Reviving Rural America
Toward Policies for Resilience
Seiten
2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-98440-9 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-98440-9 (ISBN)
We often hear about the modern economic and political tensions brought on by the so-called urban/rural divide. This book shows how law and policy contribute to rural challenges, debunking myths about rural people and places and evoking an alternative and more resilient future for all.
We often hear that there is no way out of the modern economic and political tensions that fall along geographic lines. The media regularly declares that rural America is dying and that rural voters are driven only by anger. This narrative of hopelessness centers on the role that markets have played in abandoning rural regions and populations. In Reviving Rural America, Ann M. Eisenberg analyzes our society's laws and policies' role in the urban/rural divide to make the case for hope. She demonstrates how law and policy, as well as decision-makers acting on their own subjective values, have contributed to modern rural challenges. Each chapter debunks a common myth about rural people, places, and policies, helping reveal how we got to where we are now. Ultimately calling for our laws and policies to steward rural America holistically, as a collective resource for all, this book envisions an alternative, more resilient and more just future.
We often hear that there is no way out of the modern economic and political tensions that fall along geographic lines. The media regularly declares that rural America is dying and that rural voters are driven only by anger. This narrative of hopelessness centers on the role that markets have played in abandoning rural regions and populations. In Reviving Rural America, Ann M. Eisenberg analyzes our society's laws and policies' role in the urban/rural divide to make the case for hope. She demonstrates how law and policy, as well as decision-makers acting on their own subjective values, have contributed to modern rural challenges. Each chapter debunks a common myth about rural people, places, and policies, helping reveal how we got to where we are now. Ultimately calling for our laws and policies to steward rural America holistically, as a collective resource for all, this book envisions an alternative, more resilient and more just future.
Ann M. Eisenberg is Professor of Law at West Virginia University College of Law, where her research examines how law shapes rural communities, with a focus on livelihoods and natural resources.
1. Introduction; 2. The foundational myths: the myths of rural hyper-simplicity, rural hyper-complexity, and rural immateriality; 3. The myth of rural empowerment; 4. The myth of rural unsustainability; 5. The myth of rural decline; 6. The myth of rural radicalism; 7. The myth of rural whiteness; 8. The myth of rural obsolescence.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.08.2024 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 331 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht |
| ISBN-10 | 1-108-98440-1 / 1108984401 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-98440-9 / 9781108984409 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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