Challenging welfare issues in the global countryside / edited by George Giacinto Giarchi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Giarchi, George Giacinto, 1930-

Series:

Broadening perspectives on social policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Rural.

Rural conditions.

Physical Description:

xvi, 166 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007.

Summary:

Until recently, a greater concentration on urban social policy issues and urban deprivation has tended to create an urban sociological and urban welfare bias. However, there has currently been an increased interest in countryside issues and rural social welfare. This has led to a greater demand for British and transnational rural studies, hence this edited collection. Here, exemplars ranging from the more industrialized regions of Britain, Continental Europe, the USA and Australia, and of rural localities in the less industrialized contexts of India and Mexico, direct attention to multi-dimensional factors affecting rural space, socio-political urban-rural power relations, conflicting urban-rural tensions and opposed values. The authors add to existing studies that inform contemporary urban-rural dialogue, in respect of social policy and rural welfare in a changing global countryside.

Contents:

Redefining the 'rural question' : the new 'politics of the rural' and social policy / Michael Woods

Rural movements in Europe : Scandinavia and the accession states / Vanessa Halhead

Market-based governance and the challenge for rural governments : US trends / Mildred E. Warner

Between decentralized planning and neo-liberalism : challenges for the survival of the indigenous people of Kerala, India / Darley Jose Kjosavik and Nadarajah Shanmugaratnam

Child health in rural Mexico : has progress reduced children's morbidity risks?

Maria C. Huerta

Rurality and social inclusion : a case of preschool education / Mark Shucksmith, Janet Shucksmith and Joyce Watt

Jobs in the bush : global industries and inclusive rural development / Robyn Eversole and John Martin

Older people 'on the edge' in the countrysides of Europe / George Giacinto Giarchi

Spinning the rural agenda : the countryside alliance, fox hunting and social policy / Alison Anderson.

Notes:

"First published as Volume 40, No. 6 of Social Policy and Administration."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781405162418

1405162414

OCLC:

85892195