Studies in Urbanormativity : Rural Community in Urban Society.

Studies in Urbanormativity: Rural Community in Urban Society examines the ways by which rural life comes to be dominated structurally, culturally, and spatially by urban society. Urbanormativity is an ideology that provides legitimacy for this domination, holding rural life as deviant and urban life...

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Main Author:	Fulkerson, Gregory
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Lexington Books, 2013.
Subjects:	City and town life. Rural conditions. Sociology, Rural. Sociology, Urban. rural sociology. urban sociology. City and town life Rural conditions Sociology, Rural Sociology, Urban
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Table of Contents:

Introduction
1 Urbanization, Urbanormativity, and Place-Structuration
2 Critical Concepts for Studying Communities and their Built Environments
3 Historic Hartwick: Reading Civic Character in a Living Landscape
4 Stigma, Reputation, and Place Structuration in a Coastal New England Town
5 "Taking the Cure" The Rural as a Place of Health and Wellbeing in New York State during the Late 1800's and early 1900's
6 Minority Groups and the Informal Economy: English Speakers in Quebec's Eastern Townships
7 Eaten Up: Urban Foraging and Rural Identity
8 Fracture Lines
9 "Fagging" the Countryside? (De) "Queering" Rural Queer Studies
10 Return to Ridgefield Corners: Cultural Continuity and Change in a Rural Village
11 Inbred Horror: Degeneracy, Revulsion, and Fear of the Rural Community
12 Matrixed Inequality, Rurality, and Access to Substance Abuse Treatment: A Community Structure Analysis of North Carolina Communities
13 Eliminating Organizational Tensions, Dis-embedding Farmers: A Ten Year Retrospective on the (Organizational) Political-Economic Losses of Dakota Growers Pasta Cooperative
14 A Study of Sustainability: Entropy and the Urban/Rural Transition
15 Conclusion
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Studies in Urbanormativity : Rural Community in Urban Society.

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