Rural communities / rural life Books

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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"

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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Book SynopsisBang Chan traces the changing cultural characteristics of a small Siamese village during the century and a quarter from its founding as a wilderness settlement outside Bangkok to its absorption into the urban spread of the Thai capital. Rich in ethnographic detail, the book sums up the major findings of a pioneering interdisciplinary research...Trade ReviewBang Chan is a delight to read. The authors have a good narrative style and an eye for detail—not just detail to exemplify but detail to humanize their characters, to relate Bang Chan to the wider world. What a pleasure it is to follow these two guides along the route from Bangkok to Bang Chan, along that rural community’s busy canals, and back again to the big city. Our authors know how to make the trip an absorbing, entertaining, and easy one, no small feat when the journey is scholarly as well. -- John A. Larkin * Journal of Asian History *

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Book SynopsisIn a companion volume to their highly acclaimed book Overcoming the Odds, Emmy E. Werner and Ruth S. Smith continue their longitudinal study of approximately five hundred men and women who were born in 1955 on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. A third of...

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Book SynopsisOrdinary people's everyday political behavior can have a huge impact on national policy: that is the central conclusion of this book on Vietnam. In telling the story of collectivized agriculture in that country, Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet uncovers a...Trade Review"Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet again enlarges our understanding of subaltern agency and politics. This splendid volume is a great tribute to the capacity of Vietnamese villagers to doggedly defend their basic interests and restrict the options of elites. The Power of Everyday Politics is also a great tribute to Kerkvliet as the political analyst and ethnographer of this important struggle. It is an essential contribution to Southeast Asian studies and to our understanding of socialist bloc agriculture and of the 'other' struggle of the Vietnamese people." -- James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology and Director, Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University"The Power of Everyday Politics makes an important contribution to peasant studies by introducing readers to the Vietnamese experience in collective farming. In a superbly researched book, Kerkvliet demonstrates the vital importance of everyday political behavior on the shape of national policy. The result is not only an insightful examination of Vietnamese peasants and collective farming, but also a revised picture of Vietnam's political system and the interactions between state and society." -- Lynne Viola, University of Toronto, author of Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance

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Book SynopsisThrough an ethnography of social and spatial practice at the limits of the state, this book explores the contested work of producing and policing "territorial integrity" when significant stretches of new international borders remain to be conclusively demarcated or effectively policed.Trade ReviewIn Border Work, Madeleine Reeves brings a granular ethnographic analysis to the daily practices that surround the border between Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikstan as it snakes its way up and down through the remote Ferghana Valley.... She interprets the habitual transgressive acts of border-dwellers who negotiate, appeal to, assert, or bribe their way through the border not as acts of resistance towards a coherent sovereign state, but rather as participating in a particular kind of border work, in which the territorial state is both invoked and undermined.... An important contribution to the anthropology of borders. * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Madeleine Reeves does an excellent job of contextualizing the meaning of border and statehood. Perhaps most crucially, her work encourages reflections on how we might push further the collaboration between political anthropology and political science. * The Russian Review *Madeline Reeves' Border Work: Spatial Lives of the State in Rural Central Asia is an important contribution to the literature on borders and borderland cultures. It also makes an important methodological contribution and presents to the reader what Clifford Geertz refers to as 'thick description’ of what goes into the making of a border. The most striking aspect of the book is the vivid descriptions of the complex geography in Central Asia, which is brought forth through a careful choice of words and articulated with the help of lucid semantics. * Border Criminologies: Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford *Madeline Reeves's Border Work: Spatial Lives of the State in Rural Central Asia details the intersections of interests, state authority, and boundaries between Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan in the southern Ferghana region. Highlighting the urge to have determinant borders while remaining conflicted over "anxieties about what a demarcated and barbed wire–bounded state might mean in practice" (249), this work provides compelling insights into how residents of a border region reconstruct spatial realities while negotiating shifting economic, social, and political terrains. Through a wide variety of ethnographic portraits, detailed observations of changing market patterns, and the careful examination of residents’ constructing and adjusting perceptions of legality and illegality, Reeves’s account of this highly contentious region is able to delve deeply into a specific border region while maintaining theoretical linkages to the studies of boundaries, the limitations of state administrative control, identity, and mobility across the globe. * Slavic Review *Reeves embraces complexity, illustrating widely varied experiences of the border through captivating accounts of Tajiks and Kyrgyz who live in this zone of boundaries.... Reeves's engaging storytelIing and thoughtful analysis are compelling reasons for a wide audience of those interested in post-Soviet Central Asian states and peoples, as well as ethnographers, human geographers, and scholars of borders and frontiers. * International Journal of Turkish Studies *Reeves puts this very rich ethnographic material into critical conversation with a broad range of theory, working across numerous boundaries of a different kind: those between academic disciplines. What emerges is an original argument about the productivity of borders: a rethinking, through the prism of these particular 'margins' of the state, of how space is turned into territory, how sovereignty is produced through daily impersonations and improvisations at the border, and how state-formation is forever a work-in-progress. Border Work is essential for anyone interested in theorising and critiquing the state and sovereignty, as well as for all students of the politics of space. It offers a set of novel, incisive arguments grounded in first-class ethnography. Finally, thanks to Reeves's light and elegant prose, the book is a page-turner. A must-read. * Allegra: A Virtual Lab of Legal Anthropology *Reeves's book will be read with much interest not only by scholars of post-Soviet Central Asia, but also by those interested in borderland and borderscape, critical cartography, postcolonial geographies and anthropologies, gender studies (there is a good, short discussion on women, reproductive rights, and borders), and ethnographic modelling.... This book is a clarion call 'border work’ that stretches our disciplinary, gender, historical, and political worlds and imaginations. These are challenges for those in the social sciences and humanities, but also those who study ‘border’ healthcare, policy, security, development and environmental awareness. * Central Asian Survey *Reeves's fascinating insights on the Ferghana Valley borderlands bespeak of the systematic, long-term, on-site fieldwork that she has carried out, but also of her genuine personal interest and commitment to listen to and to understand the lives of her interlocutors. In the course of the book, we meet border guards, traders, farmers, taxi drivers, teachers, NGO workers, demobilized soldiers.... Her theoretically informed analysis draws on case studies from very different geographical and historical settings. This approach encourages comparison and makes the book relevant far beyond the field of Central Asian Studies.... Border Work is a brilliant ethnography which has much to offer to those interested in the state and its borders. * Society and Space *Reeves's thorough analysis of the processes and practices of the socio-politics that comprise the continual creation and recreation of borders makes a significant contribution to the anthropological investigation of the state. Her close attention to the temporal trajectory leading to the current political complexities in the southern Ferghana Valley... make this book specifically valuable to specialists of Central Asia. In general, however, this clearly written book is of great interest to any lecturers and students interested in political anthropology, borderland studies, and globalization. * Social Anthropology *Other anthropologists have already done important work in de-essentializing the state. Reeves builds on their insights, confidently inserting her own analytical voice in the ongoing conversations. The book's main strength... lies in the author's exceptional weaving of theory with meticulous ethnographic detail. * Polar: Political & Legal Anthropology Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: On Border Work 1. Locations: Place and Displacement in Southern Ferghana 2. Delimitations: Ethno-Spatial Fixing in the Twentieth Century 3. Trajectories: Mobility and the Afterlives of Internationalism 4. Gaps: Working a "Chessboard" Border 5. Impersonations: Manning the Border, Enacting the State 6. Separations: Conflict and the Escalation of Force Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice in a small Russian town over three centuries. The town of Sepych was settled in the late seventeenth century by religious dissenters who fled to the forests of the Urals to escape a world they believed to be in the clutches of the Antichrist. Factions of Old Believers, as these dissenters later came to be known, have maintained a presence in the town ever since. The townspeople of Sepych have also been serfs, free peasants, collective farmers, and, now, shareholders in a post-Soviet cooperative. Douglas Rogers traces connections between the town and some of the major transformations of Russian history, showing how townspeople have responded to a long series of attempts to change them and their communities: tsarist-era efforts to regulate family life and stamp out Old Belief on the Stroganov estates, Soviet collectivization drives and antireligious campaigns, and tTrade ReviewRogers's narrative includes useful connections of his discussion to larger problems of scholarship on Old Believers and the anthropology of Russia more generally. His prose is engaging, accessible, and a pleasure to read, so the book should be appropriate for a wide range of undergraduate teaching as well as more specialized audiences. -- Alexander King * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *This is a beautiful book that asks large questions of multiple sources on one small community. It deserves a readership far beyond scholars of Russia or socialism. -- Sonja Luehrmann * Journal of Anthropological Research *Douglas Rogers has written a pathbreaking work of historical anthropology that should become standard reading for historians and other social scientists. Sensitive to religious and economic contexts, he charts the history of the town of Sepych in the western Perm region over the longue durée, beginning with the creation of the priestless Old Believer settlement in the late seventeenth century and ending in the post-Soviet era. Without ignoring the peculiar circumstances that serfdom and ownership by the Stroganov family imposed on the community, Rogers analyzes three major turning points brought about by shifting economic relationships and, in two cases, political change: capitalist modernization after emancipation, which created a schism in the Old Believer community; the imposition of socialism and central planning in the Soviet era; and finally the introduction of global capitalism upon the Soviet Union's demise.... In its goal of moving beyond generalizations about peasant societies as tradition bound, backward, collective, isolated, and centers of resistance, the monograph succeeds brilliantly. * Christine Worobec *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Ethics, Russia, HistoryPart I. An Ethical Repertoire1. In Search of Salvation on the Stroganov Estates2. Faith, Family, and Land after EmancipationPart II. The Generations and Ethics of Socialism3. Youth: Exemplars of Rural Socialism4. Elders: Christian Ascetics in the Soviet CountrysidePart III. Struggles to Shape an Emergent Ethical Regime5. New Risks and Inequalities in the Household Sector6. Which Khoziain? Whose Moral Community?7. Society, Culture, and the Churching of Sepych8. Separating Post-Soviet Worlds? Priestly Baptisms and Priestless FuneralsEpilogueBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe new rural economy involves a fundamental shift in the stability and security of people's lives and ultimately causes wrenching change and an arduous struggle as rural dwellers struggle to rebuild their lives in the new economic terrain.

