Loka Ashwood; Aimee Imlay; Lindsay Kuehn; Allen Franco; Danielle Diamond University of North Carolina Press (2023) Saatavuus: Tilaustuote Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Loka Ashwood; Danielle Diamond; Allen Franco; Aimee Imlay; Lindsay Kuehn The University of North Carolina Press (2023) Saatavuus: Tilaustuote Kovakantinen kirja
Isaac Leslie; Laura Hanson Schlachter; Loka L. Ashwood; Michael Mayerfeld Bell SAGE Publications Inc (2020) Saatavuus: Tilaustuote Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Yale University Press Sivumäärä: 328 sivua Asu: Kovakantinen kirja Julkaisuvuosi: 2018, 14.08.2018 (lisätietoa) Kieli: Englanti
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.