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Taylor & Francis Ltd Lesbian Lives Psychoanalytic Narratives Old and New
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Building Resilience of Floating Children and
Book SynopsisThe past two decades have seen exponential growth of urbanisation and migration in China. Emerging from this growth is a population of floating and left-behind children which is estimated to be approaching 100 million. Due to their increasing risks of undesirable educational and social, as well as health and psychological, outcomes, there is a great urgency to help floating children and left-behind children beat the odds. This book offers an analysis of how oscillations of government discourse have come to shape central and local educational policies regarding the schooling of these children. It also delves into child and youth resilience in this unique migration context, examining what can be done to build up resilience of floating and left-behind children. In this vein, the book will complement current knowledge and advance context- and culture-specific understandings of child and youth resilience through both school-based and community-based approaches. The book aims to answer a Table of Contents1. Floating children and left-behind children in a migration context: Policy, power, and participation 2. Conceptualising resilience: Foundational work and paradigmatic shift 3. Measuring resilience: Methodological conundrum and measurement invariance 4. Resilience as a classed socialisation: An intergenerational project 5. School-based approach to resilience: The magic of physical activity 6. Community-based approach to resilience: Peer relations and significant others 7. Transforming vulnerabilities into opportunities: An ecological model 8. Building resilience of floating children and left-behind children: Empirical lessons and sociological implications
£137.75
Taylor & Francis Ltd Renegotiating Rural Development in Ireland
Book SynopsisThis title was first published in 2002: As rural Ireland undergoes deep-reaching changes, this book critically assesses what the author terms the renegotiation of rural development in Ireland through the repackaging, reproduction and representation of suggestions, ideas and alternatives for rural renewal. Deconstructing the process and practice of rural development in Ireland, John McDonagh explores the new approaches to development and the so-called desire for creating integrative policy and planning approaches. The main conduits for this investigation are those of partnership and community groups and their involvement in rural development issues. Further, through investigation of the relevant concepts and theories of rural change, the volume delves into the discourses of rurality and development and utilizes the diversity of approaches and understanding of, this increasingly complex issue.Table of ContentsRural change and development; a plurality of Irelands - changing discourses of economy, society and space; thoughts on rurality and rural Ireland; deconstructing development - Irish style!; retrospect and prospect - the role of church, state and community in rural Ireland; the emergence of rural governance in Ireland; recasting the rural in Ireland.
£29.99
Cambridge University Press Women in the Soviet Countryside Womens Roles in Rural Development in the Soviet Union 56 Cambridge Russian Soviet and PostSoviet Studies Series Number 56
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£31.34
Cambridge University Press Studies in Rural Capitalism in West Africa 2 African Studies Series Number 2
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Cambridge University Press Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital
Book SynopsisThis book is a critical work of synthesis and interpretation on one of the central themes in modern Indian history - agrarian change over the long term during the colonial and post-colonial eras.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; List of tables; General editor's preface; Preface; Introduction; 1. Ecology and demography; 2. Commercialisation and colonialism; 3. Property and production; 4. Appropriation and exploitation; 5. Resistance and consciousness; Conclusion; Bibliographical essay; Index.
£98.80
Cambridge University Press Women in the Soviet Countryside Womens Roles in Rural Development in the Soviet Union 56 Cambridge Russian Soviet and PostSoviet Studies Series Number 56
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£98.80
Cambridge University Press The World of Rural Dissenters 15201725
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£114.00
Cambridge University Press The Village and the Outside World in Golden Age Castile
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Cambridge University Press The Village and the Outside World in Golden Age Castile
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Cambridge University Press Fraternity Among the French Peasantry
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Cambridge University Press Accountability Without Democracy
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Cambridge University Press Law Society and Culture in the Maghrib 1300 1500
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Cambridge University Press Agrarian Reform in Russia
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Cambridge University Press Accountability Without Democracy
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Cambridge University Press Homesick Nation
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The University of Chicago Press Remotely Global Village Modernity in West Africa
Book SynopsisArguing that village life is an effect of the modern and the global, this text analyzes everyday and social practices, and suggests that Kabre culture is shaped as much by colonial and postcolonial history as by anything indigenous or local.
