Janet Gallingani Casey
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195338959
- eISBN:
- 9780199867103
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195338959.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Women's Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
This book reconceptualizes American modernity by focusing on rurality and women. It challenges the notion of the city as the privileged site of modern experience, arguing that rurality—urbanity’s ...
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This book reconceptualizes American modernity by focusing on rurality and women. It challenges the notion of the city as the privileged site of modern experience, arguing that rurality—urbanity’s opposite, frequently associated with nostalgia and feminine sentimentality—was a fruitful geographic and psychic location for registering women’s perceptions of the modern. As its title implies, however, it is less about the empirical facts of farm life than about its abstractions—the idea of rurality, and the ways in which women were positioned, by themselves and others, in reference to it. Attending closely to language, images, and figurative connections, it demonstrates the theoretical importance of rurality to the imaginative construction of American modernity and modernism, and asserts that women had a special stake in that relation. To that end, it considers idea(l)s of women and rurality across a broad field of discourses and representational arenas, including social theory, periodical literature, literary criticism, photography, and, especially, women’s rural fiction (“low” and “high”). It engages such diverse subjects as eugenics, advertising, the literary prize culture of the 1920s, and the role of the camera in defining women as modern. It also relies on substantial archival research, and explores at length an underrecognized periodical, The Farmer’s Wife, which was the single nationally distributed farm periodical for women in the twentieth century. Ultimately, the book’s aim is to articulate an alternative mode of American modernism that had special meaning and appeal for women, and to show how that mode clearly responded to prevalent attitudes about agrarianism, modernity, and gender in the culture at large.Less
This book reconceptualizes American modernity by focusing on rurality and women. It challenges the notion of the city as the privileged site of modern experience, arguing that rurality—urbanity’s opposite, frequently associated with nostalgia and feminine sentimentality—was a fruitful geographic and psychic location for registering women’s perceptions of the modern. As its title implies, however, it is less about the empirical facts of farm life than about its abstractions—the idea of rurality, and the ways in which women were positioned, by themselves and others, in reference to it. Attending closely to language, images, and figurative connections, it demonstrates the theoretical importance of rurality to the imaginative construction of American modernity and modernism, and asserts that women had a special stake in that relation. To that end, it considers idea(l)s of women and rurality across a broad field of discourses and representational arenas, including social theory, periodical literature, literary criticism, photography, and, especially, women’s rural fiction (“low” and “high”). It engages such diverse subjects as eugenics, advertising, the literary prize culture of the 1920s, and the role of the camera in defining women as modern. It also relies on substantial archival research, and explores at length an underrecognized periodical, The Farmer’s Wife, which was the single nationally distributed farm periodical for women in the twentieth century. Ultimately, the book’s aim is to articulate an alternative mode of American modernism that had special meaning and appeal for women, and to show how that mode clearly responded to prevalent attitudes about agrarianism, modernity, and gender in the culture at large.
Richard Pugh
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861347213
- eISBN:
- 9781447303305
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861347213.001.0001
- Subject:
- Social Work, Social Policy
In much of the West, the concerns of rural people are marginalised and rural issues neglected. This book draws upon a variety of material to show why rural social work is such a challenging field of ...
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In much of the West, the concerns of rural people are marginalised and rural issues neglected. This book draws upon a variety of material to show why rural social work is such a challenging field of practice. It incorporates research from different disciplines and places to provide a comprehensive introduction to rural practice. The first part of the book focuses upon the experience of rurality. The second part turns to the development of rural practice, reviewing different ways of working from casework through to community development.Less
In much of the West, the concerns of rural people are marginalised and rural issues neglected. This book draws upon a variety of material to show why rural social work is such a challenging field of practice. It incorporates research from different disciplines and places to provide a comprehensive introduction to rural practice. The first part of the book focuses upon the experience of rurality. The second part turns to the development of rural practice, reviewing different ways of working from casework through to community development.
Sarah Neal and Julian Agyeman (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861347961
- eISBN:
- 9781447303916
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861347961.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This book explores issues of ethnicity, identity, and radicalised exclusion in rural Britain. It questions what the countryside ‘is’, problematises who is seen as belonging to rural spaces, and ...
