Rural communities Books

This book uses empirical examples from a range of research projects undertaken by the authors as well as illustrations from work in the Australasia region, Europe and the United States to explore gender and rurality and their relation to sexuality,...

The Routledge Companion to Rural Planning provides a critical account and state of the art review of rural planning in the early years of the twenty-first century.

Seeing America Book One: Farm and Field offers a fascinating glimpse into rural life in the United States during the early 20th century. Authored by Walter B. Pitkin and Harold F. Hughes, this volume explores the agricultural landscape, the daily lives...

With the goal of improving efforts and initiatives to promote college completion, this book offers an engaging, in-depth analysis of the cultural journeys of rural, poor and working-class college students.

On the fringe of western Europe, yet fully integrated into the capitalist market, the rural economy of the west of Ireland seems to provide a fascinating object of analysis to the student of European folk cultures. This book concentrates on a particular...

For nearly half a century, Albania had been one of the most isolated and enigmatic countries in the world, where the confiscation of private property was more thoroughly accomplished than anywhere else in Europe. In an abrupt and radical turnaround...

The grazing of animals on common land and associated property rights were the original basis of the concept of "the tragedy of the commons". Drawing on the classic work of Elinor Ostrom and the readings of political ecology, this book questions the...

Rural crime has long been overlooked in the field of crime prevention. Sustained academic interrogation is necessary, therefore, to reduce the extensive economic and social costs of rural crime as well as to challenge some of the myths regarding the...

This book evaluates the relevance of classical debates on agrarian transition and extends the horizon of contemporary debates in the Indian context, linking national trends with regional experiences. It identifies new dynamics in agrarian political...

Exploring the question of whether China's peasantry was a revolutionary force, this volume pays particular attention to the first half of the 20th century, when peasant-based conflict was central to nationwide revolutionary processes. It traces key...

Life in the countryside, often perceived as either idyllic or depleted, has long been misrepresented. Challenging the stereotypes and myths that surround the idea of rurality, Our Rural Selves interrogates and represents individual and collective...

Exploring Social Geography, first published in 1984, offers a challenging yet comprehensive introduction to the wealth of empirical research and theoretical debate that has developed in response to the advent of a social approach to the subject. The...

Presenting the findings of a major research project funded by the EU (INTAS), this key volume investigates the regional, ethnic and socio-cultural aspects of poverty and social exclusion in Russia in recent years. In-depth household interviews and survey...

Gender and Rural Migration: Realities, Conflict and Change explores the intersection of gender, migration, and rurality in 21st-century Western and non-Western contexts. In a world where heightened globalization is making borders increasingly...

Le livre ""Du M�����decin des Villes et du M�����decin de Campagne, M�����urs et Science"" de Jean Marie Placide Munaret a �����t����� publi����� en 1840. Ce livre traite de la comparaison entre le travail et la vie des m�����decins en ville et en...

This book sheds light on the issues of structural violence perpetrated against the tribes and analyzes the infringement of human rights of the tribes in the neo-liberal hegemonic context - induced displacement and dispossession of livelihood.

In the time of agrarian crisis and movement, Remembering India's Villages centralises the rural India-examining its stubborn past and dynamic present.

This book chronicles the discernible strains on the questions of indegeneity, citizenship, identity, and border making in the Northeast India.

This timely, insightful, and data-led book fills a gap in gang scholarship by examining gangs in rural areas, specifically focussing on youth gang activity.

Presenting a critical evaluation of the evidence supporting claims of rupture of, or incursions into, the Neoliberal model, this book presents an informed, constructive dialogue around the thesis that we have reached some institutional and...

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...

This book probes into the marginalized communities of the Indian society through historical and contemporary societal perspectives.

HOFFMAN, OKMULGEE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA: DOING BUSINESS ON THE INDIAN TERRITORY FRONTIER is a 240-page history of business activity at what was first a Creek Indian Nation and then later an Okmulgee County town site, documented by means of a unique collection...

Indiana is home to the world's third-largest Amish population. Indiana's 19 Old Order Amish and two Old Order Mennonite communities show a surprising diversity despite all that unites them as a distinct culture. This contemporary portrait of Indiana's...

Wisconsin Writers Association celebrates 75 Years of Success Stories. Learn about the background of this historic organization, the contest winners, and histocial highlights from its founding in 1948 through 2023.

Innovative and engaging, From the Garden Club explores how older women in a rural town use literacy to shape their lives and community. Deftly weaving elements of memoir with scholarly theory, Charlotte Hogg describes the lives of her grandmother and...

Americans decry the decline of family farming but stand by helplessly as industrial agribusiness takes over. The prevailing sentiment is that family farms should survive for important social, ethical, and economic reasons. But will they? This timely book...

