Politics and Rural Power Struggle
Author: D. C. Miglani
Publisher: Deep and Deep Publications
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9788171005789
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Power Struggles
Author: Jaume Franquesa
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2018-04-23
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0253033748
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWind energy is often portrayed as a panacea for the environmental and political ills brought on by an overreliance on fossil fuels, but this characterization may ignore the impact wind farms have on the regions that host them. Power Struggles investigates the uneven allocation of risks and benefits in the relationship between the regions that produce this energy and those that consume it. Jaume Franquesa considers Spain, a country where wind now constitutes the main source of energy production. In particular, he looks at the Southern Catalonia region, which has traditionally been a source of energy production through nuclear reactors, dams, oil refineries, and gas and electrical lines. Despite providing energy that runs the country, the region is still forced to the political and economic periphery as the power they produce is controlled by centralized, international Spanish corporations. Local resistance to wind farm installation in Southern Catalonia relies on the notion of dignity: the ability to live within one's means and according to one's own decisions. Power Struggles shows how, without careful attention, renewable energy production can reinforce patterns of exploitation even as it promises a fair and hopeful future.
Rural Versus Urban Political Power
Author: Gordon E. Baker
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-11-02
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 9780260156464
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Rural Versus Urban Political Power: The Nature and Consequences of Unbalanced Representation The foregoing paragraphs might seem little more than interesting socio logical Observations were it not for the fact that the conflict between urban and rural interests is in fact a far-reaching and increasingly important struggle for power in American politics - national, state, and local. For, while urbanization continues at a rapid pace, our political institutions more often than not reflect patterns from the rural past. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Rural Politics in Contemporary China
Author: Emily T. Yeh
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-01-22
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1317661753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection provides an overview of China’s rural politics, bringing scholarship on agrarian politics from various social science disciplines together in one place. The twelve contributions, spanning history, anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, political science, and geography, address enduring questions in peasant studies, including the relationship between states and peasants, taxation, social movements, rural-urban linkages, land rights and struggles, gender relations, and environmental politics. Taking rural politics as the power-inflected processes and struggles that shape access and control over resources in the countryside, as well as the values, ideologies and discourses that shape those processes, the volume brings research on China into conversation with the traditions and concerns of peasant studies scholarship. It provides both an introduction to those unfamiliar with Chinese politics, as well as in-depth, new research for experts in the field. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies.
A Nation Under Our Feet
Author: Steven Hahn
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 610
ISBN-13: 9780674017658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmphasizing the role of kinship, labor, and networks in the African American community, the author retraces six generations of black struggles since the end of the Civil War, revealing a "nation" under construction.
Power Struggle
Author: Richard Rudolph
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Power Struggle' is the first book to explore the industry's politics and the history of what has been a century-long battle for control of [U.S.] electrical systems and resources. [The] authors [...] probe the back rooms of the federal government, the behind-the-scenes role of Wall Street [...], and the [...] conflict between private and public interests over the choice of technology and control of a key industry.
The Politics of Resentment
Author: Katherine J. Cramer
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016-03-23
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 022634925X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“An important contribution to the literature on contemporary American politics. Both methodologically and substantively, it breaks new ground.” —Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare When Scott Walker was elected Governor of Wisconsin, the state became the focus of debate about the appropriate role of government. In a time of rising inequality, Walker not only survived a bitterly contested recall, he was subsequently reelected. But why were the very people who would benefit from strong government services so vehemently against the idea of big government? With The Politics of Resentment, Katherine J. Cramer uncovers an oft-overlooked piece of the puzzle: rural political consciousness and the resentment of the “liberal elite.” Rural voters are distrustful that politicians will respect the distinct values of their communities and allocate a fair share of resources. What can look like disagreements about basic political principles are therefore actually rooted in something even more fundamental: who we are as people and how closely a candidate’s social identity matches our own. Taking a deep dive into Wisconsin’s political climate, Cramer illuminates the contours of rural consciousness, showing how place-based identities profoundly influence how people understand politics. The Politics of Resentment shows that rural resentment—no less than partisanship, race, or class—plays a major role in dividing America against itself.
The Politics of Agriculture
Author: Charles Meyer Hardin
Publisher:
Published: 1952
Total Pages: 296
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Space, Power and the Commons
Author: Samuel Kirwan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-23
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1317553659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcross the globe, political movements opposing privatisation, enclosures, and other spatial controls are coalescing towards the idea of the ‘commons’. As a result, struggles over the commons and common life are now coming to the forefront of both political activism and scholarly enquiry. This book advances academic debates concerning the spatialities of the commons and draws out the diverse materialities, temporalities, and experiences of practices of commoning. Part one, "Materialising the Commons" focuses on the performance of new geographical imaginations in spatial and material practices of commoning. Part two, "Spaces of Commoning", explores the importance of the turn from ‘commons’ to ‘commoning’, bringing together chapters focusing on the "doing" of commons, and how spaces, materials, bodies and abstract flows are intertwined in these complex and excessive processes. Part three, "An Expanded Commons", explores the broader registers and spaces in which the concept of the commons is at stake and highlights how and where the commons can open new areas of action and research. Part four, "The Capture of the Commons", questions the particular interdependence of ‘the commons’ and ‘enclosure’ assumed within commons literature framed by the concept of neoliberalism. Providing a comprehensive introduction to the diverse ways in which ideas of the commons are being conceptualised and enacted both throughout the social sciences and in practical action, this book foregrounds the commons as an arena for political thought and sets an agenda for future research.
A Nation under Our Feet
Author: Steven Hahn
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2005-04-30
Total Pages: 621
ISBN-13: 0674254287
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people—an embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural African-Americans were central political actors in the great events of disunion, emancipation, and nation-building. At the same time, Hahn asks us to think in more expansive ways about the nature and boundaries of politics and political practice. Emphasizing the importance of kinship, labor, and networks of communication, A Nation under Our Feet explores the political relations and sensibilities that developed under slavery and shows how they set the stage for grassroots mobilization. Hahn introduces us to local leaders, and shows how political communities were built, defended, and rebuilt. He also identifies the quest for self-governance as an essential goal of black politics across the rural South, from contests for local power during Reconstruction, to emigrationism, biracial electoral alliances, social separatism, and, eventually, migration. Hahn suggests that Garveyism and other popular forms of black nationalism absorbed and elaborated these earlier struggles, thus linking the first generation of migrants to the urban North with those who remained in the South. He offers a new framework—looking out from slavery—to understand twentieth-century forms of black political consciousness as well as emerging battles for civil rights. It is a powerful story, told here for the first time, and one that presents both an inspiring and a troubling perspective on American democracy.
