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  • City and Country

    The Historical Evolution of Urban-Rural Systems

    de Alexander R. Thomas, Gregory M. Fulkerson ...
    Series series Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics
    City and Country: The Historical Evolution of Urban-Rural Systems begins with a simple assumption: every human requires, on average, two-thousand calories per day to stay alive. Tracing the ramifications of this insight leads to the caloric well: the caloric demand at one point in the environment. As population increases, the depth of the caloric well reflects this increased demand and requires a ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Inequality at the Urban–Rural Nexus

    de Gregory M. Fulkerson, Alexander R. Thomas, Kirsten Kemmerer ...
    Series series Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics
    This book examines the systemic and structural nature of social inequalities, focusing on how the urban–rural divide intersects with race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality to shape identities and access to opportunities.It offers valuable insights for sociologists and scholars of inequality seeking to broaden the scope of current research. Ultimately, the authors argue that it will be ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Cities, Change, and Conflict

    A Political Economy of Urban Life

    de Nancy Kleniewski, Alexander R. Thomas, Gregory Fulkerson ...
    Cities, Change, and Conflict was one of the first texts to embrace the perspective of political economy as its main explanatory framework, and then complement it with the rich contributions of human ecology as well as perspectives derived from critical approaches to social theory. Although its primary focus is on North American cities, the book contains several chapters on cities in other parts of ... Leer más

    $104.99 USD

  • Big Rural

    Rural Industrial Places, Democracy, and What Next

    de Crystal Cook Marshall ...
    Series series Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics
    In Big Rural: Rural Industrial Places, Democracy, and What Next, Crystal Cook Marshall unveils the rural not as wild and unknowable but as measured and intervened-in as big cities. Drawing international comparisons with a case study centering on the Pocahontas Coalfield, Cook Marshall documents that rural places are often systems among systems that scientists and engineers heavily shape both in ... Leer más

    $93.99 USD

  • Country Teachers in City Schools

    The Challenge of Negotiating Identity and Place

    de Chea Parton ...
    Series series Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics
    In Country Teachers in City Schools, Chea Parton uses conversations with teachers who grew up one place and ended up teaching in another to investigate the influence of place on the personal and professional identity building of teachers and their teaching practice. ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Groundwater Citizenship

    Well Owners, Environmentalism, and the Depletion of the High Plains Aquifer

    de Brock Ternes ...
    Series series Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics
    The tremendous loss of groundwater has been a longstanding concern in Kansas, where areas of the High Plains aquifer have plummeted. Groundwater Citizenship: Well Owners, Environmentalism, and the Depletion of the High Plains Aquifer investigates water conservation efforts, environmental priorities, and water supply awareness among private water well owners, a key social group whose water usage is ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Urban Dependency

    The Inescapable Reality of the Energy Economy

    de Gregory M. Fulkerson, Alexander R. Thomas ...
    Series series Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics
    Urban Dependency investigates the risks of urban populations that cannot survive without the massive consumption of basic rural products like food, textiles, fossil fuels, and other energy-rich goods that are harvested by a shrinking rural base. Thomas and Fulkerson argue that though essential, rural workers and communities are poorly compensated for their labor that is both dangerous and highly ... Leer más

    $97.99 USD

  • Urbanormativity

    Reality, Representation, and Everyday Life

    de Gregory M. Fulkerson, Alexander R. Thomas ...
    Series series Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics
    This book investigates *urbanormativity—*a concept that privileges urban normalcy and desirability over rural deviance and undesirability. The “reality” section outlines its foundations—urbanization, urban-rural systems, and urban dependency. The “representation” section explores urbanormative culture by considering cultural capital, media, and identity. The last section, “everyday life,” examines ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Cities, Change, and Conflict

    A Political Economy of Urban Life

    de Nancy Kleniewski, Alexander R. Thomas ...
    Cities, Change, and Conflict was one of the first texts to embrace the perspective of political economy as its main explanatory framework, and then complement it with the rich contributions found in the human ecology perspective. Although its primary focus is on North American cities, the book contains several chapters on cities in other parts of the world, including Europe and developing nations, ... Leer más

    $110.99 USD

  • Reinventing Rural

    New Realities in an Urbanizing World

    de Stephanie Bennett, Laura McKinney, Gregory M. Fulkerson, Alexander R. Thomas, Leanne M. Avery, Michael W.P. Fortunato, Carrie L. Kane, Gene L. Theodori, Fern K. Willits0, Matthew Clement1, Aimee Vieira2 ...
    Series series Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics
    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 ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • Rural Voices

    Language, Identity, and Social Change across Place

    de Elizabeth Seale, Christine Mallinson, Becky Childs, Elizabeth Falconi, Rania Habib, Kirk Hazen, Sarah Kristian, Lu Li, James N. Stanford0, Thea Strand1, Jennifer Thorburn2, Gerard Van Herk3, Wei Shuqi4, Nico Nassenstein5, Aimee Vieira6, Alexander R. Thomas7, Gregory M. Fulkerson8 ...
    Series series Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics
    In this interdisciplinary volume, sociolinguists and sociologists explore the intersections of language, culture, and identity for rural populations around the world. Challenging stereotypical views of rural backwardness and urban progress, the contributors reveal how language is a key mechanism for constructing the meaning of places and the people who identify with them. With research that spans ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • Studies in Urbanormativity

    Rural Community in Urban Society

    de Alexander R. Thomas, Brian Lowe, Polly Smith, Elizabeth Seale, Stephanie Bennett, Chris Stapel, Gretchen Thompson, R. V. Rikard, Curtis Stofferahn0, Gerald Creed1, Robert Moxley2, Thomas Gray3, Laura McKinney4, Karl A. Jicha5, Karen E. Hayden6, Aimee Vieira7, Barbara Ching8 ...
    The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural and cultural changes rooted in urbanization are connected in complex ways to spatial ... Leer más

    $121.99 USD