Rural America in a Globalizing World
816 pages, 6 x 9
9 maps, 19 tables, 17 charts
Paperback
Release Date:01 Aug 2014
ISBN:9781940425108
Rural America in a Globalizing World
Problems and Prospects for the 2010's
SERIES:
Rural Studies
West Virginia University Press
This fourth Rural Sociological Society decennial volume provides advanced policy scholarship on rural North America during the 2010’s, closely reflecting upon the increasingly global nature of social, cultural, and economic forces and the impact of neoliberal ideology upon policy, politics, and power in rural areas.
The chapters in this volume represent the expertise of an influential group of scholars in rural sociology and related social sciences. Its five sections address the changing structure of North American agriculture, natural resources and the environment, demographics, diversity, and quality of life in rural communities.
Conner Bailey is Professor of Rural Sociology at Auburn University. He is a past President of the Rural Sociological Society. Leif Jensen is Distinguished Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography at Pennsylvania State University. Elizabeth Ransom is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Richmond.
Preface
Rural America in a Globalizing World: Introduction and Overview
Conner Bailey, Leif Jensen & Elizabeth Ransom
Part I Changing Structure of Agriculture
Agriculture and Food in the 2010s, Alessandro Bonanno
1. Economic Concentration in the Agrifood System: Impacts on Rural Communities and Emerging Responses
Douglas H. Constance, Mary Hendrickson, Philip H. Howard, William D. Heffernan
2. The Declining Middle of American Agriculture: A Spatial Phenomenon
Amy Guptill and Rick Welsh
3. Land Ownership in American Agriculture
Douglas Jackson-Smith and Peggy Petrzelka
4. Mexican-born Farmworkers in U.S. Agriculture
Eric B. Jensen
5. Agricultural Technologies and the Structure of the North American Agrifood System
Leland L. Glenna and Christopher R. Henke
6. Food Safety and Governance of the Agrifood System
Michelle R. Worosz and Diana Stewart
7. Changing Animal Agriculture and the Issue of Farm Animal Welfare
Jeff Sharp and Dani Deemer
8. Agrifood Movements: Diversity, Aims, and Limits
Clare Hinrichs and John Eshleman
Part II Natural Resources and the Environment
Connections: The Next Decade of Rural Sociological Research on Natural Resources and the Environment, Louise Fortmann, Merrill Baker-Médard and Alice Kelly
9. Impacts of Climate Change on People and Communities of Rural America
Lois Wright Morton and Tom Rudel
10. Contemporary Water Issues in Rural North America
Courtney G. Flint and Naomi Krogman
11. Resource Dependency in Rural America: Continuities and Change
Richard S. Krannich, Brian Gentry, A.E. Luloff, and Peter G. Robinson
12. The Gulf: America’s Third Coast
Robert Gramling and Shirley Laska
13. Biofuels and Rural Communities: Promises, Pitfalls and Uneven Social and Environmental Impacts
Theresa Selfa and Carmen Bain
14. New Natural Gas Development and Rural Communities: Key Issues and Research Priorities
Abby Kinchy, Simona Perry, Danielle Rhubart, Richard Stedman, Kathryn Brasier, and Jeffrey Jacquet
15. Got Coal? The High Cost of Coal on Mining-Dependent Communities in Appalachia and the West
Suzanne E. Tallichet
Part III Population Change in Rural North America
Rural Population Change in Social Context, David L. Brown
16. Demographic Trends in Nonmetropolitan America: 2000 to 2010
Kenneth M. Johnson
17. Population Shifts Across U.S. Nonmetropolitan Regions
John Cromartie and Timothy S. Parker
18. Rural Families and Households and the Decline of Traditional Structure
Jessica A. Carson and Marybeth J. Mattingly
19. Children and Youth in Rural America
Diane K. McLaughlin and Carla Shoff
20. Concentrations of the Elderly in Rural America: Patterns, Processes and Outcomes in a Neoliberal World
Peter B. Nelson
21. New Rural Immigrant Destinations: Research for the 2010s
Martha Crowley and Kim Ebert
Part IV Diversity in Rural America
Gender, Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Sexuality in Rural America, Carolyn Sachs
22. The Status of African Americans in the Rural United States
John J. Green
23. Hispanic Immigration, Global Competition, and the Dairy Industry in Rural Communities
J.D. Wulfhorst, Priscilla Salant, Leigh A. Bernacchi, Stephanie L. Kane, Philip Watson, and Erinn Cruz
24. Native Nations in a Changing Global Economy
Sarah Dewees
25. The Past is the Present: Gender and the Status of Rural Women
Cynthia B. Struthers
26. Rolling in the Hay: The Rural as Sexual Space
Julie C. Keller and Michael M. Bell
27. Rural Poverty: The Great Recession, Rising Unemployment, and the Underutilized Safety Net
Jennifer Sherman
Part V Rural Economies, Community, and Quality of Life
Economic Change, Structural Forces and Rural America: Shifting Fortunes across Communities, Linda Lobao
28. Education and Schooling in Rural America
Kai A. Schafft and Catharine Biddle
