Rural communities / rural life Books
CABI Publishing African Food Crisis
Book SynopsisWhy can Asia now feed its rapidly growing population, but Africa continues to experience famine? This book is the outcome of a three-year project coordinated by a group of Swedish researchers with collaborating scholars from Africa and Asia. It provides a comparative study between Asian agricultural development during the Green Revolution in food production and the current problematic agricultural situation in sub-Saharan Africa. Based on case studies of eight African and eight Asian countries (focusing on the early part of the Green Revolution), this book presents a causal and explanatory model of Asian green revolutions. It discusses why such progress has been made in Asia, but has not yet occurred in Africa. It also examines the implications of the case studies for future development in Africa.Trade Review"Drawing on three years of research by African and Asian specialists, involving study of secondary data, interviews with key individuals, and questioning over 3000 households in more than 100 villages, this is an important study deserving critical attention from the agricultural development community." New Agriculturalist, 2005"Table of Contents1: African Food Crisis - The Relevance of Asian Experiences, G Djurfeldt, H Holmen, M Jirstrom and R Larsson 2: Global Perspectives on Agricultural Development, G Djurfeldt 3: The State and Green Revolutions in East Asia, M Jirström 4: The Puzzle of the Policy Shift - The Early Green Revolution in India, Indonesia and the Philippines, G Djurfeldt and M Jirström 5: Spurts in Production - Africa's Limping Green Revolution, H Holmén 6: The State and Agricultural Intensification in Sub-Saharan Africa, H Holmén 7: Crisis and Potential in Smallholder Food Production - Evidence from Micro Level, R Larsson 8: From Roller Coasters to Rocket Ships: The Role of Technology in African Agricultural Successes, S Haggblade, IFPRI, Zambia 9: The Role of the State in the Nigerian Green Revolution, T Akande, Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, Nigeria 10: Why the Early Promise for Rapid Increases in Maize Productivity in Kenya Was Not Sustained, W Oluoch-Kosura and J T Karugia, University of Nairobi, Kenya 11: From Ujamaa to Structural Adjustment - Agricultural Intensification in Tanzania, A C Isinika, G C Ashimogo and J E D Mlangwa, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania 12: Smallholders and Structural Adjustment in Ghana, A W Seini and V K Nyanteng, University of Ghana, Ghana 13: Green Revolution and Regional Inequality: Implications of Asian Experience for Africa, K Otsuka, and T Yamano, Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development, Japan 14: Conclusions and a look ahead, T Akande, G Djurfeldt, H Holmén and A Isinika
£108.90
MP-OSU Oregon State Universi Persistent Callings Seasons of Work and Identity
Book SynopsisUsing the cultural history of Oregon's Nestucca Valley as a case study, Taylor illustrates the wisdom of seasonal labour, the complex relationships between work and identity, and the resilience of rural economics across a century of almost continual change.
£21.21
Cornell University Press First MajorityLast Minority
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£16.14
Edward Elgar Publishing Handbook on Rural and Remote Education
Book SynopsisThis essential Handbook presents international research on rural and remote education. With contributions from authors across Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas, the Handbook on Rural and Remote Education explores major challenges in diverse contexts and suggests innovative strategies for future development.
£213.75
John Wiley & Sons Inc Rural Populations and Health
Book SynopsisHealth-related disparities remain a persistent, serious problem across the nation''s more than 60 million rural residents. Rural Populations and Health provides an overview of the critical issues surrounding rural health and offers a strong theoretical and evidence-based rationale for rectifying rural health disparities in the United States. This edited collection includes a comprehensive examination of myriad issues in rural health and rural health care services, as well as a road map for reducing disparities, building capacity and collaboration, and applying prevention research in rural areas. This textbook offers a review of rural health systems in Colorado, Kentucky, Alabama, and Iowa, and features contributions from key leaders in rural public health throughout the United States. Rural Populations and Health examines vital health issues such as: Health assessment Strategies for building rural coalitions Promoting rural Table of ContentsTables and Figures vii Foreword xiiiCiro V. Sumaya The Prevention Research Centers Program xv Acknowledgments xvii The Editors xix The Contributors xxi Part 1 Rural Communities in Context 1 1 Understanding Rural America: A Public Health Perspective 3Richard A. Crosby, Monica L. Wendel, Robin C. Vanderpool, Baretta R. Casey, Laurel A. Mills 2 Defining Rurality 23L. Gary Hart, Baretta R. Casey 3 History of Rural Public Health in America 39Amy L. Elizondo, Alan Morgan 4 The Depth of Rural Health Disparities in America:The ABCDEs 51James E. Florence, Robert P. Pack, Jodi Southerland, Randolph F. Wykoff Part 2 Rural Public Health Systems 73 5 Public Health Systems, Health Policy, and Population-Level Prevention in Rural America 75Angela L. Carman, F. Douglas Scutchfield 6 Rural Public Health Systems: A View from Colorado 95Julie A. Marshall, Lisa N. VanRaemdonck 7 Rural Public Health Systems: A View from Kentucky 115Baretta R. Casey 8 Rural Public Health Systems: A View from Alabama 135Theresa A. Wynn, Mona N. Fouad 9 Rural Public Health Systems: A View from Iowa 151Faryle Nothwehr, Lauren Erickson, Ulrike Schultz Part 3 Health Partnerships in Rural Communities 169 10 Health Assessment in Rural Communities: A Critical Organizing and Capacity-Building Tool 171James N. Burdine, Heather R. Clark, Lindsay J. Shea, Bernard Appiah, Chelsie N. Hollas 11 Strategies for Building Coalitions in Rural Communities 191Michelle C. Kegler, Frances D. Butterfoss 12 Capacity Building in Rural Communities 215Monica L. Wendel, Angie Alaniz, Brandy N. Kelly, Heather R. Clark, Kelly N. Drake, Corliss W. Outley, Whitney Garney, Keli Dean, Lyndsey Simpson, Britt Allen, Hon. Pam Finke, Teresa Harris, Vicky Jackson, Hon. Dean Player, Albert Ramirez, Hon. Mike Sutherland, Camilla Viator, E. Lisako J. McKyer, Julie A. St. John, Kenneth R. McLeroy, James N. Burdine Part 4 Evidence-Based Practice in Rural Communities 235 13 Promoting Adolescent Health in Rural Communities 237E. Lisako J. McKyer, Corliss W. Outley, Jamilia J. Blake, Brandy N. Kelly 14 Rural Food Disparities: Availability and Accessibility of Healthy Foods 251Wesley R. Dean, Cassandra M. Johnson, Joseph R. Sharkey 15 Promoting Oral Health in Rural Communities 267Nikki Stone, Baretta R. Casey 16 Physical Activity Promotion in Rural America 287Richard Kozoll, Sally M. Davis 17 Preventing Farm-Related Injuries: The Example of Tractor Overturns 303Henry P. Cole, Susan C. Westneat 18 Addressing Mental Health Issues in Rural Areas 323Carly E. McCord, Timothy R. Elliott, Daniel F. Brossart, Linda G. Castillo 19 Cancer Prevention and Control in Rural Communities .341Robin C. Vanderpool, Laurel A. Mills 20 Tobacco Use in Rural Populations 357Geri A. Dino, Rose M. Pignataro, Kimberly A. Horn, Andrew Anesetti-Rothermel Index 377
£73.76
John Wiley & Sons Inc Rural Social Work
Book SynopsisA thoughtful text integrating strengths, assets, and capacity-building themes with contemporary issues in rural social work practice Now in its second edition, Rural Social Work is a collection of contributed readings from social work scholars, students, and practitioners presenting a framework for resource building based on the strengths, assets, and capacities of people, a tool essential for working with rural communities. This guide considers methods for social workers to participate in the work of sustaining rural communities. Each chapter features a reading integrating the themes of capacity-building and rural social work; discussion questions that facilitate critical thinking around the chapter; and suggested activities and assignments. Rural Social Work, Second Edition explores: Important practice issues in rural communities, including the challenges of working with stigmatized populations such as gay, lesbian, bisexual, Table of ContentsPreface, xv Acknowledgments, xxiii About the Editors xxv About the Contributors xxvii PART ONE CONCEPTUAL AND HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS OF RURAL SOCIAL WELFARE 1 Paul H. Stuart Chapter 1 Down-Home Social Work: A Strengths-Based Model for Rural Practice 5 Michael R. Daley and Freddie L. Avant Defining Rural 6 Rurality and Social Work Practice 7 A Multisystem Model for Down-Home (Rural) Social Work 9 Rationale for the Down-Home Model of Rural Social Work 10 Implications for Rural Social Work 13 Discussion Questions 15 Classroom Activities and Assignments 16 References 16 Chapter 2 Rural Is Real: History of the National Rural Social Work Caucus and the NASW Professional Policy Statement on Rural Social Work 19 Samuel A. Hickman The Rural Social Work Caucus and the National Institute on Social Work and Human Services in Rural Areas 21 Activities of the National Rural Social Work Caucus 22 Achievements of the National Rural Social Work Caucus 23 A Generalist Approach 24 Including Rural Social Work in Educational Curricula 24 A Brief History of the Rural Social Work Professional Policy Statement 25 The 2002 and 2011 Rural SocialWork Professional Policy Statements 26 Discussion Questions 27 Classroom Activities and Assignments 27 Internet Resources 27 References 27 Chapter 3 Social Welfare and Rural People: From the Colonial Era to the Present 29 Paul H. Stuart Colonial Period 30 Early National Period 31 The Civil War and After 33 The Progressive Era 35 World Wars Prosperity Depression and Prosperity Again 37 Recent Developments 38 Discussion Questions 40 Classroom Activities and Assignments 41 References 41 Chapter 4 Out of Sight Out of Mind: Rural Social Work and African American Women at Efland Home for Girls 1920–1938 45 Tanya Smith Brice Female Delinquency 46 Girl-Saving Efforts 47 Efland Home as an Asset 50 Conclusion 52 Discussion Questions 53 Classroom Activities and Assignments 53 References 54 PART TWO HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND RURAL ENVIRONMENTS 57 Freddie L. Avant Chapter 5 Accomplishing the Four Essential Tasks for Higher Education Access: The Role of Natural Helping Networks in Rural Virginia 59 Nathan F. Alleman and L. Neal Holly Making Sense of Social Networks 60 Understanding College Access: Four Essential Tasks 62 Natural Helping Networks and School–Community Partnerships 67 Conclusion 70 Discussion Questions 71 Classroom Activities and Assignments 71 References 72 Chapter 6 African Americans Living in Rural Community: Building Assets from an Afrocentric Perspective 75 Freddie L. Avant Diversity and Social Work Practice 76 Afrocentric Perspective 77 Using an Afrocentric Perspective to Build Assets 79 African Americans in Rural Areas 81 Understanding Human Behavior of African Americans in Rural Environments 82 Conclusion 83 Discussion Questions 84 Classroom Activities and Assignments 84 References 85 Chapter 7 Latino Populations in Rural America: Using Strengths to Build Capacity 87 Griselda Villalobos New Immigration Patterns 87 Needs of Latino Populations in Rural America 88 Cultural Characteristics of Latino Populations 88 Acculturation 89 Strategies for Building Capacity 92 Conclusion 95 Discussion Questions 95 Classroom Activities and Assignments 95 References 96 Chapter 8 Building Community Among Rural Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgendered Persons: Connecting Community Through Families of Choice 99 Amy C. Russell Challenges for Rural GLBT Individuals and Communities 100 Three-Stage Process for Building Community 102 Conclusion 110 Discussion Questions 110 Classroom Activities and Assignments 111 References 111 Chapter 9 Rural Children and Adolescents: Building Capacities Within Public Schools 113 Linda Openshaw Consultation and Advocacy 114 Assessment 115 Direct Interventions and Program Development 116 Academic Help: Alternative Schools 118 Social Skills and Independent Living Skills 120 Mentoring 122 After-School Programs 124 Conclusion 125 Discussion Questions 125 Classroom Activities and Assignments 125 References 126 PART THREE PRACTICE ISSUES IN RURAL CONTEXTS 129 Susan A. Murty Chapter 10 Evidence-Based Practice in the Rural Context 131 Danielle E. Parrish and Kathi R. Trawver What Is Evidence-Based Practice? 132 Evidence-Based Practice and the Rural Social Work Practice Setting 135 Real-World Example: Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice in a Rural Setting 136 What Are the Challenges and Possibilities for Implementing Evidence-Based Practice in Rural Settings? 