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  • - A Collection of Calvin Beale's Writings
    by Peter A. Morrison & Calvin Beale
    £27.49

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    - Masculinity and Rural Life
     
    £35.99

    We see that masculinity is no less significant in rural life than in urban life. The essays in this volume offer insight into the myths and stereotypes, as well as the reality of the lives of rural men. Interdisciplinary in scope, the contributions investigate what it means to be a farming man, a logging man, or a boy growing up in a country town.

  • - Problems and Prospects for the 2010's
    by Elizabeth Ransom
    £42.99

    Provides advanced policy scholarship on rural North America during the 2010s, closely reflecting on the increasingly global nature of social, cultural, and economic forces and the impact of neoliberal ideology upon policy, politics, and power in rural areas. The chapters in this volume represent the expertise of an influential group of scholars in rural sociology and related social sciences.

  • - Citizen Empowerment for Civic Engagement
    by Kenneth Martin, Kenneth Pigg, Godwin Apaliyah, et al.
    £28.99 - 86.99

    Community leadership development programmes are designed to increase the capacity of citizens for civic engagement. This volume presents the results of a five-year study tracking community-level effects of community leadership development programs drawn from research conducted in Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, South Carolina, Ohio, and West Virginia.

  • by Alessandro Bonanno & Kae Sekine
    £28.99

    Employing original fieldwork, historical analysis, and sociological theory, Sekine and Bonanno probe how Japan's food and agriculture sectors have been shaped by the global push toward privatization and corporate power, known in the social science literature as neoliberalism. They also examine related changes that have occurred after the triple disaster of March 2011.

  • - Representation, Power and Identity in the British Countryside
     
    £104.49

    A collection of 11 papers on issues of representation, power and identity within the British countryside. The work reports on research in this area which has looked to groups who feel themselves to be marginalized or excluded from the dominant ideologies in the countryside.

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    A compilation of policy-relevant research by a multidisciplinary group of scholars on the state of families in rural America in the twenty-first century. Examines the impact of economic restructuring on rural Americans and provides policy recommendations for addressing the challenges they face.

  • - Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability
    by Michael Mayerfeld Bell
    £18.99 - 84.49

    Based on interviews and years of close interaction with more than 60 Iowa farm families, Bell answers two critical questions concerning sustainable agriculture: why some farmers are becoming sustainable farmers and why, as yet, most are not.

  • - Small Farmers in the Economic Reshaping of Nicaragua, Cuba, Russia, and China
    by Laura J. Enriquez
    £27.49

    Analyzes the reaction of existing and former socialist countries to neoliberalism. Examines economic transitions in agriculture and the reconfiguration of socialism in Russia, China, Nicaragua, and Cuba.

  • - Sustainability and Sustenance in the American Agrifood System
    by Patricia Allen
    £27.49 - 53.49

    Everywhere you look, people are more aware of what they eat and where their food comes from. This book is about people throughout the United States who are building successful alternatives to the contemporary agrifood system and their prospects for the future.

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    £68.49

    A compilation of policy-relevant research by a multidisciplinary group of scholars on the state of families in rural America in the twenty-first century. Examines the impact of economic restructuring on rural Americans and provides policy recommendations for addressing the challenges they face.

  • - Transnational Corporations, Resistance, and the State
    by Alessandro Bonanno & Douglas H. Constance
    £27.49 - 60.99

    Analyses transnational corporations, groups who resist them, and the primary context within which the relationship between transnational corporations and their opponents unfold: the state. Argues that globalization is a contested terrain in which the power of transnational corporations is affected by mounting opposition and internal contradictions.

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    - Producers, Consumers, and Activists Challenge the Global Food System
     
    £60.99

    A collection of essays which analyze and evaluate both the theoretical and historical contexts of the agrifood system and the ways in which trends of individual action and collective activity have led to an "accumulation of resistance" that greatly affects the mainstream market of food production.

  • - An Atlantic Coast Cultural Biography
    by David Griffith
    £27.49

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    £32.49

    The 20th century was one of profound transformation in rural America, when demographic shifts and economic restructuring dramatically altered the lives of rural people and their communities. This work defines these changes and interprets their implications for the future of rural America.

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    - Identity, Place, and Community in a Globalizing World
     
    £65.49

    A collection of essays examining the various social, cultural, and economic intersections of rural place and global space, as viewed through the lens of education. Explores practices that offer both problems and possibilities for the future of rural schools and communities, in the United States and abroad.

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    - Jamaicans and Mexicans in the U.S. Labor Market
    by David Griffith
    £31.49

    Studies the rural labor processes and their national and international effects. This book examines the socioeconomic effects of the H-2 program on both the areas where the laborers work and the areas they are from, and, taking a uniquely humanitarian stance, considers the effects of the program on the laborers themselves.

  • - Producers, Consumers, and Activists Challenge the Global Food System
     
    £27.49

    A collection of essays which analyze and evaluate both the theoretical and historical contexts of the agrifood system and the ways in which trends of individual action and collective activity have led to an "accumulation of resistance" that greatly affects the mainstream market of food production.

  • - Renewable Energy and Community Development
    by Keith Taylor
    £26.99 - 86.99

    Asks whether revenue generated by wind power can be put to community well-being rather than corporate profit. Through case studies of a North Dakota wind energy cooperative and an investor-owned wind farm in Illinois, Keith Taylor examines how regulatory and social forces are shaping this emerging energy sector.

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    - Women, Country Life, and Early Rural Sociological Research
    by Julie N. Zimmerman & Olaf F. Larson
    £53.49

    Examines the embeddedness of rural and farm women's lives in rural sociological research conducted by the USDA's Division of Farm Population and Rural Life (1919-1953). Explores how early rural sociologists found the conceptual space to include women in their analyses.

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