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Book SynopsisContingent Work, Disrupted Lives examines the repercussions of economic globalization on several manufacturing-dependent rural communities in Canada. Foregrounding a distinct interest in the ''grassroots'' effects of such contemporary corporate strategies as plant closures and downsizing, authors Anthony Winson and Belinda Leach consider the impact of this restructuring on the residents of various communities. The authors argue that the new rural economy involves a fundamental shift in the stability and security of people''s lives and, ultimately, it causes wrenching change and an arduous struggle as rural dwellers struggle to rebuild their lives in the new economic terrain. Beginning with broader theoretical and empirical literature on global changes in the economy and the effects of these changes on labour, the text then focuses exploration on manufacturing in Ontario with an analysis of five community case studies. Winson and Leach give considerable attention to th

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Book SynopsisFocusing on Adams County in the Columbia Plateau in eastern Washington, Drylands, a Rural American Saga is a pictorial essay documenting the reality underlying the American self-portrait. Both an exception to and a paradigm of the country's agricultural folkways, Adams County offers a panorama of rolling cropland, sagebrush scree, and deep coulees.Trade Review“Drylands is a beautiful, soulful exploration of an ordinary place made extraordinary through the words and pictures of two accomplished craftsmen. It is evocative of the best collaborations between writers and artists who explore rural America, going beyond a simple elegy for rural life and choosing instead to frame Adams County as both a unique place and a proving ground for the dynamic and complex changes reshaping American agriculture and small towns across the nation. It will be a compelling book for many audiences.”—Matthew Klingle, author of Emerald City: An Environmental History of SeattleTable of Contents

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Book SynopsisFor seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as an ordinary farmer. In 1989, he returned to the village as an anthropologist to begin the unparalleled span of eleven years' fieldwork that has resulted in this booka comprehensive, vivid, and nuanced account of family change and the transformation of private life in rural China from 1949 to 1999. The author's focus on the personal and the emotional sets this book apart from most studies of the Chinese family. Yan explores private lives to examine areas of family life that have been largely overlooked, such as emotion, desire, intimacy, privacy, conjugality, and individuality. He concludes that the past five decades have witnessed a dual transformation of private life: the rise of the private family, within which the private lives of individual women and men are thriving. Trade Review"When Yunxiang Yan's first book, The Flow of Gifts, was published in 1996 it was immediately clear that a new leading scholar of contemporary Chinese society had entered the scene. Yan's second book Private Life Under Socialism richly delivers on the promise of his first. This new book is, in fact, very much a companion volume to The Flow of Gifts. Together, they constitute a uniquely rich ethnography of the intimate details of social life as lived and experienced in the village where Yan himself spent 15 years of his life before becoming an anthropologist." -- China Quarterly"The best ethnography of rural China in the 1990s, this important book is about a rarely explored but central dimension of Chinese family life. Yan also places his study of private life directly in the center of classic debates about the character and importance of corporate kinship. It takes years of sharing villagers' lives to see beneath the surface. Yan lived it, and he brings deep understanding to both the narrative and the analysis." -- Deborah Davis * Yale University *"Beautifully crafted, this study provides a sobering look at changes in rural Chinese family life, while shedding rare light on the inner moral and emotional world of the Chinese villager." -- Population and Development Review"In probably the best micro-examination of Chinese society in transition, Yan goes beyond the three conventional topologies of treating the Chinese family as a cultural, economic, and political unit. His focus on the personal and emotional aspects of Chinese families separates this book from the conventional emphasis on structure and collectivism." -- H.T. Wong * Eastern Washington University *"...a thought provoking book..." -- American Historical Review" . . . Yan contributes tremendously to the field of China studies by empirically countering a number of its dominant and discriminatory assumptions." -- Canadian Journal of History"Throughout this well-researched and highly original book, Yan has once again demonstrated his unusual ethnographic sensitivity and fine ability to capture the multilayered micropolitics of changing rural social life." -- Journal of Asian Studies"While the majority of the world views contemporary China as the single most formidable economic force on the planet, threatening to define a new age, anthropologists of China are taking a characteristically contrary approach by studying the deeply personal and emotional social worlds of various Chinese communities . . . Yan directly challenges the entrenched theory of the Chinese family as a corporate enterprise in which the the economic self-interest of the domestic group is the driving force of development." -- Matthew Z. Noellert * Anthropological Quarterly *"This may well prove to be the finest rural ethnography of a Chinese village ever written. By focusing on the emotional domain, Yan invites his readers to engage ethnographically in a new domain of scholarly exploration and analysis. In so doing, he has made the Chinese more human. It is a wonderful study." -- William Jankowiak, University of Nevada * Las Vegas *"This ethnographic study should be in every academic library." * Library Journal *

