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Rural America in a Globalizing World: Introduction and Overview / Conner Bailey, Leif Jensen, and ... Elizabeth Ransom -- Part I. The Changing Structure of Agriculture: Agriculture and Food in the 2010s / Alessandro Bonanno; 1. Economic Concentration in the Agrifood System: Impacts on Rural Communities and Emerging Responses / Douglas H. Constance, Mary Hendrickson, Philip H. Howard, and William D. Heffernan; 2. The Declining Middle of American Agriculture: A Spatial Phenomenon / Amy Guptill and Rick Welsh; 3. Land Ownership in American Agriculture / Douglas Jackson-Smith and Peggy Petrzelka; 4. Mexican-born Farmworkers in US Agriculture / Eric B. Jensen; 5. Agricultural Technologies and the Structure of the North American Agrifood System / Leland L. Glenna and Christopher R. Henke; 6. Food Safety and Governance of the Agrifood System / Michelle R. Worosz and Diana Stewart; 7. Changing Animal Agriculture and the Issue of Farm Animal Welfare / Jeff Sharp and Dani Deemer; 8. Agrifood Movements: Diversity, Aims, and Limits / Clare Hinrichs and John Eshleman -- Part II. Natural Resources and the Environment: Connections: The Next Decade of Rural Sociological Research on Natural Resources and the Environment / Louise Fortmann, Merrill Baker-Médard, and Alice Kelly; 9. Impacts of Climate Change on People and Communities of Rural America / Lois Wright Morton and Tom Rudel; 10. Contemporary Water Issues in Rural North America / Courtney G. Flint and Naomi Krogman; 11. Resource Dependency in Rural America: Continuities and Change / Richard S. Krannich, Brian Gentry, A.E. Luloff, and Peter G. Robinson; 12. The Gulf: America's Third Coast / Robert Gramling and Shirley Laska; 13. Biofuels and Rural Communities: Promises, Pitfalls and Uneven Social and Environmental Impacts / Theresa Selfa and Carmen Bain; 14. New Natural Gas Development and Rural Communities: Key Issues and Research Priorities / Abby Kinchy, Simona Perry, Danielle Rhubart, Richard Stedman, Kathryn Brasier, and Jeffrey Jacquet; 15. Got Coal? The High Cost of Coal on Mining-Dependent Communities in Appalachia and the West / Suzanne E. Tallichet -- Part III. Population Change in Rural North America: Rural Population Change in Social Context / David L. Brown; 16. Demographic Trends in Nonmetropolitan America: 2000 to 2010 / Kenneth M. Johnson; 17. Population Shifts Across US Nonmetropolitan Regions / John Cromartie and Timothy S. Parker; 18. Rural Families and Households and the Decline of Traditional Structure / Jessica A. Carson and Marybeth J. Mattingly; 19. Children and Youth in Rural America / Diane K. McLaughlin and Carla Shoff; 20. Concentrations of the Elderly in Rural America: Patterns, Processes and Outcomes in a Neoliberal World / Peter B. Nelson; 21. New Rural Immigrant Destinations: Research for the 2010s / Martha Crowley and Kim Ebert -- Part IV. Diversity in Rural America: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Sexuality in Rural America / Carolyn Sachs; 22. The Status of African Americans in the Rural United States / John J. Green; 23. Hispanic Immigration, Global Competition, and the Dairy Industry in Rural Communities / J.D. Wulfhorst, Priscilla Salant, Leigh A. Bernacchi, Stephanie L. Kane, Philip Watson, and Erinn Cruz; 24. Native Nations in a Changing Global Economy / Sarah Dewees; 25. The Past is the Present: Gender and the Status of Rural Women / Cynthia B. Struthers; 26. Rolling in the Hay: The Rural as Sexual Space / Julie C. Keller and Michael M. Bell; 27. Rural Poverty: The Great Recession, Rising Unemployment, and the Underutilized Safety Net / Jennifer Sherman -- Part V. Rural Economies, Community, and Quality of Life: Economic Change, Structural Forces and Rural America: Shifting Fortunes across Communities / Linda Lobao; 28. Education and Schooling in Rural America / Kai A. Schafft and Catharine Biddle; 29. Work in Rural America in the Era of Globalization / Tim Slack; 30. Rural Entrepreneurship / Lori A. Dickes and Kenneth L. Robinson; 31. Community Organization and Mobilization in Rural America / Cornelia Butler Flora and Jan L. Flora; 32. Community as Moral Proximity: Theorizing Community in a Global Economy / Todd L. Goodsell, Jeremy Flaherty, and Ralph B. Brown; 33. Food Insecurity and Obesity in Rural America: Paradoxes of the Modern Agrifood System / Keiko Tanaka, Patrick H. Mooney and Brett Wolff; 34. Thinking About Rural Health / E. Helen Berry; 35. Housing in Rural America / Katherine MacTavish, Ann Ziebarth, and Lance George. Read More |
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"This fourth Rural Sociological Society decennial volume provides advanced policy scholarship on ... rural North America during the 2010's, closely reflecting upon the increasingly global nature of social, cultural, and economic forces and the impact of neoliberal ideology upon policy, politics, and power in rural areas. The chapters in this volume represent the expertise of an influential group of scholars in rural sociology and related social sciences. Its five sections address the changing structure of North American agriculture, natural resources and the environment, demographics, diversity, and quality of life in rural communities."-- Read More |
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