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This book explores issues of ethnicity, identity, and radicalised exclusion in rural Britain. It questions what the countryside ‘is’, problematises who is seen as belonging to rural spaces, and argues for the recognition of a rural multiculture. The book brings together the latest research findings to provide an account of current theory, policy, and practice. Using interdisciplinary frameworks and new empirical data, it provides a critical and comprehensive account of the shifting, contested connections between rurality, national identity, and ethnicity. It discusses the relationships between ethnicity, exclusion, policy, practice, and research in a range of rural settings – from the experiences of Gypsy Traveller children in schools to attempts to encourage black and minority ethnic visitors to National Parks, and contributes towards establishing the ‘rural–ethnicity–nation’ relationship as a key consideration on political and policy agendas.Less
This book explores issues of ethnicity, identity, and radicalised exclusion in rural Britain. It questions what the countryside ‘is’, problematises who is seen as belonging to rural spaces, and argues for the recognition of a rural multiculture. The book brings together the latest research findings to provide an account of current theory, policy, and practice. Using interdisciplinary frameworks and new empirical data, it provides a critical and comprehensive account of the shifting, contested connections between rurality, national identity, and ethnicity. It discusses the relationships between ethnicity, exclusion, policy, practice, and research in a range of rural settings – from the experiences of Gypsy Traveller children in schools to attempts to encourage black and minority ethnic visitors to National Parks, and contributes towards establishing the ‘rural–ethnicity–nation’ relationship as a key consideration on political and policy agendas.
Janet Galligani Casey
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195338959
- eISBN:
- 9780199867103
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195338959.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Women's Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
This opening section of the book offers some provocative examples of the relations among women, modernity, and rurality, and lays out the central questions of this study, including: How have ...
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This opening section of the book offers some provocative examples of the relations among women, modernity, and rurality, and lays out the central questions of this study, including: How have assumptions about the mutually constitutive relations between modernity and urbanity obscured rurality’s importance in the modern American cultural consciousness? In what ways did received attitudes about rurality and nostalgia enable special links between women and the rural? How did actual changes in agriculture open up interpretive connections between the farm and modernity, and between the farm and women? How did rurality—traditionally a locus for conservatism—serve as a site for challenging orthodox ideas about gender, race, class, commodity consumption, and women’s reproductive rights? This section also rehearses relevant scholarship in rural history, sociology, and literature.Less
This opening section of the book offers some provocative examples of the relations among women, modernity, and rurality, and lays out the central questions of this study, including: How have assumptions about the mutually constitutive relations between modernity and urbanity obscured rurality’s importance in the modern American cultural consciousness? In what ways did received attitudes about rurality and nostalgia enable special links between women and the rural? How did actual changes in agriculture open up interpretive connections between the farm and modernity, and between the farm and women? How did rurality—traditionally a locus for conservatism—serve as a site for challenging orthodox ideas about gender, race, class, commodity consumption, and women’s reproductive rights? This section also rehearses relevant scholarship in rural history, sociology, and literature.
Janet Galligani Casey
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195338959
- eISBN:
- 9780199867103
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195338959.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Women's Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
This chapter demonstrates the ways in which women’s rural fiction was heavily implicated in conversations about the encroachment of middlebrow culture, and discusses the remarkable popularity of ...
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This chapter demonstrates the ways in which women’s rural fiction was heavily implicated in conversations about the encroachment of middlebrow culture, and discusses the remarkable popularity of best-selling rural fiction by women. It analyzes the economy of literary prizes and the prominent placement of these novels within that economy, and attempts to unpack the presumed relations among women, sentimentality, and rurality. It also reads closely several best-sellers—by Edna Ferber, Martha Ostenso, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, and Gladys Hasty Carroll—both for what they demonstrate about the relations among women, rurality, and the bookselling industry, and to refute the assertion that women’s farm novels of the period were trite, or that they evaded engagement with the pressing concerns of modernity.Less
This chapter demonstrates the ways in which women’s rural fiction was heavily implicated in conversations about the encroachment of middlebrow culture, and discusses the remarkable popularity of best-selling rural fiction by women. It analyzes the economy of literary prizes and the prominent placement of these novels within that economy, and attempts to unpack the presumed relations among women, sentimentality, and rurality. It also reads closely several best-sellers—by Edna Ferber, Martha Ostenso, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, and Gladys Hasty Carroll—both for what they demonstrate about the relations among women, rurality, and the bookselling industry, and to refute the assertion that women’s farm novels of the period were trite, or that they evaded engagement with the pressing concerns of modernity.
