Press Chinas Urban Champions
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Jaros masterfully applies a striking range of qualitative and quantitative methods to explain convincingly why some Chinese provinces have focused their investment, while others spread their investment more equitably. His results undermine commonly held assumptions about equality and fairness, the dynamics of development and urbanization, and the essence of politics—who gets what, when, and how."—John A. Donaldson, Singapore Management University "This book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the multilevel politics of spatial development in contemporary China. Its in-depth coverage of four provinces is rare and impressive."—Jae Ho Chung, Seoul National University“This is an important, powerful, and original book, demonstrating admirably intensive research and a masterly research design. The quantitative conclusion is especially convincing and the major finding about why provincial leaders concentrate resources in provinces’ capitals is a compelling formulation. The work is provocative and has the potential to become definitive.”—Dorothy J. Solinger, professor emerita, University of California, Irvine"Which Chinese cities grow, and which ones are allowed to wither? This book navigates the convoluted policies and contested priorities that shape these decisions across different levels of China’s government. Using nuanced case studies from four provinces, Jaros highlights how the abstract politics of development are remade by considering space."—Jeremy Wallace, Cornell University“This solid work of original research makes a substantial contribution to the literature on China’s spatial development. Focusing on four provincial cases, Jaros looks at how provincial governments interact with central and subprovincial governments. This book’s arguments are convincing.” —You-tien Hsing, University of California, Berkeley
£25.20
Princeton University Press Hillbilly Highway
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Fraser, a scholar of labor history at the University of Miami, corrects several misconceptions….Many more poor white migrants left debt-burdened farms, dead-end jobs and shuttered mills, and ventured north on the ‘hillbilly highway’ to settle in poor white ghettoes such as Chicago’s Uptown, Muncie’s Shedtown and Dayton’s East End….Fraser also challenges writers who blame poor white southerners for the rise of the anti-union right in the North….The very humane stories in [Hillbilly Highway] could be just the thing to break the ice."---Arlie Russell Hochschild, New York Times"In an engaging, richly detailed volume that stretches from patterns of land use to shifting class politics to the evolution of country music, Fraser traces the migration and its economic, social, cultural, and political consequences. He does not use the word ‘hillbilly’ in a derogatory sense but to illustrate the great variety of meanings neighbors and contemporaries attached to it. He sees the marginalization of hillbilly culture and politics as a symptom, rather than a cause, of the conservative turn in post-1960s politics." * Foreign Affairs *"Hillbilly Highway has made a valuable contribution to our understanding of a forgotten and consequential phenomenon in midwestern history, a movement of people across regions that transformed key midwestern cities in what would become the most coveted of swing states and may well have influenced the political evolution of the country."---Colin Woodard, Washington Monthly"[Hillbilly Highway] presents interesting conflicts between the rural transplants desperate for work and the employers who eagerly sought to employ them in the booming industrial centers. . . . The book benefits greatly from an extensive bibliography and chapter notes including government studies, industry reports, union records, oral histories and cultural notes such as the importance of country music."---Steven Davis, New York Labor History Association
£25.20
Princeton University Press Getting Something to Eat in Jackson
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An Essence Best New Winter Read""Winner of the C. Wright Mills Award, The Society for the Study of Social Problems""James Beard Foundation Book Award Nominee""What [Ewoodzie] finds runs counter to popular narrative, which often attributes meal choices among Southern Black Americans to traditions that center on the consumption of ‘soul food’. . . . Ewoodzie concludes that food is one of the tools used to construct, refine, and reconstruct racial boundaries. . . .His sobering storytelling . . . also offers vitally important insight for food rescue industry service providers and gatekeepers."---Cassie M. Chew, Civil Eats
£19.80
Princeton University Press Billionaire Wilderness
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Spur Award for Best Western Contemporary Nonfiction, Western Writers of America""Finalist for the Reading the West Book Award in Adult Narrative Nonfiction""One of Amazon's Best Books of 2020 in Business and Leadership"
£15.29
Princeton University Press Getting Something to Eat in Jackson
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An Essence Best New Winter Read""Winner of the C. Wright Mills Award, The Society for the Study of Social Problems""James Beard Foundation Book Award Nominee""What [Ewoodzie] finds runs counter to popular narrative, which often attributes meal choices among Southern Black Americans to traditions that center on the consumption of ‘soul food’. . . . Ewoodzie concludes that food is one of the tools used to construct, refine, and reconstruct racial boundaries. . . .His sobering storytelling . . . also offers vitally important insight for food rescue industry service providers and gatekeepers."---Cassie M. Chew, Civil Eats
£15.29
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Rural West Since World War II
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays surveys the changes in farms, small towns and reservations throughout the American West during the post-war era. Topics covered include: cattle industry; agriculture; migrant labour; environmental concerns; social change; ranch and farm women; and reservation life.
