ISBN:
0300235143
,
9780300235142
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource
,
illustrations
Serie:
Yale Agrarian studies series
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Ashwood, Loka For-Profit Democracy
DDC:
303.38
Schlagwort(e):
Rural population Attitudes
;
Sociology, Rural
;
Public opinion
;
Sociology, Rural
;
Rural population ; Attitudes
;
Politics and government ; Public opinion
;
Public opinion
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General
;
United States Politics and government
;
Public opinion
;
United States
Kurzfassung:
A fascinating sociological assessment of the damaging effects of the for profit partnership between government and corporation on rural Americans Why is government distrust rampant, especially in the rural United States? This book offers a simple explanation: corporations and the government together dispossess rural people of their prosperity, and even their property. Based on four years of fieldwork, this eye opening assessment by sociologist Loka Ashwood plays out in a mixed race Georgia community that hosted the first nuclear power reactors sanctioned by the government in three decades. This work serves as an explanatory mirror of prominent trends in current American politics. Churches become havens for redemption, poaching a means of retribution, guns a tool of self defense, and nuclear power a faltering solution to global warming as governance strays from democratic principles. In the absence of hope or trust in rulers, rural racial tensions fester and divide. The book tells of the rebellion that unfolds as the rights of corporations supersede the rights of humans
Kurzfassung:
Reaction.Welcome to Burke County --For-profit democracy --Meltdown.The moral economy of democracy --The rule of numbers --Fallout.The rural rebel --The transcendent people --Freedom under the gun --Recovery.The moral economy's freedom.
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