Janet Galligani Casey
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195338959
- eISBN:
- 9780199867103
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195338959.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Women's Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
This chapter extends women’s engagement with rurality and modernity into the visual arena, discussing how women photographers performed and sustained their own modernness by photographing a ...
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This chapter extends women’s engagement with rurality and modernity into the visual arena, discussing how women photographers performed and sustained their own modernness by photographing a preindustrial rural other. It considers the camera as a quintessentially modern instrument, one that registers both evidence and perspective and that thereby wields enormous influence in the mediation of rurality for a modern urban audience. It analyzes closely the rural photography of two women, Doris Ulmann and Marion Post, and the philosophical attitudes—toward technology, toward visual evidence, toward rural communities—that shaped their perspectives.Less
This chapter extends women’s engagement with rurality and modernity into the visual arena, discussing how women photographers performed and sustained their own modernness by photographing a preindustrial rural other. It considers the camera as a quintessentially modern instrument, one that registers both evidence and perspective and that thereby wields enormous influence in the mediation of rurality for a modern urban audience. It analyzes closely the rural photography of two women, Doris Ulmann and Marion Post, and the philosophical attitudes—toward technology, toward visual evidence, toward rural communities—that shaped their perspectives.
Loka Ashwood
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780300215359
- eISBN:
- 9780300235142
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300215359.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter argues that in the presence of abundant minorities—of rurality, of poverty, of race, and of region—the corporate form has made a majoritarian feast of the people of Burke County. Letting ...
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This chapter argues that in the presence of abundant minorities—of rurality, of poverty, of race, and of region—the corporate form has made a majoritarian feast of the people of Burke County. Letting the moral economy of democracy reign requires escaping the clutches of the state, which has failed the democratic ethos. Some turn to the forest to practice direct justice, others turn to God to transcend oppression. In either case, the state is something to be overcome, rather than a venue for reform. Hope for all can abound by allowing the moral economy of democracy to reign. Then, the best of intentions—a freedom to do—could inform the structure of society, and people would not need to constantly reposition themselves for defense against the latest attack.Less
This chapter argues that in the presence of abundant minorities—of rurality, of poverty, of race, and of region—the corporate form has made a majoritarian feast of the people of Burke County. Letting the moral economy of democracy reign requires escaping the clutches of the state, which has failed the democratic ethos. Some turn to the forest to practice direct justice, others turn to God to transcend oppression. In either case, the state is something to be overcome, rather than a venue for reform. Hope for all can abound by allowing the moral economy of democracy to reign. Then, the best of intentions—a freedom to do—could inform the structure of society, and people would not need to constantly reposition themselves for defense against the latest attack.
Karen E. Rignall
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781501756122
- eISBN:
- 9781501756146
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501756122.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, African Cultural Anthropology
This chapter opens with a recounting of how small farmers and other residents in Morocco's southeastern oases actively engaged with broader economic and political processes to invest new resources ...
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This chapter opens with a recounting of how small farmers and other residents in Morocco's southeastern oases actively engaged with broader economic and political processes to invest new resources and meaning in their rural roots. It investigates how these investments defied the pessimism about the viability of rural life that had marked dominant narratives and government policy since the French colonial period. Through an ethnography of land, labor, and community, the chapter also looks at how small farmers and other residents crafted a new rurality by reshaping the institutions that govern collective life. This politics of the commons drew on a tradition of legal and political pluralism in the Mgoun Valley, offering new visions for communal governance while also producing contestations over belonging, political representation, and subsistence rights. In arguing for an agrarian rurality constituted through rather than cordoned off from global engagements, the chapter ultimately questions the assumptions about the kinds of politics that can promote land and food sovereignty.Less
This chapter opens with a recounting of how small farmers and other residents in Morocco's southeastern oases actively engaged with broader economic and political processes to invest new resources and meaning in their rural roots. It investigates how these investments defied the pessimism about the viability of rural life that had marked dominant narratives and government policy since the French colonial period. Through an ethnography of land, labor, and community, the chapter also looks at how small farmers and other residents crafted a new rurality by reshaping the institutions that govern collective life. This politics of the commons drew on a tradition of legal and political pluralism in the Mgoun Valley, offering new visions for communal governance while also producing contestations over belonging, political representation, and subsistence rights. In arguing for an agrarian rurality constituted through rather than cordoned off from global engagements, the chapter ultimately questions the assumptions about the kinds of politics that can promote land and food sovereignty.
