Rural America globalizing world [electronic resource] : problems and prospects for the 2010's / [edited by] Conner Bailey, Leif Jensen, and Elizabeth Ransom.

"Published in cooperation with the Rural Sociological Society."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Preface -- Rural America in a Globalizing World: Introduction and Overview -- Conner Bailey, Leif Jensen & Elizabeth Ransom -- Part I Changing Structure of Agriculture -- Agriculture and Food in the 2010s, Alessandro Bonanno -- 1. Economic Concentration in the Agrifood System: Impacts on Rural Communities and Emerging Responses -- Douglas H. Constance, Mary Hendrickson, Philip H. Howard, William D. Heffernan -- 2. The Declining Middle of American Agriculture: A Spatial Phenomenon -- Amy Guptill and Rick Welsh -- 3. Land Ownership in American Agriculture -- Douglas Jackson-Smith and Peggy Petrzelka -- 4. Mexican-born Farmworkers in U.S. Agriculture -- Eric B. Jensen -- 5. Agricultural Technologies and the Structure of the North American Agrifood System -- Leland L. Glenna and Christopher R. Henke -- 6. Food Safety and Governance of the Agrifood System -- Michelle R. Worosz and Diana Stewart -- 7. Changing Animal Agriculture and the Issue of Farm Animal Welfare -- Jeff Sharp and Dani Deemer -- 8. Agrifood Movements: Diversity, Aims, and Limits -- Clare Hinrichs and John Eshleman -- Part II Natural Resources and the Environment -- Connections: The Next Decade of Rural Sociological Research on Natural Resources and the Environment, Louise Fortmann, Merrill Baker-Me;dard and Alice Kelly -- 9. Impacts of Climate Change on People and Communities of Rural America -- Lois Wright Morton and Tom Rudel -- 10. Contemporary Water Issues in Rural North America -- Courtney G. Flint and Naomi Krogman -- 11. Resource Dependency in Rural America: Continuities and Change -- Richard S. Krannich, Brian Gentry, A.E. Luloff, and Peter G. Robinson -- 12. The Gulf: America's Third Coast -- Robert Gramling and Shirley Laska -- 13. Biofuels and Rural Communities: Promises, Pitfalls and Uneven Social and Environmental Impacts -- Theresa Selfa and Carmen Bain -- 14. New Natural Gas Development and Rural Communities: Key Issues and Research Priorities -- Abby Kinchy, Simona Perry, Danielle Rhubart, Richard Stedman, Kathryn Brasier, and Jeffrey Jacquet -- 15. Got Coal? The High Cost of Coal on Mining-Dependent Communities in Appalachia and the West -- Suzanne E. Tallichet -- Part III Population Change in Rural North America -- Rural Population Change in Social Context, David L. Brown -- 16. Demographic Trends in Nonmetropolitan America: 2000 to 2010 -- Kenneth M. Johnson -- 17. Population Shifts Across U.S. Nonmetropolitan Regions -- John Cromartie and Timothy S. Parker -- 18. Rural Families and Households and the Decline of Traditional Structure -- Jessica A. Carson and Marybeth J. Mattingly -- 19. Children and Youth in Rural America -- Diane K. McLaughlin and Carla Shoff -- 20. Concentrations of the Elderly in Rural America: Patterns, Processes and Outcomes in a Neoliberal World -- Peter B. Nelson -- 21. New Rural Immigrant Destinations: Research for the 2010s -- Martha Crowley and Kim Ebert -- Part IV Diversity in Rural America -- Gender, Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Sexuality in Rural America, Carolyn Sachs -- 22. The Status of African Americans in the Rural United States -- John J. Green -- 23. Hispanic Immigration, Global Competition, and the Dairy Industry in Rural Communities -- J.D. Wulfhorst, Priscilla Salant, Leigh A. Bernacchi, Stephanie L. Kane, Philip Watson, and Erinn Cruz -- 24. Native Nations in a Changing Global Economy -- Sarah Dewees -- 25. The Past is the Present: Gender and the Status of Rural Women -- Cynthia B. Struthers -- 26. Rolling in the Hay: The Rural as Sexual Space -- Julie C. Keller and Michael M. Bell -- 27. Rural Poverty: The Great Recession, Rising Unemployment, and the Underutilized Safety Net -- Jennifer Sherman -- Part V Rural Economies, Community, and Quality of Life -- Economic Change, Structural Forces and Rural America: Shifting Fortunes across Communities, Linda Lobao -- 28. Education and Schooling in Rural America -- Kai A. Schafft and Catharine Biddle -- 29. Work in Rural America in the Era of Globalization -- Tim Slack -- 30. Rural Entrepreneurship -- Lori A. Dickes and Kenneth L. Robinson -- 31. Community Organization and Mobilization in Rural America -- Cornelia Butler Flora and Jan L. Flora -- 32. Community as Moral Proximity: Theorizing Community in a Global Economy -- Todd L. Goodsell, Jeremy Flaherty, and Ralph B. Brown -- 33. Food Insecurity and Obesity in Rural America: Paradoxes of the Modern Agrifood System -- Keiko Tanaka, Patrick H. Mooney and Brett Wolff -- 34. Thinking About Rural Health -- E. Helen Berry -- 35. Housing in Rural America -- Katherine MacTavish, Ann Ziebarth, and Lance George.

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