Contesting Rural Space

Author : R.W. Sandwell
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773572635
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Rural Space written by R.W. Sandwell and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005-05-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing mix of African-American, First Nation, Hawaiian, and European, the early residents of Saltspring Island were neither successful farmers nor full-time waged workers, neither squatters nor bona-fide landowners. Contesting Rural Space explores how these early settlers created and sustained a distinctive society, culture, and economy. In the late nineteenth century, residents claiming land on Saltspring Island walked a careful line between following mandatory homestead policies and manipulating these policies for their own purposes. The residents favoured security over risk and modest sufficiency over accumulation of wealth. Government land policies, however, were based on an idea of rural settlement as commercially successful family farms run by sober and respectable men. Settlers on Saltspring Island, deterred by the poor quality of farmland but encouraged by the variety of part-time, off-farm remunerative occupations, the temperate climate, First Nations cultural and economic practices, and the natural abundance of the Gulf Island environment, made their own choices about the appropriate uses of rural lands. R.W. Sandwell shows how the emerging culture differed from both urban society and ideals of rural society.

Author : Michael Woods
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351948911
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Rurality written by Michael Woods and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural issues have gained national prominence in Britain in recent years. The future of hunting, the Foot and Mouth outbreak, farm income and agricultural reform and housing development have all claimed political and media attention, promoted by a vocal rural lobby and headline-grabbing protests and demonstrations. Combining detailed empirical research and case studies with theoretically informed critical analysis, this book provides an overview of the contemporary politics of the British countryside. It explores how and why rural issues have suddenly achieved such political prominence, by examining the changing politics and governance of rural Britain from the local to the national scale over the past century. It investigates the social, economic and institutional restructuring of rural communities and argues that we are witnessing not so much a rural politics, but a 'politics of the rural' in which the definition and representation of rurality itself has become the key focus of conflict.

Author : Daniel Samson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773533532
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spirit of Industry and Improvement written by Daniel Samson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of improvement permeated social and political discourse in colonial Canadian society. From agriculture to building roads and mills to defining correct habits and behaviour, Nova Scotia's improvers embraced the ideals of innovation and progress and promoted modern programs of government. Daniel Samson moves Nova Scotia and rural Canada from the colonial margins to the heart of a modernizing society, showing how the countryside functioned as a centre of change and innovation. He connects a fascinating spectrum of sites, actors, and strategies and links settlement, farm-building, rural market formation, and early industrialization to the heterogeneous strategies of families and state actors, the rural poor, and rural elites. The Spirit of Industry and Improvement presents the first-ever overview of rural colonial Nova Scotia and provides compelling insights into the formation of modern liberal practices of government and self-government in British North America.

Author : Paul Cloke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134769555
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contested Countryside Cultures written by Paul Cloke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts the experiences of marginalised groups living in (and visiting) the countryside, revealing how notions of the rural have been created to reflect and reinforce divisions among those living there.

Author : Tai-Chee Wong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136923780
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaces written by Tai-Chee Wong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the 1990s following the end of the Cold War which marked the advent of a renewed phase of globalization. Cities have become centrally implicated in globalization processes and, therefore, have become objects and sites of intense study. The contributors to this book reflect on the impact and significance of migration with a particular focus on the contested spaces that are emerging in urban contexts and the economic, social, religious and cultural domains with which they intersect. They also examines the roles and effects of different forms of migration in the cauldron of urban change, from low-skilled domestic migrants who maintain a close engagement with their rural homes, to highly skilled/professional transnational migrants, to legal and illegal international migrants who arrive with the hope of transforming their livelihoods. Providing a mosaic of insights into the links between migration, marginalization and contestation in Asia’s urban contexts, Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaces will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian studies, migration studies, urban studies and human geography.

Author : Elizabeth J. Perry
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415301696
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Society written by Elizabeth J. Perry and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition brings the text fully up to date, adding three new chapters on Falun Gong, Christianity and land struggles. Chinese Society provides a comprehensive resource for both undergraduates and specialists in Chinese Studies.

Author : Jonathan Unger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317476328
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Associations and the Chinese State: Contested Spaces written by Jonathan Unger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What role do Chinese popular associations play in the expansion of civil society and democratization? Under Mao few associations were permitted to exist, while today over 200,000 associations are officially recognized. Are they important foundations of civil society, or vehicles for state corporatism and control? In this book leading China specialists examine an interesting range of associations, from business associations to trade unions, to urban homeowners associations, women's groups against domestic violence, and rural NGOs that develop anti-poverty programs. The contributors find different important trends underway in different parts of China's economy and society. Their findings are nuanced, insightful - and often not what might be expected.

Author : James Murton
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774840714
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating a Modern Countryside written by James Murton and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1900s, British Columbia embarked on a brief but intense effort to manufacture a modern countryside. The government wished to reward Great War veterans with new lives: settlers would benefit from living in a rural community, considered a more healthy and moral alternative to urban life. But the fundamental reason for the land resettlement project was the rise of progressive or “new liberal” thinking, as reformers advocated an expanded role for the state in guaranteeing the prosperity and economic security of its citizens. James Murton examines how this process unfolded, and demonstrates how the human-environment relationship of the early twentieth century shaped the province as it is today.

Author : Catharine Anne Wilson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773575138
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tenants in Time written by Catharine Anne Wilson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2009 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life as a tenant farmer in a society where ownership was revered but tenancy was of vital importance.

Author : John Belshaw
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774858699
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming British Columbia written by John Belshaw and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming British Columbia is the first comprehensive, demographic history of British Columbia. Investigating critical moments in the demographic record and linking demographic patterns to larger social and political questions, it shows how biology, politics, and history conspired with sex, death, and migration to create a particular kind of society. John Belshaw overturns the widespread tendency to associate population growth with progress. He reveals that the province has a long tradition of thinking and acting vigorously in ways meant to control and shape biological communities of humans, and suggests that imperialism, race, class, and gender have historically situated population issues at the centre of public consciousness in British Columbia.