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Legacy Lit The Devils Harvest
Book SynopsisThis suspenseful true story of a drug cartel hitman who got away with murder after murder in California's Central Valley over three decades reveals how the criminal justice system fails our most vulnerable immigrant communities.On the surface, fifty-eight-year-old Jose Martinez didn't seem evil or even that remarkable—just a regular neighbor, good with cars and devoted to his family. But in between taking his children to Disneyland and visiting his mom, Martinez was also one of the most skilled professional killers police had ever seen.He tracked one victim to one of the wealthiest corners of America, a horse ranch in Santa Barbara, and shot him dead in the morning sunlight, setting off a decades-long manhunt. He shot another man, a farmworker, right in front of his young wife as they drove to work in the fields. The widow would wait decades for justice. Those were murders for hire. Others he killed for vengeance.How did Martinez manage to evade law enforcement for so long with little more than a slap on the wrist? Because he understood a dark truth about the criminal justice system: if you kill the 'right people'—people who are poor, who aren't white, and who don't have anyone to speak up for them—you can get away with it.Melding the pacing and suspense of a true crime thriller with the rigor of top-notch investigative journalism, The Devil's Harvest follows award-winning reporter Jessica Garrison's relentless search for the truth as she traces the life of this assassin, the cops who were always a few steps behind him, and the families of his many victims. Drawing upon decades of case files, interrogation transcripts, on-the-ground reporting, and Martinez's chilling handwritten journals, The Devil's Harvest uses a gripping and often shocking narrative to dig into one of the most important moral questions haunting our politically divided nation today: Why do some deaths—and some lives—matter more than others?'Meticulously researched and tightly woven, The Devil's Harvest is an important story because it tells us that if [this] can happen in one place, then it can happen in any place. And that's damn scary.' —Michael Connelly, New York Times bestselling author of The Closers, The Lincoln Lawyer, and The Night Fire
£15.29
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Foxfire 10
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia's philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the old-fashioned way, or learn the art of successful moonshining, The Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center had a contact who could teach you how with clear, step-by-step instructions.Chock full of the wit and wisdom that has become the Foxfire trademark, this tenth volume in the acclaimed series is on oral history of Appalachian lives and traditions, homespun crafts, and folk arts including gourd carving and chairmaking.
£18.04
Alfred A. Knopf Cheap Land Colorado
Book Synopsis From Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of Newjack, a passage through an America lived wild and off the grid, where along with independence and stunning views come fierce winds, neighbors with criminal pasts, and minimal government and medical services.“In these dispatches, [Conover] invites readers to ride shotgun along an unraveling edge of the American West, where sepia-toned myths about making a fresh start collide with modern modes of alienation, volatility, and exile.... In a nation whose edges have come to define its center, this is essential reading.”—Jessica Bruder, author of Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century In May 2017, Ted Conover went to Colorado to explore firsthand a rural way of life that is about living cheaply, on your own land—and keeping clear of the mainstream. The failed subdivisions of the enormous San Luis Valley make this possibl
£24.00
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Wastelands
Book SynopsisBeautifully written, impeccably researched, and told with the air of suspense that few writers can handle, Wastelands is a story I wish I had written. —From the Foreword by John Grisham The once idyllic coastal plain of North Carolina is home to a close-knit, rural community that for more than a generation has battled the polluting practices of large-scale farming taking place in its own backyard. After years of frustration and futility, an impassioned cadre of local residents, led by a team of intrepid and dedicated lawyers, filed a lawsuit against one of the world’s most powerful companies—and, miraculously, they won. As vivid and fast-paced as a thriller, Wastelands takes us into the heart of a legal battle over the future of America’s farmland and into the lives of the people who found the courage to fight.There is Elsie Herring, the most outspoken of the neighbors, who has endured racial slurs and th
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Lutterworth Press Thinking About Rural Development