Karen E. Rignall
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781501756122
- eISBN:
- 9781501756146
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501756122.003.0002
- Subject:
- Anthropology, African Cultural Anthropology
This chapter presents the three main fieldwork sites by relating how different groups' efforts to reimagine communal governance simultaneously drew on and challenged customary tenure practices. As ...
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This chapter presents the three main fieldwork sites by relating how different groups' efforts to reimagine communal governance simultaneously drew on and challenged customary tenure practices. As migration and other changes transformed agrarian rurality in the region, the chapter argues that customary land tenure remained a key site for contesting these historical inequalities and negotiating new approaches to communal governance. The chapter also chronicles what changed between the time Qlaʿa's notables rejected the French request to turn the village path into a road and the time, nearly a century later, when the residents of el Harte began to use that same path to transport their goods to market. The micropolitics of the path offer a window on the larger transformations throughout the Mgoun Valley. By considering the different ways residents of the valley invoked customary tenure in their struggles over collective life, the chapter complicates a common perception that integration into capitalist markets represents a “powerful solvent of the ties that connect locale and 'community'.”Less
This chapter presents the three main fieldwork sites by relating how different groups' efforts to reimagine communal governance simultaneously drew on and challenged customary tenure practices. As migration and other changes transformed agrarian rurality in the region, the chapter argues that customary land tenure remained a key site for contesting these historical inequalities and negotiating new approaches to communal governance. The chapter also chronicles what changed between the time Qlaʿa's notables rejected the French request to turn the village path into a road and the time, nearly a century later, when the residents of el Harte began to use that same path to transport their goods to market. The micropolitics of the path offer a window on the larger transformations throughout the Mgoun Valley. By considering the different ways residents of the valley invoked customary tenure in their struggles over collective life, the chapter complicates a common perception that integration into capitalist markets represents a “powerful solvent of the ties that connect locale and 'community'.”
Karen E. Rignall
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781501756122
- eISBN:
- 9781501756146
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501756122.003.0007
- Subject:
- Anthropology, African Cultural Anthropology
This chapter concludes by situating a half century of transformation in the Mgoun Valley in global debates about supporting rural livelihoods and social life at a time of unprecedented political, ...
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This chapter concludes by situating a half century of transformation in the Mgoun Valley in global debates about supporting rural livelihoods and social life at a time of unprecedented political, environmental, and economic pressures. It recounts individual stories of making do, collective mobilizations asserting new claims, and the gradual reworking of the landscape as social, political, and agricultural acts. The accounts do, however, represent a genealogy of the present, an analysis of how residents in the Mgoun Valley have refigured a vibrant, if conflicted, rurality. The chapter also identifies more durable dynamics informing how people in this rural space constructed their social and economic worlds as fundamentally political projects. Ultimately, the chapter contributes to rethinking political agency and common action in rural North Africa and the Middle East by attending to the quotidian complexities of rural politics and land conflict.Less
This chapter concludes by situating a half century of transformation in the Mgoun Valley in global debates about supporting rural livelihoods and social life at a time of unprecedented political, environmental, and economic pressures. It recounts individual stories of making do, collective mobilizations asserting new claims, and the gradual reworking of the landscape as social, political, and agricultural acts. The accounts do, however, represent a genealogy of the present, an analysis of how residents in the Mgoun Valley have refigured a vibrant, if conflicted, rurality. The chapter also identifies more durable dynamics informing how people in this rural space constructed their social and economic worlds as fundamentally political projects. Ultimately, the chapter contributes to rethinking political agency and common action in rural North Africa and the Middle East by attending to the quotidian complexities of rural politics and land conflict.
Madhu Satsangi, Nick Gallent, and Mark Bevan
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847423856
- eISBN:
- 9781447303985
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847423856.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
Popular conceptions of rurality are not accidental, nor are they natural representations of fact. Rather they are transforming social constructs, based on received remembrance of a past, and on ...