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Book SynopsisFor seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as an ordinary farmer. In 1989, he returned to the village as an anthropologist to begin the unparalleled span of eleven years' fieldwork that has resulted in this booka comprehensive, vivid, and nuanced account of family change and the transformation of private life in rural China from 1949 to 1999. The author's focus on the personal and the emotional sets this book apart from most studies of the Chinese family. Yan explores private lives to examine areas of family life that have been largely overlooked, such as emotion, desire, intimacy, privacy, conjugality, and individuality. He concludes that the past five decades have witnessed a dual transformation of private life: the rise of the private family, within which the private lives of individual women and men are thriving. Trade Review"When Yunxiang Yan's first book, The Flow of Gifts, was published in 1996 it was immediately clear that a new leading scholar of contemporary Chinese society had entered the scene. Yan's second book Private Life Under Socialism richly delivers on the promise of his first. This new book is, in fact, very much a companion volume to The Flow of Gifts. Together, they constitute a uniquely rich ethnography of the intimate details of social life as lived and experienced in the village where Yan himself spent 15 years of his life before becoming an anthropologist." -- China Quarterly"The best ethnography of rural China in the 1990s, this important book is about a rarely explored but central dimension of Chinese family life. Yan also places his study of private life directly in the center of classic debates about the character and importance of corporate kinship. It takes years of sharing villagers' lives to see beneath the surface. Yan lived it, and he brings deep understanding to both the narrative and the analysis." -- Deborah Davis * Yale University *"Beautifully crafted, this study provides a sobering look at changes in rural Chinese family life, while shedding rare light on the inner moral and emotional world of the Chinese villager." -- Population and Development Review"In probably the best micro-examination of Chinese society in transition, Yan goes beyond the three conventional topologies of treating the Chinese family as a cultural, economic, and political unit. His focus on the personal and emotional aspects of Chinese families separates this book from the conventional emphasis on structure and collectivism." -- H.T. Wong * Eastern Washington University *"...a thought provoking book..." -- American Historical Review" . . . Yan contributes tremendously to the field of China studies by empirically countering a number of its dominant and discriminatory assumptions." -- Canadian Journal of History"Throughout this well-researched and highly original book, Yan has once again demonstrated his unusual ethnographic sensitivity and fine ability to capture the multilayered micropolitics of changing rural social life." -- Journal of Asian Studies"While the majority of the world views contemporary China as the single most formidable economic force on the planet, threatening to define a new age, anthropologists of China are taking a characteristically contrary approach by studying the deeply personal and emotional social worlds of various Chinese communities . . . Yan directly challenges the entrenched theory of the Chinese family as a corporate enterprise in which the the economic self-interest of the domestic group is the driving force of development." -- Matthew Z. Noellert * Anthropological Quarterly *"This may well prove to be the finest rural ethnography of a Chinese village ever written. By focusing on the emotional domain, Yan invites his readers to engage ethnographically in a new domain of scholarly exploration and analysis. In so doing, he has made the Chinese more human. It is a wonderful study." -- William Jankowiak, University of Nevada * Las Vegas *"This ethnographic study should be in every academic library." * Library Journal *

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Book SynopsisA study of village governance in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century China that reinterprets peasant behavior, village community, and state-society relations.Trade Review"This is truly a well-written book on China's village governance, a very good example of combining theory, first-hand materials and sophisticated analysis. Even though Li is cautious in extending his arguments into other areas and epochs, this book still helps shed new light to the traditional Chinese local governance." -- Journal of Chinese Political Science"This book is a hugely informative study of the changing relation between villages and the state during the late Qing and early Republican periods . . . for anyone hoping to do research in this field it will be essential reading." -- China Review InternationalTable of ContentsTable of Contents for Village Governance in North China, 1875-1936 List of Maps and Tables Preface 1. Introduction Part 1.A Local Practices 2. The Setting 3. Cooperation and Control in the Peasant Community 4. Rules, Self-Interest, and Strategies 5. Tax Collection 6. Land and Tax Administration Part 2.A New Changes after 1900 7. Power, Discourse, and Legitimacy 8. Cooperation and Conflict over Village Schools 9. Elite Activism 10. Village Reorganization 11. Uncovering "Black Land" 12. Conclusion Notes Character List References Index