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Rural Landscape
Book SynopsisCarrying the story of the rural landscape into our frantic era, he describes the bow wavewhere city life meets rural agriculture and plots the effect of recreation and its structures on the look of the land.Trade ReviewJohn Fraser Hart's study of the ever-changing rural landscape is a competent and richly illustrated account of human endeavour, charting patterns of land use across time and space, from the small cross-ploughed fields of Neolithic Britain to the vast wheat-producing plains of modern-day America. It reveals how history is continuously incorporated into the landscape. Times Literary Supplement Hart has a keen eye, a facile pen, and a love for conversation with people who live and work in such places. The result is an admirable and wide-ranging book. Agricultural History A wonderful record to have between two covers... well produced with photographs of exceptional clarity. The Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Understanding LandscapesPart I: RocksChapter 2. The Surface of the LandChapter 3. Landscapes of MiningPart II: PlantsChapter 4. Plant LifeChapter 5. The Use of ForestsChapter 6. Cropping SystemsPart III: Land Division Chapter 7. Land Division in BritainChapter 8. Land Division in AmericaPart IV: Farm StructuresChapter 9. Fences and FieldsChapter 10. BarnsChapter 11. Other Farm StructuresChapter 12. Farm Size and Farm TenurePart IV: Small Towns and the Urban EdgeChapter 13. Small TownsChapter 14. The Long Shadow of the CityChapter 15. RecreationEpilogue: The Changing CountrysideFurther ReadingIndex
£51.50
Johns Hopkins University Press All We Knew Was to Farm Rural Women in the
Book SynopsisThe material lives of rural upcountry women improved dramatically by midcentury-yet in becoming middle class, Walker concludes, the women found their experiences both broadened and circumscribed.Trade ReviewAn engaging study... For upcountry southern women, the years 1919-1941 were indicative of the economic, political, and social chaos existing throughout segregated America... Walker capably demonstrates how families were forced by the limitations of race and class to choose situations that provided little or no real opportunity, but she also brilliantly illustrates how some rural people were able to adapt to change. -- Valerie Grim Journal of American History Voices of ordinary women who experienced extraordinary changes resonate in Melissa Walker's incisive study of twentieth-century transformations of southern agricultural communities. -- Elizabeth D. Schafer H-SAWH, H-Net Reviews Melissa Walker has done an admirable job of mining oral interviews, TVA records, letters, diaries, and farming magazines to piece together the story of how women contributed to the family income... Walker deftly negotiates the intersection of race, class, and gender. -- Gaul Graham Journal of East Tennessee History Walker shows how women adapted to rapid change with courage, strength, creativity, and persistence... Walker's fine regional study will be useful to historians of women, the South, Appalachia, rural life, and labor issues. A valuable addition to the growing number of works on women in the early-twentieth-century South. -- Suzanne Marshall History: Reviews of New Books Historian Melissa Walker provides an account of changes in women's labor practices and economic activity in the upcountry South during the inter-war years... Readable, credible, and well-researched. -- Shaunna L. Scott Journal of Appalachian Studies The theme of the study is to show how the status of farm women changes from 1919-1941 in a period of economic crisis. Changing from a region of subsistence farming to one of commercial farming and interference by government action during the depression and New Deal years, women learned to cope... [Walker's] descriptions of rural ways and beliefs are true to form. -- Cline E. Hall South Carolina Historical Magazine Walker does a particularly good job of emphasizing the ambivalence that upcountry farm women felt about leaving the farms... All We Knew Was to Farm makes an extremely important contribution to rural literature by gendering the transformation of the upland South. -- Rebecca Sharpless Georgia Historical Quarterly Walker provides a much needed account of the South that should be of interest to all those who study the twentieth century. -- Kathleen Mapes Journal of Social History 2005Table of ContentsContents:List of Figures List of Tables AcknowledgementsIntroduction: "All We Knew Was to Farm" 1. Rural Life in the Upcountry South: The Scene in 1920 2. Making Do and Doing Without: Farm Women Cope with the Economic Crisis, 1920-1941 3. "Grandma Would Find Some Way to Make Some Money": Farm Women's Cash Incomes 4. Mixed Messages: Home Extension Work among Upcountry Farm Women in the 1920s and 1930s 5. Government Relocation and Upcountry Women 6. Rural Women and Industrialization 7. Farm Wives and Commercial Farming 8. "The Land of Do Without": The Changing Face of Sevier County, Tennessee, 1908-1940 Epilogue: The Persistence of Rural ValuesAbbreviations Notes Bibliographical Essay Index
