Comunidades rurales

Sociedad y ciencias sociales / Sociedad y cultura: general / Grupos sociales / Comunidades rurales (312)

Sociedad y ciencias sociales / Sociedad y cultura: general / Grupos sociales / Comunidades rurales
Libros Eliminar filtro Sociedad y ciencias sociales Eliminar filtro Sociedad y cultura: general Eliminar filtro Grupos sociales Eliminar filtro Comunidades rurales Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • Seven Lean Years
    Ellen Winston / T. J. Woofter Jr. / TJWoofter Jr.
    The primary objective of this book is to give consideration to rural problems in terms of human elements as well as in terms of production, prices, and markets. Actual relief cases are described to illustrate the cause and effect of federal relief on families in various sections of the United States.Originally published in 1939.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring...
    Disponible

    61,24 €

  • Marcia's Revenge
    Marj Charlier
    The Sweetest Revenge Comes from Unexpected Places -- Since she was a young girl, Marcia knew she couldn't stay in tiny Johnson Station, Iowa, and have a satisfying career. Her father had said so. Now unjustly fired from the town's only bank, she yearns for a job -- somewhere else -- that will cap off her professional life with the patina of success.  Waylaid by her frie...
    Disponible

    11,28 €

  • En el nombre del turista:
    Pablo García
    El distrito de Chinchero, ubicado a treinta kilómetros de Cusco sobre el eje turístico principal de la región, ha sido testigo de un incremento sostenido en el número de turistas. Este proceso se aceleró claramente desde 1960 y particularmente durante los años noventa y la primera década del siglo XXI. El autor se enfoca en el desarrollo turístico como medio para estudiar el ca...
    Disponible

    29,12 €

  • Reinventing Rural
    Gregory Fulkerson
    Reinventing Rural is a collection of original research papers that examine the ways in which rural people and places are changing in the context of an urbanizing world. This includes exploring the role of the environment, the economy, and related issues such as tourism. While traditionally relying on primary sector work in agriculture, mining, natural resources, and the like, r...
    Disponible

    61,28 €

  • An Olive Grove at the Edge of the World
    Jared Gulian
    Discover the hilarious and endearing tale of how two American city boys learn to become olive farmers in rural New Zealand. For Jared Gulian, leaving the United States and coming to tiny Wellington, New Zealand, was a big enough switch from the bright lights of big cities. So when his partner CJ decided they just had to buy a rundown olive grove in the Wairarapa valley, it was ...
    Disponible

    15,75 €

  • Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India
    Kenneth Bo Nielsen
    ’Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India’ analyses the political mobilization of farmers in Singur, West Bengal, in defence of their farmland. By foregrounding the everyday politics of popular mobilization, the book sheds new light on the internal politics of one of India’s most talked-about new land wars. ...
    Disponible

    165,67 €

  • Bounded Field
    Jaro Stacul
    Regionalism is one of the most debated issues in contemporary western Europe. Yet why the region, rather than the nation state, can have such a strong appeal for the construction of social and political identity remains largely unexplored. Drawing on data collected in the mountainous Trentino region of northern Italy, the author investigates how ideas about village boundaries a...
    Disponible

    44,61 €

  • Conceptualizing Environmental Justice
    Damayanti Banerjee
    Conceptualizing Environmental Justice evolved from an ethnographic study of an environmental justice movement in a rural community called Land Between the Rivers in Kentucky. The environmental movement emerged as a result of collective displacement for the construction of two dams and an environmental refuge over a period of sixty years. This book explores the historical and co...
    Disponible

    115,68 €

  • The Politics of Local Government
    Barry E Truchil / Barry E. Truchil / Barry ETruchil
    Combining scholarly literature with elected experience at the local governmental level, Barry E. Truchil addresses the inner workings and politics of local government in small town and suburban settings in The Politics of Local Government. This book explores issues involving development and implementation of budgets, regulation, and control of development (including conversion ...
    Disponible

    108,89 €

  • Reconfigured Agrarian Relations in Zimbabwe
    Toendepi Shonhe
    Radical land reform programmes generate changes in agrarian structures and capital accumulation trajectories in the countryside. This book examines how capital accumulation is being reshaped by changing financing and marketing of agricultural commodities and presents an emerging Quadi-PMMR-model agrarian structure composed of the poor, middle, middle-to-rich peasants and some r...
    Disponible

    49,09 €

  • Multiple Faces of Khat
    Asnake Kefale / Zerihun Mohammed
    FSS, in collaboration with the Civil Society Support Programme I(CSSPI), designed and implemented a project on khat in Ethiopia. The project had three components: research, national conference and production of a documentary film. The research contained, two studies based on rigorous field research and using qualitative and quantitative data. The research reports, the socio-eco...
    Disponible

    49,96 €

  • Justicia intercultural y bienestar emocional
    Ana María Villacorta Pino / Antonio Peña Jumpa / Juan Ansion / Miryam Rivera Holguín
    Hacer justicia, desde el punto de vista andino, es restablecer vínculos. Esa es la principal conclusión a la que llegamos al término de nuestro trabajo con estudiantes y docentes de la Universidad Nacional de San Cristóbal de Huamanga.Esta manera de entender la justicia choca con la concepción legalista que se centra en la imposición de la formalidad de la ley abstracta e imper...
    Disponible

    16,87 €

  • Desmistificación de la Cultura Aymara
    Noel Coronel Gutiérrez
    Se encuentran en la documentación antropológica y en las investigaciones culturales, sociológicas e historiográficas, vertidas ante los lectores del mundo, las siguientes descripciones esotéricas acerca de nuestra cultura: Que nuestros niños alcanzan la madurez al cortárseles el cabello por primera vez; que nuestros jóvenes practican el matrimonio de prueba antes de casarse; qu...
    Disponible

