Rural sociology, the strategy of change

Mode of access: Internet.

Social change in rural society; a textbook in rural sociology.

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Ohio's challenge : the magazine of agricultural economics and rural sociology.

Description based on: Vol. 1, issue 2 (spring '88); title from cover.

Introduction to rural sociology,

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Constructive rural sociology,

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Readings in rural sociology.

Mode of access: Internet.

Performing Rural Masculinities : A Case Study of Diggers and Dealers

This chapter examines what Parpart and Zalewski (2008) label 'the man question' in terms of the rural. That is, 'how masculinity comes to be "made" as a continuing process within the social context' of rural places and spaces (Kerfoot and Knights 1993: 662). Our understanding of masculinities as discursively produced, relational, multiple and changing is given empirical force through a case study of the annual resource conference, Diggers and Dealers. The conference, held in the remote mining town of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia since 1992, is today the largest international meeting for the resource sector, attracting over 2000 attendees. Through an analysis of 120 texts related to the conference from 2006 to the present, including media repotis, blogs and conference programs and speeches, we demonstrate how, what is essentially a corporate event, is imported into the rural and constructed through the intersecting discourses of rurality, masculinity and heterosexuality. That is, though the first such meeting may have taken place spontaneously in Kalgoorlie, the delegates, and the 'skimpy' barmaids who serve patrons in their underwear or sometimes topless and are seen as central to the event, are flown into town for the conference. Kalgoorlie, as a working mining community on the edge of the deseti, provides both spectacle and conditions for the enactment of frontier masculinity not possible in the metropole.

Rural women's access to credit

To enhance the role of rural women in development, NGOs have assisted in the establishment of credit programs.

Rural life in process,

Mode of access: Internet.

The rural mind and social welfare;

"References" at end of each chapter.

Rural community organization : selected annotated references /

Includes index.

The country town, a study of rural evolution,

Mode of access: Internet.

Rebuilding rural America,

"Reading list": p. [205]-210.

Emerging rural communities;

Mode of access: Internet.

The rural billion,

Maps on lining-papers.