£31.50
Beacon Press Dirt Road Revival
Book SynopsisThe Democratic Party left rural America behind. This urgent rallying cry shows how Democrats can win back and empower overlooked communities that have been pushing politics to the right—and why long-term progressive political power depends on it.Through 2 successful elections in rural red districts that few thought could be won by a Democrat, twentysomethings Maine state senator Chloe Maxmin (D-District 13) and campaign manager Canyon Woodward saw how the Democratic Party has focused for too long on the interests of elite leaders and big donors, forcing the party to abandon the concerns of rural America—jeopardizing climate justice, racial equity, economic justice, and more. Dirt Road Revival looks at how we got here and lays out a road map for progressive campaigns in rural America to build an inclusive, robust, grassroots politics that fights for equity and justice across our country. First, Maxmin and Woodward
£19.96
The University Press of Kentucky Engaging Appalachia
Book SynopsisVolume offering diverse perspectives and guidance for promoting social change through campus-community relationships.Table of ContentsIntroduction Town and Gown Collaborations in Southwest Virginia Post-Coal Communities Collaborating for Conservation Roots With Wings Bringing Back the Forest Wealth and Poverty in the Little Cities of Black Diamonds Documenting the Past to Sustain the Future Students Leading the Way to Social Change Breaking the Chains of Addiction through University, Nonprofit and Community Partnerships GIS Mapping of Legacy Oil and Gas Wells Appalachia Abroad Saving Appalachian Gardens and Stories Conclusion Epilogue Contributors and Editors Index
£34.20
The University Press of Kentucky Power and Place
Book SynopsisDrawing on interviews with more than 220 residents from ten communities in five Appalachian counties, Power and Place gives voice to rural citizens whose place at the table is far from assured with regard to critical energy, environmental, and infrastructure decisions.Table of ContentsThe Place of Power The Loss Using Place to Establish Identity Using Land to Make a Living and a Life Using Place to Create and Maintain Historical Continuity Using Place to Build and Maintain Living Community Using Place to Teach Culture's Ways Using Place to Confront Threats to the Environment and Culture The Culture Wars, Anthropology, and the Law Culture Wars Continued Cultural Conservation and Cultural Confrontations Culture War Strategies Conclusion Acknowledgements Notes References
£34.20
Wisconsin Historical Society Press Living a Country Year
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University Press of New England No Place But Here A Teachers Vocation in a Rural
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Georgetown University Press The Failure of National Rural Policy Institutions
Book SynopsisModern farm policy emerged in the United States in 1862, leading to an industrialized agriculture that made the farm sector collectively more successful even as many individual farmers failed. This title blends history, politics, and economics to show that federal government emphasis on farm productivity has failed to meet broader rural needs.Trade ReviewBrowne's criticisms of analytic knowledge provide a users' perspective on policy research that should be read by all those wishing to engage policymakiers with their analytical findings... The book stands as an important case study of the interaction of interests and institutions in national policymaking and is important reading for the rural policy community. Journal of Regional ScienceTable of ContentsPreface 1. A Troubled Rural Society: Misperceptions of Farming 2. Other Social Misperceptions that Miss Rural Problems 3. An Institutional Perspective 4. Rural Policy as Farm Policy 5. The Agragrian Myth as Fundamentalist Vision 6. Collective versus Selective Benefits and Farm Interests 7. Basic Rural Problems Gain Attention-Almost 8. Concentrated but Fragmented Public Institutions 9. The Resulting Fragmentation of Policy 10. The Impossible Task of Rural Advocacy 11. The Rural Poverty Mess 12. Understanding Congressional Anomalies 13. The Environmental Policy Contrast 14. A Final Explanation Notes Index
£48.00
Celadon Books Brothers on Three
Book Synopsis**Winner of the 2021 Montana Book Award****Winner of the 2021 New Mexico-Arizona General Nonfiction Book Award****Finalist for the Spur Award for Best Contemporary Nonfiction****A New York Times Editors'' Choice Pick**A heart-stomping, heart-stopping read. Unsentimental. Unforgettable. Astonishing. Brothers on Three captures the roar of a community spirit powered by blood history, loyalty, and ferocious love.Debra Magpie Earling, author of Perma RedFrom journalist Abe Streep, a story of coming-of-age on a reservation in the American West and a team uniting a communityMarch 11, 2017, was a night to remember: in front of the hopeful eyes of thousands of friends, family members, and fans, the Arlee Warriors would finally bring the high school basketball state championship title home to the Flathead Indian Reservation. The game would become the stuff of legend, with the boys revered as