£23.96
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Nothing but the Dirt
Book SynopsisThrough charming, first-person accounts, Nothing but the Dirt: Stories from an American Farm Town tells the whole story of life in Courtland, Kansas (population 285), a town whose economy depends almost entirely on agriculture, bucking the ‘Rural America is dying’ narrative that so often proliferates headlines about small-town USA.Table of Contents PrefacePreface Acknowledgments Early Fall The Coffee The Morning Coffee: Friday The Farmers: Steve Brown The Pastor The New Business: Soul Sister Ceramics The Farmers: Hootie Rayburn The Farmer’s Wife The Young Couple The Lunch Spot The Mayor The Newspaper The Liar's Bench The Gas Station The Lutherans Spring The Good-bye The Morning Coffee: Friday The Farmers: Kenny Joerg The Ladies The Entrepreneur The Day Care The Ranchero The Date Night The Body The Transplant The Morning Coffee: Saturday The Average Sunday The Morning Coffee: Monday The Memories The Morning Coffee: Wednesday Summer The Morning Coffee: Wednesday The Lambs The Bank The City Council Meeting The Morning Coffee: Thursday The Ditch Rider The Family Business: C&W Late Fall The Morning Coffee: Thursday The Broker The Morning Coffee: Friday The Veterinarian The Morning Coffee: Saturday The Harvest The Family Business: Tebow Plumbing Co. The Women: Peggy Nelson The Nurse The Homeopathic The Morning Coffee: Monday The Drive Home Epilogue
£18.86
John Wiley & Sons Doing CommunityBased Research
Book SynopsisGuidance on the community-researcher relationship, to support further scholarship and positive community change.Trade Review" Effectively treading the line between prescriptive and illustrative, Doing Community-Based Research is appealing and easy to apply, retool, and retrofit for the instance at hand. It promises to be an excellent resource for implementing damage control, amongst both the studied and the students." - Joy Parr, University of Western Ontario
£27.90
University of British Columbia Press Taking Stands
Book SynopsisGoes beyond the dichotomies of pro and anti environmentalism to tell the stories of the women who seek to maintain resource use in rural places.Trade ReviewMaureen Reed has created a significant and sophisticated study that will establish a benchmark not only in how we understand and engage with community change and debate in resource-dependent regions, but also in how we conceptualize gender, women, and activism in those debates. -- Greg Halseth, Canada Research Chair in Rural and Small Town Studies, Geography, University of Northern British ColumbiaAn excellent handling of a complex and highly controversial topic ... It will make its mark on the world stage, inform feminist and environmental activism and theory, and help Canadians make sense of our poorly understood and badly maligned forestry sector. -- Karen Krug * Alternatives, 29:4, Fall 2003 *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Introduction: Seeing the Trees among Women in ForestryCommunities 2. Transition and Social Marginalization of Forestry Communities 3. Policy and Structural Change in Rural British Columbia 4. Women and Woods Work: The Gender of Forestry Jobs 5. Women’s Lives, Husbands’ Wives: "Managing"Forestry Communities 6. Communities Confront Outsiders 7. Fitting In: Making a Place for Gender in Environmental and LandUse Planning 8. Social Sustainability and the Renewal of Research Agendas Epilogue Appendix: Describing and Reflecting on Research Methods Notes References I ndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Rediscovering Thomas Adams Rural Planning and
Book SynopsisThis updated reprint of a classic text offers a revealing glimpse into the past and an insightful perspective on the present state of planning and development in Canada.Trade ReviewThis book makes a timely contribution to current debates regarding the nature of the profession, the need to consider urban and rural issues together, the need to think holistically across departmental boundaries, and the need to creatively consider the future of rural areas in the face of a declining population base, crumbling infrastructure, and energy crisis. -- Frank Palermo, Professor in the Faculty of Architecture and Planning and Director of the Cities and Environment Unit, Dalhousie UniversityTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Wayne J. CaldwellRural Planning and Development by Thomas Adams with Commentaries1 Introductory / Commentary by Jeanne M. Wolfe2 Rural Population and Production in Canada / Commentary by Michael Troughton3 Present Systems of Surveying and Planning Land in Rural Areas / Commentary by Hok-Lin Leung4 Rural Transportation and Distribution: Railways and Highways / Commentary by Ian Wight5 Rural Problems that Arise in Connection with Land Development / Commentary by Len Gertler6 Organization of Rural Life and Rural Industries / Commentary by Tony Fuller7 Government Policies and Land Development / Commentary by Jill L. Grant8 Returned Soldiers and Land Settlement / Commentary by John Devlin9 Provincial Planning and Development Legislation / Commentary by Gary Davidson10 Outline of Proposals and General Conclusions / Commentary by Wayne J. CaldwellAppendicesIndexesContributors
£78.30
University of British Columbia Press Rediscovering Thomas Adams
Book SynopsisThis updated reprint of a classic text offers a revealing glimpse into the past and an insightful perspective on the present state of planning and development in Canada.Trade ReviewThis book makes a timely contribution to current debates regarding the nature of the profession, the need to consider urban and rural issues together, the need to think holistically across departmental boundaries, and the need to creatively consider the future of rural areas in the face of a declining population base, crumbling infrastructure, and energy crisis. -- Frank Palermo, Professor in the Faculty of Architecture and Planning and Director of the Cities and Environment Unit, Dalhousie UniversityTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Wayne J. CaldwellRural Planning and Development by Thomas Adams with Commentaries1 Introductory / Commentary by Jeanne M. Wolfe2 Rural Population and Production in Canada / Commentary by Michael Troughton3 Present Systems of Surveying and Planning Land in Rural Areas / Commentary by Hok-Lin Leung4 Rural Transportation and Distribution: Railways and Highways / Commentary by Ian Wight5 Rural Problems that Arise in Connection with Land Development / Commentary by Len Gertler6 Organization of Rural Life and Rural Industries / Commentary by Tony Fuller7 Government Policies and Land Development / Commentary by Jill L. Grant8 Returned Soldiers and Land Settlement / Commentary by John Devlin9 Provincial Planning and Development Legislation / Commentary by Gary Davidson10 Outline of Proposals and General Conclusions / Commentary by Wayne J. CaldwellAppendicesIndexesContributors
£31.50
University of British Columbia Press Social Transformation in Rural Canada
Book SynopsisA series of stories, ideas, and insights into the social dynamics of change within rural Canada that help communities forge new ways of understanding and relating to each other and to the broader world.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Toward a Transformative Understanding of Rural Social Change / John R. Parkins and Maureen G. ReedPart 1: History, Trends, and Territory1 Notes toward a History of Rural Canada, 1870-1940 / R.W. Sandwell2 Globalization and Rural Change in Canada’s Territorial North / Chris Southcott3 Destination Rural Canada: An Overview of Recent Immigrants to Rural Small Towns / Yoko Yoshida and Howard RamosPart 2: Structure and Discourse4 Rural-Urban Interdependence: Understanding Our Common Interests / Bill Reimer5 Labour Migration and Mobility in Newfoundland: SocialTransformation and Community in Three Rural Areas / Martha MacDonald, Peter Sinclair, and Deatra Walsh6 Producing Globalization: Gender, Agency, and the Transformation of Rural Communities of Work / Belinda Leach7 Changes in the Social Imaginings of the Landscape: The Management of Alberta’s Rural Public Lands / Lorelei L. Hanson8 Logic of Land and Power: The Social Transformation of Northern Natural Resource Management / Ken J. Caine9 Including Youth in an Aging Rural Society: Reflections from Northern British Columbia’s Resource FrontierCommunities / Laura Ryser, Don Manson, and Greg HalsethPart 3: Culture and Identity10 It’s Who We Are: Locating Cultural Strength in Relationship with the Land / Jonaki Bhattacharyya, Marilyn Baptiste, David Setah, and Roger