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Popular conceptions of rurality are not accidental, nor are they natural representations of fact. Rather they are transforming social constructs, based on received remembrance of a past, and on antipathy to the dual opposite of the urban set against idealisations of the rural. The media through literature, film, painting, radio, and newspapers have enforced and transmitted these idealisations. Rural spaces and places have also permeated to images and coffee table books which showed myriads of woodland villages and romanticised Shakespearean countryside. These images served as picture-perfect illustrations of rural idyll on a pantomime state than reality. Such constructs of the rural spaces are powerful because they shape views on what countryside is actually like and what it should be like. This chapter discusses the British countryside. It explores how different actors have shaped, and are empowered, and constrained by the rural idylls.Less
Popular conceptions of rurality are not accidental, nor are they natural representations of fact. Rather they are transforming social constructs, based on received remembrance of a past, and on antipathy to the dual opposite of the urban set against idealisations of the rural. The media through literature, film, painting, radio, and newspapers have enforced and transmitted these idealisations. Rural spaces and places have also permeated to images and coffee table books which showed myriads of woodland villages and romanticised Shakespearean countryside. These images served as picture-perfect illustrations of rural idyll on a pantomime state than reality. Such constructs of the rural spaces are powerful because they shape views on what countryside is actually like and what it should be like. This chapter discusses the British countryside. It explores how different actors have shaped, and are empowered, and constrained by the rural idylls.
A. Damodaran
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- October 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198066750
- eISBN:
- 9780199080106
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198066750.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This book focuses on global commons within the larger canvas of the world’s political and economic landscape. It explores global environmental negotiations against the backdrop of complex political ...
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This book focuses on global commons within the larger canvas of the world’s political and economic landscape. It explores global environmental negotiations against the backdrop of complex political relations, the climate change convention in relation to the policies of the developed world, and multilateral environmental assessments and their effect on special interest groups. Finally, it weaves in the story of India’s emergent economy and its sustainable development in this context. Analysing global environmental movements, the book discusses the pattern of global negotiations to portray the plight of a post-modern world that grapples with problems of climate, land degradation, chemical transfers, and biodiversity. The central theme of the book is that plurality and diversity lie at the root of ensuring that a globalized world offers happiness to its citizens.Less
This book focuses on global commons within the larger canvas of the world’s political and economic landscape. It explores global environmental negotiations against the backdrop of complex political relations, the climate change convention in relation to the policies of the developed world, and multilateral environmental assessments and their effect on special interest groups. Finally, it weaves in the story of India’s emergent economy and its sustainable development in this context. Analysing global environmental movements, the book discusses the pattern of global negotiations to portray the plight of a post-modern world that grapples with problems of climate, land degradation, chemical transfers, and biodiversity. The central theme of the book is that plurality and diversity lie at the root of ensuring that a globalized world offers happiness to its citizens.
Sara Le Menestrel
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781628461459
- eISBN:
- 9781626740785
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628461459.003.0004
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter investigates the meanings involved in the valorization of a rural heritage. Characterized as “simple,” “plain,” and “unpolished,” the attributes of the region’s music are integral to the ...
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This chapter investigates the meanings involved in the valorization of a rural heritage. Characterized as “simple,” “plain,” and “unpolished,” the attributes of the region’s music are integral to the ways in which it is technical described, practiced, lived, staged live or displayed on CDs, taught, and recorded. The alleged technical simplicity of this music can be deceptive, however, and presents its own particular set of challenges. The insistence on fun and an approach that presents this music as a way of life combine to constitute a set of codes, rules, and expectations. The representation of the “new” Zydeco sound encapsulates the oppositions between rural and urban and black and white that Zydeco musicians seek to reconcile in order to achieve respectability through their music. Finally, this chapter examines how French Louisiana music is grounded in a profound attachment to place, and more broadly to regional identification with south Louisiana.Less
This chapter investigates the meanings involved in the valorization of a rural heritage. Characterized as “simple,” “plain,” and “unpolished,” the attributes of the region’s music are integral to the ways in which it is technical described, practiced, lived, staged live or displayed on CDs, taught, and recorded. The alleged technical simplicity of this music can be deceptive, however, and presents its own particular set of challenges. The insistence on fun and an approach that presents this music as a way of life combine to constitute a set of codes, rules, and expectations. The representation of the “new” Zydeco sound encapsulates the oppositions between rural and urban and black and white that Zydeco musicians seek to reconcile in order to achieve respectability through their music. Finally, this chapter examines how French Louisiana music is grounded in a profound attachment to place, and more broadly to regional identification with south Louisiana.