£16.99
History Press Historic Tales of Highlands
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Tyndale House Publishers Canary in the Coal Mine
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£14.39
Basic Books The Overlooked Americans: The Resilience of Our
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Temple University Press,U.S. Fishers At Work, Workers At Sea: Puerto Rican
Book SynopsisSmall-scale fishing, a house-hold based enterprise in Puerto Rico, rarely provides sufficient income for a family, but it anchors their culture and sense of themselves within that culture. Even when family members must engage in wage work to supplement house-hold income, they think of themselves as fishers. Liche typifies these wage workers: \u0022When he was quite young, he left the island to struggle in other lands, to work, to raise a family, to send home the money he earned. Ten, twenty, thirty years passed...during which he did not once fish or even see the ocean. But in a boat-building factory in New Jersey, in a bakery in the Bronx, on the production line of a chemical factory, on dozens of construction sites, every single day he made a mental review of the waters, the isles and cays ...and entertained no thought that was not related to his return.\u0022 Fishers at Work, Workers at Sea describes Puerto Rican fishing families as they negotiate homeland and diaspora. It considers how wage work affects their livelihoods and identities at home and how these independent producers move in and out of global commodity markets. Drawing on some 100 life histories and years of fieldwork, David Griffith and Manuel Vald\u00e9s Pizzini have developed a complex, often moving portrait of the men and women who fiercely struggle to hang onto the coastal landscapes and cultural heritage tied to the Caribbean Sea.Trade Review"Fishers at Work, Workers at Sea makes a major contribution to the literature on the anthropology and sociology of fisheries by providing an intelligent analysis of Puerto Rican fishermen which extends beyond a description of their fishing techniques and strategies and, more recently, the implications for public policy. The authors present a wealth of rich and thick data in an organized and coherent fashion...and focus upon the detailed complexities of what these fishermen bring to the increasing conflict between labor and the forces of capital." -Robert Lee Maril, Chair and Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Texas Pan American, and author of Waltzing with the Ghost of Tom Joad "The stunning accomplishment of this book is the way in which the authors have theoretically and ethnographically related deep cultural meanings not only to ecological contexts but to the stuff of political economy-the material social relationships entailed in class formation, the commodity form, and globalizing capitalism generally. Griffith and Valdes Pizzini focus on the praxis of Puerto Rican fishers and their families through a sophisticated theoretical framework that is as illuminating as it is powerful. These are the kinds of heights to which anthropology should strive. This book gives me hope for the discipline's future." -Kevin A. Yelvington, University of South Florida, and author of Producing Power: Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in a Caribbean Workplace (Temple) "This book masterfully shows how combinations of wage labor and informal independent production are still at the heart of global capitalism and the reproduction of proletariat households. Offering some of the best anthropology of labor around, the authors examine the multiple and contradictory meanings of small-scale commercial fishing in Puerto Rico: subsidy to capital, space for rest and therapy, source of pride, identity and livelihood for workers." -Ruben Hernandez-Leon, University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsPreface Divided Selves: Domestic Production and Wage Labor in Puerto Rico and Anthropology Palatable Coercion: Fishing in Puerto Rican History Puerto Rican Fisheries Chiripas: Working-class Opportunity and Semiproletarianization Injury and Therapy Roads Less Traveled: Proletarianization and Its Discontents Power Games: Work Versus Leisure Along Puerto Rico's Coast Fragments of a Refuge References Index Photographs
£999.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Fishers At Work, Workers At Sea: Puerto Rican
