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Social transformation in rural Canada : community, cultures, and collective action /

"The rapidly changing nature of life in Canadian rural communities is more than a simple response to economic conditions. People who live in rural places are part of a new social agenda characterized by the transformation of livelihoods, landscapes, and social relations. These profound changes...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Reed, Maureen Gail, 1961-, Parkins, J. (John), 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Vancouver [B.C.] : UBC Press, ©2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Toward a Transformative Understanding of Rural Social Change / John R. Parkins and Maureen G. Reed
  • Part 1: History, Trends, and Territory
  • 1 Notes toward a History of Rural Canada, 1870-1940 / R.W. Sandwell
  • 2 Globalization and Rural Change in Canada's Territorial North / Chris Southcott
  • 3 Destination Rural Canada: An Overview of Recent Immigrants to Rural Small Towns / Yoko Yoshida And Howard Ramos.
  • Part 2: Structure and Discourse
  • 4 Rural-Urban Interdependence: Understanding Our Common Interests / Bill Reimer
  • 5 Labour Migration and Mobility in Newfoundland: Social Transformation and Community in Three Rural Areas / Martha Macdonald, Peter Sinclair, and Deatra Walsh
  • 6 Producing Globalization: Gender, Agency, and the Transformation of Rural Communities of Work / Belinda Leach
  • 7 Changes in the Social Imaginings of the Landscape: The Management of Alberta's Rural Public Lands / Lorelei L. Hanson
  • 8 Logic of Land and Power: The Social Transformation of Northern Natural Resource Management / Ken J. Caine
  • 9 Including Youth in an Aging Rural Society: Reflections from Northern British Columbia's Resource Frontier Communities / Laura Ryser, Don Manson, and Greg Halseth.
  • Part 3: Culture and Identity
  • 10 It's Who We Are: Locating Cultural Strength in Relationship with the Land / Jonaki Bhattacharyya, Marilyn Baptiste, David Setah, and Roger William
  • 11 Visions of Rootedness and Flow: Remaking Economic Identity in Post-Resource Communities / Nathan Young
  • 12 Governing Transformation and Resilience: The Role of Identity in Renegotiating Roles for Forest-Based Communities of British Columbia's Interior / Emily Jane Davis and Maureen G. Reed
  • 13 Mill Town Identity Crisis: Reframing the Culture of Forest Resource Dependence in Single-Industry Towns / Ryan Bullock
  • 14 The Social Transformation of Agriculture: The Case of Quebec / Christopher Bryant.
  • Part 4: Voice and Action
  • 16 "That's No Way to Run a Railroad": The Battle River Branchline and the Politics of Technology in Rural Alberta / Darin Barney
  • 16 "It's the Largest, Remotest, Most Wild, Undisturbed Area in the Province": Outdoor Sport and Environmental Conflict in the Tobeatic Wilderness Area, Nova Scotia / Mark C.J. Stoddart
  • 17 Newfoundland and Labrador's Poverty Reduction Strategy: The Transformation of Government- Rural Community Relations, 1999-2009 / Carol-Anne Hudson
  • 18 Cultural and Creative Economy Strategies for Community Transformation: Four Approaches / Ross Nelson, Nancy Duxbury, and Catherine Murray
  • Postscript : The Future of Rural Studies in Canada / John R. Parkins and Maureen G. Reed.