[PDF] Crisis In The Village eBook

Author : Robert Michael Franklin
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,88 MB
Release : 2007-01-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451417401

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Robert M. Franklin provides first-person advice and insight as he identifies the crises resident within three anchor institutions that have played key roles in the black struggle for freedom. Black families face a "crisis of commitment" evident in the rising rates of father absence, births to unmarried parents, divorce, and domestic abuse or relationship violence. Black churches face a "mission crisis" as they struggle to serve their upwardly mobile and/or established middle class "paying customers" alongside the poorest of the poor. Historically black colleges and universities face a crisis of "relevance and purpose" as they now compete for the best students and faculty with the broad marketplace of colleges. With clarity and passion, Franklin calls for practical and comprehensive action for change from within the African American community and from all Americans.

Author : John Theibault
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 18,96 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780391038394

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This is a study of German villages during the Thirty Years' War. It shows how diverse interests interested in the village, and how those interests were transformed between 1570 and 1720.

Author : Dan Hancox
Publisher :
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 16,97 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1781681309

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One hundred kilometers from Seville, there is a small village, Marinaleda, that for the last thirty years has been at the center of a long struggle to create a communist utopia. In a story reminiscent of the Asterix books, Dan Hancox explores the reality behind the community where no one has a mortgage, sport is played in the Che Guevara stadium and there are monthly "Red Sundays" where everyone works together to clean up the neighbourhood. In particular he tells the story of the village mayor, Sanchez Gordillo, who in 2012 became a household name in Spain after leading raids on local supermarkets to feed the Andalucian unemployed.

Author : Daniel Ross Reichman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 39,49 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0801450128

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In The Broken Village, Daniel R. Reichman tells the story of a remote village in Honduras that transformed almost overnight from a sleepy coffee-growing community to a hotbed of undocumented migration to and from the United States. The small village--called here by the pseudonym La Quebrada--was once home to a thriving coffee economy. Recently, it has become dependent on migrants working in distant places like Long Island and South Dakota, who live in ways that most Honduran townspeople struggle to comprehend or explain. Reichman explores how the new "migration economy" has upended cultural ideas of success and failure, family dynamics, and local politics.During his time in La Quebrada, Reichman focused on three different strategies for social reform--a fledgling coffee cooperative that sought to raise farmer incomes and establish principles of fairness and justice through consumer activism; religious campaigns for personal morality that were intended to counter the corrosive effects of migration; and local discourses about migrant "greed" that labeled migrants as the cause of social crisis, rather than its victims. All three phenomena had one common trait: They were settings in which people presented moral visions of social welfare in response to a perceived moment of crisis. The Broken Village integrates sacred and secular ideas of morality, legal and cultural notions of justice, to explore how different groups define social progress.

Author : Lin Juren
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 43,22 MB
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1538112361

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Over the last half century, China has evolved from a poor rural country to a geopolitical powerhouse. Rapid urbanization has been at the heart of that transformation, and as migrant laborers have left their villages, what has become of the rural communities that were once the center of economic, social, and cultural life? And how do contemporary Chinese scholars understand those changes? These are the questions that this compelling book answers. Lengshuigou village, located near the Shandong provincial capital of Jinan, was first studied by Japanese social scientists in the early 1940s and then again in the 1980s and 1990s. Building on these rich surveys, this book traces changes from the early twentieth century to the present day in family and lineage, social stratification, personal networks, annual and life cycle rituals, village politics, and elite formation. Drawing on their own large-scale survey of contemporary village households, the authors analyze the physical and institutional changes that have altered the community, as well as the shifts in interpersonal relations and attitudes that have upended centuries-old systems of patriarchy and generational order. This important book presents, for the first time in English, analysis by Chinese sociologists on the radical transformation of Chinese rural society.

Author : M. J. Titus
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 31,21 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 908964055X

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Most literature on the economic crisis in indonesia has focused on the negative macro-economic impacts during the "crisis- years" of 1997-99. The case studies presented in this book take a different perspective. With a longitudinal research perspective, this comparative study analyses a wide variety of responses to the crisis among communities and households. The case studies in this book cover the coping and adapting mechanisms of rural households under a variety of resource use practices and resource use regulations in different areas of Indonesia.

Author : Aru Stresso
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,2 MB
Release : 2023-02-14
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I (Timmy) decided to do something to help my village after seeing the destruction caused by a mysterious creature. I made my way to the town square and spoke to the villagers, telling them that I was going to find the creature responsible for the attacks and bring peace back to the village. I felt a sense of pride knowing that I was making a difference and was determined to solve the mystery and protect my village. I was determined to find the mysterious creature behind the attacks and put an end to its reign of terror, so I started to gather information and talk to the villagers. When I arrived at the Giant's castle, I was greeted by the Giant, who was eager to help. We discussed our plan of action, and the Giant suggested that we be smart and strategic in our approach, as the creature was powerful and dangerous and we needed to be ready for anything.