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Book SynopsisPentecostalismAfrica's fastest growing form of Christianityis known for displacing that which came before. Yet anthropologist Devaka Premawardhana witnessed neither massive growth nor dramatic rupture in the part of Mozambique where he worked. His research opens a new paradigm for the study of global Christianity, one centered on religious fluidity and existential mobility, and on how indigenous traditions remain vibrant and influentialeven in the lives of converts.In Faith in Flux, Premawardhana narrates a range of everyday hardships faced by a rural Makhuwa-speaking peoplesnakebites and elephant invasions, chronic illnesses and recurring wars, disputes within families and conflicts with the stateto explore how wellbeing sometimes entails not stability but mobility. In their ambivalent response to Pentecostalism, as in their historical resistance to sedentarization and other modernizing projects, the Makhuwa reveal crucial insights about what it is to be human: about cTrade Review"This fascinating and unique book is the result of Devaka Premawardhana'sjourney of nearly one year to explore the local response to the recent arrivalof Pentecostal churches in northern Mozambique . . . [A] rich and inspiring book, which should be read by anyone interested in African Studies and anthropology of Christianity." * African Studies Review *"Who would have thought that a book set in the middle of what is considered a quite remote location even in Mozambique-the Makhuwa area of Niassa Province-could so eloquently address important concerns relating to Pentecostalism and the enigma of change in Africa, in anthropology, and more generally? This gem of a book executes such a challenging task in highly original ways . . . [B]eautifully and compellingly written . . . Premawardhana has written a book that should-and will-have a broad impact." * Journal of Religion in Africa *"Literatures tied to themes of migration, refugees, religious conversion, and phenomenology are all brought to bear expertly. Analysis of the fluidity of rural Mozambicans' relationship to Pentecostal churches and teachings is enriched with sparing application of well-chosen theories. The author accomplishes this with nuance, and utmost respect for the human experiences that command his attention." * International Journal of African Historical Studies *"Beautifully and brilliantly written . . . an existential ethnography of the Makhuwa people of Northern Mozambique, a meditation on colonialism, globalization, modernity and the nature of Pentecostalism, a critique of cultural theory, and a fascinating narrative of 'snakebites and elephant invasions, chronic illnesses and recurring wars, disputes within families and conflicts with the state.'" * Nova Religio *"This book, no doubt, adds new, unique, and refreshing insight to the ever-growing research and publications on Pentecostalism. Not only does it examine Pentecostalism in a place where it had not been studied extensively, it does so by means of time-tested anthropological methods and theoretical frameworks. This unique approach and the vivid and enthralling narrative style make this book a must-read." * Journal of World Christianity *""Faith in Flux reminds us how intensive fieldwork and rich ethnography are not only what define anthropology but also what anthropologists draw on to challenge theoretical assumptions and make their voices heard in scholarly debates . . . Faith in Flux should be recommended not only to scholars of Christianity and Africanists but also to undergraduate and graduate students of anthropology."" * Anthropological Quarterly *"Premawardhana's book is a pleasure to read, as he seamlessly weaves the theoretical discussion into his intriguing vignettes. He discusses his own presence and reception with the people among whom he lived in a way that established credible ethnographic authority. Whether the reader is interested in constructions of conversion, Christianity and cultural adaptation, or the impact of transnational Pentecostalism in local communities, Premawardhana's work provides a valuable and detailed case study." * Pneuma *"Faith in Flux brilliantly realizes the potential of ethnography not only to illuminate other lifeworlds but to offer incisive critiques of current theoretical assumptions in religious studies and the social sciences. In lucid and enthralling prose, Devaka Premawardhana takes us deep into the world of the Makhuwa, offering new ways in which global Christianity, tradition, mobility, conversion, and social change may be understood." * Michael Jackson, author of How Lifeworlds Work: Emotionality, Sociality, and the Ambiguity of Being *"Faith in Flux is a beautifully written and theoretically novel book that focuses on a geographical area that has been severely neglected in the anthropological record. Devaka Premawardhana amply illustrates the idea that radical renewal is neither foreign to traditional societies nor necessarily a byproduct of globalization, modernization, or Pentecostal conversion." * Ilana van Wyk, University of Cape Town *"Intersecting the study of Pentecostalism, modernity, and globalization with insights from existential anthropology, especially bodily dispositions toward mobility, Faith in Flux is a book that will no doubt lead anthropologists of Christianity to view their own work in a new light. Devaka Premawardhana challenges scholars to rethink the idea of religious conversion as a profound rupture with the past." * Sonia Silva, Skidmore College *Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I. Othama—To Move Chapter 1. A Fugitive People Chapter 2. Between the River and the Road PART II. Ohiya ni Ovolowa—To Leave and to Enter Chapter 3. Border Crossings Chapter 4. Two Feet In, Two Feet Out PART III. Okhalano—To Be With Chapter 5. A Religion of Her Own? Chapter 6. Moved by the Spirit Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisJust looking at the Pacific Northwest's many verdant forests and fields, it may be hard to imagine the intense work it took to transform the region into the agricultural powerhouse it is today. Much of this labor was provided by Mexican guest workers, Tejano migrants, and undocumented immigrants. Of Forests and Fields tells the story of these workers.Trade Review"Sifuentez cogently analyzes approximately seventy years of Pacific Northwest labor history… Scholars and students (both undergraduate and graduate) will find this richly told story illuminating."— The Journal of American History "Of Forests and Fields is a significant and timely historical project addressing one of the most important social and cultural developments in recent history."— David Gutierrez, professor of history, University of California, San Diego "Sifuentez has written a terrific book exploring the struggles of Mexican farm and forest laborers, documented and undocumented, in the northwest from World War II to the turn of the century. This is first-rate labor and environmental history attentive to the types of work performed by his subjects, the tensions between laborers and growers, and the role of pro-business state authorities... Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty."— Choice "This book’s greatest strength is that it covers many different topics in a comparatively brief space. Consequently, it would serve as an excellent supplemental text for courses focused on the American West, labor, immigration, Chicana/o studies, and the modern US survey."— H-Net "Mario Sifuentez gives voice to the stories, struggles, and strengths of Mexican laborers in the fields of the Northwest, illuminating in engaging, human terms an important slice of history."— Miriam Pawel, author of The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography "Of Forests and Fields is an important work that should be read by those interested in immigrant rights and Chicano, environmental, and labor history."— Pacific Northwest Quarterly "An elegant and engaging history of Mexican-ancestry labor in the Pacific Northwest....Well organized and well written. This book should be of interest to anyone seeking to understand the long history of Mexican-ancestry people in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest more broadly. It is written in a clear and engaging way that should appeal to college instructors, informed readers, and the general public." — Oregon Historical Quarterly "Of Forests and Fields provides a detailed and fascinating account of Mexican labor in the Pacific Northwest between the 1940s and the mid-1990s... Sifuentez has paved the way for scholars to more readily engage with the ways in which Mexican and Mexican American labor fits into a larger environmental history of the United States."— H-Environment "A much-needed history of Mexican labor in the Pacific Northwest, specifically in the state of Oregon....The most thorough examination of the evolution of Mexican labor in Oregon."— Historical Pacific ReviewTable of Contents AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Many Miles from Home: The Bracero Program in the Pacific Northwest2 Los Tejanos: The Texas-Mexican Diaspora in Oregon3 The Genesis of the Willamette Valley Immigration Project4 Whip that Hoedad in the Ground: Undocumented Workers in the National Forest5 “Now I Can Hold My Own With Anybody”: IRCA, Immigrant Organizing, and the Pineros y Campesinos Unidos Noroeste (PCUN)6 Huelga!: PCUN and Organizing Farm Workers in the Willamette ValleyEpilogue: La Lucha Sigue . . . Notes Index

