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Technologies of choice? :ICTs, development, and the capabilities approach
Information and communication technologies (ICTs)--especially the Internet and the mobile phone--have changed the lives of people all over the world. These changes affect not just the affluent populations of income-rich countries but also disadvantaged people in both global North and South, who may use free Internet access in telecenters and public libraries, chat in cybercafes with distant fam…
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Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China
An examination of the daily grind of living with pollution in rural China and of the varying forms of activism that develop in response.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262341097
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Resigned activism :living with pollution in rural China
"An examination of the daily grind of living with pollution in rural China and of the varying forms of activism that develop in response, revised from the original 2017 edition with a new preface"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- Revised edition.
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- 9780262365321
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- 1 online resource.
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Farm fresh broadband :the politics of rural connectivity
"This study of the political economy of rural broadband combines critical policy analysis with stories of rural Americans and offers solutions for solving the rural-urban digital divide"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262367076
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- 1 online resource.
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Pastoral capitalism :a history of suburban corporate landscapes
"Mozingo distinguishes among three forms of corporate landscapes--the corporate campus, the corporate estate, and the office park--and examines suburban corporate landscapes built and inhabited by such companies as Bell Labs, General Motors, Deere & Company, and Microsoft. She also considers the globalization of pastoral capitalism in Europe and the developing world including Singapore, India, …
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- 9780262338271
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- 1 online resource (x, 315 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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Harnessing the Bohemian: Artists as innovation partners in rural and remote c…
Harnessing the Bohemian takes a fresh and interdisciplinary perspective on the intractable problem of shrinking populations and resources in remote/rural communities. It challenges the conventional wisdom of community development theories and practices and envisages more central roles for the creative disciplines in revitalising futures planning. It argues that the evolution of technolo…
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- 9781760460525
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Rural quality of life
The 2020 World Happiness Report suggests that rural residents in Northern and Western Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand are generally happier than their urban counterparts. Similar findings have been reported in country-level studies and broader regional research, especially in Europe. Such findings go against conventional wisdom in the field and represent something of a conundru…
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- 9781526161642, 9781526161642
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Only When They're Little : The Story of an Appalachian Family
A fictional account of an actual family whose Scotch-Irish ancestors immigrated to western North Carolina in the early nineteenth century, Only When They're Little is an authentic tale of Kate Pickens Day’s family life near Asheville, North Carolina. Published in 1985, this book combats the stereotype of the impoverished mountain people by presenting a new narrative. A middle class family liv…
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- 9781469638188
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- 800 DAY o
Global Agricultural Workers from the 17th to the 21st Century
Agricultural workers have long been underrepresented in labour history. This volume aims to change this by bringing together a collection of studies on the largest group of the global work force. The contributions cover the period from the early modern to the present – a period when the emergence and consolidation of capitalism has transformed rural areas all over the globe. Three questions h…
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- 9789004529427
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Living on a Time Bomb : Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Com…
Providing a holistic understanding of extensive oil extraction in rural Mexico, this book focuses on a campesino community, where oil extraction is deeply inscribed into the daily lives of the community members. The book shows how oil shapes the space where it is extracted in every aspect and produces multiple uncertainties. The community members express these uncertainties using the metaphor o…
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