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  • Inequality at the Urban–Rural Nexus

    par Gregory M. Fulkerson, Alexander R. Thomas, Kirsten Kemmerer ...
    Collections series Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics
    This book examines the systemic and structural nature of social inequalities, focusing on how the urban–rural divide intersects with race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality to shape identities and access to opportunities.It offers valuable insights for sociologists and scholars of inequality seeking to broaden the scope of current research. Ultimately, the authors argue that it will be ... En savoir plus

    $115.99 CAD

  • Cities, Change, and Conflict

    A Political Economy of Urban Life

    par Nancy Kleniewski, Alexander R. Thomas, Gregory Fulkerson ...
    Cities, Change, and Conflict was one of the first texts to embrace the perspective of political economy as its main explanatory framework, and then complement it with the rich contributions of human ecology as well as perspectives derived from critical approaches to social theory. Although its primary focus is on North American cities, the book contains several chapters on cities in other parts of ... En savoir plus

    $144.99 CAD

  • Big Rural

    Rural Industrial Places, Democracy, and What Next

    par Crystal Cook Marshall ...
    Collections series Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics
    In Big Rural: Rural Industrial Places, Democracy, and What Next, Crystal Cook Marshall unveils the rural not as wild and unknowable but as measured and intervened-in as big cities. Drawing international comparisons with a case study centering on the Pocahontas Coalfield, Cook Marshall documents that rural places are often systems among systems that scientists and engineers heavily shape both in ... En savoir plus

    $120.99 CAD

  • Country Teachers in City Schools

    The Challenge of Negotiating Identity and Place

    par Chea Parton ...
    Collections series Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics
    In Country Teachers in City Schools, Chea Parton uses conversations with teachers who grew up one place and ended up teaching in another to investigate the influence of place on the personal and professional identity building of teachers and their teaching practice. ... En savoir plus

    $115.89 CAD

  • Groundwater Citizenship

    Well Owners, Environmentalism, and the Depletion of the High Plains Aquifer

    par Brock Ternes ...
    Collections series Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics
    The tremendous loss of groundwater has been a longstanding concern in Kansas, where areas of the High Plains aquifer have plummeted. Groundwater Citizenship: Well Owners, Environmentalism, and the Depletion of the High Plains Aquifer investigates water conservation efforts, environmental priorities, and water supply awareness among private water well owners, a key social group whose water usage is ... En savoir plus

    $115.89 CAD

  • Urban Dependency

    The Inescapable Reality of the Energy Economy

    par Gregory M. Fulkerson, Alexander R. Thomas ...
    Collections series Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics
    Urban Dependency investigates the risks of urban populations that cannot survive without the massive consumption of basic rural products like food, textiles, fossil fuels, and other energy-rich goods that are harvested by a shrinking rural base. Thomas and Fulkerson argue that though essential, rural workers and communities are poorly compensated for their labor that is both dangerous and highly ... En savoir plus

    $126.99 CAD

  • City and Country

    The Historical Evolution of Urban-Rural Systems

    par Alexander R. Thomas, Gregory M. Fulkerson ...
    Collections series Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics
    City and Country: The Historical Evolution of Urban-Rural Systems begins with a simple assumption: every human requires, on average, two-thousand calories per day to stay alive. Tracing the ramifications of this insight leads to the caloric well: the caloric demand at one point in the environment. As population increases, the depth of the caloric well reflects this increased demand and requires a ... En savoir plus

    $50.99 CAD

  • Urbanormativity

    Reality, Representation, and Everyday Life

    par Gregory M. Fulkerson, Alexander R. Thomas ...
    Collections series Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics
    This book investigates *urbanormativity—*a concept that privileges urban normalcy and desirability over rural deviance and undesirability. The “reality” section outlines its foundations—urbanization, urban-rural systems, and urban dependency. The “representation” section explores urbanormative culture by considering cultural capital, media, and identity. The last section, “everyday life,” examines ... En savoir plus

    $45.99 CAD

  • Cities, Change, and Conflict

    A Political Economy of Urban Life

    par Nancy Kleniewski, Alexander R. Thomas ...
    Cities, Change, and Conflict was one of the first texts to embrace the perspective of political economy as its main explanatory framework, and then complement it with the rich contributions found in the human ecology perspective. Although its primary focus is on North American cities, the book contains several chapters on cities in other parts of the world, including Europe and developing nations, ... En savoir plus

    $151.99 CAD

  • Reinventing Rural

    New Realities in an Urbanizing World

    par Stephanie Bennett, Laura McKinney, Gregory M. Fulkerson, Alexander R. Thomas, Leanne M. Avery, Michael W.P. Fortunato, Carrie L. Kane, Gene L. Theodori, Fern K. Willits0, Matthew Clement1, Aimee Vieira2 ...
    Collections series Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics
    Reinventing Rural is a collection of original research papers that examine the ways in which rural people and places are changing in the context of an urbanizing world. This includes exploring the role of the environment, the economy, and related issues such as tourism. While traditionally relying on primary sector work in agriculture, mining, natural resources, and the like, rural areas are ... En savoir plus

    $61.99 CAD

  • Rural Voices

    Language, Identity, and Social Change across Place

    par Elizabeth Seale, Christine Mallinson, Becky Childs, Elizabeth Falconi, Rania Habib, Kirk Hazen, Sarah Kristian, Lu Li, James N. Stanford0, Thea Strand1, Jennifer Thorburn2, Gerard Van Herk3, Wei Shuqi4, Nico Nassenstein5, Aimee Vieira6, Alexander R. Thomas7, Gregory M. Fulkerson8 ...
    Collections series Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics
    In this interdisciplinary volume, sociolinguists and sociologists explore the intersections of language, culture, and identity for rural populations around the world. Challenging stereotypical views of rural backwardness and urban progress, the contributors reveal how language is a key mechanism for constructing the meaning of places and the people who identify with them. With research that spans ... En savoir plus

    $51.99 CAD

  • Reimagining Rural

    Urbanormative Portrayals of Rural Life

    par Gregory M. Fulkerson, Alexander R. Thomas, Leanne M. Avery, Karl A. Jicha, Brian M. Lowe, Pilar Erin McKay, John W. Sipple, Barbara Ching, Karen E. Hayden0 ...
    Collections series Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics
    Reimagining Rural: Urbanormative Portrayals of Rural Life examines the ways in which rural people and places are being portrayed by popular television, reality television, film, literature, and news media in the United States. It is also an examination of the social processes that reinforce urbanormative standards that normalize urban life and render rural life as something unusual, exotic, or ... En savoir plus

    $50.99 CAD