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Book SynopsisJust looking at the Pacific Northwest's many verdant forests and fields, it may be hard to imagine the intense work it took to transform the region into the agricultural powerhouse it is today. Much of this labor was provided by Mexican guest workers, Tejano migrants, and undocumented immigrants. Of Forests and Fields tells the story of these workers.Trade Review"Sifuentez cogently analyzes approximately seventy years of Pacific Northwest labor history… Scholars and students (both undergraduate and graduate) will find this richly told story illuminating."— The Journal of American History "Of Forests and Fields is a significant and timely historical project addressing one of the most important social and cultural developments in recent history."— David Gutierrez, professor of history, University of California, San Diego "Sifuentez has written a terrific book exploring the struggles of Mexican farm and forest laborers, documented and undocumented, in the northwest from World War II to the turn of the century. This is first-rate labor and environmental history attentive to the types of work performed by his subjects, the tensions between laborers and growers, and the role of pro-business state authorities... Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty."— Choice "This book’s greatest strength is that it covers many different topics in a comparatively brief space. Consequently, it would serve as an excellent supplemental text for courses focused on the American West, labor, immigration, Chicana/o studies, and the modern US survey."— H-Net "Mario Sifuentez gives voice to the stories, struggles, and strengths of Mexican laborers in the fields of the Northwest, illuminating in engaging, human terms an important slice of history."— Miriam Pawel, author of The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography "Of Forests and Fields is an important work that should be read by those interested in immigrant rights and Chicano, environmental, and labor history."— Pacific Northwest Quarterly "An elegant and engaging history of Mexican-ancestry labor in the Pacific Northwest....Well organized and well written. This book should be of interest to anyone seeking to understand the long history of Mexican-ancestry people in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest more broadly. It is written in a clear and engaging way that should appeal to college instructors, informed readers, and the general public." — Oregon Historical Quarterly "Of Forests and Fields provides a detailed and fascinating account of Mexican labor in the Pacific Northwest between the 1940s and the mid-1990s... Sifuentez has paved the way for scholars to more readily engage with the ways in which Mexican and Mexican American labor fits into a larger environmental history of the United States."— H-Environment "A much-needed history of Mexican labor in the Pacific Northwest, specifically in the state of Oregon....The most thorough examination of the evolution of Mexican labor in Oregon."— Historical Pacific ReviewTable of Contents AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Many Miles from Home: The Bracero Program in the Pacific Northwest2 Los Tejanos: The Texas-Mexican Diaspora in Oregon3 The Genesis of the Willamette Valley Immigration Project4 Whip that Hoedad in the Ground: Undocumented Workers in the National Forest5 “Now I Can Hold My Own With Anybody”: IRCA, Immigrant Organizing, and the Pineros y Campesinos Unidos Noroeste (PCUN)6 Huelga!: PCUN and Organizing Farm Workers in the Willamette ValleyEpilogue: La Lucha Sigue . . . Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis Complete revision of Dr. Shaffer''s classic Community Economics provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of economic structure in small communities and urban neighborhoods of America. Authors Shaffer, Deller, and Marcouiller review the economics of smaller communities with continued emphasis on how to build and achieve theoretically sound community economic development policy. The text also demonstrates how local participation and knowledge can be used to identify problems, form solutions, and maintain community support for long-term goals. The main body of economic research and literature has neglected the economics of smaller communities. Community Economics: Linking Theory and Practice fills that information void. This text serves as a comprehensive guide on smaller, open economies and urban neighborhoods for economists, regional planners, rural sociologists, and geographers. Additionally, Community Economics is an issue-oriented handbooTrade Review"This edition succeeds...in ways very few other attempts have achieved. Concepts are applied, models explained, principles are richly explicated, and themes are well developed, all in a fashion that really draws economic theory and literature into their regional and community contexts. Even those with only a cursory exposure to the economic theory of local development will find sections of the book highly readable and extremely useful." "Not unlike the original edition, Community Economics will find a place in the classroom...for it is, simply put, as good grounding in economic theory placed in a practical context as any I have read." Mark B. Lapping, University of Southern Maine in Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 46, No.4, 2006Table of ContentsForeword. Preface.. Section I: Community Economic Development Theory. 1. Defining Community Economic Development. 2. Growth Theory. 3. Space and Community Economics. 4. Concepts of Community Markets.. Section II: Community Factor Markets. 5. Land Markets. 6. Labor Markets. 7. Financial Capital Markets. 8. Technology and Innovation. 9. Nonmarket Goods and Services: Amenities. 10. Local Government and Public Goods.. Section III: Institutions and the Art of Community Economics. 11. Institutions and Society. 12. Policy Modeling and Decision-Making. 13. The Practice of Community Economic Development.. Section IV: Tools of Community Economics. 14. Descriptive Tools of Community Economic Analysis. 15. Inferential Tools of Community Economic Analysis: fixed-Price Models. 16. Inferential Tools of Community Economic Analysis: Price: Endogenous Models. 17. Looking to the Future. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Thomas W. Pearson takes us to the front lines of one of the great under-reported environmental issues in America today—how the fracking industry’s hunger for sand is impacting rural Wisconsin. His deep research and intimate portraits of people on all sides of the controversy make this an important and timely read for anyone concerned about our country’s environment, natural resources, and what happens when the needs of big business collide with those of ordinary citizens."—Vince Beiser, award-winning journalist"A masterful blend of stories and scholarship that will be the definitive account of a major environmental justice issue. Thomas W. Pearson is fair-minded and unflinching as he traces the erasure of place and the scramble to salvage community and democracy."—Adam Briggle, author of A Field Philosopher’s Guide to Fracking"When the Hills Are Gone is a riveting, sobering story about local democracy at the whipped-around tail-end of the frack-driven oil and gas boom that has rocked the United States since the turn of the millennium. The writing is lively and reflective—deftly portraying the many micro-tactics through which local democracy can be undercut and the many kinds of people working against this in rural Wisconsin. This is critical reading for understanding contemporary politics on the ground."—Kim Fortun, University of California, Irvine"The churning engine of the global energy economy always touches down in local places, sometimes to brutal effect. Thomas W. Pearson provides a compelling and deeply personal story of one such place, the sand hills of Wisconsin. Both an ethnography and a study of state and local politics, When the Hills Are Gone richly describes community divisions and sudden activism in places where disruptive environmental change is ongoing."—Paul Robbins, director, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison"For scholars, activists, and students seeking understanding of mining and rural politics in the United States, this book will be essential reading." —Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Magic Mineral1. Save Our Hills2. Low Hanging Fruit3. Dangers Unseen4. Where You Live5. Neighbors6. In Pursuit of Local Democracy7. Confronting the Next BoomAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Trade ReviewFirst published in 1940 as part of the information-gathering effort of the TVA, the work examines Gorgas, Alabama, a predominantly white farming settlement. Hailed as the most intensive case study ever made in the South, the book provides a detailed portrait of southern rural life on the verge of extinction. - Florida Historical Quarterly ""One of the finest examples of the genre of the community survey... the book is remarkably free of special pleading. And every chapter is packed with fascinating data and insights. The University of Alabama Press is to be congratulated for reissuing this splendid community study; the volume fits the description of a classic. And Clarence L. Mohr's introduction alone is worth the price of the volume."" - Journal of Southwest Georgia History

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Book SynopsisHow small-scale coca growers came together to oppose an eradication campaign by the Colombain governmentTrade Review“Between the Guerrillas and the State is a must-read for those hoping to make sense of the Colombian quagmire. One of that country’s most prominent anthropologists, María Clemencia Ramírez, has a keen ethnographic sensibility and a deep knowledge of the social dynamics of the Colombian Amazon. Her book opens a window onto the complexities of the Colombian conflict in a way that few English-language publications have.”—Joanne Rappaport, author of Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia“A meticulous account of how coca growing plays out in the labyrinth of southern Colombia, this book, by a seasoned Colombian anthropologist, illuminates the plight of the peasant no less than the double-talk promulgated by the unwinnable War on Drugs.”—Michael Taussig, Class of 1933 Professor, Columbia University“Brimming over with ethnographic and historical insights, this outstanding book speaks to central questions about social movements, violence, democratization, and the implementation of neoliberal policies in extremely poor regions. María Clemencia Ramírez looks at a grassroots social movement brought about by unlikely actors, rural farmers known as cocaleros, who grow and process coca (the main ingredient in cocaine) in order to survive. The cocaleros clamored for attention from a nearly absent state, which dismissed them, demonizing them as criminals. The irony is unmistakable, for the cocaleros’ claims-making deployed rhetorics coming straight out of neoliberal discourses that speak of citizen responsibility, participatory democracy, and self-actualization. Between the Guerrillas and the State is a brilliant study of neocolonialism at work in a very violent part of southern Colombia.”—Jean E. Jackson, co-editor of Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America“It is refreshing to read accounts of grassroots resistance to the bullying of national governments that regard citizens as obstacles…. This compelling book makes a valuable contribution to the study of social movements while providing a nuanced understanding of what is really at stake when politicians in countries such as Colombia uncritically accept the narratives and agenda mouthed incessantly by their northern paymasters.” * Latin American Review of Books *“Between the Guerrillas and the State is...a rich and much-needed addition to our understanding of contemporary Colombia.” -- Robert Karl * Hispanic American Historical Review *“Between the Guerrillas and the State constitutes an insightful reminder that the 'political world' is rich with local and cultural meanings that are usually ignored in debates about public policy.” -- Ingrid Bolivar * EIAL *“In Between the Guerrillas and the State, Maria Clemencia Ramirez has written an excellent analytical description of the cocalero movement in the Putumayo province in the Colombian Amazon during the 1990s.” -- Carmenza Gallo * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Abbreviations xiii Introduction 1 1. History of Colonization, Marginalization, and the State: Guerrillas, Drug Trafficking, and Paramilitarism in the Colombian Amazon 21 2. Coca and the War on Drugs in Putumayo: Illegality, Armed Conflict, and the Politics of Time and Space 54 3. Turning Civic Movements into a Social Movement: Antecedents of the Cocalero Social Movement 86 4. The Cocalero Social Movement: Stigmatization and the Politics of Recognition and Identity 110 5. Negotiations with the Central Government: Clashing Visions over the "Right to Have Rights" 134 6. Competing States or Competing Governments? An Analysis of Local State Formation in a Conflict-Ridden Zone 167 7. From Social to Political Leadership: Gaining Visibility as Civil Society in the Midst of Increased Armed Conflict 183 8. Plan Colombia and the Depoliticization of Citizenship in Putumayo 214 Epilogue 233 Appendixes 239 Notes 254 References 283 Index 297