A. Damodaran
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- October 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198066750
- eISBN:
- 9780199080106
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198066750.003.0005
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
In his analysis of ‘rurality’ and its role in obstructing modernization, Tom Nairn (1997) sees a connection between seclusion and agricultural growth and provides insights on how seclusion reinforces ...
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In his analysis of ‘rurality’ and its role in obstructing modernization, Tom Nairn (1997) sees a connection between seclusion and agricultural growth and provides insights on how seclusion reinforces national identities. Drawing upon the experience of the arid state of Rajasthan in India, this chapter argues that despite best efforts to diversify the income base in the rural areas, the issue of redistribution of benefits of growth has yet to be addressed. Moreover, environmental degradation exacerbates the depletion of public goods in Rajasthan. Although the World Trade Organization Agreements have provided opportunities to sections of Indian agriculture, India’s advantages in the realm of environmental sustainability have not been utilized to improve global market access. This chapter highlights the role of information and communication technology in promoting future trading for agricultural commodities as a complementary step that could boost the position of India’s agricultural sector in the world trade order.Less
In his analysis of ‘rurality’ and its role in obstructing modernization, Tom Nairn (1997) sees a connection between seclusion and agricultural growth and provides insights on how seclusion reinforces national identities. Drawing upon the experience of the arid state of Rajasthan in India, this chapter argues that despite best efforts to diversify the income base in the rural areas, the issue of redistribution of benefits of growth has yet to be addressed. Moreover, environmental degradation exacerbates the depletion of public goods in Rajasthan. Although the World Trade Organization Agreements have provided opportunities to sections of Indian agriculture, India’s advantages in the realm of environmental sustainability have not been utilized to improve global market access. This chapter highlights the role of information and communication technology in promoting future trading for agricultural commodities as a complementary step that could boost the position of India’s agricultural sector in the world trade order.
Jeremy MacClancy
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719096846
- eISBN:
- 9781526103925
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719096846.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Anthropology, Global
To set the scene for the rest of the book, this chapter discusses the evolving discourses of the rural and the urban, the exploitation of this discourse by some political parties, and the rise of the ...
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To set the scene for the rest of the book, this chapter discusses the evolving discourses of the rural and the urban, the exploitation of this discourse by some political parties, and the rise of the heritage industry. It then proceeds to survey the literature, in both anthropology and geography, on north European immigration into rural Western Europe: who these people are, when they arrived, what effects have they had on the social, economic, and political life of the places they chose to settle in. Since this material is relatively scanty, I have also relied on material within popular travelogues. I then discuss, in a similar manner, the nature and consequence of labour migration from North Africa and Eastern Europe to these areas. I conclude by considering the roles anthropologists can play today in today’s countrysides, in the development of rural life and the formulation of rural policy.Less
To set the scene for the rest of the book, this chapter discusses the evolving discourses of the rural and the urban, the exploitation of this discourse by some political parties, and the rise of the heritage industry. It then proceeds to survey the literature, in both anthropology and geography, on north European immigration into rural Western Europe: who these people are, when they arrived, what effects have they had on the social, economic, and political life of the places they chose to settle in. Since this material is relatively scanty, I have also relied on material within popular travelogues. I then discuss, in a similar manner, the nature and consequence of labour migration from North Africa and Eastern Europe to these areas. I conclude by considering the roles anthropologists can play today in today’s countrysides, in the development of rural life and the formulation of rural policy.
Ashli Que Sinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496809186
- eISBN:
- 9781496809223
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496809186.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
Chapter four examines how barbecue is a Southern cultural institution that sends rhetorical messages about Southern history, gender, race, class, ritual, and fellowship. Barbecue is a type of ...
