Rural Communities

Critical Rural Theory is an attempt to bring together the concepts of structure, space, and culture in order to explain the relationship between ru...

In 1970, the Architectural Press published New Lives, New Landscapes, Nan Fairbrother's optimistic account of how the British landscape was materia...

A critical exploration of how modernity and progress were imposed on the people and land of rural South Dakota The Rosebud Country, comprising four...

Long a bastion of antigovernment feeling, the Ozark region today is home to fervent strains of conservative-influenced sentiment. Does rural herita...

How prisons became economic development strategies for rural Appalachian communities As the United States began the project of mass incarceration, ...

Woodsqueer is sometimes used to describe the mindset of a person who has taken to the wild for an extended period of time. Gretchen Legler is no st...

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

Do you love someone enough to let them go?It was love at first sight when talented art student Felicity Flick Johnston-Hart and Jim MacDuffs worlds...

Turkey's contemporary struggles with Islam are often interpreted as a conflict between religion and secularism played out most obviously in the spl...

The emergence into pop culture of quaint and simple Ozarks Mountaineersthrough the writings of Vance Randolph, Wayman Hogue, Charles Morrow Wilson,...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

How were manorial lords in the twelfth and thirteenth century able to appropriate peasant labour? And what does this reveal about the changing atti...

Examines the commodification of land rights and the effect of international licences for resource extraction on the pastoral communities of Sudan. ...

'Outrageously Jilly Cooperesque' Sunday Times Style * Take a grand English country house, one (heartbroken) American divorcée, three rich wiv...

Mediterranean agriculture is by and large envisaged as a landscape of small farms of high nature value producing worldwide recognisable quality foo...

*A FOYLES TOP TEN READ FOR APRIL*A superb portrait of the complex imprint the countryside makes on the life of the mind A treasure Doireann Ní Ghr...

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

Country Teachers in City Schools: The Challenge of Negotiating Identity and Place explores what its like to be a country teacher in a city school. ...