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Book SynopsisIn Challenging Social Inequality, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars and development workers explores the causes, consequences, and contemporary reactions to Brazil's sharply unequal agrarian structure.Trade Review"Challenging Social Inequality is the most comprehensive study to date of the agrarian question in Brazil and of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers, the social movement that has challenged land concentration, social inequality, and poverty in Brazil since the mid-1980s. The contributors, most of whom are Brazilian, examine the movement's history, organization, and strategies, and its interaction with the state, political parties, and other social movements. In addition, Miguel Carter addresses complex and controversial issues in the introduction and conclusion, further expanding our understanding of contemporary Brazil."—Leslie Bethell, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford"This collection offers as definitive a history of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers as is now possible. The contributors examine the movement's founding and rapid expansion in every state; its conflicts with landowners and political authorities; its methods, grassroots practices, and achievements in seeking to impart the arts of husbandry, equality, and democracy to the rural third of the nation, which is largely landless, hungry, and bereft of the means of citizenship. Challenging Social Inequality is a complete guide to a social movement of enormous importance, one comparable to the civil rights movement in the United States particularly with respect to its capacity to mobilize, raise consciousness, and bring about change."—Ralph Della Cava, Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University"Carter’s 2015 volume is the most comprehensive and extensive treatment of the MST to date, bringing together prominent scholars that have been working with and conducting research on the MST over the past three decades." -- Rebecca Tarlau * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"The interdisciplinary nature of the collection—featuring geographers, anthropologists, and sociologists, as well as political scientists—offers readers many well-researched, diverse theoretical perspectives on the largest social movement active in Latin America. The various chapters from Brazilian scholars will acquaint readers with first-rate social science scholarship that Carter himself translated from the original Portuguese. This volume is the most complete book on what can be considered Latin America’s most innovative social movement." -- Anthony Pahnke * Perspectives on Politics *"[W]ell written, clearly organized, and based on significant and in-depth research conducted at different times and across politically and ecologically diverse places. Chapters are linked by a clear, shared focus on social inequality and a similar yet geographically and temporally grounded manifestation and analysis of problems and struggles.” -- Cathy A. Rakowski * Rural Sociology *"Challenging Social Inequality shows disciplinary and scholarly breadth. . . . This volume—launched early in the [Worker's Party] decline—contributes greatly to post-2018 political debates and MST history writ large." -- Travis Knoll * The Latin Americanist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix List of Figures, Maps, and Tables xiii List of Abbreviations xvii An Overview / Miguel Carter xxiii 1. Social Inequality, Agrarian Reform, and Democracy in Brazil / Miguel Carter 1 Part I. The Agrarian Question and Rural Social Movements in Brazil 2. The Agrarian Question and Agribusiness in Brazil / Ghilherme Costa Delgado 43 3. Rural Social Movements, Struggles for Rights, and Land Reform in Contemporary Brazilian History / Leonilde Sérvolo de Medeiros 68 4. Churches, the Pastoral Land Commission, and the Mobilization for Agrarian Reform / Ivo Poletto 90 Part II. MST History and Struggle for Land 5. The Formation and Territorialization of the MST in Brazil / Bernardo Mançano Fernandes 115 6. Origins and Consolidation of the MST in Rio Grande do Sul / Miguel Carter 149 7. Under the Black Tarp: The Legitimacy and Dynamics of Land Occupations in Pernambuco / Lygia Maria Sigaud 182 8. From Posseiro to Sem Terra: The Impact of MST Land Struggles in the State of Pará / Gabriel Ondetti, Emmanuel Wambergue, and José Batista Conçalves Afonso 202 Part III. MST's Agricultural Settlements 9. The Struggle on Land: Source of Growth, Innovation, and Constant Challenge for the MST / Miguel Carter and Horacio Martins de Carvalho 229 10. Rural Settlements and the MST in São Paulo: From Social Conflict to the Diversity of Local Impacts / Sonia Maria P. P. Bergamasco and Luiz Antonio Cabello Noder 274 11. Community Building in an MST Settlement in Northeast Brazil / Elena Calvo-González 293 12. MST Settlements in Pernambuco: Identity and the Politics of Resistance / Wendy Wolford 310 Part IV. The MST, Politics, and Society in Brazil 13. Working with Governments: The MST's Experience with the Cardoso and Lula Administrations / Sue Branford 331 14. The MST and the Rule of Law in Brazil / George Mészáros 351 15. Beyond the MST: The Impact on Brazilian Social Movements / Marcelo Carvalho Rosa 375 16. Challenging Social Inequality: Contention, Context, and Consequences / Miguel Carter 390 Epilogue. Broken Promise: The Land Reform Debacle Under the PT Governments / Miguel Carter 413 References 429 Contributors 469 Index 473