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Chapter four examines how barbecue is a Southern cultural institution that sends rhetorical messages about Southern history, gender, race, class, ritual, and fellowship. Barbecue is a type of cultural synecdoche that continues to bring different types of people together, telling stories that simultaneously shape and express contemporary Southern identity. If Southern food helps shape identity, barbecue provides a perfect example of this process because its rhetoric and ritual incites profound identification with regional styles. Tussling about which barbecue is best engages identity forming behavior that serves a rhetorical purpose in gradually knitting groups of people together over their shared love of a particular food tradition. Barbecue conveys identificatory messages of authenticity, masculinity, and rurality, stretching casuistically to still be descriptive of the South’s character. The chapter explores how (and whether) perceptions of traditional Southern foods like barbecue stretch to broaden and deepen the narrative about Southern food.Less
Chapter four examines how barbecue is a Southern cultural institution that sends rhetorical messages about Southern history, gender, race, class, ritual, and fellowship. Barbecue is a type of cultural synecdoche that continues to bring different types of people together, telling stories that simultaneously shape and express contemporary Southern identity. If Southern food helps shape identity, barbecue provides a perfect example of this process because its rhetoric and ritual incites profound identification with regional styles. Tussling about which barbecue is best engages identity forming behavior that serves a rhetorical purpose in gradually knitting groups of people together over their shared love of a particular food tradition. Barbecue conveys identificatory messages of authenticity, masculinity, and rurality, stretching casuistically to still be descriptive of the South’s character. The chapter explores how (and whether) perceptions of traditional Southern foods like barbecue stretch to broaden and deepen the narrative about Southern food.
Kristin Solli
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040832
- eISBN:
- 9780252099335
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040832.003.0024
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
This essay examines “country music,” its fans in Norway, and its complicated message about “Europeanization.” It shows how sporting “American” symbols such as cowboy hats and U.S. flags was common ...
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This essay examines “country music,” its fans in Norway, and its complicated message about “Europeanization.” It shows how sporting “American” symbols such as cowboy hats and U.S. flags was common practice among fans of “country music” in Norway at the turn of the 21st century, and argues that these acts represent a rural Norwegian embrace of the U.S. as a way of protesting “Europeanization.” Solli is careful to argue that it never meant embracing U.S. foreign policy in general nor an urban Norwegian pro-Americanism, but she does suggest that taking Norway as a case study is helpful in thinking about many forms of ambivalence, including the transatlantic conflict over the Iraq War. Norwegian discourses about “America” and “Americanization” she argues, must be understood in relation to the European Union and not just in relation to the U.S., but rural-urban conflict in Norway about Norwegian-ness also plays a central role in processes of “othering” that are key in the phenomenon of Norwegian “country music” fandom.Less
This essay examines “country music,” its fans in Norway, and its complicated message about “Europeanization.” It shows how sporting “American” symbols such as cowboy hats and U.S. flags was common practice among fans of “country music” in Norway at the turn of the 21st century, and argues that these acts represent a rural Norwegian embrace of the U.S. as a way of protesting “Europeanization.” Solli is careful to argue that it never meant embracing U.S. foreign policy in general nor an urban Norwegian pro-Americanism, but she does suggest that taking Norway as a case study is helpful in thinking about many forms of ambivalence, including the transatlantic conflict over the Iraq War. Norwegian discourses about “America” and “Americanization” she argues, must be understood in relation to the European Union and not just in relation to the U.S., but rural-urban conflict in Norway about Norwegian-ness also plays a central role in processes of “othering” that are key in the phenomenon of Norwegian “country music” fandom.
Eamon O’Shea and Kieran Walsh
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781447344957
- eISBN:
- 9781447345350
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447344957.003.0007
- Subject:
- Social Work, Health and Mental Health
The way we think about older people’s lives at the intersection of dementia and rurality, and our recognition of the importance of their world, is crucial to ensuring the delivery of more effective ...
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The way we think about older people’s lives at the intersection of dementia and rurality, and our recognition of the importance of their world, is crucial to ensuring the delivery of more effective public supports that can enable them to realise full personhood and citizenship, connected to the people that they love and the places where they live. This chapter uses a social exclusion conceptual framework to unpack complex and multiple challenges facing rural older people with dementia and highlights the importance of adopting a multifaceted holistic approach to support full societal participation. The analysis provides an argument for the recalibration of current dementia policy towards a genuine social production model for rural dwelling people with dementia; one that focuses on supporting them to continue to enjoy active and connected lives in rural communities through practical social policies, such as additional home supports, innovative psychosocial provision and integrated transport arrangements.Less
The way we think about older people’s lives at the intersection of dementia and rurality, and our recognition of the importance of their world, is crucial to ensuring the delivery of more effective public supports that can enable them to realise full personhood and citizenship, connected to the people that they love and the places where they live. This chapter uses a social exclusion conceptual framework to unpack complex and multiple challenges facing rural older people with dementia and highlights the importance of adopting a multifaceted holistic approach to support full societal participation. The analysis provides an argument for the recalibration of current dementia policy towards a genuine social production model for rural dwelling people with dementia; one that focuses on supporting them to continue to enjoy active and connected lives in rural communities through practical social policies, such as additional home supports, innovative psychosocial provision and integrated transport arrangements.
