, to see if you have full access to this publication.
Book Titles No access
Big Rural
Rural Industrial Places, Democracy, and What Next
Authors:
Publisher:
2023
Summary
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 landscape and culture. Often single sector economies with consolidated power and automation away of jobs, these rural industrial places compound the problems of their inhabitants, even threatening their capacity to practice democracy. Cook Marshall interacts with rural interveners from industry to Rural Studies and Science and Technology scholars to policy advocates, also detailing the gaps in related scholarship. Building from analysis, she proposes a range of antidotes to the extraction and destruction of “Big Rural” both in material life and in knowledge, such as potential National Rural and Sustainable Agricultural strategies. Through these, in interviews with rural change agents, through research, and through local and federal paths, Cook Marshall asserts a way forward for the rural that is more equitable and just.
Keywords
Search publication
Bibliographic data
Edition
1/2023
Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-66693-074-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-3075-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
254
Product type
Book Titles
Table of contents
ChapterPages
Contents No access
Foreword No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access Pages xxv - xxvi
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 26
Jason Tartt, Sr. No access
Atlas Charles No access
Chapter 3: Democratic Possibilities and Policies in Big Rural No access Pages 117 - 132