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Book SynopsisIn Challenging Social Inequality, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars and development workers explores the causes, consequences, and contemporary reactions to Brazil's sharply unequal agrarian structure.Trade Review"Challenging Social Inequality is the most comprehensive study to date of the agrarian question in Brazil and of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers, the social movement that has challenged land concentration, social inequality, and poverty in Brazil since the mid-1980s. The contributors, most of whom are Brazilian, examine the movement's history, organization, and strategies, and its interaction with the state, political parties, and other social movements. In addition, Miguel Carter addresses complex and controversial issues in the introduction and conclusion, further expanding our understanding of contemporary Brazil."—Leslie Bethell, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford"This collection offers as definitive a history of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers as is now possible. The contributors examine the movement's founding and rapid expansion in every state; its conflicts with landowners and political authorities; its methods, grassroots practices, and achievements in seeking to impart the arts of husbandry, equality, and democracy to the rural third of the nation, which is largely landless, hungry, and bereft of the means of citizenship. Challenging Social Inequality is a complete guide to a social movement of enormous importance, one comparable to the civil rights movement in the United States particularly with respect to its capacity to mobilize, raise consciousness, and bring about change."—Ralph Della Cava, Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University"Carter’s 2015 volume is the most comprehensive and extensive treatment of the MST to date, bringing together prominent scholars that have been working with and conducting research on the MST over the past three decades." -- Rebecca Tarlau * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"The interdisciplinary nature of the collection—featuring geographers, anthropologists, and sociologists, as well as political scientists—offers readers many well-researched, diverse theoretical perspectives on the largest social movement active in Latin America. The various chapters from Brazilian scholars will acquaint readers with first-rate social science scholarship that Carter himself translated from the original Portuguese. This volume is the most complete book on what can be considered Latin America’s most innovative social movement." -- Anthony Pahnke * Perspectives on Politics *"[W]ell written, clearly organized, and based on significant and in-depth research conducted at different times and across politically and ecologically diverse places. Chapters are linked by a clear, shared focus on social inequality and a similar yet geographically and temporally grounded manifestation and analysis of problems and struggles.” -- Cathy A. Rakowski * Rural Sociology *"Challenging Social Inequality shows disciplinary and scholarly breadth. . . . This volume—launched early in the [Worker's Party] decline—contributes greatly to post-2018 political debates and MST history writ large." -- Travis Knoll * The Latin Americanist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix List of Figures, Maps, and Tables xiii List of Abbreviations xvii An Overview / Miguel Carter xxiii 1. Social Inequality, Agrarian Reform, and Democracy in Brazil / Miguel Carter 1 Part I. The Agrarian Question and Rural Social Movements in Brazil 2. The Agrarian Question and Agribusiness in Brazil / Ghilherme Costa Delgado 43 3. Rural Social Movements, Struggles for Rights, and Land Reform in Contemporary Brazilian History / Leonilde Sérvolo de Medeiros 68 4. Churches, the Pastoral Land Commission, and the Mobilization for Agrarian Reform / Ivo Poletto 90 Part II. MST History and Struggle for Land 5. The Formation and Territorialization of the MST in Brazil / Bernardo Mançano Fernandes 115 6. Origins and Consolidation of the MST in Rio Grande do Sul / Miguel Carter 149 7. Under the Black Tarp: The Legitimacy and Dynamics of Land Occupations in Pernambuco / Lygia Maria Sigaud 182 8. From Posseiro to Sem Terra: The Impact of MST Land Struggles in the State of Pará / Gabriel Ondetti, Emmanuel Wambergue, and José Batista Conçalves Afonso 202 Part III. MST's Agricultural Settlements 9. The Struggle on Land: Source of Growth, Innovation, and Constant Challenge for the MST / Miguel Carter and Horacio Martins de Carvalho 229 10. Rural Settlements and the MST in São Paulo: From Social Conflict to the Diversity of Local Impacts / Sonia Maria P. P. Bergamasco and Luiz Antonio Cabello Noder 274 11. Community Building in an MST Settlement in Northeast Brazil / Elena Calvo-González 293 12. MST Settlements in Pernambuco: Identity and the Politics of Resistance / Wendy Wolford 310 Part IV. The MST, Politics, and Society in Brazil 13. Working with Governments: The MST's Experience with the Cardoso and Lula Administrations / Sue Branford 331 14. The MST and the Rule of Law in Brazil / George Mészáros 351 15. Beyond the MST: The Impact on Brazilian Social Movements / Marcelo Carvalho Rosa 375 16. Challenging Social Inequality: Contention, Context, and Consequences / Miguel Carter 390 Epilogue. Broken Promise: The Land Reform Debacle Under the PT Governments / Miguel Carter 413 References 429 Contributors 469 Index 473

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Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic fieldwork in Appalachia, this book examines conversion to Russian Orthodoxy and political alignment with Russian conservative politics by contemporary rural American citizens.Table of ContentsPreface | xi List of Abbreviations and Terms | xv Introduction: East of Appalachia: The New Russian Turn in American Christianity | 1 1 Foreign Faith in a Foreign Land: A Discursive History of the Russian Orthodox Church in the United States | 23 2 Church of God: Traditionalism, Authenticity, and Conversion to Russian Orthodoxy in Appalachia | 37 3 America the Beautiful: Of Guns, God, and Vodka | 64 4 Port of the Tsar: Material Monarchism and the End of Days | 82 5 Palace of Putin: Political Ideologies in Orthodox Appalachia | 107 6 A People Set Apart: Intra-Community Politics and Regionalism | 135 7 The “Holler Feast”: Spiritual Geographies and Temporalities | 161 Conclusion: In Soviet America, Russia Converts You! | 179 Epilogue | 185 Acknowledgments | 195 Notes | 199 Works Cited | 249 Index | 275

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Book SynopsisThis volume taps the expertise of North American and European specialists on the practicalities of conducting long-term research in the social sciences and cultural studies. Here, they discuss their successes and failures doing fieldwork across rural and urban Japan in a wide range of settings.Trade ReviewAn important and fascinating volume for experts on other world regions who plan to include Japan in their multi-sited research projects. - Kay B. Warren, Harvard University

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the gender effects of the current transformation of agriculture and rural life. Five themes are addressed: developments in rural gender theory and research methodology; changes in farm households; migration patterns of men and women in rural areas; the impact of national and international policies; and the construction of identities and definitions of femininity and masculinity as a result of rural change. Contributors include scholars from Europe, North America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.Table of Contents1: Introduction: Rural Gender Studies in North and South Part I: Gender and Farming 2: Gender and Farming: An Overview 3: Gender Relations and Livelihood Strategies 4: Commodity Production and Farm Women's Work 5: Farm Women in Slovenia 6: The Informalization of Farm Employment 7: Women and Sustainable Agriculture 8: Gender at the Border Part II: Gender and Rural Migration 9: Gender and Rural Migration: An Overview 10: The Gendered Impact of Drought 11: Rural Idylls or Boring Places? 12: Rural Immigrations and Female Employment Part III: Gender and Rural Politics 13: Gender and Rural Politics: An Overview 14: Gender and Rural Development Budgets 15: Collective Action among Rural Women in India 16: CAP Regulations and Farm Household Relations Part IV: Rurality and Gender Identity 17: Rurality and Gender Identity: An Overview 18: Rural Women and the Environment 19: Economic Status and Gender Roles 20: Rural Health and Well-Being 21: Embodying Family Farm Work 22: Queer Countryside Revisited Part V: Conclusions 23: Conclusions - Future Directions

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Book SynopsisThe decline in agricultural and other forms of rural employment in developed countries has created a need for a diversified range of rural businesses. Tourism and recreation are recognized as prime contributors to this process. This book reviews both the theory and practice of rural tourism and recreation. Including numerous case studies and contributions from both academics and practitioners, it illustrates how small enterprises can create and adapt products and markets.Table of Contents1: Social Construction L Roberts and D Hall 2: Indicators of rural well-being: A Copus and M MacLeod, The Scottish Agricultural College (SAC), UK 3: Hosts, friends and relatives in rural Scotland: VFR tourism market relationships explored: S Boyne, The Scottish Agricultural College (SAC), UK 4: The 'S' Word L Roberts and D Hall 5: Sustainable rural tourism development: ideal or idyll? R Sharpley, University of Northumbria, UK 6: Managing L Roberts and D Hall 7: National policy for 'rural tourism': the case of Finland:M Nylander, Rural Policy Committee, Finland 8: Access and Land Management: F Simpson, Land Use Consultants, UK 9: The roles of interpretation in facilitating access to and in the countryside: L Roberts, The Scottish Agricultural College (SAC), UK and G Rognvaldsson, Holar Agricultural College, Iceland 10: Embedding Rural Tourism Development L Roberts and D Hall 11: Extending the information society beyond urban locations: prospects and reality: S Grimes, National University of Ireland, Republic of Ireland 12: The role of rural gastronomy in tourism: J Bessiere, University of Toulouse le Mirail, France 13: Partnership approaches in rural development: L Roberts and F Simpson 14: A Sideways Look at Tourism Demand L Roberts and D Hall 15: The Nature of Supply or the Supply of Nature? L Roberts and D Hall 16: Adventure tourism - a journey of the mind: D Grant, The Scottish Agricultural College (SAC), UK 17: Cycling tourism: L Lumsdon, Staffordshire University, UK 18: Where Demand Meets Supply: Markets for Rural Tourism and Recreation L Roberts and D Hall 19: Letter from an academic practitioner: B Lane, University of Bristol, UK 20: The importance of micro-businesses in European tourism: V T C Middleton, UK 21: Quality rural tourism, niche markets and imagery: quality products and regional identity: F Williams, The Scottish Agricultural College (SAC), UK 22: Synthesis and Conclusions A: Key Texts B: Index