William11 Visions of Rootedness and Flow: Remaking Economic Identity in Post-Resource Communities / Nathan Young12 Governing Transformation and Resilience: The Role of Identity in Renegotiating Roles for Forest-BasedCommunities of British Columbia’s Interior / Emily Jane Davis and Maureen G. Reed13 Mill Town Identity Crisis: Reframing the Culture of Forest Resource Dependence in Single-Industry Towns / Ryan Bullock14 The Social Transformation of Agriculture: The Case of Quebec / Christopher BryantPart 4: Voice and Action15 “That’s No Way to Run a Railroad”: The Battle River Branchline and the Politics of Technology in RuralAlberta / Darin Barney16 “It’s the Largest, Remotest, Most Wild, Undisturbed Area in the Province”: Outdoor Sport and EnvironmentalConflict in the Tobeatic Wilderness Area, Nova Scotia / Mark C.J. Stoddart17 Newfoundland and Labrador’s Poverty Reduction Strategy: The Transformation of Government–RuralCommunity Relations, 1999-2009 / Carol-Anne Hudson18 Cultural and Creative Economy Strategies for Community Transformation: Four Approaches / Ross Nelson, Nancy Duxbury, and Catherine MurrayPostscript: The Future of Rural Studies in Canada / John R. Parkins and Maureen G. Reed
£26.99
John Wiley & Sons Inc Sustaining Innovation
Book SynopsisPaul Light has captured the spirit of innovation. It is not aboutspectacular acts by individuals who labor against the odds, butabout the hard work of building organizations in which innovationis expected and possible. It is about tilling the soil so thatideas can flourish. Anyone who wants to take their organizationforward toward natural innovation should read this book. --Walter F. Mondale Any organization can innovate once. The challenge is to innovatetwice, thrice, and more?to make innovation a part of daily goodpractice. This book shows how nonprofit and governmentorganizations can transform the single, occasional act ofinnovating into an everyday occurrence by forging a culture ofnatural innovation. Filled with real success stories and practical lessons learned,Sustaining Innovation offers examples of how organizations can takethe first step toward innovativeness, advice on how to survive theinevitable mistakes along the way, and tools for keeping the edgeonTrade Review"Paul Light has captured the spirit of innovation. It is not aboutspectacular acts by individuals who labor against the odds, butabout the hard work of building organizations in which innovationis expected and possible. It is about tilling the soil so thatideas can flourish. Anyone who wants to take their organizationforward toward natural innovation should read this book." --WalterF. Mondale "Many governments cannot tolerate innovation. Some can survive theoccasional innovator, but don't want to make it a habit. A very fewtry to institutionalize the process, to become innovatingorganizations. But it can be done, and no one is better qualifiedto show the way than Paul Light, one of the country's best analystsof the dynamics of public organizations. He's not only thoughtfuland perceptive, but thankfully, he can write." --?Peter A.Harkness, editor and publisher, GOVERNING Magazine Paul Light has provided us, at last, with a deep understanding ofthe elements of success in sustaining ?what works.' His systematicstudy of the characteristics of organizations that move beyond thesporadic innovation and the irreplaceable wizard will proveinvaluable as both public and nonprofit organizations struggle todevise new strategies to serve shared social purposes." --?LisbethB. Schorr, lecturer in Social Medicine and director, Project onEffective Interventions, Harvard Univeristy "Sustaining Innovation is a dynamic guide for any organization thatis prepared to make a leap to natural innovation. [Light's] insightand support is useful for all leaders, regardless of the kind ofzoo they run." --Kathryn R. Roberts, director, Minnesota ZooTable of Contents1. Preferred States of Organizational Being. 2. Removing Barriers and Debunking Myths. 3. Harnessing the Environment as a Force for Change. 4. Structuring the Organization to Encourage Creativity. 5. Changing the Leader's Work. 6. Using Management Systems that Accelerate Good Ideas. 7. Confronting Real Life in Nonprofit and GovernmentalOrganizations. 8. The Core Values of Innovating Organizations.
£37.99