Book SynopsisSmall-scale fishing, a house-hold based enterprise in Puerto Rico, rarely provides sufficient income for a family, but it anchors their culture and sense of themselves within that culture. Even when family members must engage in wage work to supplement house-hold income, they think of themselves as fishers. Liche typifies these wage workers: \u0022When he was quite young, he left the island to struggle in other lands, to work, to raise a family, to send home the money he earned. Ten, twenty, thirty years passed...during which he did not once fish or even see the ocean. But in a boat-building factory in New Jersey, in a bakery in the Bronx, on the production line of a chemical factory, on dozens of construction sites, every single day he made a mental review of the waters, the isles and cays ...and entertained no thought that was not related to his return.\u0022 Fishers at Work, Workers at Sea describes Puerto Rican fishing families as they negotiate homeland and diaspora. It considers how wage work affects their livelihoods and identities at home and how these independent producers move in and out of global commodity markets. Drawing on some 100 life histories and years of fieldwork, David Griffith and Manuel Vald\u00e9s Pizzini have developed a complex, often moving portrait of the men and women who fiercely struggle to hang onto the coastal landscapes and cultural heritage tied to the Caribbean Sea.Trade Review"Fishers at Work, Workers at Sea makes a major contribution to the literature on the anthropology and sociology of fisheries by providing an intelligent analysis of Puerto Rican fishermen which extends beyond a description of their fishing techniques and strategies and, more recently, the implications for public policy. The authors present a wealth of rich and thick data in an organized and coherent fashion...and focus upon the detailed complexities of what these fishermen bring to the increasing conflict between labor and the forces of capital." -Robert Lee Maril, Chair and Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Texas Pan American, and author of Waltzing with the Ghost of Tom Joad "The stunning accomplishment of this book is the way in which the authors have theoretically and ethnographically related deep cultural meanings not only to ecological contexts but to the stuff of political economy-the material social relationships entailed in class formation, the commodity form, and globalizing capitalism generally. Griffith and Valdes Pizzini focus on the praxis of Puerto Rican fishers and their families through a sophisticated theoretical framework that is as illuminating as it is powerful. These are the kinds of heights to which anthropology should strive. This book gives me hope for the discipline's future." -Kevin A. Yelvington, University of South Florida, and author of Producing Power: Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in a Caribbean Workplace (Temple) "This book masterfully shows how combinations of wage labor and informal independent production are still at the heart of global capitalism and the reproduction of proletariat households. Offering some of the best anthropology of labor around, the authors examine the multiple and contradictory meanings of small-scale commercial fishing in Puerto Rico: subsidy to capital, space for rest and therapy, source of pride, identity and livelihood for workers." -Ruben Hernandez-Leon, University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsPreface Divided Selves: Domestic Production and Wage Labor in Puerto Rico and Anthropology Palatable Coercion: Fishing in Puerto Rican History Puerto Rican Fisheries Chiripas: Working-class Opportunity and Semiproletarianization Injury and Therapy Roads Less Traveled: Proletarianization and Its Discontents Power Games: Work Versus Leisure Along Puerto Rico's Coast Fragments of a Refuge References Index Photographs
£999.99
NewSouth, Incorporated My Little Town: A Pilgrim's Portrait of a
Book SynopsisMy Little Town turns the Yankee-comes-to-Dixie literary genre outside in, examining Marion, Alabama, through the eyes of someone who should never have been living there and yet found himself there for more than a decade. With a keen appreciation of its peculiarly Southern tableau, the book lovingly scrutinizes an Alabama village short chapter by short chapter, accompanied by photographer Jerry Siegel's captivating work from the Black Belt. Funeral visitations, poisoned soup luncheons, Pilgrimage hosting, supper clubs, family feuds, Obama Day parades, politics, Jews, and chicken salad recipes are all treated with a voice of singular precision and affection. Simultaneously author David Tipmore couples this fresh view of Southern small-town life with his own narrative of a worldly urban nomad who hopes to find a home in one of the most isolated areas of the United States, peculiarly defined by its racial history and regional mores. By conflating the two stories, My Little Town challenges the reader as much as the author, raising serious questions about our ability as Americans to transcend our regional identities and cultural complexities.