137 Conclusion 140 Discussion Questions 141 Classroom Activities and Assignments 141 References 142 Chapter 11 Wraparound in Rural Child and Youth Mental Health: Coalescing Family-Community Capacities 145 Tamara S. Davis Mental Health Prevalence and Risk Factors of Rural Children and Youth 146 Mental Health Service Delivery to Children Youth and Families in Rural Communities 147 Wraparound Service Delivery in Systems of Care 150 Conclusion 156 Discussion Questions 157 Classroom Activities and Assignments 157 References 158 Chapter 12 Help-Seeking Pathways to Care: Culturally Competent Practice With Rural Hispanics With High Migratory Traditions to the United States 163 Dennis L. Poole and Alex Espadas Case Illustration 164 Help-Seeking Theory 165 Cultural Pathways to Care Model 166 Guidelines for Interventions Along Cultural Pathways to Care 168 Conclusion 172 Discussion Questions 173 Classroom Activities and Assignments 173 References 174 Chapter 13 Social Workers and Rural Congregations: Partnering to Build Community Capacity 175 T. Laine Scales and Jon E. Singletary Characteristics of Rural Congregations 176 Communicating With Rural Congregations 179 Rural Congregations as Community Partners 181 Social Workers and Rural Congregations 182 Discussion Questions 183 Classroom Activities and Assignments 183 References 184 Chapter 14 Working Together to Improve Services for People Living With HIV/AIDS: An Example of Service Delivery Network Development From Rural Northeast Texas 187 H. Stephen Cooper Freddie L. Avant and Wilma Cordova Context for Practice: Northeast Texas 188 Service Delivery Networks 190 The SHRT Network Development Project 194 Discussion 201 Conclusion 203 Discussion Questions 204 Classroom Activities and Assignments 204 References 204 Chapter 15 Building Capacity to Overcome Challenges in the Delivery of Hospice and Palliative Care in Rural Communities 207 Amy Z. Boelk and Jessica H. Retrum Reviewing the Literature: Challenges for Hospice and Palliative Care in Rural Communities 208 Building Capacity: Insights From Rural Hospice SocialWorkers 212 Conclusion 218 Discussion Questions 218 Classroom Activities and Assignments 219 Internet Resources 220 References 220 PART FOUR POLICY ISSUES AFFECTING RURAL POPULATIONS 223 F. Ellen Netting Chapter 16 Capacity for Conservation: Rural Communities Address Sustainability for Global Impact 227 Kathleen Belanger Overview of Sustainability 228 Importance of Sustainability to Rural Communities and to Populations at Risk 230 Conclusion 233 Discussion Questions 233 Classroom Activities and Assignments 233 Internet Resources 234 References 234 Chapter 17 Living in Limbo: Homeless Families in Rural America 237 Jim Winship Understanding Rural Homelessness 238 Reasons for the Growth in Homelessness 240 Recognizing the Assets of Those Experiencing Homelessness 246 Discussion Questions 248 Classroom Activities and Assignments 248 References 248 Chapter 18 Location Matters: Using GIS Mapping to Address Policy Issues in Rural Areas 251 Donna M. Aguiniga and Amanda M. Davis History of GIS 252 Rural Issues 253 Tracking Service Utilization and Changes 257 GIS and Policy 258 Participatory GIS 260 Challenges with GIS 261 Conclusion 262 Discussion Questions 263 Classroom Activities and Assignments 263 References 264 PART FIVE USING RESEARCH TO EVALUATE PRACTICE IN RURAL SETTINGS 267 Dennis L. Poole Chapter 19 Using an Assessment Framework for Research in a Rural Context 269 Susan A. Murty Rural Research Literature 269 Rural Research Methods 271 Mapping the Assets of a Rural Community 273 Examples of Research Studies 275 Conclusion 277 Discussion Questions 277 Classroom Activities and Assignments 278 References 279 Chapter 20 Using Concept Mapping for Assessment and Planning in Rural Communities: Identifying Capacities Through Participation 281 Tamara S. Davis and H. Stephen Cooper Community Assessment and Planning Approaches 281 Overview of Concept Mapping 282 Rural East Texas Health Network (RETHN) 285 Assessing Cultural Competence in a Rural System of Care for Children’s Mental Health 292 Conclusion 298 Discussion Questions 299 Classroom Activities and Assignments 299 References 299 Chapter 21 Rural Networks: Using Social Network Analysis to Understand Communities 303 Calvin L. Streeter and H. Stephen Cooper Social Network Analysis 304 The Safe Schools/Healthy Student (SS/HS) Collaboration 308 Conclusion 314 Discussion Questions 315 Classroom Activities and Assignments 315 References 316 Appendix A NASW Rural Policy Statement 317 Appendix B Online Training and Resources on the EBP Process and Practice Issues for Rural Settings 325 Appendix C Ideas Ratings for Service Providers and Consumers (Mean Scores) 329 Author Index 335 Subject Index 343
£50.30
John Wiley & Sons Inc Designing the Rural
Book SynopsisThe rural is not what it used to be. No longer simply a site for agricultural production for the city, the relationship between the rural and urban has become much more complex. Established categories such as rural /urban and village/city no longer hold true. Rural and urban conditions have become increasingly blurred, so how can we identify and distinguish their specific characteristics? Where is the rural, and what role does it play in an urbanised world? In developing countries the countryside is a volatile and contradictory landscape: legally designated rural areas look like dense slums; factories intersect fields and farmers no longer farm. In contrast, in developed regions, the rural has become a highly controlled landscape of production and consumption: industrialised agriculture coexists with leisure landscapes for tourism, retirement and recreation. This issue of AD investigates how architects and researchers are critically engaging with the rural as an experimental field of eTrade Review"Yet again the AD team have produced a fascinating, throught-provoking, deep delve into the trends that are changing our environment and our ways of working." (theNBS.com, August 2016)
£999.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Agrarian Change Gender and Land Rights
Book SynopsisLeading feminist scholars provide searching treatment of the long-neglected subject of gender and access to land in various regions around the world. A searching treatment of gender and access to land around the world. Includes contributions by leading feminist scholars in the field. Combines theoretical reflections with concrete case studies. Covers diverse regions, including sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Central Asia. Several articles are based on original and extensive field research carried out over the past two years in, for example, South Africa, Uzbekistan and Brazil. Trade Review"Its strength is conceptual - not in telling the reader what to think about agrarian change, gender and land tenure reform, but in rethinking definitions, making new distinctions, giving us conceptual tools and showing us how to use them contextually." (Development and Change) "The outstanding scholarship behind thier conclusions - skilfully woven together by Shahra Razavi in a powerful introduction best appreciated after reading the other contributions - makes this book required reading for anyone concerned with gender justice in land rights (and not only in an agrarian context)." (Gender, Place and Culture) "This book provides a very useful consideration of the relationships between agrarian change, gender and land rights in a number of developing countries... The book is free of jargon and will be of value to final year undergraduates specialising in development and postgraduates looking for a useful summary of the issues and a guide to further reading."—Alasdair Blair, University of WestminsterTable of Contents1. Editorial Introduction: Terence J. Byres and Henry Bernstein (both at University of London). 2. Agrarian Change, Gender and Land Rights: Shahra Razavi (United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva). 3. Global Capitalism, Deflation and Agrarian Crisis in Developing Countries: Utsa Patnaik (Jawaharlal Nehru University). 4. Policy Discourses on Women’s Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Implications of the Re-turn to the Customary: Anne Whitehead (University of Sussex) and Dzodzi Tsikata (University of Ghana). 5. Piety in the Sky? Gender Policy and Land Reform in South Africa: Cherryl Walker. 6. Securing Women’s Interests within Land Tenure Reforms: Recent Debates in Tanzania: Dzodzi Tsikata (lives in Durham). 7. Gender and Land Rights Revisited: Exploring New Prospects via the State, Family and Market: Bina Agarwal (University of Delhi). 8. The Cry for Land: Agrarian Reform, Gender and Land Rights in Uzbekistan: Deniz Kandiyoti (University of London). 9. Women’s Land Rights and Rural Social Movements in the Brazilian Agrarian Reform: Carmen Diana Deere (Universty of Massachusetts).
£23.75
Johns Hopkins University Press Sod Busting
Book SynopsisBased on contemporary accounts, settlers' reminiscences, and the work of other historians, Sod Busting dives deeply into the practical realities of how things worked to make vivid one of the quintessentially American experiences, breaking new land.Trade ReviewA fine recommendation for any American history collection. Midwest Book Review Danbom provides the reader with more than a conventional understanding of the region, whether it be pointing out some of the myths about homesteading or the role of the independent woman homesteader. Thus, it is an excellent undergraduate resource. Highly recommended. Choice An excellent introduction to the challenges and opportunities of agricultural life in a difficult region for farming... Danbom's Sod Busting is an outstanding survey of farm making on the Great Plains. This elegantly written, well-researched volume will find an audience with students, historians, and general readers. Those with an interest in Iowa history will find much useful information here that helps to explain settlement in the western part of the state. Anyone teaching or studying the Great Plains will want to add this book to their library. -- Jeff Bremer Annals of Iowa In a short space, Danborn synthesizes the information that might be gained from a half dozen monographs. Undergraduates and upper-level high school students will find the work readable and useful. -- Alexandra Kindell Western Historical Quarterly Danbom presents a cogent and engaging portrait of the real lives of those who settled the Great Plains... If you want not only solid history, but economics, geography, ethnic and gender studies, psychology, and sociology this short book will serve you well. Nebraska History This outstanding work is a masterpiece of both conciseness and comprehensiveness. Great Plains QuarterlyTable of ContentsPrefacePrologue1. How They Acquired Land2. How They Built Farms3. How They Got Credit4. How They Built Communities5. How the Plains MaturedEpilogueNotesSelected Further ReadingIndex
£35.10
Johns Hopkins University Press Sod Busting
Book SynopsisBased on contemporary accounts, settlers' reminiscences, and the work of other historians, Sod Busting dives deeply into the practical realities of how things worked to make vivid one of the quintessentially American experiences, breaking new land.Trade ReviewA fine recommendation for any American history collection. Midwest Book Review Danbom provides the reader with more than a conventional understanding of the region, whether it be pointing out some of the myths about homesteading or the role of the independent woman homesteader. Thus, it is an excellent undergraduate resource. Highly recommended. Choice An excellent introduction to the challenges and opportunities of agricultural life in a difficult region for farming... Danbom's Sod Busting is an outstanding survey of farm making on the Great Plains. This elegantly written, well-researched volume will find an audience with students, historians, and general readers. Those with an interest in Iowa history will find much useful information here that helps to explain settlement in the western part of the state. Anyone teaching or studying the Great Plains will want to add this book to their library. -- Jeff Bremer Annals of Iowa In a short space, Danborn synthesizes the information that might be gained from a half dozen monographs. Undergraduates and upper-level high school students will find the work readable and useful. -- Alexandra Kindell Western Historical Quarterly Danbom presents a cogent and engaging portrait of the real lives of those who settled the Great Plains... If you want not only solid history, but economics, geography, ethnic and gender studies, psychology, and sociology this short book will serve you well. Nebraska History This outstanding work is a masterpiece of both conciseness and comprehensiveness. Great Plains QuarterlyTable of ContentsPrefacePrologue1. How They Acquired Land2. How They Built Farms3. How They Got Credit4. How They Built Communities5. How the Plains MaturedEpilogueNotesSelected Further ReadingIndex
£17.58
Johns Hopkins University Press Mennonite Farmers
Book SynopsisA comparative global history of Mennonites from the ground up. Winner of the Dale W. Brown Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Shortlisted for the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize by the Canadian Historical Association, Nominee of the Margaret McWilliams Award by the Manitoba Historical SocietyMennonite farmers can be found in dozens of countries spanning five continents. In this comparative world-scale environmental history, Royden Loewen draws on a multi-year study of seven geographically distinctive Anabaptist communities around the world, focusing on Mennonite farmers in Bolivia, Canada, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Russia, the United States, and Zimbabwe. These farmers, who include Amish, Brethren in Christ, and Siberian Baptists, till the land in starkly distinctive climates. They absorb very disparate societal lessons while being shaped by particular faith outlooks, historical memory, and the natural environment. The book reveals the ways in whichTrade ReviewAn accessible entry point for readers interested in learning about places other than their own, as well as the interplays between natural resources and human cultivation.—Dr. Rachel Waltner Goossen, Washburn Univerity, Anabaptist WorldTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Sect and Settler in the North: Plowing Friesland, Iowa, Manitoba, and Siberia2. Peasant and Piety in the South: Planting Java, Matabeleland, and Bolivia's Oriente3. Something New under the Mennonite Sun: A Century of Agricultural Change4. Making Peace on Earth: Seven Farmers and a Faith of the Everyday5. Women on the Land: Gender and Growing Food in Patriarchal Lands6. Farm Subjects and State Biopower: Seven Degrees of Separation7. Vernaculars of Climate Change: Southern Concern, Northern Complacency8. Mennonite Farmers in "World Scale" History: Seven Encounters on EarthConclusionAppendicesNotesBibliographyIndex
£38.70
Johns Hopkins University Press Powering American Farms
Book SynopsisThe untold story of the power industry's efforts to electrify growing numbers of farms in the years before the creation of Depression-era government programs. Even after decades of retelling, the story of rural electrification in the United States remains dramatic and affecting. As textbooks and popular histories inform us, farmers obtained electric service only because a compassionate federal government established the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The agencies' success in raising the standard of living for millions of Americans contrasted with the failure of the greedy big-city utility companies, which showed little interest in the apparently unprofitable nonurban market. Traditional accounts often describe the nation's population as split in two, separated by access to a magical form of energy: just past cities' limits, a bleak, preindustrial class of citizens endured, literally in near darknTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart I. Historical Context of Rural Electrification1. The Standard Narrative and Its Defects2. Unattractive Economics in the Rural Electricity Market3. Business Attitudes toward Farmers in the 1920s 4. The Lure and Lore of Rural Electrification5. Farmers on Their OwnPart II. Alignment of Rural Stakeholders6. Utility Interest in Rural Electrification Awakens7. The Unexpected Public Relations Value of Rural Electrification8. The Industry Organizes the CREA9. State Committees Work to Resolve Uncertainties10. Regulation and the Extension of Lines to Rural Areas11. Momentum in the Rural Electrification SubsystemPart III. Growth of Rural Electrification Efforts in the 1930s12. Government Innovations in the Rural Electrification Subsystem13. Competition and Private Utilities in the REA EraConclusionNotesIndexColor plates follow page ___
