Writing Off the Rural West: Globalization, Governments and the Transformation of Rural Communities

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University of Alberta, 2001 - Business & Economics - 330 pages
This collection reveals the situation in rural Canada in a new light; but more than that, it shows us that the ability to renew our rural communities remains within our grasp if we have the will to do so."--BOOK JACKET.
 

Contents

The View from the Family Farm
21
Bad to the Bone
39
Global Investment and Local Politics
53
Lessons from New Brunswick
71
Globalization Neoliberalism and Rural Decline
89
RESOURCE TOWNS AND RECREATION
107
Blind Spots in the Rearview Mirrors
127
Nature as Playground
145
The Politics of Development on the Sunshine Coast
185
DEFENDING REAL RURAL COMMUNITIES
203
Overcoming Cultural and Spiritual Obstacles to Rural
223
Work Knowledge and the Direction of Farm Life
247
A Good Place to Grow Old?
263
The Rancher and the Regulators
279
The Political Deskilling of Rural Communities
301
Rewriting the Rural West
325

The Disappearance of the Open West
165
Copyright

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About the author (2001)

Roger Epp is Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta. He served as founding Dean of the University's Augustana Campus in Camrose from 2004 to 2011. Much of his recent writing has explored what it means to live in the prairie West with a sense of memory, inheritance, and care. He is author of We are All Treaty People: Prairie Essays (2008), co-editor of Writing Off the Rural West (2001) and co-producer of the documentary "The Canadian Clearances" for CBC Radio Ideas.

Bibliographic information

TitleWriting Off the Rural West: Globalization, Governments and the Transformation of Rural Communities
AuthorParkland Institute
EditorsRoger Epp, David Whitson
Editionillustrated
PublisherUniversity of Alberta, 2001
ISBN0888643780, 9780888643780
Length330 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Business & Economics / General
Political Science / Globalization
Political Science / International Relations / Trade & Tariffs
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Sociology / Rural
  
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