Rural residents face distinct health challenges due to economic conditions, cultural/behavioural factors, and health provider shortages that combine to impose striking disparities in health outcomes among rural populations. This comprehensive text about the issues of rural public health is the only book to focus on rural health from the ......
Using case study research, framed by urbanormativity theory, this book tells the auto-ethnographic, recent history of rural schools in upstate New York.
Representing Rural Women examines representations of the lives and experiences of rural women in North American literature, popular culture, and print, visual, and digital media. It highlights the complexity and diversity of rural women by considering intersecting issues of region, class, race and ethnicity, sexuality, and gender identity.
Poverty and Neglected Tropical Diseases in the American Rural South explores the conditions of extreme poverty in the American South that allow Neglected Tropical Diseases to infect 12 million people in the richest country in the world.
Examines local food movement activism in a period of increasing climate chaos and neoliberal crisis, economic inequalities and political divisions In the face of numerous challenges, small-scale farming for local markets requires enormous courage and optimism. The decision to become a farmer often arises from a profound desire to uphold certain ......
Examines local food movement activism in a period of increasing climate chaos and neoliberal crisis, economic inequalities and political divisions In the face of numerous challenges, small-scale farming for local markets requires enormous courage and optimism. The decision to become a farmer often arises from a profound desire to uphold certain ......
National immigration debates have thrust both opponents of immigration and immigrant rights supporters into the news. But what happens once the rallies end and the banners come down? What is daily life like for Latinos who have been presented nationally as "terrorists, drug smugglers, alien gangs, and violent criminals"? Latino Heartland offers an ......
National immigration debates have thrust both opponents of immigration and immigrant rights supporters into the news. But what happens once the rallies end and the banners come down? What is daily life like for Latinos who have been presented nationally as "terrorists, drug smugglers, alien gangs, and violent criminals"? Latino Heartland offers an ......
Well Owners, Environmentalism, and the Depletion of the High Plains Aqui
Based on surveys with over 850 participants, this book explores the ways in which well ownership shapes people's beliefs and actions about water in Kansas. The author frames well owners as a community pivotal to safeguarding aquifers that is defined by their understanding of drought and reliance on aquifers.