£45.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Degraded Heartland
£81.18
Temple University Press,U.S. Undoing the Revolution
Book Synopsis Undoing the Revolution looks at the way rural underclasses ally with out-of-power elites to overthrow their governments—only to be shut out of power when the new regime assumes control. Vasabjit Banerjee first examines why peasants need to ally with dissenting elites in order to rebel. He then shows how conflict resolution and subsequent bargains to form new state institutions re-empower allied elites and re-marginalize peasants. Banerjee evaluates three different agrarian societies during distinct time periods spanning the twentieth century: revolutionary Mexico from 1910 to 1930; late-colonial India from 1920 until 1947; and White-dominated Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) from the mid-1960s to 1980. This comparative approach also allows examination of both the underclass need for elite participation and the variety of causes that elites use to incentivize peasant classes to participate, extending from religious-ethnic identity and common political targets to the peasa
£26.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Gone Goose
Book SynopsisSumner, MO, pop. 102, near the Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge, proclaims itself The Wild Goose Capital of the World. It even displays Maxie, the World's largest goose: a 40-foot tall fiberglass statue with a wingspan stretching more than 60 feet. But while the 200,000 Canada geese that spent their falls and winters at Swan Lake helped generate millions of dollars for the local economywith hunting and the annual Goose Festivalclimate change, as well as environmental and land use issues, have caused the birds to disappear. The economic loss of the geese and the activities they inspired served as key building blocks in the rural identities residents had developed and treasured. In his timely and topical book, Gone Goose, Braden Leap observes how members of this rural town adapted, reorganized, and reinvented themselves in the wake of climate changeand how they continued to cultivate respect and belonging in their community. Leap conducted interviews with residents and participated i
£25.19
University of Toronto Press Rural Womens Health
Book SynopsisRural Women's Health presents a national perspective on the nature of women's health while respecting internal and regional diversity, as well as viewpoints from international scholarship.Trade Review'This volume is a rare and important collection of ground-breaking work on a topic too often ignored in Canadian academia.' -- Megan J. Davis BC Studies vol 185 spring 2015Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Connecting Rural Women's Health Across Time, Locales, and Disciplines Beverly Leipert (University of Western Ontario), Wilfreda Thurston (University of Calgary) and Belinda Leach (University of Guelph) Part I Research, Policy, and Action 1. Looking Back and Forging Ahead: Rural Women's Health Research and Policy in Canada Rebecca Sutherns and Margaret Haworth-Brockman (Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence) 2. Rural Women's Research and Action on the Prairies Margaret Haworth-Brockman, Rachel Rapaport Beck (Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence), Joanne Havelock, Harpa Isfeld (Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence), Noreen Johns, Diane Martz (University of Saskatchewan), Lynn Scruby (University of Manitoba), and Jayne Whyte 3. Closing the Gap: Rural Women's Organizations and Rural Women's Health in Canada Beverly D. Leipert, Tamara Landry (University of Western Ontario) and Belinda Leach 4. Health Issues of Women in Rural United States: An Overview Angeline Bushy Part II Health and Environment 5. Farm Work in Ontario and Breast Cancer Risk James T. Brophy (University of Windsor), Margaret M. Keith (University of Windsor), Andrew Watterson (University of Stirling), Michael Gilbertson and Matthias Beck (University of York) 6. An Exploration of Canadian Farmwomen's Food Provisioning Practices Lynn McIntyre (University of Calgary) and Krista Rondeau (University of Calgary) 7. The Multiple Dimensions of Health: Weaving Together Food Sustainability and Farm Women's Health Wendee Kubik (University of Regina) and Amber Fletcher (University of Regina) 8. Outside Assumptions. Research with the Old Order Mennonite Women in Ontario: An Exploratory Study Eva M. Dabrowska (University of Alberta) and Susan K. Wismer (University of Waterloo) Part III Gender-Based Violence 9. Living with their Bodies: Three Generations of Rural Newfoundland and Labrador Women Marilyn Porter (Memorial University) and Natalie Beausoleil (Memorial University) 10. Intimate Partner Violence: Understanding and Responding to the Unique Needs of Women in Rural and Northern Communities Karen G. Dyck (University of Manitoba), Kelly L. Stickle (University of Northern British Columbia ) and Cindy L. Hardy (University of Northern British Columbia) 11. There's a Nightmare in the Closet! Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as a Major Health Issue for Women Living in Remote Aboriginal Communities Beverly Illauq 12. Rural Women's Strategies for Seeking Mental Health and Housing Services Phyllis Montgomery, Cheryl Forchuk (University of Western Ontario), Carolyne Gorlick (King's University College at The University of Western Ontario) and Rick Csiernik (King's University College at The University of Western Ontario) Part IV Population Health, Health Promotion, and Public Health 13. Being a Good Woman: The Gendered Impacts of Restructuring in Rural Alberta Barbara Heather (Grant MacEwan University), D. Lynn Skillen, Jennifer Young and Theresa Vladicka (Government of Alberta, Advanced Education and Technology) 14. Gender Politics and Rural Women: Barriers to and Strategies for Enhancing Resiliency Nikki Gerrard (University of Saskatchewan) and Alanah Woodland (University of Calgary) 15. Defining Health: Perspectives of African Canadian Women Living in Remote and Rural Nova Scotia Communities Josephine B. Etowa (University of Ottawa), Wanda Thomas Bernard (Dalhousie University), Barbara Clow (Dalhousie University) and Juliana Wiens 16. The Quality of Life of Elderly Ukrainian Women in Rural Saskatchewan, Canada Nuelle Novik (University of Regina) 17. The Health of Pregnant Women in the Northwest Territories Pertice M. Moffitt (Dalhousie University) 18. Rural Women, Leisure, Rural Identity and Health and Well-being: Historical and Contemporary Connections Deborah Stiles (Nova Scotia Agricultural College), Steven Dukeshire (Nova Scotia Agricultural College), Kenneth S. Paulsen (Nova Scotia Agricultural College), Melanie Goodridge, David Hobson, Jamie MacLaughlin, Katriona MacNeil and J. Cristian Rangel Part V Theorizing Rurality and Gender 19. Healthy Rural Bodies? Embodied Approaches to the Study of Rural Women's Health Jo Little (University of Exeter) 20. Women, Chronic Illness and Rural Australia: Exploring the Intersections between Space, Identity and the Body Barbara Pini (Curtin University) and Karen Soldatic (Curtin University) 21. Health Policy and the Politics of Citizenship: Northern Women's Care Giving in Rural British Columbia Jo-Anne Fiske (University of Lethbridge), Dawn Hemingway (University of Northern British Columbia), Anita Vaillancourt (University of Toronto), Heather Peters (University of Northern British Columbia), Christina McLennan (Thompson Rivers University), Barbara Keith (Vancouver Coastal Health) and Anne Burrill (University of Northern British Columbia) 22. Well Beings: Placing Emotion in Canadian Rural, Gender, and Health Research Deborah Thien (California State University, Long Beach) Contributors
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University of Toronto Press Strangers and Neighbours
Book SynopsisIn this book, Hayhoe paints a picture of a surprisingly mobile and dynamic Burgundianrural population.Trade Review'Hayhoe's creativity in this book should not go unnoticed... His finding that no local policies prohibited migrations and that provincial authorities attempted to make them as orderly as possible highlights the use of history to create a better understanding of the present.' -- J r me Loiseau Journal of Interdisciplinary History vol 47:04:2016Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Measuring Mobility, I. Exogamy, Native Proportions and Distances 2. Measuring Mobility, II. Annual Migration Rates 3. The Meaning of Distance. Migration and the "Espace de Vie" 4. Temporary and Seasonal Migration 5. Migrants' Reasons for Moving 6. What Attracted Migrants? The Geography of Internal Migration 7. The Regulation of Mobility and the Integration of Migrants into the Community Conclusion
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Bristol University Press Managing Community Practice
Book SynopsisAn essential resource for operational and strategic managers in local government, housing, health and other service delivery agencies, social inclusion and community regeneration projects.Trade Review"This fine volume is further confirmation of the growing importance of 'neighbourhood' in delivering public services. The book is for managers and practitioners and helps understand 'going local' and how it will help reshape organisations as they redirect their energies toward providing neighbourhood-based services." Community Care, about the first edition "This well-written, highly recommendable text provides readers with much that will be valuable in the challenge of managing of community practice in order to benefit local people." Keith Popple, London South Bank UniversityTable of ContentsWhat is community practice? - Sarah Banks and Hugh Butcher; The historical and policy context: setting the scene for current debates - Marjorie Mayo and Jim Robertson Organisational management for community practice: a framework - Hugh Butcher Individual and organisational development for community practice: an experiential learning approach - Hugh Butcher Negotiating values, power and responsibility: ethical challenges for managers -Sarah Banks Linking partnerships and networks - Alison Gilchrist The manager’s role in community-led research - Murray Hawtin and Tony Herrmann Participative planning and evaluation skills - Alan Barr Conclusion: sustaining community practice for the future - Andrew Orton
£27.54
Bristol University Press Countryside Connections
Book SynopsisThe first project-based book in the New Dynamics of Ageing series offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on older people's role as assets in rural civic society. The authors examine the ways in which rural elders are connected to community, the contributions they make and the groups to which they belong.Trade Review"The conceptual model, innovative methods, and empirics presented in this book provide a rich foundation for studies in other rural places." Canadian Journal on Aging"a monumental volume...it reaches beyond interdisciplinary and begins to touch on transdisciplinary" Journal of Transport GeographyTable of ContentsCountryside connections in later life: Setting the scene ~ Catherine Hagan Hennessy, Robin Means and Vanessa Burholt; Conceptualising rural connectivities in later life ~ Nigel Curry, Vanessa Burholt, Catherine Hagan Hennessy; Rural connectivity and older people’s leisure participation ~ Catherine Hagan Hennessy, Yvette Staelens, Gloria Lankshear, Andy Phippen, Avril Silk, Daniel Zahra; Connecting with community: The nature of belonging among rural elders ~ Vanessa Burholt, Nigel Curry, Norah Keating, Jacquie Eales; Beyond transport: Understanding the role of mobilities in rural elders’ connectivity in civic society ~ Graham Parkhurst, Kathleen Galvin, Charles Musselwhite, Judith Phillips, Ian Shergold, Les Todres; Deep mapping and rural connectivities ~ Jane Bailey, Iain Biggs and Dan Buzzo; Older people, low income and place: Making connections in rural Britain ~ Paul Milbourne, Shane Doheny; Connecting with older people as project stakeholders: Lessons for public participation and engagement in rural research ~ Simon Evans, Ray Jones, Janet Smithson; Towards connectivity in a Grey and Pleasant Land? ~ Robin Means, Vanessa Burholt, Catherine Hagan Hennessy.
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Policy Press How to Build Houses and Save the Countryside
Book SynopsisFocusing on house building and conservation politics in England, Spiers uses his considerable experience and extensive research to demonstrate why the current model doesn't work, and why there needs to be both planning reform and a more active role for the state, including local government.Trade Review"This book is a fascinating read and its message is spot on. The need for increasing the delivery of new homes has never been more urgent - but equally vital is building homes that are beautiful, energy efficient and that add value to the local community. Thank you Shaun, this book is essential reading for all housing policy makers." Sue Chalkley, Hastoe Housing Association"A must read for anyone interested in housing." Evan Davis, Journalist and Presenter"Finally a solution to the housing argument: Shaun Spiers has shown how we can build more homes and still save the countryside, so everyone wins." Alice Thomson, The Times"This is a book that needed to be written and which I hope officials, ministers, local authorities and - perhaps most of all - the volume house-builders read." Fiona Reynolds, Master of Emmanuel College and author of The Fight for Beauty“This book is at once reasonable and visionary - a remarkable combination, and a remarkably important contribution to one of the most important social policy debates of our time. Everyone interested in the question of how to meet our urgent housing needs, while also protecting the landscape, should read it.” Sir Andrew Motion"Rural planning in Britain has all but collapsed. How to restore it, how to reinvigorate the rural economy and chart who will live in it and how, is by far the biggest challenge to domestic politics in Britain. Thank god for this book and its clear thinking on the subject." Simon Jenkins, journalist and author“This book argues convincingly that the beauty of the English countryside is compatible with reasonable growth in housing if it is well planned and well designed - only matching beauty will do! Well done Shaun Spiers.” Sir Terry Farrell, Architect and Urban DesignerTable of ContentsHow to think about housing and planning; The housing crisis; Rural Housing; Environmental constraints; Political constraints; Structural constraints; Solutions; Challenge.
