Belinda Leach - Reshaping Gender and Class in Rural Spaces

RESHAPING GENDER AND CLASS IN RURAL SPACES

Series Editors: Jane Parpart, Pauline Gardiner Barber
and Marianne H. Marchand

Gender in a Global/Local World critically explores the uneven and often contradictory ways in which global processes and local identities come together. Much has been and is being written about globalization and responses to it but rarely from a critical, historical, gendered perspective. Yet, these processes are profoundly gendered albeit in different ways in particular contexts and times. The changes in social, cultural, economic and political institutions and practices alter the conditions under which women and men make and remake their lives. New spaces have been created economic, political, social and previously silent voices are being heard. North-South dichotomies are being undermined as increasing numbers of people and communities are exposed to international processes through migration, travel, and communication, even as marginalization and poverty intensify for many in all parts of the world. The series features monographs and collections which explore the tensions in a global/local world, and includes contributions from all disciplines in recognition that no single approach can capture these complex processes.

BARBARA PINI
Curtin University of Technology, Australia

BELINDA LEACH
University of Guelph, Canada

First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
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Reshaping gender and class in rural spaces. -- (Gender in a global/local world)
1. Sociology, Rural. 2. Social classes--Cross-cultural studies. 3. Rural conditions. 4. Manpower policy, Rural--Case studies. 5. Rural women--Social conditions--Case studies. 6. Rural women--Employment--Case studies. 7. Social change--Cross-cultural studies.
I. Series II. Pini, Barbara. III. Leach, Belinda, 1954
307.72-dc22

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Reshaping gender and class in rural spaces / [edited] by Barbara Pini and Belinda Leach.

p. cm. -- (Gender in a global/local world)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-0291-6 (hardback) 1. Sociology, Rural. 2. Rural women--Social conditions. 3. Gender-based analysis. 4. Social classes. I. Pini, Barbara. II. Leach, Belinda, 1954-

HT421.R377 2011

305.3--dc22

2011004230

ISBN 9781409402916 (hbk)

Debra Davidson is Associate Professor of Environmental Sociology, with a joint appointment between the Departments of Rural Economy and Renewable Resources at the University of Alberta, where she has been for 10 years. Over the past three years she has also served as the Director of the Environmental Research and Studies Centre, a non-profit, outreach organization the mandate of which is to breach the barriers between academic research in environmental sciences and civil society. She received her training in environmental sciences at the undergraduate level from UC-Berkeley, then went on to receive an MSc from the Institute of Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She remained at UW-Madison for her PhD in Sociology, working under the mentorship of Frederick Buttel and William Freudenburg. Recent publications have been featured in Canadian Review of Sociology; Society and Natural Resources; and Sociological Inquiry. She is also the co-editor of Consuming Sustainability: Critical Social Analyses of Ecological Change (Fernwood Publishing, 2005) for which she worked closely with Mike Gismondi.

Rae Dufty is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Western Sydney. Her research interests revolve around the political-economic geographies of neoliberal policy approaches in both rural and urban settings. This has resulted in a wide range of research projects from the archival analysis of housing policy in Australia, to investigating the causes and actual migration pathways of Australian rural youth. She has recently published articles in the Journal of Rural Studies (2008), Australian Geographer (2009) and has a chapter in the book Welfare Reform in Rural Places (2010) edited by Paul Milbourne.

Evelyn Encalada Grez is a Chilean born community organiser, educator and researcher completing a doctoral degree at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Evelyn is a founding member of Justice for Migrant Workers, a grassroots collective that promotes the rights of migrant farm workers and their families in rural Canada and rural Mexico. As a result of her affiliation with Rural Women Making Change she was invited to speak at the UN about her work with Mexican migrant women in observance of the first International Day of Rural Women.

Annie Hughes is a Principal Lecturer in the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment at Kingston University, London. Annie has worked on several projects relating to gender and rural environments; including an ESRC project entitled Lone parents and paid work: evidence from rural England. She has published several articles on issues relating to rurality, gender and mothering, as well as work on lone parenthood, paid work and social policy. However she is currently working on a Higher Education Academy funded project Ethnic identities and positioning in the field: identifying key issues for the GEES subjects which relates to her other research interest in pedagogy and geographical education. She is a regular reviewer for journals such as Culture, Place and Society, Journal of Rural Studies and Sociologia Ruralis; as well as funding bodies such as the ESRC.