What is it about?
Several unique conditions make it especially difficult for social-change organizers to be effective in rural areas. Maura Stephens outlines 15 of them to illustrate why ramped‐up activism is essential to protect the rights of rural residents, the natural environment, and the farmlands that feed the United States.
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Why is it important?
There has never been a greater need for collective opposition to the forces undermining rural life. This paper, with practical real-life examples, serves dual purposes: both examination and guide.
Perspectives
A journalist who has also worked in social-change organizing for many years, Stephens brings a grassroots perspective to the topic. She writes in a refreshingly accessible style -- clearly intending this for a broad nonacademic audience that includes policymakers and organizers, as well as for sociologists, economists, and political scientists.
Maura Stephens
Ithaca College
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This page is a summary of: Challenges for Social-Change Organizing in Rural Areas, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, May 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/ajes.12154.
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