Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics – serie
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21 produkter
Reimagining Rural
Urbanormative Portrayals of Rural Life
Av Gregory M. Fulkerson, Alexander R. Thomas
Häftad, 2019
528 kr
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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 …
Reinventing Rural
New Realities in an Urbanizing World
Av Alexander R. Thomas, Gregory M. Fulkerson
Inbunden, 2016
1275 kr
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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 …
Reinventing Rural
New Realities in an Urbanizing World
Av Alexander R. Thomas, Gregory M. Fulkerson
Häftad, 2018
627 kr
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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 …
Rural Primitive in American Popular Culture
All Too Familiar
Inbunden, 2020
1204 kr
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The Rural Primitive in American Popular Culture: All Too Familiar studies how the mythology of the primitive rural other became linked to evolutionary theories, both biological and social, that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century. This mythology fit well on the imaginary continuums of primitive …
Rural Primitive in American Popular Culture
All Too Familiar
Häftad, 2022
514 kr
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The Rural Primitive in American Popular Culture: All Too Familiar studies how the mythology of the primitive rural other became linked to evolutionary theories, both biological and social, that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century. This mythology fit well on the imaginary continuums of primitive …
Rural Voices
Language, Identity, and Social Change across Place
Av Elizabeth Seale, Christine Mallinson
Häftad, 2020
542 kr
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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 …
Urbanormativity
Reality, Representation, and Everyday Life
Av Gregory M. Fulkerson, Alexander R. Thomas
Inbunden, 2019
1204 kr
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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 …
Urbanormativity
Reality, Representation, and Everyday Life
Av Gregory M. Fulkerson, Alexander R. Thomas
Häftad, 2022
514 kr
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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 …
Groundwater Citizenship
Well Owners, Environmentalism, and the Depletion of the High Plains Aquifer
Av Brock Ternes
Inbunden, 2022
1204 kr
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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 …
Country Teachers in City Schools
The Challenge of Negotiating Identity and Place
Av Chea Parton
Inbunden, 2023
1102 kr
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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.
Community in Urban–Rural Systems
Theory, Planning, and Development
Inbunden, 2022
1204 kr
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Gregory M. Fulkerson offers a complete portrait of what communities are, how they work, and how they are embedded in urban–rural systems at regional, national, and global scales. After explaining the concept of urban–rural systems, Fulkerson walks through the central dynamics of environmental …
Community in Urban–Rural Systems
Theory, Planning, and Development
Häftad, 2024
458 kr
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Gregory M. Fulkerson offers a complete portrait of what communities are, how they work, and how they are embedded in urban–rural systems at regional, national, and global scales. After explaining the concept of urban–rural systems, Fulkerson walks through the central dynamics of environmental …
Rural Education History
State Policy Meets Local Implementation
Inbunden, 2023
1063 kr
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Using case studies and an auto-ethnographic study of rural education history in New York State, Casey Thomas Jakubowski provides an introduction to recent events in state-level educational policy implementation. Rural Education History: State Policy Meets Local Implementation argues that rural …
Big Rural
Rural Industrial Places, Democracy, and What Next
Inbunden, 2023
1204 kr
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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 …
Inequality at the Urban–Rural Nexus
Av Alexander R. Thomas, Gregory M. Fulkerson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1134 kr
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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 …
Settling Conflict in Rural New York Schools
Case Studies of Education Reform
Inbunden, 2026
1170 kr
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This book examines the history of conflict in education through the lens of specific case studies from schools in rural areas of New York.Education has historically been a major source of conflict among citizens, voters, and residents in the United States. From the colonists in New England’s …
Urban Dependency
The Inescapable Reality of the Energy Economy
Av Gregory M. Fulkerson, Alexander R. Thomas
Inbunden, 2020
1275 kr
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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, …
City and Country
The Historical Evolution of Urban-Rural Systems
Av Alexander R. Thomas, Gregory M. Fulkerson
Inbunden, 2021
1748 kr
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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. …
City and Country
The Historical Evolution of Urban-Rural Systems
Av Alexander R. Thomas, Gregory M. Fulkerson
Häftad, 2023
544 kr
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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. …
Inequality at the Urban–Rural Nexus
Av Alexander R. Thomas, Gregory M. Fulkerson m. fl.
E-bok, 2025
1247 kr
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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 …
Settling Conflict in Rural New York Schools
Case Studies of Education Reform
E-bok, 2026
1247 kr
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This book examines the history of conflict in education through the lens of specific case studies from schools in rural areas of New York.Education has historically been a major source of conflict among citizens, voters, and residents in the United States. From the colonists in New England's …
