Rural category: 418 books
Rural Sociologists at Work
Candid Accounts of Theory, Method, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This collection of original chapters, written by prominent social scientists, elucidates the theory and practice of contemporary rural sociology. The book applies lessons from the careers of sociologists and their field research endeavors, covering a wide range of topics: agricultural production,...
China's Peasant Agriculture and Rural Society
Changing paradigms of farming
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
China's agriculture and rural society has undergone rapid changes in recent years. Many poorer farmers and younger people have moved to cities, and yet China has an immense challenge to feed a growing and more affluent population. This book provides a ‘bottom-up view’ of China’s agriculture, showing...
The Crisis of Rural Poverty and Hunger
An Essay on the Complementarity between Market- and Government-Led Land Reform for its Resolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2007
M. Riad El-Ghonemy argues that if current trends in government-led and market based land reforms persist the rural poor population in developing countries will continue to rise.Based on nearly half a century of academic and field research this valuable work presents compelling evidence on persistent rural poverty, hunger and increased inequality in
New Immigration Destinations
Migrating to Rural and Peripheral Areas
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Current population movements involve both established and new destinations, often encompassing marginal and rural communities and resulting in a whole new set of issues for these communities. New Immigration Destinations examines structural forces and individual strategies and behaviour to highlight...
Rural Vietnam
The Small World of Khanh Hau
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Vietnam is a land whose features change dramatically within short distances--from mountains and high plateaus to coastal plains and inland swamps. To the south, the large delta formed by the Mekong and Lesser river systems inches forward yearly into the South China Sea. This delta, while hardly typical...
Rural Young Women, Education, and Socio-Spatial Mobility
Landscapes of Success
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Much of the literature on globalization has centered on the large, macro-level forces that influence the ways ideas, people, and various forms of capital move around the world. From this vantage point, discussions about the progressive feminization of migration, in particular the feminization of out-migration...
Diversité des agricultures familiales
Exister, se transformer, devenir
Language: French
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Dans un contexte d’interrogation sur les modèles agricoles et de profondes transformations des agricultures et des marchés, cet ouvrage s’attache à revisiter la diversité des formes familiales de production et leurs mutations de par le monde. Dès lors, l’analyse intègre les liens aux marchés,...
Food Security for Rural Africa
Feeding the Farmers First
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
At least fifty years of projects aimed at the rural poor in Africa have had very little impact. Up to half of the children of these countries are still suffering from stunting and malnutrition. Soil degradation and poor crop yields are ubiquitous. Projects are almost always aimed at helping local...
by Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Du soulèvement des nudz-piedz bretons aux militants de la Confédération paysanne, en passant par les sans-culottes ruraux, cet ouvrage évoque toute une variété de mobilisations sociales et politiques en milieu rural, essentiellement en France, mais également dans des territoires étrangers...
Finding Their Voice
Northeastern Villagers and the Thai State
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The rural, Lao-speaking people of northeastern Thailand constitute over a third of the entire population of Thailand. Over the last century, this ethnically separate community has evolved from a traditional peasantry into “cosmopolitan” villagers who are actively shaping Thai politics. Eminent...
Engaging with Strangers
Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
The civil conflict in Solomon Islands (1998-2003) is often blamed on the failure of the nation-state to encompass culturally diverse and politically fragmented communities. Writing of Ranongga Island, the author tracks engagements with strangers across many realms of life—pre-colonial warfare, Christian...
Another Country
Queer Anti-Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The metropolis has been the near exclusive focus of queer scholars and queer cultures in America. Asking us to look beyond the cities on the coasts, Scott Herring draws a new map, tracking how rural queers have responded to this myopic mindset. Interweaving a wide range of disciplines—art, media,...
Worlds Apart
Poverty and Politics in Rural America, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
First published in 1999, Worlds Apart examined the nature of poverty through the stories of real people in three remote rural areas of the United States: New England, Appalachia, and the Mississippi Delta. In this new edition, Duncan returns to her original research, interviewing some of the same people...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2004
Tennessee History Book Award Finalist The Upper Cumberland region of Kentucky and Tennessee, often regarded as isolated and out of pace with the rest of the country, has a far richer history and culture than has been documented. The contributors to Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland discuss...