Rural Communities

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...

Although sadly neglected in English translation, George Sand was a monumentally important novelist of nineteenth-century France, and her works were...

The newest volume of the eclectic biannual anthology from Greenhorns, a grassroots network for recruiting, promoting, and supporting new American f...

Born in 1919, Josephine Powell visited Turkey for the first time in 1955 to photograph Byzantine mosaics. She then set out on her first comprehensi...

'Judys done it again. Every woman over a certain age should read this wonderful book' Jennifer Bohnet Deep in the Somerset countryside, the Combe P...