Rural Communities

A dozen pages in I realized that I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book Annie ProulxA way of life that once encompa...

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford PrizeThe Top Ten BestsellerWaterstones Non-Fiction Book of the MonthA Sunday Times Paperback of the Year If you...

Building on previous work in rural criminology, this book casts a global and comparative look across nineteen countries, drawing on themes of crime...

Miles Franklins debut novel follows the vivacious and rebellious sixteen-year-old Sybylla Melvyn closely modelled on Franklin herself as she figh...

This timely collection crosses international boundaries to highlight criminological issues with a rural focus. Using a variety of different perspe...

The suburbs are home to the majority of Americans, including millions of evangelical Christians and thousands of evangelical congregations and orga...

Beth Hoffman was living the good life: she had a successful career as a journalist and professor, a comfortable home inSan Francisco, and plenty of...

The first decade of the twenty-first century saw a radical new approach to higher education in Cuba, as the country began slowly to recover from th...

Drawing from decades of research, Setha Low shows how public space contributes to a flourishing society through promoting social justice and democr...

The rural is not what it used to be. No longer simply a site for agricultural production for the city, the relationship between the rural and urban...

49% of the worlds population lives in small towns, villages and farms, yet until recent years criminological scholarship has focused almost exclusi...

Analysing the ongoing changes and dynamics in rural development from a functional perspective through a series of case studies from the global nort...

This collection presents creative strategies and programs designed to address needs of families in the context of rural communities. Even before th...

Most of Indonesian population live in rural areas, and the majority of poor people also live in rural areas, namely 13.47% in rural and 7.26 in urb...

Gulf societies are often described as being intensely tribal. However, in discussions of state building and national identity, the role of tribalis...

Bringing a unique rural lens to the analysis of dark tourism in Australia, this book covers a range of sites including convict museums, sites of se...

AIDS epidemics continue to threaten the livelihoods of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa. Three decades after the disease was first recogniz...

China's agriculture and rural society has undergone rapid changes in recent years. Many poorer farmers and younger people have moved to cities, and...

This book on the regional development theory analyzes the institutional environment, singling out three factors: the textile industry; government t...

A new approach to rural development is emerging. Instead of being about attracting companies that might create jobs over which communities have no ...

This book explores gender dynamics in the indigenous villages (also known as walled villages) in post-handover Hong Kong. It looks at how Hong Kong...

This title was first published in 2002: As rural Ireland undergoes deep-reaching changes, this book critically assesses what the author terms the r...

This title was first published in 2000: Using micro-level data, this text shows that rural Russian households have made significant adaptations to ...

This title was first published in 2002. While capitalism continues to convert former communal land into private property, communal ownership still ...

Everyone is a member of a community, and every community is continually changing. To successfully manage that change, community members need inform...

As a commercial fisher in Nova Scotia in the early 1990s, Raymond Rogers experienced the collapse of Canada's East Coast fishery first-hand. Afterw...

'The perfect festive read!' Debbie Johnson Do you believe in Christmas miracles?Holly is looking for a change. There has to be more to life than th...

A fresh anthropological look at a central but neglected topic: the profound changes in rural life throughout Western Europe today. As locals leave ...

Examines local food movement activism in a period of increasing climate chaos and neoliberal crisis, economic inequalities and political divisions ...

A comprehensive analysis of stratification in rural Sri Lanka, taking into account the hierarchies of class, status and power.

In twenty-first-century China, socialist educational traditions have given way to practices that increasingly emphasize the individual. This volume...

From the No.1 bestselling author of The Shepherd's Life, a 'strange and enchanting' story of friendship and redemption on a remote Norwegian island...

How the migration of white southerners to the industrial Midwest reshaped American politics and societyOver the first two-thirds of the twentieth c...

How do societies negotiate the apparently competing agendas of environmental protection and social justice? Why do some countries perform much bett...