This book is about the presence of the absent- the tribes of Punjab, India, many of them still nomadic, constituting the poorest of the poor in the state. Drawing on exhaustive fieldwork and ethnographic accounts of more than 750 respondents, it explores...

Kate Wilson glanced at her father as they trundled down the unpaved road. The one-hundred-mile journey would take all day and thirteen-year-old Kate was worried. Her father dreamed of her becoming a teacher but she had never been away from home and had...

Le 27 avril 1340, Frère François, de l'ordre des Prêcheurs, évêque de Bisaccia dans la province de Naples, chapelain du roi Robert d'Anjou et pour l'instant ambassadeur du roi d'Angleterre Edouard III, se présenta devant le Doge de Venise. Entre la...

Le 27 avril 1340, Frère François, de l'ordre des Prêcheurs, évêque de Bisaccia dans la province de Naples, chapelain du roi Robert d'Anjou et pour l'instant ambassadeur du roi d'Angleterre Edouard III, se présenta devant le Doge de Venise. Entre la...

Il n'y a guère plus de deux siècles qu'en s'intitulant La Société féodale, un livre peut espérer donner par avance une idée de son contenu. Non que l'adjectif, en lui-même, ne soit fort ancien. Sous son vêtement latin - feodalis -, il date du moyen âge...

Il n'y a guère plus de deux siècles qu'en s'intitulant La Société féodale, un livre peut espérer donner par avance une idée de son contenu. Non que l'adjectif, en lui-même, ne soit fort ancien. Sous son vêtement latin - feodalis -, il date du moyen âge...

Employing methodological perspectives from the fields of political geography, environmental studies, anthropology, and their cognate disciplines, this volume explores alternative logics of sentient landscapes as racist, xenophobic, and right-wing. While...

The Earth and Its People is a historical book written by Isaac Oscar Winslow and published in 1910. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the history of human civilization, from the earliest civilizations to the modern era. It covers a wide range...

""Counsel For Cottagers And A Looking Glass For Landlords"" is a book written by Rowland Eyles Egerton-Warburton and published in 1887. The book provides advice and guidance for cottagers, or those living in small rural homes, on a variety of topics such...

Valeries Wiederstehen, im Spannungsverhältnis von:Stadt und Land, Alt und Jung, Mann und Frau, Jäger und Sammler, Konsum und Produkt, Ökonomie und Ökologie. Den Jungen geht es um ihre Chancen auf eine gerechte, globale Wirtschaftsordnung, ohne Raubbau an...

In the Sitapurdistrict of Uttar Pradesh, an agricultural region with high rates of infant mortality, maternal health services are poor while family planning efforts are intensive. By following the daily lives of women in this setting, the author...

There is a growing body of work on white farmers in Zimbabwe. Yet the role played by white women – so-called ‘farmers’ wives’ – on commercial farms has been almost completely ignored, if not forgotten. For all the public...

Rural areas are a key sector in every nation's economy due to a sizeable majority of the population living therein, as well as their impact on global agriculture and food security. Rural development transcends the availability of infrastructure,...

Winner of the 2017 American Educational Research Association's Division B Outstanding Book Recognition AwardWinner of the 2017 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book AwardIn today's China, education is translated into both acute social...

Embark on a poignant journey through the landscapes and lives of an Australian farmstead in the 1960s, now lost to time. In this heartfelt memoir, the author recounts the hilarious, sad, crazy, and desperate stories that defined their family's life on a...

The Commonplace Philosopher In Town And Country is a book written by Andrew Kennedy Hutchinson Boyd and published in 1871. The book is a collection of essays and observations on various topics related to everyday life in both urban and rural settings...

""Influence of the Ministry at Large in the City of Boston"" is a book written by A Spectator in 1836. The book discusses the role of the Ministry at Large in Boston, which was a group of ministers who provided religious services to the poor and...

Gay men often face struggles in the conservative world of rural life, due to the pervasive social stigmas associated with homosexuality and the lack of anonymity in a small-town setting. In this book, Preston and D'Augelli present the results of in-depth...

Through an in-depth case study of smallholder subsistence and French bean farming in Kenya, this book grounds the analysis of livelihoods, gender and ethical trade in women smallholders' perspectives, links the macro level of markets with the micro level...

This book examines the economic gains and social costs of agrarian transformation in India. The author looks at three phases of agrarian transformation: colonial, post- colonial, and neoliberal. This work combines macro and micro economic data, economic...

This volume examines the processes and impacts of exclusion on the Adivasis (tribal or indigenous people) in India and what repercussions these have for their constitutional rights. The chapters explore a wide range of issues connected to the idea of...