£14.11
Duke University Press Porkopolis
Book SynopsisAlex Blanchette explores how the daily lives of a Midwestern town that is home to a massive pork complex were reorganized around the life and death cycles of pigs while using the factory farm as a way to detail the state of contemporary American industrial capitalism.Trade Review“Porkopolis is a rigorous and insightful ethnography of food production that connects the politics of labor to ambitious theorizations of political economy and biopolitical governance. Beautifully written and highly accessible, Porkopolis is a field-defining work in animal studies, the anthropology of labor, and food studies. An outstanding book.” -- Gabriel N. Rosenberg, author of * The 4-H Harvest: Sexuality and the State in Rural America *“In Porkopolis, the industrial pig is not just vertically integrated; it is pervasive, conditioning hog and human bodies and saturating workers' social lives and living spaces. Exquisitely researched and indelibly written, Alex Blanchette's arresting ethnography challenges us to see industrial meat as a new biopolitical regime, the next chapter in capitalism's quest to dominate nature by standardizing life.” -- Heather Paxson, author of * The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America *“As a human-animal researcher, I found this book exciting in its examination of how labor and class shapes human nonhuman entanglement in the industrial setting, and the novel employment of multispecies sensibilities to offer an alternative perspective on the factory farm. Porkopolis might also be read as a twenty-first century world-making process of domestication, radically co-shaping environments, pigs, humans, and other species in the process.” -- Paul G. Keil * Anthropology Book Forum *"What is remarkable about Porkopolis is that Blanchette never makes the predictable point but instead uses his thorough ethnography to question many of the taken-for-granted assumptions both popular media and the scholarly literature have made about factory farms. In the process, he has generated the beginning steps toward a new approach toward understanding the relations between industrial forms of capitalism and nature." -- Ilana Gershon * Current Anthropology *"The clarity and analytical power of Porkopolis are impressive achievements. . . . It is not surprising to learn that Blanchette’s peers consider him one of the finest ethnographers of his generation. The book is crafted with a perspicacity and empathy reminiscent of Munro’s short stories." -- Troy Vettese * Boston Review *"An even-handed exploration of an issue usually dominated by extremes. . . . That said, even Blanchette’s moral generosity and even-handed treatment of the pork industry cannot powder and perfume the everyday horrors contained within. . . . Blanchette may not have set out to write an argument for de-industrializing pigs, but he achieved it." -- Jennifer Graham * The Hippo *"The book obliges the thoughtful reader to ponder how this remarkable departure from normal biological life could ever have come about—all for the sake of cheap meat and profit—and what we might need to do (if ever we could) about changing it. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals." -- J. A. Mather * Choice *“Porkopolis is very well written, powerful, and provocative and is an exceptionally insightful look at industrial capitalism through the lens of human–animal relations. It offers a truly unique perspective into the world that industrial farming has made and remade.” -- Steve Striffler * American Anthropologist *“Porkopolis is a triumph. It is exceptionally readable and engaging in spite of the gravity of its subject matter. It is also creative and challenging in the most haunting and curious ways.” -- Claire Bunschoten * Social Text *“Blanchette’s ethnography ... demonstrates the ways in which the modern pork industry has reshaped the rural American workforce as well as economic and social relationships.... Porkopolis is a masterful piece of multi-sited research.” -- Jon Wolseth * American Ethnologist *“Alex Blanchette’s Porkopolis is an incredible ethnographic achievement.... The book’s commitment to an ambitious theoretical project, its inviting prose that balances precision and readability, and its sharply described ethnographic insights all work flawlessly.” -- Andrea Rissing and Nicholas C. Kawa * Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment *“There are many angles from which to approach Alex Blanchette’s sweeping, paradigm defining and redefining, and prescient ethnography.... Porkopolis will assuredly become essential reading in many areas of anthropology.” -- Carolyn Barnes and Peter Benson * Anthropological Quarterly *"The pig’s body is shaped by the market and the prices of its various parts. But more shockingly, as Blanchette argues, much the same is true of the bodies of the workers sucked into the maw of this gigantic meat machine. It would be hard to find a more compelling critique of contemporary capitalist exploitation of what was once part of the natural world." -- John Dupré * Los Angeles Review of Books *“Porkopolis provides a substantial and nuanced explanation of industrialized pork production that calls into question the collective societal energy invested into life-forms best suited for capitalist extraction. . . . Blanchette makes numerous contributions to sociology, anthropology, and more-than-human geographies.” -- Michaela Hoffelmeyer * Agriculture and Human Values *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Preface. Watching Hogs Watch Workers xiii A Note on Photography xvii Introduction. The "Factory" Farm 1 Part I. Boar 1. The Dover Flies 33 2. The Herd: Intimate Biosecurity and Posthuman Labor 45 Part II. Sow 3. Somos Puercos 73 4. Stimulation: Instincts in Production 89 Part III. Hog 5. Lutalyse 121 6. Stockperson: Love, Muscles, and the Industrial Runt 137 Part IV. Carcass 7. Miss Wicked 167 8. Biological System: Breaking in at the End of Industrial Time 177 Part V. Viscera 9. Maybe Some Blood, but Mostly Grease 203 10. Lifecycle: On Using All of the Porcine Species 211 Epilogue. The (De-)Industrialization of the World 239 Notes 247 References 265 Index 287
£75.65
Duke University Press Hard Luck and Heavy Rain The Ecology of Stories
Book SynopsisJoseph C. Russo takes readers into the everyday lives of the rural residents of southeast Texas, showing how their hard-luck stories render the region a mythopoetic landscape that epitomizes the impasse of American late capitalism.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Strange Time of Hard-Luck Stories 17 2. The Higher the Hair, the Closer to God 47 3. Queer Character and the Golden Triangle 76 4. Ringing Out 94 Notes 119 Bibliography 127 Index 135
£62.90
Duke University Press Hard Luck and Heavy Rain
Book SynopsisJoseph C. Russo takes readers into the everyday lives of the rural residents of southeast Texas, showing how their hard-luck stories render the region a mythopoetic landscape that epitomizes the impasse of American late capitalism.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Strange Time of Hard-Luck Stories 17 2. The Higher the Hair, the Closer to God 47 3. Queer Character and the Golden Triangle 76 4. Ringing Out 94 Notes 119 Bibliography 127 Index 135
£18.04
New York University Press Still Straight
Book SynopsisWhy some straight men have sex with other menWhy do some straight men in rural America have sex with other men? In Still Straight, Tony Silva convincingly argues that these menmany of whom enjoy hunting, fishing, and shooting gunsare not gay, bisexual, or just experimenting. As he shows, these men can enjoy a range of relationships with other men, from hookups to sexual friendships to secretive loving partnerships, all while strongly identifying with straight culture. Drawing on riveting interviews with straight white men who live in rural America, Silva explores the fascinating, and unexpected, disconnect between sexual behavior and identity. Some use sex with men to bond with other men in an acceptably masculine way; some are not particularly attracted to men, but are wary of emotional attachment with women; and others view sex with menas opposed to womenas a more acceptable form of extramarital sexual behavior. Taking us inside the lives of straight white men who have sex with oTrade Review"Could it be that straightness is more than a sexual orientation? Through illuminating interviews with straight identified men who have sex with other men, Silva’s answer is a resounding yes. This groundbreaking research documents ways that we might understand sexual identity as deeply tied to culture, place and age. A must read for scholars of sexuality." -- C.J. Pascoe, co-author of Exploring Masculinities: Identity, Inequality, Continuity and Change"Tony Silva’s revealing study of men who have sex with men (MSM) in rural America shows us how white racial identity statuses, heterosexual identity claims, and geography intersect in the secretive practices of men who seek out same-sex sexual encounters in America. Based on 60 in-depth interviews with a hard to study population, Silva argues that MSM and claim to be straight are a patterned phenomenon in a post-closeted American culture. Filled with important insights about sexual identity, race, and rural America, Still Straight is an important addition to the fields of masculinities and queer studies." -- James Joseph Dean, co-editor of Routledge International Handbook of Heterosexualities Studies"In Silva’s extensive interviews with adult men living in conservative, rural communities, we observe the messy paradox of their lives as they attempt to reconcile their same-sex behavior with a straight identity. You will be amazed by their justifications." -- Ritch C. Savin-Williams, author of Mostly Straight: Sexual Fluidity among Men
£66.60
New York University Press Outlaw Women
Book SynopsisA journey into the experiences of incarcerated women in rural areas, revealing how location can reinforce gendered violenceIncarceration is all too often depicted as an urban problem, a male problem, a problem that disproportionately affects people of color. This book, however, takes readers to the heart of the struggles of the outlaw women of the rural West, considering how poverty and gendered violence overlap to keep women literally and figuratively imprisoned. Outlaw Women examines the forces that shape women's experiences of incarceration and release from prison in the remote, predominantly white communities that many Americans still think of as the Western frontier. Drawing on dozens of interviews with women in the state of Wyoming who were incarcerated or on parole, the authors provide an in-depth examination of women's perceptions of their lives before, during, and after imprisonment. Considering cultural mores specific to the rural West, the authors identify the forces that coTrade ReviewA unique, readable, lengthy study of female incarceration in the Wyoming women's prison, one of 67 state women's prisons in the US. * Choice *
£66.60
New York University Press Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf
Book SynopsisWitty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the coarse rural masses against the refined urban population. In Volume One, al-Shirbini describes the three rural typespeasant cultivator, village man-of-religion, and rural dervishoffering anecdotes testifying to the ignorance, dirtiness, and criminality of each. In Volume Two, he presents a hilarious parody of the verse-and-commentary genre so beloved by scholars of his day, with a 47-line poem supposedly written by a peasant named Abu Shaduf, who charts the rise and fall of his fortunes. Wielding the scholarly tools of elite literature, al-Shirbini responds to the poem with derision and ridicule, dotting his satire with digressions into love, food, and flatulence. Volume Two of Brains Confounded is followed by Risible Rhymes, a concise text that includes a comic disquisition on rural verse, mocking the pretensions of uneducated poets from Egypt's countryside. Risible Rhymes alTrade Review"Lucid and imaginative...the translation is thankfully reliable and delightfully readable...a remarkable achievement in many ways." -- Li Guo * Journal of the American Oriental Society *"Paints a sharp portrait of Egyptian villagers. . . . This book has long had its passionate Egyptian adherents: both for its bawdy depictions of village life and for its language, which moves deftly between colloquial and 'high' classical expressions." * Middle East Eye *
£12.99
New York University Press Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf
Book SynopsisWitty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the coarse rural masses against the refined urban population. In Volume One, al-Shirbini describes the three rural typespeasant cultivator, village man-of-religion, and rural dervishoffering anecdotes testifying to the ignorance, dirtiness, and criminality of each. In Volume Two, he presents a hilarious parody of the verse-and-commentary genre so beloved by scholars of his day, with a 47-line poem supposedly written by a peasant named Abu Shaduf, who charts the rise and fall of his fortunes. Wielding the scholarly tools of elite literature, al-Shirbini responds to the poem with derision and ridicule, dotting his satire with digressions into love, food, and flatulence. Volume Two of Brains Confounded is followed by Risible Rhymes, a concise text that includes a comic disquisition on rural verse, mocking the pretensions of uneducated poets from Egypt's countryside. Risible Rhymes alTrade Review"Lucid and imaginative...the translation is thankfully reliable and delightfully readable...a remarkable achievement in many ways." -- Li Guo * Journal of the American Oriental Society *"Paints a sharp portrait of Egyptian villagers. . . . This book has long had its passionate Egyptian adherents: both for its bawdy depictions of village life and for its language, which moves deftly between colloquial and 'high' classical expressions." * Middle East Eye *
£12.99
New York University Press Latino Heartland
Book SynopsisAddresses the politics of immigration, in the everyday lives of one communityNational immigration debates have thrust both opponents of immigration and immigrant rights supporters into the news. But what happens once the rallies end and the banners come down? What is daily life like for Latinos who have been presented nationally as terrorists, drug smugglers, alien gangs, and violent criminals? Latino Heartland offers an ethnography of the Latino and non-Latino residents of a small Indiana town, showing how national debate pitted neighbor against neighborand the strategies some used to combat such animosity. It conveys the lived impact of divisive political rhetoric on immigration and how race, gender, class, and ethnicity inform community belonging in the twenty-first century. Latino Heartland illuminates how community membership was determined yet simultaneously re-made by those struggling to widen the scope of who was imagined as a legitimate resident citizen of this Midwestern spacTrade ReviewWriting with grace and compassion, Sujey Vega shows how Latinos seek to belong to the heartland of America, even while suffering from daily hurts and insults that wound their souls. A book about the heartland that is utterly heartbreaking, Vega makes a passionate call for justice and the urgent need to rethink U.S. immigration policy on humanistic terms. -- Ruth Behar,author of Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in between JourneysFinally, an ethnographically rich work documenting the Latinization of a Midwestern city. Vega challenges us to rethink notions of community and belonging in our increasingly ethnically and racially diverse society, and offers a much-needed corrective vision to counter many of our fictive and obsolete ideas about our contemporary Midwestern cities, and of the United States in general. -- Arlene Davila,New York UniversityLatino Heartlandis an important read for anyone who is an instructor or graduate student of Latino studies, or who teaches of researches the sociology or anthropology of immigration. I also wholeheartedly recommend this book to all K-12 teachers and administrators. * Lat Stud *Latino Heartlandilluminates how community membership was determined yet simultaneously re-made by those struggling to widen the scope of who was imagined as a legitimate resident citizen of this Midwestern space. * Law Professor Blogs Network,ImmigrationProf Blog *Latino Heartlandis an important read given the current atmosphere regarding the issue of immigration. * American Anthropologist *[] Vega notes in closing, Latinos in central Indiana, like all populations in all places and times, & created new networks, new tradition, and new ways of coping with the realities they faced. They are truly imaginative ones, and Vega rightly urges anthropologists (and good citizens) to pay more attention and respect to these fascinating and courageous acts. * Anthropology Review Database *Overall, this is a fascinating work that offers a fresh perspective on a frequently overlooked community (Latinos) in a frequently overlooked place (the rural Midwest). It is indeed a wake-up call to those of us who have the privilege of forgetting. * Contemporary Rural Social Work *Vega has written a wide-ranging study of Latinos in Greater Lafayette, IN, that challenges the notion of Midwestern homogeneity and the novelty of Latino immigration to the region.[T]he interviews that form the core of Vegas source base provide invaluable insight into the immigrant and non-white experience in the Midwest. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *Latino Heartlandis brilliant because it provides a ground-level analysis of the ways racist immigration policy affects the lives of Latino immigrants in a region where many people see them as a threat. * The Annals of Iowa *Table of ContentsContents Preface: Pioneering Ownership of Greater Lafayette ix Introduction: Bienvenidos a Hoosierlandia: Asserting Ethnic Belonging at the "Crossroads of America" 1 1. Recuerdos de Lafayette: The Making and Forgetting of the Past in Central Indiana 21 2. Kneading Home: Creating Community While Navigating Borders 61 3. Written Otherings: Policing Community at the "Crossroads of America" 99 4. Clashes at the Crossroads: The Impact of Microaggressions and Other Otherings in Daily Life 135 5. "United We Are Stronger": Clarifying Everyday Encounters with Belonging 173 Conclusion: The Politics of Belonging Wages On: How State-Based Legislation Affects Community in Indiana 217 Notes 227 Bibliography 241 Index 259 About the Author 263
