For-Profit Democracy : Why the Government Is Losing the Trust of Rural America / Loka Ashwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ashwood, Loka, Author.

Series:

Yale agrarian studies.

Yale Agrarian Studies Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Rural--United States.

Sociology, Rural.

Public opinion--United States.

Public opinion.

Rural population--United States--Attitudes.

Rural population.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Reaction

1. Welcome to Burke County

2. For-Profit Democracy

Meltdown

3. The Moral Economy of Democracy

4. The Rule of Numbers

Fallout

5. The Rural Rebel

6. The Transcendent People

7. Freedom under the Gun

Recovery

8. The Moral Economy's Freedom

Appendix 1: Methodology

Appendix 2: A Summary of People and Concepts

Notes

Illustration Captions and Credits

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

0-300-23514-3

OCLC:

1041139803