    72,84 €

  • Transforming the Rural
    This book analyses the key global processes transforming rural spaces in the early 21st century - financialization; standardization; consumption, and commodification. Through detailed case studies, the book examines why these processes are important, how they work in practice, and the challenges they raise as well as opportunities created. ...
    Disponible

    226,50 €

  • Citizens, Civil Society and Heritage-making in Asia
    ...
    Disponible

    36,33 €

  • Flows and Practices
    For the past two decades, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has been the dominant paradigm in water resources. This book explores how ideas of IWRM are being translated and adapted in Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Grounded in social science theory and research, it highlights the importance of politics, history and culture in shaping water m...
    Disponible

    59,14 €

  • Tourism and Prosperity in Miao Land
    Xianghong Feng
    In Tourism and Prosperity in Miao Land, Xianghong Feng focuses on the intersection of tourism, power, and inequality in the southern interior of China. In this region, capital-intensive and elite-directed tourism has reshaped the social and cultural patterns of the ethnic Miao and other local residents. Using ethnographic fieldwork conducted over the course of a decade, Feng ex...
    Disponible

    129,11 €

  • Children of the River
    Rose Stoltzfus Huyard
    Experience a life that few people live today. It’s a life filled with physical risk requiring each member to work—and play—for the good of the whole. Told with refreshing forthrightness, this tribute and memoir is a heartwarming story of 19 children growing up in a Mennonite home and farming community. The Susquehanna River is the touchstone for recollections of obstacles, triu...
    Disponible

    41,14 €

  • Town Union Governance
    Felix Nweke
    Town union governments are powerful agents of development through promoting peace, economic and environmental protection activities at the village community level in Eastern Nigeria. Igbo communities organize town unions as indigenous self-help community development associations without government influence as a platform for implementing development projects in their towns/vill...
    Disponible

    25,84 €

  • Imaginar la nación. Viajes en busca del «verdadero Perú» (1881-1932)
    José Luis Rénique
    Bajo la bruma de la derrota en la Guerra del Pacífico, ante el reto de la reconstrucción, emerge el perfil de un «verdadero Perú», andino e indígena. Con la palabra escrita y su propia imaginación como vehículos emprende su exploración la intelectualidad. Como negación idealizada del país derrotado en las pampas de San Juan, como tierra prometida de la nacionalidad, brota de su...
    Disponible

    41,60 €

  • Reinventing Rural
    Reinventing Rural is a collection of original research papers that examine the ways in which rural people and places are changing in the context of an urbanizing world. This includes exploring the role of the environment, the economy, and related issues such as tourism. While traditionally relying on primary sector work in agriculture, mining, natural resources, and the like, r...
    Disponible

    129,11 €

  • Ordered Estates
    Andrew Hartnack
    There is a growing body of work on white farmers in Zimbabwe. Yet the role played by white women – so-called ‘farmers’ wives’ – on commercial farms has been almost completely ignored, if not forgotten. For all the public role and overt power ascribed to white male farmers, their wives played an equally important, although often more subtle, role in power and labour relations on...
    Disponible

    50,62 €

  • Metropolitan Ruralities
    During modernity metropolitan ruralities have been regarded as land reserves for urban expansion. However, there is a growing insight that there are limits to the urban expansion into rural areas. This volume discusses potential developments in urban (and rural) policy and planning which need to be considered. ...
    Disponible

    257,05 €

  • Reimagining Rural
    Reimagining Rural: Urbanormative Portrayals of Rural Life examines the ways in which rural people and places are being portrayed by popular television, reality television, film, literature, and news media in the United States. It is also an examination of the social processes that reinforce urbanormative standards that normalize urban life and render rural life as something unu...
    Disponible

    129,41 €

  • Land and Development in Indonesia
    Indonesia was founded on the ideal of the 'Sovereignty of the People', which suggests the pre-eminence of people’s rights to access, use and control land to support their livelihoods. Yet, many questions remain unresolved. How can the state ensure access to land for agriculture and housing while also supporting land acquisition for investment in industry and infrastructure? Wha...
    Disponible

    36,03 €

  • Los nuevos incas:
    Raúl H. Asensio / Raúl HAsensio
    Desarrollo rural es al mismo tiempo un proyecto, un deseo y una ideología política. Este libro analiza cómo estas tres dimensiones se conectan e influyen entre sí en un territorio concreto del sur andino: la provincia de Quispicanchi (Cusco).Sobre la base de una amplia documentación, entrevistas y encuestas recopiladas a lo largo de casi una década, el autor desentraña la histo...
    Disponible

    39,52 €

  • Nation-Building and Community in Israel
    Dorothy Willner
    The author approaches the intricate process of nation-building in Israel through an examination of transformations which took place within a major development sector, rural land settlement, during Israel’s first decade of statehood. Based on four years of observation in Israel, the study analyzes the ways in which this state worked out the urgent problems that confront a new na...
    Disponible

    279,94 €

  • INTERSTATE 69
    MATT DELLINGER
    ...
    Disponible

    18,66 €

  • House, Home and Society
    Keith Jacobs / Rowland Atkinson
    How are contemporary social divisions reinforced through the housing system? How should we understand problems of migration and household displacement? How do gender, sexuality and work shape the experience of the home? This text explores how sociologists should confront many of the most pressing housing issues and related political questions today. ...
    Disponible

    226,42 €

  • A Shepherd’s Life
    William Henry Hudson
    Born in Argentina in 1841, William Henry Hudson grew up in that boisterous, lawless land of wild animals and even wilder desperados. He wrote about both, from recondite papers in 'Proc'eedings of the Zoological Society of London' to best selling novels including Green Mansions' and 'The Purple Land'. Argentina claimed him for her own and, even today, the...
    Disponible

    12,94 €


01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 Última