£62.90
New York University Press Latino Heartland
Book SynopsisAddresses the politics of immigration, in the everyday lives of one communityNational immigration debates have thrust both opponents of immigration and immigrant rights supporters into the news. But what happens once the rallies end and the banners come down? What is daily life like for Latinos who have been presented nationally as terrorists, drug smugglers, alien gangs, and violent criminals? Latino Heartland offers an ethnography of the Latino and non-Latino residents of a small Indiana town, showing how national debate pitted neighbor against neighborand the strategies some used to combat such animosity. It conveys the lived impact of divisive political rhetoric on immigration and how race, gender, class, and ethnicity inform community belonging in the twenty-first century. Latino Heartland illuminates how community membership was determined yet simultaneously re-made by those struggling to widen the scope of who was imagined as a legitimate resident citizen of this Midwestern spacTrade ReviewWriting with grace and compassion, Sujey Vega shows how Latinos seek to belong to the heartland of America, even while suffering from daily hurts and insults that wound their souls. A book about the heartland that is utterly heartbreaking, Vega makes a passionate call for justice and the urgent need to rethink U.S. immigration policy on humanistic terms. -- Ruth Behar,author of Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in between JourneysFinally, an ethnographically rich work documenting the Latinization of a Midwestern city. Vega challenges us to rethink notions of community and belonging in our increasingly ethnically and racially diverse society, and offers a much-needed corrective vision to counter many of our fictive and obsolete ideas about our contemporary Midwestern cities, and of the United States in general. -- Arlene Davila,New York UniversityLatino Heartlandis an important read for anyone who is an instructor or graduate student of Latino studies, or who teaches of researches the sociology or anthropology of immigration. I also wholeheartedly recommend this book to all K-12 teachers and administrators. * Lat Stud *Latino Heartlandilluminates how community membership was determined yet simultaneously re-made by those struggling to widen the scope of who was imagined as a legitimate resident citizen of this Midwestern space. * Law Professor Blogs Network,ImmigrationProf Blog *Latino Heartlandis an important read given the current atmosphere regarding the issue of immigration. * American Anthropologist *[] Vega notes in closing, Latinos in central Indiana, like all populations in all places and times, & created new networks, new tradition, and new ways of coping with the realities they faced. They are truly imaginative ones, and Vega rightly urges anthropologists (and good citizens) to pay more attention and respect to these fascinating and courageous acts. * Anthropology Review Database *Overall, this is a fascinating work that offers a fresh perspective on a frequently overlooked community (Latinos) in a frequently overlooked place (the rural Midwest). It is indeed a wake-up call to those of us who have the privilege of forgetting. * Contemporary Rural Social Work *Vega has written a wide-ranging study of Latinos in Greater Lafayette, IN, that challenges the notion of Midwestern homogeneity and the novelty of Latino immigration to the region.[T]he interviews that form the core of Vegas source base provide invaluable insight into the immigrant and non-white experience in the Midwest. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *Latino Heartlandis brilliant because it provides a ground-level analysis of the ways racist immigration policy affects the lives of Latino immigrants in a region where many people see them as a threat. * The Annals of Iowa *Table of ContentsContents Preface: Pioneering Ownership of Greater Lafayette ix Introduction: Bienvenidos a Hoosierlandia: Asserting Ethnic Belonging at the "Crossroads of America" 1 1. Recuerdos de Lafayette: The Making and Forgetting of the Past in Central Indiana 21 2. Kneading Home: Creating Community While Navigating Borders 61 3. Written Otherings: Policing Community at the "Crossroads of America" 99 4. Clashes at the Crossroads: The Impact of Microaggressions and Other Otherings in Daily Life 135 5. "United We Are Stronger": Clarifying Everyday Encounters with Belonging 173 Conclusion: The Politics of Belonging Wages On: How State-Based Legislation Affects Community in Indiana 217 Notes 227 Bibliography 241 Index 259 About the Author 263
£23.74
University of Toronto Press Global Health and the Village
Book SynopsisDrawing on extensive original qualitative research, Global Health and The Village brings the complex local and transnational factors governing women's access to safe maternity care into focus.Table of ContentsContents List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Glossary of Acholi (Luo) Words Acknowledgements Chapter One: Introduction to A Crisis in Maternal Health Introduction Contexts of Care Background on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Skilled birth attendants (SBAs) and traditional birth attendants (TBAs) Policy and social contexts for maternity care and childbirth The post-conflict setting Methodology and Methods Key Institutional Ethnography definitions: Institutions, participants, and work Data collection Positioning myself as researcher Theorizing methods Outline Chapter Two: Ongoing Social Distress: Care-seeking in a Remote Post-Conflict Context Introduction Overview of the Conflict in Northern Uganda Ongoing Social and Economic Impacts of the War Abduction, health and community membership The internally displaced persons (IDP) camps Ongoing Social Distress: Land Conflicts and Disease Epidemics The outbreak of disease Agriculture Land disputes Poverty and lack of infrastructure Impacts on study participants Conclusion Map of Uganda Chapter Three: Pregnancy and Daily Life: Health System and Home Factors Shaping Care Introduction Focused (Goal-Oriented) Antenatal Care (ANC) The Message to Attend ANC The Provision of Mama Kits Formal Health Care Providers The setting for formal health care provision Clinical officers Midwives Enrolled comprehensive nurses, registered nurses, nursing assistants, and nurse aides Informal Health Care Providers Traditional birth attendants (TBAs) The village health team (VHT) Transportation, Nutrition, and Work Transportation Lack of capacity to provide care at sub-county health centres Nutrition and work Chapter Four: Charity and Control: When Help Requires Compliance Introduction A Reward for Care or a Gift to the Vulnerable? Divergent Ideas the Mama Kit’s Role The mama kit as creating and rewarding compliance with ANC The mama kits as an incentive or reward for health centre delivery The mama kits as supporting and signaling ‘vulnerable’ women The mama kits as a gift or charity Registration and Distribution of Mama Kits Health Centre Staff and Administrators on the Mama Kits’ Role: Helping the Vulnerable, or Motivating Care-seeking? “In our setting, who is the most poor?” Perceptions of vulnerability as a distribution criteria Health centre staff on the mama kit: ‘Motivating’ women to deliver at a health facility The Goals of the Uganda Red Cross NGO - Health Centre Partnerships: Problems with Withdrawal and Shortages Unpredictable Distribution Affects how Women Perceive Formal Care and Health Workers Conclusion Chapter Five: Vertical Health: Failures of Compulsory Couples HIV Testing Introduction Background: Prevalence, Policies, and Practice Women’s experiences of male reluctance Health Worker Perspectives on Couples HIV Testing During ANC Health Worker Strategies for Couples Testing in the Face of Male Reluctance “Without a Man We are Not Going to Give you a Card”: Male Refusal as a Barrier to Women’s Care Gender, Couples Testing, and Vertical Health Gender and Intersectional Power Relationships Conclusion Chapter Six: Conclusions: Reconceiving the Maternal Health Crisis Introduction Global goals, Local lives Discourses governing care: Choice, tradition and culture Limitations Conclusion References
£31.50
University of Toronto Press Social Welfare in Ontario 17911893
Book SynopsisThe decision to undertake a study of some aspect of the development of social welfare in Ontario was made as a result of separate but related discussions in the early 1950's with the late Dr. Harry M. Cassidy, Professor Frank H. Underhill, and Professor John S. Morgan, from each of whom I received helpful advice. The topic first considered was child welfare, but some exploration revealed that programmes for the protection of children emerged rather late in the total structure of welfare services in the province and could hardly be assessed until earlier developments in the broader field had been examined. It was thus decided to carry out a study of the whole field of social welfare, with particular reference to the ro1e played by the provincial government.
£27.90
Cornell University Press Singlewide
Book SynopsisIn Singlewide, Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish explore the role of the trailer park as a source of affordable housing. America's trailer parks, most in rural places, shelter an estimated 12 million people, and the authors show how these parks serve as a private solution to a pressing public need. Singlewide considers the circumstances of families with school-age children in trailer parks serving whites in Illinois, Hispanics in New Mexico, and African Americans in North Carolina. By looking carefully at the daily lives of families who live side by side in rows of manufactured homes, Salamon and MacTavish draw conclusions about the importance of housing, community, and location in the families' dreams of opportunities and success as signified by eventually owning land and a conventional home. Working-poor rural families who engage with what Salamon and MacTavish call the mobile home industrial complex may become caught in an expensive trap starting with their purcTrade ReviewThe book realistically portrays trailer living in each unique area chosen by the authors. * Pasatiempo *The authors discuss four research questions involving the lasting effects on a family from living in a trailer park, financial payoffs, sense of belonging in a community, and the possibility that children and youth can improve their life chances. They also summarize the role of mobile home manufacturers, dealers, financers, park operators, and nearby communities. * Choice *Singlewide provides a rich and valuable picture of mobile-home park life, and the lessons learned spread well beyond these contexts. Scholars of poverty, housing, exploitation, families and communities, and child development will have much to gain from this important work. * Journal of Children and Poverty *This book addresses an important aspect of rural communities that have been understudied. Its strength is the in-depth stories drawn from the field studies that detail how families enter into trailer park living, and more importantly, how they become trapped there. It also effectively demonstrates how the stigmatized rural landscapes of trailer parks can impact youth opportunities and social networks.... This book represents a welcome exploration of mobile home park communities, and scholars who focus on a wide array of rural issues will find it interesting and useful. * Social & Cultural Geography *Singlewide provides a thoughtful sample of the millions of families living and raising children in rural or small-town mobile home parks. * Planning *Singlewide is an excellent addition to the rural sociology literature because it provides a rich account of the role of trailer parks in rural areas and of low-income households' housing strategies.... This book is enjoyable to read since it is well researched, well written, and well organized. Beyond rural scholars interested in housing and the wider topics mentioned above, this book should be suitable for many audiences. In particular, it should be approachable for undergraduate students and could be useful in a class on poverty or even in an introduction to sociology class to illustrate social mobility and structure versus agency. This book could also be useful in a graduate research methods seminar because it is a good example of approachable yet rigorous scholarship that draws on multiple data sources and types. Last, with a chapter focused on implications and recommendations, this book should be of interest to housing advocates, service providers, and policy makers. * Rural Sociology *Singlewide blazes a trail for future researchers to follow, opening our eyes to the limited housing options available in rural America. * American Journal of Sociology *This extensive study addresses a largely neglected subject and provides an important contribution to our understanding of class and place in America. Recommended for scholars in community, family, and policy studies. * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Mobile Home Industrial Complex 2. Making Ends Meet 3. The Illinois Park 4. The North Carolina Parks 5. The New Mexico Parks 6. Youth and Trailer-Park Life 7. Reforming the Mobile Home Industrial Complex Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix A Appendix B Notes Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press Mobilizing for Development
Book SynopsisMobilizing for Development tackles the question of how countries achieve rural development and offers a new way of thinking about East Asia''s political economy that challenges the developmental state paradigm. Through a comparison of Taiwan (1950s1970s), South Korea (1950s1970s), and China (1980s2000s), Kristen E. Looney shows that different types of development outcomesimprovements in agricultural production, rural living standards, and the village environmentwere realized to different degrees, at different times, and in different ways. She argues that rural modernization campaigns, defined as policies demanding high levels of mobilization to effect dramatic change, played a central role in the region and that divergent development outcomes can be attributed to the interplay between campaigns and institutions. The analysis departs from common portrayals of the developmental state as wholly technocratic and demonstrates that rural development was not just a byproduct of induTrade ReviewThe book combines an original theoretical framework, rich knowledge and profound insight about all three cases, and an exemplary comparative historical analysis. It should be treated seriously by those interested in developmental states, rural studies and East Asia, and will definitely trigger more discussions. For China scholars, the book's conceptualization and analysis of campaigns also advance our understanding of this policy tool that is so commonly pursued in the country. * The China Quarterly *Looney not only expertly recounts the socio-economic context of the campaigns in Taiwan, South Korea, and China: through an analysis of the style of their implementation and outcomes we also learn how these campaigns ended up with such different results. * The University of British Columbia *In Mobilizing for Development, political scientist Kristen E. Looney masterfully illuminates and compares the poorly understood—and often ignored—role that rural development played in the developmental success stories of Taiwan, South Korea, and China... [T]his manuscript will be a must for scholars who research development or the politics of these East Asian societies... [A] writing style that is simultaneously engaging and in-depth, both sparing and rich with detail... * Developing Economies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The State and Rural Development in East Asia 1. The Role of Rural Institutions and State Campaigns in Development 2. Rural Development in Taiwan, 1950s–1970s 3. Rural Development in South Korea, 1950s–1970s 4. Rural Development in China, 1980s–2000s Conclusion: The Rural Developmental State
