Tag: Rural

Free Download Rural Republican Realignment in the Modern South : The Untold Story
by M.V. Hood III and Seth C. McKee
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1643363018 | 327 Pages | True PDF | 32 MB

Free Download Kimberly Hart, "And Then We Work for God: Rural Sunni Islam in Western Turkey"
English | 2013 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 0804786607, 0804783306 | EPUB | 7,6 mb
Turkey’s contemporary struggles with Islam are often interpreted as a conflict between religion and secularism played out most obviously in the split between rural and urban populations. The reality, of course, is more complicated than the assumptions. Exploring religious expression in two villages, this book considers rural spiritual practices and describes a living, evolving Sunni Islam, influenced and transformed by local and national sources of religious orthodoxy.

Free Download Crystal Cook Marshall, "Big Rural: Rural Industrial Places, Democracy, and What Next "
English | ISBN: 1666930741 | 2023 | 280 pages | EPUB, PDF | 601 KB + 8 MB

Free Download Baifeng Chen, "The Underworld of Rural China: Research on Rural Gangs on China’s Jianghan Plain and Dongting Lake Plain"
English | ISBN: 9811987092 | 2023 | 310 pages | PDF | 4 MB

Free Download Nicholas F. Jacobs, "The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America"
English | ISBN: 0231211589 | 2023 | 488 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The widening gulf between rural and urban America is becoming the most serious political divide of our day. Support for Democrats, up and down the ballot, has plummeted throughout the countryside, and the entire governing system is threatened by one-party dominance. After Donald Trump’s surprising victories throughout rural America, pundits and journalists went searching for answers, popping into roadside diners and opining from afar. Rural Americans are supposedly bigots, culturally backward, lazy, scared of the future, and radical. But is it that simple? Is the country splintering between two very different Americas―one rural, one urban?

Free Download Wendy Geller, "Rural Young Women, Education, and Socio-Spatial Mobility: Landscapes of Success"
English | ISBN: 0739198424 | 2015 | 300 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Much of the literature on globalization has centered on the large, macro-level forces that influence the ways ideas, people, and various forms of capital move around the world. From this vantage point, discussions about the progressive feminization of migration, in particular the feminization of out-migration from rural areas, indicate an intriguing trend. Simultaneously, the local experience of global forces is an important way of exploring how macro-level processes are navigated by social actors on the ground. This provides added texture to our understanding of why and how people make decisions about their lives within an increasingly interconnected social, economic, and political environment.

Free Download Zvi Lerman, "Rural Transition in Azerbaijan "
English | ISBN: 0739143166 | 2010 | 187 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
In 1995-96 the President of Azerbaijan, Heydar Alieyev, launched a program of agrarian reforms that caused a sweeping and irreversible shift from Soviet-style collective agriculture to individual farming in his country. These reforms led to an impressive recovery and substantial productivity improvements in agriculture. The agrarian transition in Azerbaijan contrasts with that in Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan, where land privatization has been accompanied by policies encouraging the persistence of large corporate farms and where agricultural recovery has been much less impressive. For this reason Azerbaijan is today viewed as one of the few examples of successful land reform in the former Soviet Union.

Free Download Alexander R. Thomas, "Reinventing Rural: New Realities in an Urbanizing World "
English | ISBN: 1498534090 | 2016 | 246 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Reinventing Rural is a collection of original research papers that examine the ways in which rural people and places are changing in the context of an urbanizing world. This includes exploring the role of the environment, the economy, and related issues such as tourism. While traditionally relying on primary sector work in agriculture, mining, natural resources, and the like, rural areas are finding new ways to sustain themselves. This involves a new emphasis on environmental protection, as one important strategy has been to capitalize on natural amenities to attract residents and tourists. Beyond improvements to the economy are general improvements to the quality-of-life in rural communities. Consistent with this, the volume focuses on the two cornerstones of education and health, considering current challenges and offering ideas for reinventing rural quality-of-life.

Free Download Gregory M. Fulkerson, "Reimagining Rural: Urbanormative Portrayals of Rural Life "
English | ISBN: 1498534066 | 2016 | 172 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Reimagining Rural: Urbanormative Portrayals of Rural Life examines the ways in which rural people and places are being portrayed by popular television, reality television, film, literature, and news media in the United States. It is also an examination of the social processes that reinforce urbanormative standards that normalize urban life and render rural life as something unusual, exotic, or deviant. This includes exploring the role of the media as agenda setting agent, informing people what and how to think about rural life. Further it includes scrutinizing the institution of formal education that promotes a homogenous urban-oriented curriculum, while in the process, marginalizing the unique characteristics of local rural communities. These contributions are some of the only studies of their kind, investigating popular cultural representations of rural life, while providing powerful evidence and unique challenges for an urban society to rethink and reimagine rural life, while confronting the many stereotypes and myths that exist.

Free Download Polly Thanailaki, "Gender Inequalities in Rural European Communities During 19th and Early 20th Century: A Historical Perspective"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 3319752340, 3030091783 | PDF | pages: 174 | 2.3 mb
This book provides an overview of women’s opportunities for schooling, their social activities, and the social biases they faced in rural communities in Greece, Italy and parts of the Balkans during the 19th and early 20th century. It examines such topics as female illiteracy, the efforts of women-protestant missionaries to expand knowledge through Protestantism, the prejudice against education for women, the socio-economic context, the roles women fulfilled, and the structure of the patriarchal family. The book approaches these issues from the perspective of pedagogy and social history. The fundamental questions discussed by the book are: How was female education viewed by the country folk? What was the role of women in the private and the public sphere? How did peasant women respond to the challenges of the ‘modern’ world? Were they free to express their feelings and ambitions? In what way? Were they happy?