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Chelsea Green Publishing Co Going Over Home: A Search for Rural Justice in an
Book SynopsisBooklist Editors’ Choice “Best Books of 2019” An intimate portrait of the joys and hardships of rural life, as one man searches for community, equality, and tradition in Appalachia Charles D. Thompson, Jr. was born in southwestern Virginia into an extended family of small farmers. Yet as he came of age he witnessed the demise of every farm in his family. Over the course of his own life of farming, rural education, organizing, and activism, the stories of his home place have been his constant inspiration, helping him identify with the losses of others and to fight against injustices. In Going Over Home, Thompson shares revelations and reflections, from cattle auctions with his grandfather to community gardens in the coal camps of eastern Kentucky, racial disparities of white and Black landownership in the South to recent work with migrant farm workers from Latin America. In this heartfelt first-person narrative, Thompson unpacks our country’s agricultural myths and addresses the history of racism and wealth inequality and how they have come to bear on our nation’s rural places and their people.Trade ReviewBooklist, Starred Review— "This book deserves a place next to the writings of Wendell Berry, Henry David Thoreau, and Michael Pollan."“This book isn’t just the story of one person’s lifelong fight for justice for family farmers and rural communities. Going Over Home is a call that inspires the reader to stand shoulder to shoulder with family farmers in their daily struggle. It puts into words why all of us at Farm Aid believe in family farmers and rural America, and why their survival matters to all of us—no matter where we live.”—Willie Nelson, president, Farm Aid“Going Over Home bears eloquent witness to Charlie Thompson’s path toward a homegrown revolution of the heart, first illuminated by listening to many voices, then achieved by acting in solidarity with those who struggle for equality and inclusion along the wailing walls that America is building between itself and its own heart. Thompson’s exemplary memoir confronts our separate and unequal pasts and gives us a heartfelt but clear-eyed narrative of American agricultural life and a bridge toward wholeness in a broken time.”—Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, codirector of the Poor People’s Campaign; coauthor of The Third Reconstruction“Told through moving stories of kinship and solidarity, Going Over Home brings much needed dimension and heart to our conversations about rural life and shows the strength of our bonds when love of place is animated by justice.”—Elizabeth Catte, author of What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia“Charles D. Thompson, Jr.’s memoir isn’t just a personal snapshot of some of the most important North American agrarian movements and thinkers. It’s the history of a grateful rural educator’s education written with a deep mix of generosity, curiosity, and wit, and it deserves to be read widely.”—Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved
£13.29
University Press of Colorado Building a Resilient Twenty-First-Century Economy
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Counterpoint Round Of A Country Year: A Farmer's Day Book
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£14.39
Erewhon Books The Stone Road
Book SynopsisWinner of the Aurealis Award for Best Horror NovelFinalist for the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy NovelFinalist for the Australian Shadow Awards for Best NovelWith the lyrical cadence of The Last Unicorn and intense imagery of A Wizard of Earthsea, The Stone Road is a timeless story of hope, belonging, and growing into your power. Award-winning Australian author Trent Jamieson presents a haunting rural fantasy where the dead speak beneath your feet and twisted monsters hunger for their lost humanity.On the day Jean was born, the dead howled. A thin scratch of black smoke began to rise behind the hills west of town: Furnace had been lit, and soon its siren call began to draw the people of Casement Rise to it, never to return. Casement Rise is a dusty town at the end of days, a harsh world of grit and arcane dangers. While Jean’s stern, overprotective Nan has always kept Casement Rise safe from