Research Catalog

Title

For-profit democracy : why the government is losing the trust of rural America / Loka Ashwood.

Author

Ashwood, Loka L.

Publication

• New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Description

xv, 306 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm.

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.

Series Statement

Yale Agrarian studies series

Uniform Title

Yale agrarian studies.

Subject

• Sociology, Rural > United States
• Public opinion > United States
• Rural population > United States > Attitudes
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
• Politics and government > Public opinion
• Public opinion
• United States > Rural conditions > 21st century
• United States > Politics and government > Public opinion
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-285) and index.

Contents

Reaction. Welcome to Burke County -- For-profit democracy -- Meltdown. The moral economy of democracy -- The rule of numbers -- Fallout. The rural rebel -- The transcendent people -- Freedom under the gun -- Recovery. The moral economy's freedom.

Call Number

JFD 19-1320

ISBN

• 9780300215359
• 0300215355

LCCN

2017961557

OCLC

1005124902

Author

Ashwood, Loka L., author.

Title

For-profit democracy : why the government is losing the trust of rural America / Loka Ashwood.

Publisher

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Yale Agrarian studies series

Yale agrarian studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-285) and index.

Local Note

AUTH: AUBURN UNIVERSITY.

Research Call Number

JFD 19-1320