Robert J. Podesva and Janneke Van Hofwegen
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190210366
- eISBN:
- 9780190210397
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190210366.003.0009
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
Recent sociophonetic work on /s/ reveals that sex, gender, and sexual orientation strongly structure variation in the acoustic signal. This chapter acoustically analyzes /s/ production for fifty-one ...
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Recent sociophonetic work on /s/ reveals that sex, gender, and sexual orientation strongly structure variation in the acoustic signal. This chapter acoustically analyzes /s/ production for fifty-one speakers from an inland community in Northern California. It is found that the speakers generally conform to normative patterns (e.g., straight women have fronter /s/ than straight men). At the same time, while /s/ realizations for gay men and lesbians fall within the ranges of their straight counterparts, we find significant differences between straight and LGBT speakers. Moreover, the different gender/sexuality groups in the community in this study produce more extreme variants of /s/ than do their counterparts in urban studies. For example, men and women are even more acoustically distinct from each other, and gay men exhibit much backer /s/. The chapter concludes that political and religious conservativism in the community polarizes gender distinction and pressures sexual minorities to adhere to normative gender patterns.Less
Recent sociophonetic work on /s/ reveals that sex, gender, and sexual orientation strongly structure variation in the acoustic signal. This chapter acoustically analyzes /s/ production for fifty-one speakers from an inland community in Northern California. It is found that the speakers generally conform to normative patterns (e.g., straight women have fronter /s/ than straight men). At the same time, while /s/ realizations for gay men and lesbians fall within the ranges of their straight counterparts, we find significant differences between straight and LGBT speakers. Moreover, the different gender/sexuality groups in the community in this study produce more extreme variants of /s/ than do their counterparts in urban studies. For example, men and women are even more acoustically distinct from each other, and gay men exhibit much backer /s/. The chapter concludes that political and religious conservativism in the community polarizes gender distinction and pressures sexual minorities to adhere to normative gender patterns.
Jan Breman
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199464814
- eISBN:
- 9780199086481
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199464814.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Economic Sociology
The introductory chapter lays out the blueprint of the study along with methodological and field details. Pauperism and pauperization are widespread phenomena in India today. This observation will be ...
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The introductory chapter lays out the blueprint of the study along with methodological and field details. Pauperism and pauperization are widespread phenomena in India today. This observation will be empirically substantiated in this chapter, through a collection of case studies based on spells of fieldwork recently conducted by the author in rural and urban locations or at sites in between. At the bottom of economy and society in India a huge mass has become disembedded from their earlier habitat in village or city. To the author, they are a vast army of reserve labour at the heart of the predatory capitalism that emerged so virulently on the subcontinent of South Asia in the second half of the twentieth century. Remaining footloose and being prepared for shorter or longer sorties nearby or far away is not conditioned by an innate inclination to vagrancy, of which paupers stand accused, but rather propelled by the dire need to scratch around for work hoping that the return will net enough for sheer survival.Less
The introductory chapter lays out the blueprint of the study along with methodological and field details. Pauperism and pauperization are widespread phenomena in India today. This observation will be empirically substantiated in this chapter, through a collection of case studies based on spells of fieldwork recently conducted by the author in rural and urban locations or at sites in between. At the bottom of economy and society in India a huge mass has become disembedded from their earlier habitat in village or city. To the author, they are a vast army of reserve labour at the heart of the predatory capitalism that emerged so virulently on the subcontinent of South Asia in the second half of the twentieth century. Remaining footloose and being prepared for shorter or longer sorties nearby or far away is not conditioned by an innate inclination to vagrancy, of which paupers stand accused, but rather propelled by the dire need to scratch around for work hoping that the return will net enough for sheer survival.