monsters, she may have waited too long to teach Jean how to face them on her own. On Jean’s twelfth birthday, a mysterious graceful man appears, an ethereal and terrifying being tied to her family’s secrets.Now, Nan must rush Jean’s education in monsters, magic, and the breaking of the world in ages past. If Jean is to combat the graceful man and finally understand the ancient evil that powers Furnace, she will have to embrace her legacy, endure her Nan’s lessons, and learn all she can—before Furnace burns down her world and everyone in it.Trade Review“A coming-of-age story with a dreamlike quality. . . . Those who appreciate fantasy that leans toward fable will gladly follow along on Jean’s journey.” —Booklist“The Stone Road is lovely, hypnotic. I want to drink this book.” —H. A. Clarke, author of The Scapegracers“Trent Jamieson’s The Stone Road is a heart wrapped in thorns. Its world, even as it unpicks itself at the seams, is shot through with bright mysteries. And the novel, like its heroine, holds dear a loving, quarrelling community, even as it understands that towns—like time and people—slip away like dust. The Stone Road is a cycle of mysteries, an invocation of kindness amidst decay, a promise to the living, and blessing for the dead.” —Kathleen Jennings, author of Flyaway“The Stone Road . . . pulls you in and makes you linger over every page. I don’t know which to praise first—the worldbuilding, which had a depth that made it feel neverending; the prose, which made me want to underline whole passages; or the characters. . . . Perfect for fans of classics like The Last Unicorn (which is to say, anyone who likes good books). I know it’s something I’ll be recommending for years to come.” —Katherine Nazzaro, Manager of Porter Square Books: Boston Edition“Trent Jamieson is . . . a significant talent, writing beautifully crafted tales that often have a baroque sensibility and resonate on an emotional level.” —Terra Incognita
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University Press of Colorado Energy Impacts: A Multidisciplinary Exploration
Book SynopsisEnergy Impacts brings together important new research on site-level social, economic, and behavioral impacts from large-scale energy development.
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Astra Publishing House The Artisans: The Legacy of the Ancestors of Shen
Book SynopsisEvoking Studs Terkel, Shen Fuyu delivers a rollicking deep dive into working life in a small village in rural China, tracing the last 100 years of history. Born in Shen Village in Southeast China, Shen Fuyu grew up in a family of farmers. Years later, Shen, now a writer, returned to his hometown to capture the village's rich history in the face of industrialization. Through his own childhood memories and those of his ancestors, Shen resurrects the working life of Shen Village through interlinked stories of fifteen artisans as their lives intersect over the course of a century. While Shen's view of his hometown and his heritage is tinged with nostalgia, he does not romanticize it. Nor does he sugarcoat the backbreaking difficulty of life in rural China, but he still captures its small satisfactions and joys of loving one's work with a great deal of care. In an acerbic, earthy and unsparing style that swings from poignancy to comedy, sometimes within a single paragraph, Shen evokes the spirits of these workers--a bamboo-weaver and his beloved bull, a carpenter's magical saw, the deserter who became the village lantern-maker and a rebellious woman who beats up her own kidnapper. A reflection on the vicissitudes of small-town life during the epic shift from agricultural to industrial civilization, The Artisans vividly details the hardships, friendships and communal mythmaking of a disappearing community.Trade Review"[Shen Fuyu's] prose is steeped in contagious nostalgia, and he employs the universal language of emigration and exile, writing, 'I am now an orphan, lost in the big city.'"—Farah Abdessamad, The Atlantic "Beautifully written, with an almost mythic tone, each of these vignettes captures a piece of village life and custom during a tumultuous century in Chinese history." —Booklist "A Marcel Pagnol of provincial China in a beautifully accessible translation."—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
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