Rural Communities

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

*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 ...

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

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

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

"This modern, refreshing examination of today’s American cowboys and cowgirls is something people will want to revisit time and time." — Yahoo “......

College Aspirations and Access in Working Class Rural Communities: The Mixed Signals, Challenges, and New Language First-Generation Students Encoun...

Home Is Where Your Politics Are is a transnational consideration of queer and trans activism in the US South and South Africa. Through ethnographic...

Over the past several decades, shrimp has transformed from a luxury food to a kitchen staple. While shrimp-loving consumers have benefited from the...

In 1939, residents of a rural village near Chengdu watched as Lei Mingyuan, a member of a violent secret society known as the Gowned Brothers, exec...

In this interdisciplinary volume, sociolinguists and sociologists explore the intersections of language, culture, and identity for rural population...

Why some straight men have sex with other men Why do some straight men in rural America have sex with other men? In Still Straight, Tony Silva conv...

Global Heartland is the account of diverse, dispossessed, and displaced people brought together in a former sundown town in Illinois. Recruited to ...

A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2024The border between Scotland and England is rich in history. It has been the site of battles, treaties, castl...

This book studies recent developments in immigration in one Akha village in northern Thailand by examining issues such as the coffee economy, ethni...

'This is an essential and fascinating book because it brings to light, through conversations and nature walks, some of the buried connections betwe...

The first authoritative survey of the history of common land in Great Britain from the medieval period to present day. More than a million hectare...