Rural category: 418 books
The Neoliberal Regime in the Agri-Food Sector
Crisis, Resilience, and Restructuring
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
For the last three decades, the Neoliberal regime, emphasising economic growth through deregulation, market integration, expansion of the private sector, and contraction of the welfare state has shaped production and consumption processes in agriculture and food. These institutional arrangements emerged...
Fair Trade from the Ground Up
New Markets for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Fair Trade promises to raise living standards in developing countries through:
- worldwide minimum prices for commodities
- support for democratically governed cooperatives
- requirement of minimum wages and safety standards for workers
- training to help producers improved...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
This edited volume analyzes the different degrees of discrimination meted out to women by the country's inheritance laws and the corresponding customary practices in tribal societies. It also exposes the current socio-legal structure in the country, which systematically denies women the accessibility...
Renegotiating Community
Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Both as a concept and a set of social relationships, community is central to contemporary debates about globalization. Faced with finding a livable response to globalization, many communities are renegotiating their identities and functions and, in some instances, entirely new communities are being...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This report summarizes the experience and lessons learned in a community-driven development pilot project in the People's Republic of China from 2006 to 2009. The involvement of government and nongovernment organizations, innovative project implementation mechanisms, capacity building, and targeting...
Social Safeguards
Avoiding the Unintended Impacts of Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Large-scale development projects oftentimes end up creating negative impacts that affect vulnerable populations with particular intensity. Projects likely to displace families from their homes, degrade the living conditions of indigenous peoples or intensify social conflicts at local levels are not...
The Fight Over Food
Producers, Consumers, and Activists Challenge the Global Food System
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2008
“One problem with the food system is that price is the bottom line rather than having the bottom line be land stewardship, an appreciation for the environmental and social value of small-scale family farms, or for organically grown produce.” —Interview with farmer in Skagit County, Washington
For...
Wandering Workers
Mores, Behavior, Way of Life, and Political Status of Domestic Russian Labor Migrants
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
This timely book offers a fresh perspective on the issue of contemporary migratory labor, otkhodnichestvo, in Russia—the temporary departure of inhabitants from small towns and villages for short-term jobs in the major cities of Russia. Although otkhodnichestvo is a mass phenomenon, it is not reflected...
by S.C. Dube
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Indian Village is widely considered a "classic." Since its publication, over six decades ago, the book has received immense acclaim, attaining extraordinary success, especially as the first book on a single village in post—Second World War South Asia. Indeed, the work represents a key...
Fluid City
Transforming Melbourne's Urban Waterfront
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Fluid City traces the transformation of the urban waterfront of Melbourne, the re-vitalization of the Yarra River waterfront, Melbourne Docklands and Port Philip Bay.
As the financial and industrial centre of Australia, in the late nineteenth century, Melbourne developed a new world exuberance....
Authorized to Heal
Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Appalachia, 1880-1930
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
In this book, Sandra Barney examines the transformation of medical care in Central Appalachia during the Progressive Era and analyzes the influence of women volunteers in promoting the acceptance of professional medicine in the region. By highlighting the critical role played by nurses, clubwomen,...
Bigger Than Life
Cultural Identity and Labor Relations Among Gaucho Cowboys in Southern Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
The gaucho is associated with everything in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. This Brazilian cowboy was made into a state icon, a symbol of regional identity. The figure of the gaucho —always the heroic gaucho of the past, never the poor ranch hand of the present— gained mythological proportions...
Habits of the Heartland
Small-Town Life in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"So, how do Americans in a small town make community today? This book argues that there is more than one answer, and that despite the continued importance of small-town stuff traditionally associated with face-to-face communities, it makes no sense to think that contemporary technological, economic,...
Utopian Communities of Illinois
Heaven on the Prairie
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
The Prairie State became a crucial testing ground for the grand American thought experiment on how a society should be constructed. Between 1839 and 1901, six different utopian communities chose Illinois as the laboratory and sanctuary to elevate their ideals into reality. The Mormons and the Icarians...