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Cornell University Press Sweet Deal Bitter Landscape
Book SynopsisSweet Deal, Bitter Landscape brings us to the mid-2000s, when the Tanzanian government struck a deal with a foreign investor to convert more than 20,000 hectares of long-settled coastal land to establish a sugarcane plantation. Ten years on, the deal was abruptly abandoned. Popularly deemed a case of hubristic global development, critics classified this project another in a line of failed modern resource grabs. Youjin B. Chung argues such tidy accounts conceal myriad and profound implications: not only how gender, history, and culture shaped the project''s trajectory, but also how, even in its stalled state, the deal upended social life on the land by setting in motion incomplete processes of development and dispossession. With rich ethnographic detail and visual storytelling, Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape traces the lived experiences of diverse rural women and men as they struggled for survival under a seemingly endless condition o
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Cornell University Press Sweet Deal Bitter Landscape
Book SynopsisSweet Deal, Bitter Landscape brings us to the mid-2000s, when the Tanzanian government struck a deal with a foreign investor to convert more than 20,000 hectares of long-settled coastal land to establish a sugarcane plantation. Ten years on, the deal was abruptly abandoned. Popularly deemed a case of hubristic global development, critics classified this project another in a line of failed modern resource grabs. Youjin B. Chung argues such tidy accounts conceal myriad and profound implications: not only how gender, history, and culture shaped the project''s trajectory, but also how, even in its stalled state, the deal upended social life on the land by setting in motion incomplete processes of development and dispossession. With rich ethnographic detail and visual storytelling, Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape traces the lived experiences of diverse rural women and men as they struggled for survival under a seemingly endless condition o
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Stanford University Press Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain: The
Book SynopsisIn 1939, residents of a rural village near Chengdu watched as Lei Mingyuan, a member of a violent secret society known as the Gowned Brothers, executed his teenage daughter. Six years later, Shen Baoyuan, a sociology student at Yenching University, arrived in the town to conduct fieldwork on the society that once held sway over local matters. She got to know Lei Mingyuan and his family, recording many rare insights about the murder and the Gowned Brothers' inner workings. Using the filicide as a starting point to examine the history, culture, and organization of the Gowned Brothers, Di Wang offers nuanced insights into the structures of local power in 1940s rural Sichuan. Moreover, he examines the influence of Western sociology and anthropology on the way intellectuals in the Republic of China perceived rural communities. By studying the complex relationship between the Gowned Brothers and the Chinese Communist Party, he offers a unique perspective on China's transition to socialism. In so doing, Wang persuasively connects a family in a rural community, with little overt influence on national destiny, to the movements and ideologies that helped shape contemporary China.Trade Review"Di Wang's rich volume on the Sichuan Paoge offers a major contribution to the history of Chinese secret societies. Based in part on the fascinating thesis of a sociology student at Yenching University, the study brilliantly illuminates the complex linkages between rural society and culture, the limits of local government, and Western-inspired intellectual efforts to arrive at a new understanding of peasant life." -- David Ownby * author of Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in Early and Mid-Qing China *"Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain is the first monograph in English that is solely dedicated to the study of paoge, one of the most influential secret societies in the upper- and middle-Yangzi regions in pre-1949 China. An elegant microhistory, this work weaves an intimate study with larger social and political contexts involving rebellions, revolutions, foreign invasion, state penetration, and peasant resistance that characterized twentieth-century China." -- Huaiyin Li * University of Texas at Austin *"Without doubt, Di Wang's new book represents an excellent example of a microhistory writing in the field of modern Chinese history." -- Shaofan An * Frontiers of History in China *"Every once in a blue moon, this reviewer finishes a book and thinks: 'Now this is the kind of book I aspire to write.' Di Wang's Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain is one of those rare books....Full of pathos and interwoven with complex narratives, Violence and Order is rich in anthropological and sociological data collected in the 1930s and 1940s, and complete with entertaining and humanizing historical anecdotes." -- Kelly Hammond * China Review International *"Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain is an illuminating study of how secret societies operated in early twentieth-century Sichuan and how they have been understood....[The book] adds to the recent flourishing of studies of Sichuan in the Republican period." -- Henrietta Harrison * Journal of Asian Studies *"Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain is a far-reaching contribution to scholarship on secret societies, local governance, popular culture, and rural society in the first half of China's twentieth century that deserves to be widely read, by both specialists and nonspecialists alike." -- Benno R. Weiner * Twentieth-Century China *"Wang has made an impressive contribution to our understanding of Chinese secret societies, specifically the Paoge....this book is highly readable and is a welcome addition to the historiography of modern China." -- Hongyan Xiang * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Two Voices Joined in the Chengdu Plain chapter abstractThe academic disciplines of sociology and anthropology took root in 1920s China under the influence of American scholars and missionaries. Among these pioneers were Shen Baoyuan's teachers in the Department of Sociology at Yenching University in Beijing. Under their influence, Shen aspired to become a "rural activist" and went to the countryside to learn about rural issues from peasants. In the summer of 1945 she traveled to the village she called Hope Township in the Chengdu Plain, Sichuan Province, to investigate the Gowned Brothers. This introduction discusses past scholarship of secret societies and traces the intellectual origins of Shen's investigation that built the academic foundation for her fieldwork. 1A Public Execution chapter abstractShen Baoyuan created the pseudonym Hope Township to protect the privacy of the people she investigated. However, based on the information in her report as well as other historical sources, this chapter confirms that Hope Township is in fact Chongyiqiao, a northern suburb of Chengdu. Lei Mingyuan, the central personality in Shen's report and head of the local branch of the Gowned Brothers, publicly lynched his daughter and the young tailor who worked for the family in response to rumors that the two were engaged in an affair. Despite the brutal and brazen nature of his crimes, however, Lei did not face any charges. This chapter details the horrific crime and its ramifications, looking at the problematic prevalence of lynching and the rule of law at the time. 2A Local Band of the Gowned Brothers chapter abstractThe Chengdu Plain, in rural western Sichuan, was one of the most affluent areas in all of inland China. All aspects of geography, ecology, economy, lifestyle, and local culture and customs enhanced the development and survival of the Gowned Brothers, who thrived here. This chapter describes these factors as well as the growth of the secret society. The organization was founded in the early Qing period with the goal of "overthrowing the Qing and restoring the Ming." In its long struggle against the Qing government, the Gowned Brothers developed a solid organizational structure and extensive power network. A large proportion of Sichuan's male population were members and played an active role in local control and security. This chapter documents how this secret society assumed and enforced dominance of local communities. 3Spirituality and Customs chapter abstractThis chapter explores the spiritual beliefs and actions of the Gowned Brothers and looks at how these reinforced the secret society's power structure. Paoge members took what was traditional and fashioned a variety of specialized rites and customs for themselves. Over the past forty or so years, historians and students of Chinese society have taken a much-needed neutral, in some sense anthropological, stance toward China's broad landscape of rites, beliefs, and religious and ceremonial practices. This chapter turns to the unique observations of Shen Baoyuan, who was fascinated with what many in academe of her time thought of as arcane and superstitious ploys. It begins with a short sketch of how traditional rites and beliefs were acted out in the Paoge's own local areas. Popular religions were closely tied to local culture, and the Gowned Brothers worshipped Guandi, which brought members together to fight for a common goal. 4Secret Codes and Language chapter abstractIn her investigation, Shen Baoyuan documented unique words used by Paoge members in everyday life, rituals, and communication, often referred to as "black words" or "hidden lingo." Her 1946 report explained pointed out that the very name of the Paoge originates from an agenda of "national spirit" and "revolutionary ideas," which was a way to refer to the anti-Manchu revolution. Haidi, documenting the organization's history, language, structure, and other information, was the organization's canonical text. The Gowned Brothers created their own language, which reflected their unique political ideas, identity, and historical narratives and provided a covert means of communication. This chapter analyzes the development and role of their secret language as well as the political implications. 5Disciplines and Dominance chapter abstractMembers of the Gowned Brothers reinforced their solidarity and internal stability through strict regulations, codes of conduct, and rituals for meetings and other activities. Any member who violated them would be harshly punished or even executed. This chapter examines these regulations and their chilling effect on nearly every type of behavior. Paoge members actively participated in stabilizing local order. The parties involved in a dispute usually did not pursue justice through a formal, forensic process, but instead went to a teahouse for "negotiation tea." This practice was an important means through which Paoge members learned about current events and kept order in even the smallest of neighborhoods. As prominent members of the community, the brothers challenged official judicial power in this role. This chapter describes the Paoge's mediation process and its effect on local jurisprudence. 6A Tenant Farmer and Paoge Master chapter abstractThis chapter examines Lei Mingyuan's economic situation as his leadership in the Gowned Brothers grew. Scholars generally believed that a tenant belonged to the economic class of poor peasants, but Lei, as a tenant farmer, did not actually do fieldwork. Instead, he hired four short-term laborers, whom he paid on a daily basis. Contrary to the assumption that a leader of the secret society would at least be economically well-to-do, Lei did not fit any category of the rural class division established by the Chinese Communist Party during the Land Revolution in the early 1950s. He rose to power primarily through success in fighting bandits. 7Entering the Paoge chapter abstractThis chapter describes the dynamics that led the Paoge worldview and policies that took hold in the Lei family. Although Lei Mingyuan was a Paoge leader, he was not omnipotent, according to Shen Baoyuan's observations in her 1946 report. He was imperceptibly influenced by social constraints, but he had to support his family and fulfill family obligations. Rice cultivation was the primary focus of those who lived in Hope Township, and the home Lei shared with his second wife, Woman Lei, was surrounded by bamboo groves and paddies. Woman Lei was literate and stern, the survivor of a great tragedy in her first marriage. Her demeanor and shrewdness enhanced the family's ability to establish Lei's reputation as a leader in the organization. 8The Decline of Power chapter abstractThis chapter describes the events that sealed Lei Mingyuan's grim demise, through the lens of the larger framework of leadership in the Gowned Brothers. Given his apparent lifestyle and role in his village from about 1939 to 1945, Lei was incapable of maintaining his responsibilities. Covering up his growing financial and leadership problems, Lei lost his economic freedom when his paddy fields of about seven acres were transferred to another tenant as a result of his failure to pay rent. One might assume that a landlord would not dare enforce the rules against a man as powerful as Lei, but in reality all landholders, despite their status, were subject to the same standards. As Lei's personal economic situation weakened, the financial support he had provided his subordinates diminished, thus causing his political power to wane as well. 9A Family Crisis and a Rural Woman's Fate chapter abstractLei Mingyuan understood that his leadership position in the Gowned Brothers depended on the strength of his reputation. His need to "save face" had driven him to carry out the public execution of his daughter and her presumed lover. This chapter weaves together other stories and details of community life revealing that the women in Lei's family suffered under his tyranny. Lei's economic and political instability drew him into a life of decadence: he began taking opium, further escalating his personal financial crisis. Notoriety resulted for Lei family when their servant girl ran away, further diminishing Lei's reputation and authority. Lei was indifferent to his family's suffering and sought a concubine. Woman Lei resisted, however, and garnered the support from other Gowned Brothers, leading Lei Mingyuan to abort his plan. Eventually, the couple reconciled and the Lei family moved to a shabby house in a neighborhood of coolies. 10Fall of the Paoge chapter abstractThis chapter explores how the Communists established their control in rural China. Knowledge of the transition from the Nationalist regime to the socialist state has centered on major cities, and there has been little understanding of how the CCP extended its power into the countryside. This chapter reveals that the Paoge did not confront the CCP upon its arrival on the Chengdu Plain; rather, the organization quietly watched the situation unfold. When the new regime imposed a grain tax, however, the group led resistance in what the Communist discourse called the "bandit riots." Although the Paoge had many connections with the Communist revolution, the CCP could not tolerate its antiestablishment tradition and was determined to destroy the organization entirely. 11Looking for the Storyteller chapter abstractThis book is primarily concerned with two people: Paoge leader Lei Mingyuan (and his family) and Shen Baoyuan, the storyteller. This chapter provides important, new information on Shen and her 1946 report. Lei and Shen lived in two completely different worlds, with different geographical, educational, social, and economic backgrounds, but they intersected in the summer of 1945. One was investigated and described; the other was the investigator and narrator. Both played a role in retelling an untold, powerful piece of human history. The book is also a three-way narrative: in addition to Lei and Shen, there is the author, who engages the dialogue and attempts to understand the Paoge leader Lei Mingyuan through Shen Baoyuan's perspective. 12Untangling Paoge Myth chapter abstractThis chapter's comprehensive examination of texts and narratives aids the understanding of how the public's perception of the Gowned Brothers was constructed over the centuries. These materials reveal the complex relationship between the Chinese Communist Party and the Paoge. In her report Shen Baoyuan harshly criticized the Paoge in Hope Township, but she found a reason to be hopeful by the fresh ideas presented in Righteous Monthly, a journal published by the organization in Chengdu. At the time, however, Shen did not realize that the journal actually was controlled by the CCP. More than six decades have passed since the Paoge was obliterated. However, during the post-Mao reform the CCP gradually loosened its control, leaving a prime opportunity for the revival of at least some secret societies in China.
