Rural category: 418 books
Tourism and Prosperity in Miao Land
Power and Inequality in Rural Ethnic China
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In this book, Xianghong Feng focuses on the intersection of tourism, power, and inequality in the southern interior of China. In this region, capital-intensive and elite-directed tourism has reshaped the social and cultural patterns of the ethnic Miao and other local residents. Using ethnographic...
Family Farms: Survival and Prospect
A World-Wide Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2007
Marx, Lenin and Kautsky all regarded family farming as doomed to be split into capitalist farms and proletarian labour. Most modern economists regard family farming as an archaic form of production organization, destined to give way to agribusiness. Family Farms refutes these notions and analyses...
Class, Networks, and Identity
Replanting Jewish Lives from Nazi Germany to Rural New York
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2001
This book documents a little-known aspect of the Jewish experience in America. It is a fascinating account of how a group of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany came to dominate cattle dealing in south central New York and maintain a Jewish identity even while residing in small towns and villages that...
Entitled to Power
Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The advent of modern agribusiness irrevocably changed the patterns of life and labor on the American family farm. In Entitled to Power, Katherine Jellison examines midwestern farm women's unexpected response to new labor-saving devices.
Federal farm policy at mid-century treated farm women...
A Century of Protests
Peasant Politics in Assam Since 1900
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Addressing an important gap in the historiography of modern Assam, this book traces the relatively unexplored but profound transformations in the agrarian landscape of late- and post-colonial Assam that were instrumental in the making of modern Assamese peasantry and rural politics. It discusses the...
The Rustication of Urban Youth in China
A Social Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
In the 1960s and 70s, the government of China conducted a rather unusual social experiment called ‘Up to the mountains and down to the village’ which sent urban youths to the countryside in an attempt to reverse the flow of the rural population migrating to towns and cities as was generally occurring...
Campsteading
Family, Place, and Experience at Squam Lake, New Hampshire
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
The campstead is an American institution. After the Civil War, with neo-colonialism, environmentalism, and arts-and-crafts on the rise, some families sought rural locations for rustic camps. There they raised their children in the summertime. Around Squam Lake, after some eight generations, twenty-one...
by Jose Armando Boninsegna, Barrie Bonsal, Darrell Corkal
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Although there is considerable historical literature describing the social and economic impact of drought on the prairies in the 1930s, little has been written about the challenges presented by drought in more contemporary times. The drought of 2001-02 was, for example, the most recent large-area,...
Peasants Negotiating a Global Policy Space
La Vía Campesina in the Committee on World Food Security
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Being the public voice of over 180 member organisations across nearly 90 countries, La Vía Campesina, the global peasant movement, has planted itself firmly on the international scene. This book explores the internationalisation of the movement, with a specific focus on the engagement of peasants...
They Live on The Land
Life in an Open Country Southern Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
"First published in 1940 as part of the information-gathering effort of the TVA, the work examines Gorgas, Alabama, a predominantly white farming settlement. Hailed as the most intensive case study ever made in the South, the book provides a detailed portrait of southern rural life on the verge...
Beyond the Mountains
Commodifying Appalachian Environments
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. The region operated alternately as frontier, wilderness, rural hinterland, region of subsistence agriculture, bastion of yeoman farmers, and place...
Populism and Power
Farmers’ movement in western India, 1980--2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This book traces the entire trajectory of the farmers’ movement in Western India, especially Maharashtra, from the 1980s to the present day. It reveals the fundamental contradictions between populism as an ideology and as political power within the democratic state structure. The volume highlights...
Pedagogy of Empowerment
Community Schools as a Social Movement in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
This new study weaves anthropological detail with hard facts and analysis as it takes the reader to visit the community schools of Upper Egypt. It offers a historical understanding of the initiative whilst carefully embedding it in the political and economic global context of the late twentieth century....
Investigating Local Knowledge
New Directions, New Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
Originally published in 2004. Local knowledge reflects many generations of experience and problem solving by people around the world, increasingly affected by globalizing forces. Such knowledge is far more sophisticated than development professionals previously assumed and, as such, represents an...