Rural communities

A touching four-year chronicle of five girls coming of age in impoverished rural Maine and learning to forge their own paths through life's struggles.

Cities are possibly the most dynamic and important administrative units today.

Revelatory, lyrical and immersive, this is an extraordinary book that takes you deep into these ordinary women's worlds.

In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive pork complex, where almost 7 million hogs are birthed, raised, and killed every year.

In an era when incomprehensibly complex issues like Peak Oil and Climate Change dominate headlines, practical solutions at a local level can seem somehow inadequate.

Explores the economic, social and financial changes that have transformed China''s rural governance over the past twenty years.

A ground-breaking historical ethnography of kinship, religion, and village society in a remote rural backwater of the Roman world.

The accounts of women navigating pregnancy in a post-conflict setting are characterized by widespread poverty, weak infrastructure, and inadequate health services.

In an increasingly globalized world, place matters more than ever.

A SUNDAY TELEGRAPH AND GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF SWEDEN'S AUGUST PRIZEWINNER OF THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE'Osebol is a magnificent success; it is hard to imagine it better .

An examination of poverty dynamics and developmental failure, shifting emphasis from development as control to development as coping strategy.

Colicky horses, trucks high-centered in pastures, late nights spent in barns birthing calves--the trials and tribulations of farm and ranch life are as central to its experience as amber waves of grain and Sunday dinners at the ranch house.

Can happiness be made in Devon?

Genetically modified crops have become a key element of development strategies across the Global South, despite remaining deeply controversial.

In this ethnographic study of the rural idyll, Broadlands explores rurality and the pace of rural life.

How citizens get government officials to provide them with public services in rural China.

In this prize-winning exploration of the meaning of home, Annie Zaidi reflects on places, cultures and conflicts that shape identity.

Glenesk is one of the most beautiful of the Angus glens.

Secrets, mystery and wedding bells at Dovecote Hatch!

In this study of the problems of social organization in a rural community of Alberta, a drought-afflicted wheat-growing area centring round the town of Hanna is described as it appeared to the sociologist in 1946.

Praise for the previous edition:'To write a good textbook is only possible with pedagogic sensitivity, significant educational experiences, and research practice.

Gulf societies are often described as being intensely tribal.

In Challenging Social Inequality, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars and development workers explores the causes, consequences, and contemporary reactions to Brazil's sharply unequal agrarian structure.

A rigourous analysis of context in transitional justice, examining the successes and failures of truth and reconciliation commissions in post-conflict settings.

At the turn of the 20th century, the California dream was a suburban ideal where life on the farm was exceptional.

'I felt like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and all the other fairy-tale princesses, and Pat was my Prince Charming.

Neighbours are a lively topic of everyday conversation and interest.

Community leadership development programs are designed to increase the capacity of citizens for civic engagement.

In an increasingly globalized world, place matters more than ever.

'I found myself turning the pages with an inward leap of joy' - Isabella Tree*WINNER of the Richard Jefferies Award for Nature Writing**Shortlisted for the James Cropper Wainwright Prize for Conservation*'Exquisite' GUARDIANIt was a tragic day for the nation's wildlife when England's last and loneliest golden eagle died in an unmarked spot among the remote eastern fells of the Lake District.

This book is about the different ways that men and women experienced migration from the Southern seaboard to the antebellum Southern frontier.

Marketing and management processes across industries can be very similar, but contexts vary where political intervention, public interest and local sustainability are involved.

This book explains the evolution of human cooperation in tribal societies using insights from game theory, ethnography and archaeology.

The military coup that brought General Pervez Musharraf to power as Pakistan's tenth president resulted in the abolition of a century-old sharecropping system that was rife with corruption.

From fox-hunting to farming, the vigor with which rural activities and living are defended overturns received notions of a sleepy and complacent countryside.

Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the U.

Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State brings together new research on the social history of Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

An exploration of how key provinces in China shape urban and regional development The rise of major metropolises across China since the 1990s has been a double-edged sword: although big cities function as economic powerhouses, concentrated urban growth can worsen regional inequalities, governance challenges, and social tensions.

Many of the 61 million people who live in rural America have limited access to health care.

Poverty as Subsistence explores the "e;propertizing"e; land reform policy that the World Bank advocated throughout the transitioning countries of Eurasia, expecting poverty reduction to result from distributing property titles over agricultural land to local (rural) populations.