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Stanford University Press Poverty as Subsistence: The World Bank and
Book SynopsisPoverty as Subsistence explores the "propertizing" land reform policy that the World Bank advocated throughout the transitioning countries of Eurasia, expecting poverty reduction to result from distributing property titles over agricultural land to local (rural) populations. China's early 1980s land reform offered support for this expectation, but while the spread of propertizing reform to post-communist Eurasia created numerous "subsistence" smallholders, it failed to stimulate entrepreneurship or market-based production among the rural poor. Varga argues that the World Bank advocated a simplified version of China's land reform that ignored a key element of successful reforms: the smallholders' immediate environment, the structure of actors and institutions determining whether smallholders survive and grow in their communities. With concrete insights from analysis of the land reform program throughout post-communist Eurasia and multisited fieldwork in Romania and Ukraine, this book details how and why land reform led to subsistence and the mechanisms underpinning informal commercialization.Trade Review"The creation of private property in land on the farms of post-communist Europe and Central Asia failed to produce a class of commercially-minded entrepreneurial farmers. Mihai Varga shows us why. This is a major book on post-communist agrarian change, with important insights of much wider contemporary relevance."—Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Trent University"Poverty as Subsistence is a must read for scholars, policy makers, and development practitioners considering land transfers and market-based solutions to rural poverty. Mihai Varga's timely analysis provides powerful insights on why and how agricultural reforms advocated by the World Bank and other agencies often undermine livelihoods of tightly knit rural economies."—Diana Mincyte, The City University of New York"This book demonstrates that the World Bank failed in post-communist transition by adopting a too narrow and ideological perspective on institutional reforms. It focused too much on creating individual property rights and not enough on the institutional environment of purchasing and distribution. Varga's insightful work reveals the result: that the World Bank reduced post-communist countries to a pre-war model of subsistence agriculture."—Mitchell A. Orenstein, University of Pennsylvania"As a work of sociology and political economy, Poverty as Subsistence adds to the critical studies of agrarian development in the contemporary era and raises new questions for scholars of environment and agrarian change.... Most crucially, the book demonstrates the continual relevance of land reform in agrarian economies and the versatile adaptation and resistance of rural people, showing that land is not simply an interchangeable property in the market but deeply rooted in interpersonal relationships and memory."—Leo Chu, H-EnvironmentTable of ContentsIntroduction: Poverty Reduction through Land Transfers 1. Pro-poor Reforms: The Propertizing Paradigm 2. Pro-poor Land Reform In Eurasia 3. The Reform Continuum: From China to Russia 4. Smallholders: A Fieldwork Study of Resilience and Resistance 5. Resilience: Survival and Growth of Smallholder Agriculture 6. Resistance: Smallholders against Commercialization Conclusions: The Limits of Pro-poor Land Reform
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Rural People and Communities in the 21st Century:
Book SynopsisRural people and communities continue to play important social, economic, and environmental roles at a time when societies are rapidly urbanizing. This unrivaled critical introduction, now in a comprehensively updated second edition, examines the causes and consequences of major social and economic transformations affecting rural populations in recent decades, explores policies developed to ameliorate problems or enhance opportunities, and highlights the resilience of rural people and communities. In an engaging, reader-friendly style, the book explores both socio-demographic and political economic aspects of rural transformation through an accessible and up-to-date blend of theory and empirical analysis, with each chapter’s discussion grounded in real-life case-study materials. The new edition has been completely revised throughout, with new data and literature, and carefully updated to address emerging issues of direct relevance to rural people and places, including a whole new chapter on rural politics. Rural People and Communities in the 21st Century will continue to be the standard reading of choice for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in rural sociology, community sociology, rural and/or population geography, community development, and population studies.Trade Review“Rural America finally has a textbook. David Brown and Kai Schafft provide an even-handed examination of rural American society that cuts through the mythology and stereotypes, documenting the processes and issues facing rural peoples and communities. This expanded new edition helps us understand not only what rural America is, but also what it means to be rural in an urbanizing and polarizing world.”Jeffrey Jacquet, The Ohio State University “The 2016 U.S. presidential election made it obvious that the experience of people in rural areas matters for the political, social, and economic wellbeing of the nation. For anyone wanting to get up to speed on the nature of life in rural places, this book is a goldmine."Katherine Cramer, University of Wisconsin-Madison"Deservedly marketed as a standard reading of choice for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in rural and/or community sociology, rural and/or population geography, community development and other related courses."Progress in Development StudiesTable of Contents Part I. Thinking About Rural Places in Metropolitan Society 1. Rurality in Metropolitan Societies 2. Urbanization and Population Redistribution 3. Rural Politics and Governance Part II. Rural Communities, Institutions and Environments 4. Understanding Community in Rural Society 5. Community Institutions in Rural Society 6. Natural Resources and Social Change Part III. Rural Populations 7. Youth, Aging, and the Life Course 8. Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Rural Areas Part IV. Rural Economy and Socioeconomic Wellbeing 9. Making a Living in Rural Communities 10. Farms, Farmers, and Farming in Contemporary Rural Society 11. Poverty Across Rural People and Places Part V. Conclusions 12. A Transformed Rural Society: Challenges and Opportunities for the Future
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Rural People and Communities in the 21st Century:
Book SynopsisRural people and communities continue to play important social, economic, and environmental roles at a time when societies are rapidly urbanizing. This unrivaled critical introduction, now in a comprehensively updated second edition, examines the causes and consequences of major social and economic transformations affecting rural populations in recent decades, explores policies developed to ameliorate problems or enhance opportunities, and highlights the resilience of rural people and communities. In an engaging, reader-friendly style, the book explores both socio-demographic and political economic aspects of rural transformation through an accessible and up-to-date blend of theory and empirical analysis, with each chapter’s discussion grounded in real-life case-study materials. The new edition has been completely revised throughout, with new data and literature, and carefully updated to address emerging issues of direct relevance to rural people and places, including a whole new chapter on rural politics. Rural People and Communities in the 21st Century will continue to be the standard reading of choice for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in rural sociology, community sociology, rural and/or population geography, community development, and population studies.Trade Review“Rural America finally has a textbook. David Brown and Kai Schafft provide an even-handed examination of rural American society that cuts through the mythology and stereotypes, documenting the processes and issues facing rural peoples and communities. This expanded new edition helps us understand not only what rural America is, but also what it means to be rural in an urbanizing and polarizing world.”Jeffrey Jacquet, The Ohio State University “The 2016 U.S. presidential election made it obvious that the experience of people in rural areas matters for the political, social, and economic wellbeing of the nation. For anyone wanting to get up to speed on the nature of life in rural places, this book is a goldmine."Katherine Cramer, University of Wisconsin-Madison"Deservedly marketed as a standard reading of choice for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in rural and/or community sociology, rural and/or population geography, community development and other related courses."Progress in Development StudiesTable of Contents Part I. Thinking About Rural Places in Metropolitan Society 1. Rurality in Metropolitan Societies 2. Urbanization and Population Redistribution 3. Rural Politics and Governance Part II. Rural Communities, Institutions and Environments 4. Understanding Community in Rural Society 5. Community Institutions in Rural Society 6. Natural Resources and Social Change Part III. Rural Populations 7. Youth, Aging, and the Life Course 8. Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Rural Areas Part IV. Rural Economy and Socioeconomic Wellbeing 9. Making a Living in Rural Communities 10. Farms, Farmers, and Farming in Contemporary Rural Society 11. Poverty Across Rural People and Places Part V. Conclusions 12. A Transformed Rural Society: Challenges and Opportunities for the Future
£18.99
University of Minnesota Press Power and Progress on the Prairie: Governing
Book SynopsisA critical exploration of how modernity and progress were imposed on the people and land of rural South Dakota The Rosebud Country, comprising four counties in rural South Dakota, was first established as the Rosebud Indian Reservation in 1889 to settle the Sicangu Lakota. During the first two decades of the twentieth century, white homesteaders arrived in the area and became the majority population. Today, the population of Rosebud Country is nearly evenly divided between Indians and whites. In Power and Progress on the Prairie, Thomas Biolsi traces how a variety of governmental actors, including public officials, bureaucrats, and experts in civil society, invented and applied ideas about modernity and progress to the people and the land. Through a series of case studies—programs to settle “surplus” Indian lands, to “civilize” the Indians, to “modernize” white farmers, to find strategic sites for nuclear missile silos, and to extend voting rights to Lakota people—Biolsi examines how these various “problems” came into focus for government experts and how remedies were devised and implemented.Drawing on theories of governmentality derived from Michel Foucault, Biolsi challenges the idea that the problems identified by state agents and the solutions they implemented were inevitable or rational. Rather, through fine-grained analysis of the impact of these programs on both the Lakota and white residents, he reveals that their underlying logic was too often arbitrary and devastating.Trade Review"Power and Progress on the Prairie provides a unprecedented application of Foucaultian governmentality and biopower, Marxist primitive accumulation, and Tania Li's concept of ‘the will to improve’ in the context of the development and disciplining of the rural North American heartland. An insightful, empowering read for those working to understand U.S. policy over time in rural contexts and Indian-White relations in the context of State interventions, this book will help students think creatively and confidently about operationalizing political economic theory over space and time to unpack the messy and incomplete process of governing rural America."—Beth Rose Middleton, University of California, Davis"The book’s theoretical framework and its lessons make it important reading for Iowans and all citizens of the nation’s heartland who will be able to discern the workings of governmentality in their own states and lives."—The Annals of Iowa"Power and Progress on the Prairie: Governing People on Rosebud Reservation by Thomas Biolsi is an important book that takes a theoretical approach to explaining both the obvious and the hidden power struc- tures within the United States that contrib- uted to the dispossession of indigenous peoples."—Western Historical QuarterlyTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. The Birth of Liberalism on the Prairie, or How Not to Govern Too Much2. Discipline and Governmentality: Civilizing Indians and Making Farmers Progressive3. New Deal Practices: How Not to Govern Too Little4. Making New Deal Subjects5. Planning Who Shall Die So Others May Live: Biopower and Cold War National Security6. Voting Rights, or How a Regulatory Assemblage GovernsConclusion: When Stories about the Countryside Have PowerAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography
Book SynopsisA collection of previously untranslated writings by Henri Lefebvre on rural sociology, situating his research in relation to wider Marxist workOn the Rural is the first English collection to translate Lefebvre’s crucial but lesser-known writings on rural sociology and political economy, presenting a wide-ranging approach to understanding the historical and rural sociology of precapitalist social forms, their endurance today, and conditions of dispossession and uneven development. In On the Rural, Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton present Lefebvre’s key works on rural questions, including the first half of his book Du rural à l’urbain and supplementary texts, two of which are largely unknown conference presentations published outside France. On the Rural offers methodological orientations for addressing questions of economy, sociology, and geography by deploying insights from spatial political economy to decipher the rural as a terrain and stake of capitalist transformation. By doing so, it reveals the production of the rural as a key site of capitalist development and as a space of struggle. This volume delivers a careful translation—supplemented with extensive notes and a substantive introduction—to cement Lefebvre’s central contribution to the political economy of rural sociology and geography. Trade Review"On the Rural is a remarkable collection. Lefebvre wrote as a historian, a sociologist, a geographer, a political-economist, and a philosopher. This makes for challenging reading at times but there are also brilliant passages that will goad readers on to the next page. "—Cleveland Review of BooksTable of ContentsFrom the Rural to the Urban and the Production of SpaceStuart Elden and Adam David MortonNotes on TranslationAcknowledgments1. Introduction to From the Rural to the Urban (1969)2. Problems of Rural Sociology: The Peasant Community and its Historical-Sociological Problems (1949)3. Social Classes in Rural Areas: Tuscany and the mezzadria classica (1950)4. Perspectives on Rural Sociology (1953)5. Social Relations, Population Phenomena, and Labor Problems in the Agricultural Sector of Underdeveloped Countries (1954)6. The Village Community (1956)7. The Theory of Ground Rent and Rural Sociology (1956)8. The Marxist–Leninist Theory of Ground Rent (1964)9. Introduction to the Psychosociology of Everyday Life (1960)10. The New Urban Complex: Lacq-Mourenx and the Urban Problems of the New Working Class (1960)11. Experimental Utopia: For a New Urbanism (1961)12. The Valley of Campan: A Study in Historical Sociology (1963)Publication HistoryIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Alchemy of Meth: A Decomposition
Book SynopsisMeth cooks practice late industrial alchemy—transforming base materials, like lithium batteries and camping fuel, into gold Meth alchemists all over the United States tap the occulted potencies of industrial chemical and big pharma products to try to cure the ills of precarious living: underemployment, insecurity, and the feeling of idleness. Meth fires up your attention and makes repetitive tasks pleasurable, whether it’s factory work or tinkering at home. Users are awake for days and feel exuberant and invincible. In one person’s words, they “get more life.” The Alchemy of Meth is a nonfiction storybook about St. Jude County, Missouri, a place in decomposition, where the toxic inheritance of deindustrialization meets the violent hope of this drug-making cottage industry. Jason Pine bases the book on fieldwork among meth cooks, recovery professionals, pastors, public defenders, narcotics agents, and pharmaceutical executives. Here, St. Jude is not reduced to its meth problem but Pine looks at meth through materials, landscapes, and institutions: the sprawling context that makes methlabs possible. The Alchemy of Meth connects DIY methlabs to big pharma’s superlabs, illicit speed to the legalized speed sold as ADHD medication, uniquely implicating the author’s own story in the narrative. By the end of the book, the backdrop of St. Jude becomes the foreground. It could be a story about life and work anywhere in the United States, where it seems no one is truly clean and all are complicit in the exploitation of their precious resources in exchange for a livable present—or even the hope of a future.Trade Review"The Alchemy of Meth is a sui generis masterpiece. Jason Pine's kaleidoscopic vision provides a portrait of the American Dream seen from a place where instead something else flourishes: home methamphetamine production. He depicts both a human tragedy and the socioeconomic pressures that have made tragedy inevitable. The contemporary political moment makes this book particularly timely, but its grace and power will remain timeless."—Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena"This is a truly remarkable ethnography of the affects, economies, and materialities of methamphetamine production (and consumption) in the decaying heartlands of the United States. Fearlessly experimental yet compulsively readable, it picks its way through debris-strewn landscapes, interweaving voices, stories, and idioms (from legal documents to poetry), encountering not only ruin and devastation but also strangeness, magic, and even, on occasion, hope."—Stuart McLean, University of Minnesota"Jason Pine’s writing is alchemical. By fusing his tales of ordinary citizens in Missouri cooking meth, he cooks up a story that goes deep and gives us a raw taste of the decaying fabric of American life today."—Norman Ohler, author of Blitzed and The Bohemians"By weaving together vignettes culled from interviews of users, cooks, family members of the affected, enforcement agents, and pharmaceutical company executives, Pine traced the topography of meth as its use expanded dramatically during the early 21st century."—CityLab"The Alchemy of Meth is like the best of person-centred ethnographies: humane, deliberate, and impactful."—Anthropological Forum
