This book explores the dynamics of community development thinking, processes, and approaches in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. It focuses on how local actions are critical in reducing poverty, enhancing local innovations and sustainability, divers...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Aug-2025, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781003695813)
Food education initiatives exist worldwide, but Japan remains unique with its food education law known as shokuiku. Using Foucaults concept of governmentality, historical contextualization, and extensive fieldwork in rural Japan, this study reveals...Loe edasi...
This edited collection presents successful business succession planning in smaller rural communities where profit margins are low, markets are shrinking, and there are few potential buyers. Chapters outline options for successfully transitioning bus...Loe edasi...
Written by a pioneer of rural criminology, Farm Crime: An International Perspective is the first synthesis of the scholarly literature documenting the extent, pattern and cost of crime committed against agricultural operations around the world....Loe edasi...
Building on previous work in rural criminology, this book casts a global and comparative look across nineteen countries, drawing on themes of crime and victimization, safety and fear, practices of policing and police trust, and crime prevention prac...Loe edasi...
Rapid and radical changes were taking place in the countryside. Originally published in 1970, People and the Countryside discusses the legislation affecting the countryside which appeared in the late 1940s and the work of the Countryside in 1970 Con...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Mar-2025, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003541189)
The book expounds on the functioning of rural development as well as the practical problems encountered in the formulation of rural development policies and programs. It will be useful to undergraduate and post graduate students, researchers, teache...Loe edasi...
This book examines the activities or practices of sensing used by visually impaired walkers as they engage with and experience the English countryside....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Dec-2024, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003558316)
This book examines the potential of craft-centered education to influence gender socialization of rural children through a philosophical, sociological and psychological lens. It discusses Gandhis vision of craft-centered education and situates its p...Loe edasi...
This book discusses the place of creative village policy in the revitalization of rural Japan, highlighting how rural Japan is moving from a state of regional extinction to regional rejuvenation....Loe edasi...
Rural Disease Knowledge examines the ways in which knowledge of rural spaces and environments, on the one hand, and infectious diseases, on the other, have become inter-constituted since the late nineteenth century....Loe edasi...
The enormous range of contexts in Africa social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental limits the value of the search for universal solutions to endemic problems. First published in 1992, Development from Within examines an alternative...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1981, the main thesis of this book is that rural labour markets are at the core of the problem of rural depopulation in development countries....Loe edasi...
The book helps to understand the marital experiences of people most of whom belong to the Scheduled Caste. The author describes the shifts within their marriages, remarriages and other kinds of unions and their striking diversities. An important con...Loe edasi...
This book examines how extractivism transforms territories and affects the well-being of rural people, drawing on in-depth fieldwork conducted on tree plantations in Chile....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1979, this book discusses the problem faced by planners, county councils, transport, health and education authorities as well as the inhabitants of rural Britain, of the inaccessibility of many areas of the UK....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1982, this book provides an important set of basic materials for students of rural development. Key papers have been chosen and a general introduction and passages that link the papers provided, alerting the student to rival...Loe edasi...
In the time of agrarian crisis and movement, Remembering Indias Villages centralises the rural Indiaexamining its stubborn past and dynamic present....Loe edasi...
First published in 1978, The End of Tradition is the history of four Surrey villages, the Horsleys and Clandons, close to London but isolated and protected from it by the Green Belt. But the coming of the railway, and later the motor car, provoked t...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1994, this book brings together papers developing feminist analyses of the rural condition from a wide range of industrialised countries, informed by the national and local cultural constructions of gender and rurality which...Loe edasi...
The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Rural Life brings together the latest research on peasantry in medieval Europe. It is an essential reference for scholars and students of medieval history, as well those interested in rural, cultural and social his...Loe edasi...
The book offers insights into the scholarly debates on formal and informal finance in rural China and fills a gap in existing literature....Loe edasi...
This book attempts to document and analyse the complicated role new media play in the adaptation and integration of Chinas new generation of migrant workers....Loe edasi...
Rural Victims of Crime offers a pioneering sustained assessment of the rural victim. It does so by examining and analysing the conceptual constructs of a victim and challenging the urban bias of victimisation and victimology in criminological study....Loe edasi...
As the first volume of a two-volume set, this book systematically examines the process of rural reconstruction in China over the course of the twentieth century, taking into account politics, labour and resources, administration, and institutional i...Loe edasi...
This two-volume set examines the process of rural integration in modern China. In short, this is how the state penetrates the countryside and transforms the rural population, thus consolidating the foundation of modern state governance....Loe edasi...
First published in 1985, Technology and Rural Women synthesizes the fragmented empirical evidence and the wide range of theoretical approaches on the effects of modernisation on women in the developing world....Loe edasi...
This edited collection of essays shows how new electrical technology changed rural life in Britain in the twentieth century, drawing comparisons with other countries and periods. It is concerned not only with the changing availability and different...Loe edasi...
This book draws on preeminent planning theorist Patsy Healeys personal experiences as a resident of a small rural town in England, to explore what place and community mean in a particular context, and how different initiatives struggle to get a sta...Loe edasi...
By detailing an explanatory sequential mixed methods study grounded in Critical Race Theory (CRT), this book explores the role of effective educational leadership in developing multicultural acceptance in predominantly white schools....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 2003, this volume studies village politics and the changes brought about in rural society through political developments. It focuses on the social, political and cultural circumstances of communist mobilization in rural West...Loe edasi...
The Many Roads to Becoming Modern explores collectivism in the context of contemporary rural Chinese history. Following the history of a southern village from 1949 to the present, the author attempts to understand the origin and current state of c...Loe edasi...
Rural Crime Prevention: Theory, Tactics and Techniques critically analyses, challenges, considers and assesses a suite of crime prevention initiatives across an array of international contexts. Importantly, this book also incorporates non-academic v...Loe edasi...
This book explores the large-scale impacts of economic restructuring in the Midwest in response to the 1980s farm crisis. Drawing upon detailed surveys from twelve north-central states, the authors offer a comprehensive view of farm restructuring an...Loe edasi...
Presenting a broad range of case studies, this book explores rural social movements contesting natural resource development initiatives....Loe edasi...
This is the first study of a transhumant cattle-raising community in Spain. Transhumance is the seasonal moving of livestock to another region....Loe edasi...
In the past sheep-rearing was the main means of existence for most Bedouin. Today it is developing in a new direction. For some it is as important as ever, for others it has become only a subsidiary source of income and a safeguard against economic...Loe edasi...
Amazonian Caboclo Society is concerned with peasant society in Brazilian Amazonia. Most anthropological work in Amazonia has focused on Indian groups, and caboclos (peasants of mixed ancestry) have generally been regarded as relics of the haphazard...Loe edasi...
The constantly changing circumstances of rural life in sub-Saharan Africa have brought with them both successes and failures. The essays in this volume examine the various pressures and inducements to changing resource-use patterns faced by rural ho...Loe edasi...
This is an important innovative analysis of communication and society in Pahang, West Malaysia, based on fieldwork carried out in Kampung Kuala Bera....Loe edasi...
In this ground-breaking study based on ethnographic research in Formentera, in the Balearic Islands, the author demonstrates that European kinship can become central to anthropological explanation once it is understood from a symbolic and cultural p...Loe edasi...