29. Work in Rural America in the Era of Globalization
Tim Slack
30. Rural Entrepreneurship
Lori A. Dickes and Kenneth L. Robinson
31. Community Organization and Mobilization in Rural America
Cornelia Butler Flora and Jan L. Flora
32. Community as Moral Proximity: Theorizing Community in a Global Economy
Todd L. Goodsell, Jeremy Flaherty, and Ralph B. Brown
33. Food Insecurity and Obesity in Rural America: Paradoxes of the Modern Agrifood System
Keiko Tanaka, Patrick H. Mooney and Brett Wolff
34. Thinking About Rural Health
E. Helen Berry
35. Housing in Rural America
Katherine MacTavish, Ann Ziebarth, and Lance George
Rural America in a Globalizing World: Introduction and Overview
Conner Bailey, Leif Jensen & Elizabeth Ransom
Part I Changing Structure of Agriculture
Agriculture and Food in the 2010s, Alessandro Bonanno
1. Economic Concentration in the Agrifood System: Impacts on Rural Communities and Emerging Responses
Douglas H. Constance, Mary Hendrickson, Philip H. Howard, William D. Heffernan
2. The Declining Middle of American Agriculture: A Spatial Phenomenon
Amy Guptill and Rick Welsh
3. Land Ownership in American Agriculture
Douglas Jackson-Smith and Peggy Petrzelka
4. Mexican-born Farmworkers in U.S. Agriculture
Eric B. Jensen
5. Agricultural Technologies and the Structure of the North American Agrifood System
Leland L. Glenna and Christopher R. Henke
6. Food Safety and Governance of the Agrifood System
Michelle R. Worosz and Diana Stewart
7. Changing Animal Agriculture and the Issue of Farm Animal Welfare
Jeff Sharp and Dani Deemer
8. Agrifood Movements: Diversity, Aims, and Limits
Clare Hinrichs and John Eshleman
Part II Natural Resources and the Environment
Connections: The Next Decade of Rural Sociological Research on Natural Resources and the Environment, Louise Fortmann, Merrill Baker-Médard and Alice Kelly
9. Impacts of Climate Change on People and Communities of Rural America
Lois Wright Morton and Tom Rudel
10. Contemporary Water Issues in Rural North America
Courtney G. Flint and Naomi Krogman
11. Resource Dependency in Rural America: Continuities and Change
Richard S. Krannich, Brian Gentry, A.E. Luloff, and Peter G. Robinson
12. The Gulf: America’s Third Coast
Robert Gramling and Shirley Laska
13. Biofuels and Rural Communities: Promises, Pitfalls and Uneven Social and Environmental Impacts
Theresa Selfa and Carmen Bain
14. New Natural Gas Development and Rural Communities: Key Issues and Research Priorities
Abby Kinchy, Simona Perry, Danielle Rhubart, Richard Stedman, Kathryn Brasier, and Jeffrey Jacquet
15. Got Coal? The High Cost of Coal on Mining-Dependent Communities in Appalachia and the West
Suzanne E. Tallichet
Part III Population Change in Rural North America
Rural Population Change in Social Context, David L. Brown
16. Demographic Trends in Nonmetropolitan America: 2000 to 2010
Kenneth M. Johnson
17. Population Shifts Across U.S. Nonmetropolitan Regions
John Cromartie and Timothy S. Parker
18. Rural Families and Households and the Decline of Traditional Structure
Jessica A. Carson and Marybeth J. Mattingly
19. Children and Youth in Rural America
Diane K. McLaughlin and Carla Shoff
20. Concentrations of the Elderly in Rural America: Patterns, Processes and Outcomes in a Neoliberal World
Peter B. Nelson
21. New Rural Immigrant Destinations: Research for the 2010s
Martha Crowley and Kim Ebert
Part IV Diversity in Rural America
Gender, Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Sexuality in Rural America, Carolyn Sachs
22. The Status of African Americans in the Rural United States
John J. Green
23. Hispanic Immigration, Global Competition, and the Dairy Industry in Rural Communities
J.D. Wulfhorst, Priscilla Salant, Leigh A. Bernacchi, Stephanie L. Kane, Philip Watson, and Erinn Cruz
24. Native Nations in a Changing Global Economy
Sarah Dewees
25. The Past is the Present: Gender and the Status of Rural Women
Cynthia B. Struthers
26. Rolling in the Hay: The Rural as Sexual Space
Julie C. Keller and Michael M. Bell
27. Rural Poverty: The Great Recession, Rising Unemployment, and the Underutilized Safety Net
Jennifer Sherman
Part V Rural Economies, Community, and Quality of Life
Economic Change, Structural Forces and Rural America: Shifting Fortunes across Communities, Linda Lobao
28. Education and Schooling in Rural America
Kai A. Schafft and Catharine Biddle
29. Work in Rural America in the Era of Globalization
Tim Slack
30. Rural Entrepreneurship
Lori A. Dickes and Kenneth L. Robinson
31. Community Organization and Mobilization in Rural America
Cornelia Butler Flora and Jan L. Flora
32. Community as Moral Proximity: Theorizing Community in a Global Economy
Todd L. Goodsell, Jeremy Flaherty, and Ralph B. Brown
33. Food Insecurity and Obesity in Rural America: Paradoxes of the Modern Agrifood System
Keiko Tanaka, Patrick H. Mooney and Brett Wolff
34. Thinking About Rural Health
E. Helen Berry
35. Housing in Rural America
Katherine MacTavish, Ann Ziebarth, and Lance George