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Book SynopsisAquaculture for both finfish and shellfish is expanding rapidly throughout the world. It is regarded as having the potential to provide a valuable source of protein in less developed countries and to be integrated into the farming systems and livelihoods of the rural poor.This book addresses key issues in aquaculture and rural development, with case studies drawn from several countries in South and South-East Asia. Papers included cover topics ranging from production and technical issues (such as pond culture and rice field fisheries) to social aspects and research and development methodology. The book has been developed from a meeting of the Asian Fisheries Society. It is aimed at all concerned with aquaculture and rural development.Table of ContentsA: ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT 1: The rice field catch and rural food security, R Gregory and H Guttman 2: Developing appropriate interventions for rice fish cultures, R Gregory and H Guttman 3: A framework for research into the potential for integration of fish production in irrigation systems, F Murray, D C Little, G Haylor, M Felsing, J Gowing and S S Kodithuwakk B: INTEGRATION WITH AGRICULTURE 4: Economics and adoption patterns of integrated rice-fish farming in Bangladesh, M V Gupta, J D Sollows, M A Mazid, A Rahman, M G Hussain and M M Dey 5: Promotion of small-scale pond aquaculture in the Red river delta, Vietnam, L T Luu, P V Trang, N X Cuong, H Demaine,P Edwards and J Pant 6: Eco-technological analysis of fish farming households in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, F Pekar, N V Be, D N Long, N V Cong, D Tridung and J Olah 7: Aquaculture for diversification of small farms within forest buffer zone management: an example from the uplands of Quirino province, Philippines, M Prein, R Oficial, M A Bimbao and T Lopez C: SPECIALISED AND INTENSIVE SYSTEMS 8: A description of the rice-prawn-fish systems of Southwest Bangladesh, G Chapman and J Abedin 9: Fertilization of ponds with inorganic fertilizers: low cost technologies for small-scale farmers, J Pant, P Promthong, C K Lin and H Demaine 10: Improved management of small-scale tropical cage culture systems in Bangladesh: potential benefits of an alliance between an NGO and a western research institute, K I Mc Andrew, C Brugere, M C M Beveridge, M J Ireland, T K Roy and K Yesmin 11: Towards sustainable development of floating net cage culture for income security in rural Indonesia: a case study of common carp production at Lake Maninjau, A Munzir and F Heidhues D: SEED 12: Promoting aquaculture by building the capacity of local institutions: developing fish seed supply networks in the Lao PDR, D Lithdamlong, E Meusch and N I Taylor 13: Carp seed production for rural aquaculture at Sarakana village in Orissa: a case study, Radheyshyam 14: Freshwater fish seed quality in Asia D C Little, A Satapornvanit and P Edwards 15: Genetic technologies focused on poverty? A case study of genetically improved tilapia (GMT) in the Philippines, G C Mair, E J Morales, R C Sevilleja and G J C Clark E: SOCIAL ASPECTS 16: Small-scale fish culture in Northwest Bangladesh - a participatory appraisal focusing on the role of tilapias, B K Barman, D C Little and P Edwards 17: Culture of small indigenous fish species in seasonal ponds in Bangladesh: the potential for production and impact on food and nutrition security, N Roos, S H Thilsted and Md A Wahab 18: Gender division of labour in integrated agriculture/aquaculture of Northeast Thailand, S Setboonsarng F: DEVELOPMENT MODELS 19: Farmer-managed trials and extension of rural aquaculture in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, N T Phong, D N Long, L Varadi, Z Jeney and F Pekar 20: Improving the efficiency of aquaculture extension activity in the southeastern provinces of Southern Vietnam, N V Tu and T T Giang 21: The effectiveness of a model fisheries village approach to aquaculture. Extension in Northwest Bangladesh, M Islam and N Mardall 22: Participatory development of aquaculture extension materials and their effectiveness in transfer of technology: the case of the AIT Aqua Outreach Programme, Northeast Thailand, D Turongruang and H Demaine G: GENERAL DISCUSSION 23: Issues in rural aquaculture, P Edwards, D C Little and H Demaine

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Book SynopsisThis book has been developed from a report of the cross-national 'PRIDE' (Partnerships for Rural Integrated Development in Europe) research project. The research focused on the public and private sector rural development experience of six member states of the European Union, namely Finland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK.Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Partnerships and Local Rural Development 3: The Research Objectives 4: Literature Review And Theoretical Framework 5: The Emergence Of Partnerships - A 1999 Perspective 6: The Impact Of Partnerships - A 1999 Perspective 7: A 2002 'Postscript' to the Literature Review 8: A Theoretical Perspective 9: From Theory to a Research Programme 10: Methodology - And The Execution Of The Research 11: The Overall Research Design 12: The Method of the 'Extensive Survey' 13: The Method of Selecting the 24 Case-Study Partnerships 14: The Method of the Study of the Practice of Partnership 15: The Method of the Study of the Impact of Partnership 16: The Method of the Feedback Survey 17: The Method of the Final Synthesis 18: The Findings Of The Extensive Survey 19: Republic of Ireland 20: Germany 21: Spain 22: Italy 23: United Kingdom 24: Finland 25: Sweden 26: The Extensive Survey Results Viewed from a European Perspective: A Descriptive Overview 27: A Typology of Local Partnerships for Integrated Rural Development In Europe 28: The Findings Of The Study of Practice 29: The Main Features of the Partnerships Studied 30: The Practice of Rural Partnership in the United Kingdom 31: The Practice of Rural Partnership in Sweden 32: The Practice of Rural Partnership in Finland 33: The Practice of Rural Partnership in Germany 34: The Practice of Rural Partnership in Spain 35: The Practice of Rural Partnership in Italy 36: The Origin and Composition of the Partnerships, and Partner Involvement; a European Perspective 37: Key Elements in the Organisation and Operation of the Partnerships- A European Perspective 38: The 'Adding of Value' to Local Development - A European Perspective 39: Key Weaknesses in the Practice of Partnerships - A European Perspective 40: The Findings Of 'The Study of Impact' 41: The Effects of the Partnership Approach - A European Analysis 42: The Determinants of the Effects of the Partnership Approach - A European Analysis 43: Determinants and Effects from the Six National Perspectives 44: The Impact Study; Some Concluding Comments 45: Validation; the 'Feedback Survey'. 46: Conclusions And Recommendations 47: The Focus of the Chapter 48: What are the Key Characteristics of Rural Development Partnerships? 49: What Impact Have Partnerships Had on Rural Development? 50: What Factors Have Significantly Influenced the Effectiveness of Partnerships in Impacting upon Rural Development? 51: Recommendations - What Measures Would Improve the Effectiveness of Local Partnerships in Promoting Rural Development? 52: References and Select English Language Bibliography 53: Appendices

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