Endangered Spaces, Enduring Places: Change, Identity, And Survival In Rural America / Edition 1

by Janet M. Fitchen

Overview

This book aims to portray and explain in a holistic manner the interrelated changes that are currently occurring in rural America, so that there will be a better basis for understanding their effects on rural people and places. It deals with identity and survival of rural communities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367153298
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/07/2020
Pages:	330
Product dimensions:	5.81(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Rural America in a Time of Change Part One: The Farm Crisis and its Challenge to Rural Community Life 2. Dairy Farms in a Time of Change: Struggle for Survival 3. Community Impacts: The Special Significance of Dairy Farm Losses Part Two: Shifting Nonfarm Economies 4. Paradox in Rural Economies: Vigor and Vulnerability 5. Plant Closings and Substitute Jobs: Labor Force for Sale Part Three: Changing Rural Populations 6. People and Places: Demographic Change and Local Response 7. Perceptions and Frictions: Problems in Accepting and Absorbing Newcomers Part Four: Worsening Rural Poverty 8. Poverty in Rural Places: Patterns and Changes 9. The Dynamics of Rural Impoverization: Causes and Processes Part Five: Providing Community Services in Changing Circumstances 10. Problems in Meeting Rural Service Needs 11. Local Innovation and Cooperation Part Six: Changes and Challenges in Local Government 12. Leadership and Local Government in Flux: Changes in Who, What, and How 13. New Governmental Interactions Around a New Environmental Problem Part Seven: New Uses for Rural Lands: Dumping Ground for Society 14. Prisons in the Wilderness: The New Growth Industry of Rural New York 15. Waste Disposal: LLRW and Other LULUs Part Eight: Rural Identity and Survival 16. What Then Is Rural? Challenges to Rural and Community Identity 17. Ensuring the Survival of Rural Places

Editorial Reviews

The farm crisis of the 1980s was a period of major social, economic, and demographic changes that resulted in serious disruptions in the lives of rural residents. Fitchen, author of Poverty in Rural America ( LJ 5/15/81), studied the causes and consequences of these changes in five upstate New York counties. Through personal observation, interviews, and primary and secondary sources, she presents an eye-opening look at the effects of change on farm and nonfarm families. She also examines how jobs, housing, water quality, waste disposal, outside developers, the building of prisons, and local and state governments have been affected. Fitchen gives county residents high marks for their willingness to accept change and the determination to work together for community enhancement and survival. Recommended for rural sociology collections.-- Irwin Weintraub, Rutgers Univ. Libs., Piscataway, N.J.

Library Journal

A view of rural America under siege based on a study conducted in five upstate New York counties. It explores changes affecting farmland and threatening a way of life. Problems discussed include the farm crisis, broken families, the encroachment of urban poor, and land being targeted for hazardous waste dumps. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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