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University of Minnesota Press Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and the
Book SynopsisA questioning of the belief in the power of LGBTQ visibility through the lives of queer women in the rural Midwest Today most LGBTQ rights supporters take for granted the virtue of being “out, loud, and proud.” Most also assume that it would be terrible to be LGBTQ in a rural place. By considering moments in which queerness and rurality come into contact, Visibility Interrupted argues that both positions are wrong. In the first monograph on LGBTQ women in the rural Midwest, Carly Thomsen deconstructs the image of the rural as a flat, homogenous, and anachronistic place where LGBTQ people necessarily suffer. And she suggests that visibility is not liberation and will not lead to liberation. Far from being an unambiguous good, argues Thomsen, visibility politics can, in fact, preclude collective action. They also advance metronormativity, postraciality, and capitalism. To make these interventions, Thomsen develops the theory of unbecoming: interrogating the relationship between that which we celebrate and that which we find disdainful—the past, the rural, politics—is crucial for developing alternative subjectivities and politics. Unbecoming precedes becoming. Drawing from critical race studies, disability studies, and queer Marxism, in addition to feminist and queer studies, the insights of this book will be useful to scholars theorizing issues far beyond sexuality and place and to social justice activists who want to move beyond visibility. Trade Review"Carly Thomsen’s Visibility Interrupted is a must-read for any LGBTQ (loving) people who have ever thought that being 'out, loud, and proud' was a good thing. Disclosing how visibility politics emerges out of urban spaces and presumes that the rural is unbecoming, Thomsen goes on to demonstrate what women in rural South Dakota and Minnesota can teach us about LGBTQ politics, the rural, and the relation between the two. Provocative, extensively researched, and delivered in Thomsen’s lively voice, this groundbreaking ‘queer archive’ offers a new understanding of sexuality as spatial and a more capacious politics inspired by LGBTQ rural life."—Rosemary Hennessy, Rice University"Visibility Interrupted advances research and energizes debate in an emergent and under-examined area in LGBTQ studies: queer rurality. Not only does this work critique dominant queer metronormativity in the field, it also critically displaces the strongly masculinist conception of the bucolic and the rustic by focusing on LGBTQ women’s identity formation, world-making processes, and community-building practices in the rural Midwest. Carly Thomsen argues for complicating the queer rural Midwest and queerness in general by offering a critical optic that refuses the flattening of the pastoral and envisions alternative formations of LGBTQ future."—Martin F. Manalansan IV, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities"Despite decades of critique of visibility politics, the rural continues to persist as an inherently oppressive space for queers. This is an energizing read, both as a synthesis of these debates as well as a fresh take on the suturing of LGBTQ visibility to hegemonic constructs of race and capitalism. Uninterested in a politics of inclusion, Carly Thomsen artfully situates visibility as a form of labor—the work of producing and curating oneself inevitably for capitalism and for the state—that is unappealing and unnecessary for her rural lesbian interlocutors. Visibility therefore becomes a political aim that preempts other horizons of political action. Anchored in the growing scholarship on rural queer studies, Visibility Interrupted is also a major contribution to queer and feminist theory, critical race studies, and critical disability studies. The thought-provoking stories of these irreverent lesbians reveal the imaginative paucity at the heart of urban metronormative sexual cultures."—Jasbir K. Puar, Rutgers University "As the first book-length study to focus on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) women in the rural Midwest, Thomsen’s Visibility Interrupted identifies and responds to the shortcomings of an LGBTQ activist agenda that views visibility as a foremost catalyst for social change."—Gender & Society"A well-researched, notable addition to the expanding field of rural queer studies. Visibility Interrupted complicates assumptions about metronormativity, successfully demonstrating that LGBTQ people do live in rural settings and enjoy happy, liberated lives far from inferior to those of their urban counterparts. Focusing on LGBTQ women in the Midwest—specifically South Dakota and Minnesota—the book also aids in addressing the dearth of queer studies of women when compared to those of gay men."—ChoiceTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Theorizing Queer Rurality and Calls for LGBTQ Visibility1. Metronormativity as Legacy: The Cases of Matthew Shepard and Jene Newsome2. (Be)coming Out, Be(com)ing Visible3. Post-Race, Post-Space: Calls for Disability and LGBTQ Visibility4. Queer Labors: Visibility and Capitalism5. The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Metronormativity on the Move6. What’s the Use? Queer Critique in MotionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£72.00
University of Minnesota Press Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and the
Book SynopsisA questioning of the belief in the power of LGBTQ visibility through the lives of queer women in the rural Midwest Today most LGBTQ rights supporters take for granted the virtue of being “out, loud, and proud.” Most also assume that it would be terrible to be LGBTQ in a rural place. By considering moments in which queerness and rurality come into contact, Visibility Interrupted argues that both positions are wrong. In the first monograph on LGBTQ women in the rural Midwest, Carly Thomsen deconstructs the image of the rural as a flat, homogenous, and anachronistic place where LGBTQ people necessarily suffer. And she suggests that visibility is not liberation and will not lead to liberation. Far from being an unambiguous good, argues Thomsen, visibility politics can, in fact, preclude collective action. They also advance metronormativity, postraciality, and capitalism. To make these interventions, Thomsen develops the theory of unbecoming: interrogating the relationship between that which we celebrate and that which we find disdainful—the past, the rural, politics—is crucial for developing alternative subjectivities and politics. Unbecoming precedes becoming. Drawing from critical race studies, disability studies, and queer Marxism, in addition to feminist and queer studies, the insights of this book will be useful to scholars theorizing issues far beyond sexuality and place and to social justice activists who want to move beyond visibility. Trade Review"Carly Thomsen’s Visibility Interrupted is a must-read for any LGBTQ (loving) people who have ever thought that being 'out, loud, and proud' was a good thing. Disclosing how visibility politics emerges out of urban spaces and presumes that the rural is unbecoming, Thomsen goes on to demonstrate what women in rural South Dakota and Minnesota can teach us about LGBTQ politics, the rural, and the relation between the two. Provocative, extensively researched, and delivered in Thomsen’s lively voice, this groundbreaking ‘queer archive’ offers a new understanding of sexuality as spatial and a more capacious politics inspired by LGBTQ rural life."—Rosemary Hennessy, Rice University"Visibility Interrupted advances research and energizes debate in an emergent and under-examined area in LGBTQ studies: queer rurality. Not only does this work critique dominant queer metronormativity in the field, it also critically displaces the strongly masculinist conception of the bucolic and the rustic by focusing on LGBTQ women’s identity formation, world-making processes, and community-building practices in the rural Midwest. Carly Thomsen argues for complicating the queer rural Midwest and queerness in general by offering a critical optic that refuses the flattening of the pastoral and envisions alternative formations of LGBTQ future."—Martin F. Manalansan IV, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities"Despite decades of critique of visibility politics, the rural continues to persist as an inherently oppressive space for queers. This is an energizing read, both as a synthesis of these debates as well as a fresh take on the suturing of LGBTQ visibility to hegemonic constructs of race and capitalism. Uninterested in a politics of inclusion, Carly Thomsen artfully situates visibility as a form of labor—the work of producing and curating oneself inevitably for capitalism and for the state—that is unappealing and unnecessary for her rural lesbian interlocutors. Visibility therefore becomes a political aim that preempts other horizons of political action. Anchored in the growing scholarship on rural queer studies, Visibility Interrupted is also a major contribution to queer and feminist theory, critical race studies, and critical disability studies. The thought-provoking stories of these irreverent lesbians reveal the imaginative paucity at the heart of urban metronormative sexual cultures."—Jasbir K. Puar, Rutgers University "As the first book-length study to focus on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) women in the rural Midwest, Thomsen’s Visibility Interrupted identifies and responds to the shortcomings of an LGBTQ activist agenda that views visibility as a foremost catalyst for social change."—Gender & Society"A well-researched, notable addition to the expanding field of rural queer studies. Visibility Interrupted complicates assumptions about metronormativity, successfully demonstrating that LGBTQ people do live in rural settings and enjoy happy, liberated lives far from inferior to those of their urban counterparts. Focusing on LGBTQ women in the Midwest—specifically South Dakota and Minnesota—the book also aids in addressing the dearth of queer studies of women when compared to those of gay men."—ChoiceTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Theorizing Queer Rurality and Calls for LGBTQ Visibility1. Metronormativity as Legacy: The Cases of Matthew Shepard and Jene Newsome2. (Be)coming Out, Be(com)ing Visible3. Post-Race, Post-Space: Calls for Disability and LGBTQ Visibility4. Queer Labors: Visibility and Capitalism5. The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Metronormativity on the Move6. What’s the Use? Queer Critique in MotionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£19.79
Bristol University Press Gender-based Violence and Rurality in the 21st
Book SynopsisGender-based violence (GBV) can take many forms and have detrimental effects across generations and cultures. The triangulation of GBV, rurality and rural culture is a challenging and essential topic and this edited collection provides an innovative analysis of GBV in rural communities. Focusing on under-studied and/or oppressed groups such as immigrants and LGBTQIA+ people, the book explores new theories on patterns of violence. Giving insights into GBV education and prevention, the text introduces community justice and victim advocacy approaches to tackling issues of GBV in rural areas. From policy review into actionable change, the editors examine best practices to positively affect the lives of survivors.Table of Contents1. Understanding Rurality and Gender-based Violence - Ziwei Qi, April N. Terry & Tamara J. Lynn Part I: Rurality and Gender-based Violence 2. What is 'Rural', Anyway? - Millan Alexander AbiNader 3. Gender Blindness for At-risk Girls in Rural Communities - April N. Terry, L. Susan Williams, Mari Esther-Edwards & Kelli Grant 4. ‘Raise Your Hand If…’ Teen Dating Violence Prevention in Rural Secondary Schools - Kaiti Blackburn, Christie Brungardt, Jennifer Farrington & Rachel Moravek 5. College Students’ Perceptions of Interpersonal Violence - Madison Bainter, Abigail Hammeke, Joshua McDowell & Tamara J. Lynn Part II: Beyond the Rural/Urban Divide: Critical Issues in Gender-based Violence 6. 'Trying to Avoid Coyotes': The Nexus of Rurality, Violence, and Inequality - Amy M. Magnus 7. Comparing Characteristics of Rural and Urban Intimate Partner Violence Against Women - Nicholas J. Richardson, Samuel J.A. Scaggs, Camara Wooten & Kelle Barrick 8. Urban and Rural Media Reporting on Violence Against Transgender People - Lisa M. Olson, Marc Settembrino, Sam Allen & Megan Howard 9. Religious Responses for Rural Sexual Assault Survivors - April N. Terry Part III: Access to Rural Justice: Economic Consequences and Policy Implications 10. The Needs of Intimate Partner Violence Victims in Rural America - Ziwei Qi, Cristina Jimenez, Viviana Lizarraga & Brandi Hanson 11. ‘Nowhere to Go’: Intimate Violence and Opioid Use in Rural Vermont - Rebecca Stone, Nafisa Halim, Julia K. Campbell, Diane Kinney & Emily F. Rothman 12. Rural Rape Crisis Centres and Extreme Financial Deprivation - Anne Kirkner 13. Gender-based Violence Against New Immigrants - Carly E. McPeak & Valerie K. Sprout 14. Understanding Gender-based Violence and Rurality: Conclusion and Future Implications - Ziwei Qi, April N. Terry & Tamara J. Lynn
£77.39
Bristol University Press Transforming Agriculture and Foodways: The
Book SynopsisA wave of innovation driven by the convergence of digital and molecular technologies is transforming food production and ways of eating in the US, Western Europe and Australasia. This book explores a range of contemporary agri-food issues, such as the digitalisation of farm production, aka Precision Agriculture, farmer independence, gene editing, alternative proteins and the rise of app-based home food deliveries. This is the first book to provide a systemic analysis of technological innovation and its socio-economic consequences in modern food systems, including the ‘hollowing out’ of rural communities and pronounced industrial concentration. The food system is under growing public pressure to respond to global climate change, but this book finds little evidence of transition to sustainable low-carbon trajectories.Table of Contents1. Technological Convergence and Change in Modern Food Systems 2. Precision Agriculture: Big Data Analytics, Farm Support Platforms and Concentration in the AgTech Space 3. Precision Agriculture: Adoption, ‘Re-scripting’, Farmer Identity, Path Dependence and ‘Appropriationism 4.0’ 4. Alternative Proteins: Bio-mimicry, Structuring the New Protein Industry. ‘Promissory Narratives’. and ‘Substitutionism 4.0’ 5. The failed Promises of the Seed-Chemical Complex, CRISPR and Gene Editing, and Regulatory Capture 6. Between Physical Space and Digital Space: Changing Patterns of Food Provisioning, COVID-19 and Platform Capitalism 7. Conclusion and Postscript: Continuities in Change and Lost Opportunities
£72.00
Temple University Press,U.S. Livestock/Deadstock: Working with Farm Animals from Birth to Slaughter
Book SynopsisHow humans think and feel about their work handling food animalsTrade Review"This welcome book tackles an important and neglected topic in an interesting and insightful manner. Full of empirical detail and written in an engaging style, Livestock/Deadstock is a valuable contribution to an emerging literature focusing on agricultural knowledge practices and the complexities and ambiguities of human-animal relationships in farming." —Lewis Holloway, University of HullTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Food Animals: More Than a "Walking Larder"? 2. Domestication to Industry: The Commercialization of Human—Livestock Relations 3. Women and livestock: The Gendered Nature of Food-Animal Production 4. "Price Discovery": Marketing and Valuing Livestock 5. "The Good life": Hobby Farmers and Rare Breeds of Livestock 6. Sentient Commodities: The Ambiguous Status of Livestock 7. Affinities and Aloofness: The Pragmatic Nature of Producer—Livestock Relations 8. Livestock/Deadstock: Managing the Transition from Life to Death 9. Taking Stock: Food Animals, Ambiguous Relations, and Productive Contexts Notes Glossary of Doric Terms References Index
£58.40
Information Age Publishing Dynamics of Social Class, Race, and Place in
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