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Rural housing, exurbanization, and amenity-driven development
Rural America is progressing through a dramatic and sustained post-industrial economic transition. For many, traditional means of household sustenance gained through agriculture, mining and rustic tourism are giving way to large scale corporate agriculture, footloose and globally competitive manufacturing firms, and mass tourism on an unprecedented scale. These changes have brought about an increased presence of affluent amenity migrants and returnees, as well as growing reliance on low-wage, seasonal jobs to sustain rural household incomes. This book argues that the character of rural housing reflects this transition and examines this using contemporary concepts of exurbanization, rural amenity-based development, and comparative distributional descriptions of the \"haves\" and the \"have nots\". Despite rapid in-migration and dramatic changes in land use, there remains a strong tendency for communities in rural America to maintain the idyllic small-town myth of large-lot, single-family home-ownership. This neglects to take into account the growing need for affordable housing (both owner-occupied and rental properties) for local residents and seasonal workers. This book suggests that greater emphasis be placed in rural housing policies that account for this rapid social and economic change and the need for affordable rural housing alternatives.
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China's rural industrialization policy : growing under orders since 1949
A comprehensive study of the special pattern of China's industrialization and economic development through the analysis of approximately one hundred policies, covering the historical period of new China since 1949. Issues examined include how China dealt with the five principal conflicts in rural industrialization, those between rural and state-owned industry, rural industry and agriculture, rural collective and private industry, rural and urban population and rural and urban economy. Looking to the policies implemented, this volume addresses what Chinese characteristics are, why rural people in China are so poor and why the \"miracle\" of China's rural industry occurred.
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Rural Communities
\"Rural Communities: Legacy + Change is a well-organized, highly readable text introducing students to rural sociology. The use of personal vignettes to illustrate key concepts, and the theoretical Community Capitals framework to facilitate the discussion of the different components of rural communities help students come to understand the dynamics of stability and change in rural communities.\"
-Liza Kuecker, Western New Mexico University
Communities in rural America are a complex mixture of peoples and cultures, ranging from miners who have been laid off in West Virginia to entrepreneurs drawing up plans for a world-class ski resort in California's Sierra Nevada. Rural Communities: Legacy + Change, uses a unique Community Capitals framework to examine how America's diverse rural communities use various capitals-natural, cultural, human, social, political, financial, and built-to address the modern challenges facing them.
Each chapter in the text opens with a case study of a community facing a particular challenge and is followed by a comprehensive discussion of the sociological concepts to be applied in understanding the case. This narrative, topical approach makes the text accessible and engaging for undergraduate students, while its integrative approach provides them with a clear framework for understanding rural society based on the concepts and explanations of social science.
The fifth edition is updated throughout with 2014 census data and features new coverage of health and health care, the effects of income inequality and consumption on rural communities, as well as an expanded resource section at the end of each chapter.
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Rural transformations and rural policies in the US and UK
This book examines the transformations of rural society and economy in the UK and US during the last half-century, and explores the significance of these trends and changes for community sustainability, quality of life and the environment. While both the UK and US are highly urbanised, rural people and communities continue to contribute to national identity, economic development and social solidarity, as well as to environmental quality. Contributors explore the degree to which rural people exhibit agency and autonomy, rather than being merely passive in the face of exogenous forces of change in a globalised world. They also illuminate very different policy approaches to rural policy in two advanced capitalist societies often thought to be similar, and show how fundamental differences in rural policy approaches of the US and the UK are based on different social ideologies and values that shape policies relating to rural areas. This book will help to stimulate transatlantic dialogue on rural scholarship and rural policy analysis, while also contributing to theory and policy development. It will be of interest to researchers, students and everyone involved in the policy and practice of rural development.
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Eating grasshoppers : chapulines and the women who sell them
\"Entomophagy (the eating of insects) is an ancient practice that is still common in many parts of the world. One of the best-known examples is in Oaxaca, where grasshoppers, known as chapulines, are harvested in summer and fall, toasted, and enjoyed year-round. As Oaxaca has become a popular destination for tourists, especially food tourists, the consumption and market for chapulines has evolved. Jeff Cohen's manuscript argues that understanding chapulines requires seeing them as a food source, a cultural symbol, and an economic engine. Part I: Approaching Chapulines introduces the women at the heart of this study and documents how they harvest, prepare, and consume grasshoppers. Part II: Eating and Thinking Chapulines moves to how other people consume chapulines. For many Oaxacans, especially those in the Central Valleys, chapulines are a regular part of the diet, a food that is highly anticipated every year, as discussed in chapter three. Chapter four documents how tourists approach chapulines. Those who try chapulines are usually looking for an experience, something to \"connect\" them with the \"real\" Oaxaca, rather than a meal. Part III: Marketing Chapulines follows the women (whom Cohen calls \"chapulineras\") as they carry chapulines to the marketplace. As with markets everywhere, COVID-19 was a massive disruption, but the chapulineras created a touchless economy that allowed for continued production even as markets closed and most communities isolated in place. If tourists see chapulineras as poor, rural, Indigenous women who are struggling to make ends meet, these chapters contradict that assumption and reveal the entrepreneurial energy that they bring to the marketplace. A conclusion expands on the text to consider the broader world of food studies and asks why anyone would eat a bug\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Singlewide
In 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 purchase of a mobile home. A family that must site its trailer in a land-lease trailer park struggles to realize any of the anticipated benefits of homeownership. Seeking to break down stereotypes, Salamon and MacTavish reveal the important place that trailer parks hold within the United States national experience. In so doing, they attempt to integrate and normalize a way of life that many see as outside the mainstream, suggesting that families who live in trailer parks, rather than being \"trailer trash,\" culturally resemble the parks' neighbors who live in conventional homes.
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rural Education in the United States
This handbook begins with a foundational overview of rural education, examining the ways in which definitions, histories, policies, and demographic changes influence rural schools. This foundational approach includes how corporatization, population changes, poverty, and the role of data affect everyday learning in rural schools. In following sections, the contributors consider how school closures, charter schools, and district governance influence decision making in rural schooling, while also examining the influence of these structures on higher education attainment, rural school partnerships, and school leadership. They explore curriculum studies in rural education, including place-based and trauma-informed pedagogies, rural literacies, rural stereotype threat, and achievement. Finally, they engage with issues of identity and equity in rural schools by providing an overview of the literature related to diverse populations in rural places, including Indigenous, Black, and Latinx communities, and exceptional learners. Importantly, this handbook applies theoretical tools to rural classroom experiences, demonstrating the potential of work centered at the intersection of theory, rurality, and classroom practice. Each section concludes with a response by an international scholar, situating the topics covered within the broader global context.
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