Rural Communities

This volume offers insights into how rural areas of Britain have been represented on film, from the silent era through both world wars and on into ...

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

The metropolis has been the near exclusive focus of queer scholars and queer cultures in America. Asking us to look beyond the cities on the coasts...

Analyzes the mechanisms of repression, applying new aspects. Repression was mainly conducted through a bureaucratic process where individual denunc...

This book investigates urbanormativity—a concept that privileges urban normalcy and desirability over rural deviance and undesirability. The “reali...

The Rural Primitive in American Popular Culture: All Too Familiar studies how the mythology of the primitive rural other became linked to evolution...

How is it possible for a town to exist where the median household income is about $73,000, but the median home price is about $4,000,000? Boring in...

The official banking institutions for rural China are Rural Credit Cooperatives (RCCs). Although these co-ops are mandated to support agricultural ...

It can be easy to assume nothing much happens beyond the city, if that's all you've known. But that, of course, is far from the truth.Here, across ...

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

In Reading and Writing Place: Connecting Rural Schools and Communities Erika L. Bass and Amy Price Azano suggest there is a need to add nuance to t...

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022How rural areas have become uneven proving grounds for the American Dream. Late-stage capitalism is trying t...