An edition of Tobacco town futures
(2011)
Tobacco town futures
global encounters in rural Kentucky
by Ann E. Kingsolver
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Tobacco town futures: global encounters in rural Kentucky
2011, Waveland Press, Inc.
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1577667085 9781577667087
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Table of Contents
Introduction: stories of globalization in a tobacco town
Fieldwork in Nicholas County
"Placing" a Kentucky community
Rurality and farming identity and practices
Development: planning for tobacco town futures
Documentation dilemmas in the project
The landscape of this book
Questions for students
Tobacco: a global crop
An afternoon in tobacco in 1988: storm coming
Tobacco: local leaves in a global commodities and labor market
"Tobacco town" livelihoods
Moralizing tobacco
Changes in the national tobacco program and global industry
Questions for students
Development plans: living on the edge
A proposal ahead of its time
State-led development planning
Textiles
Toyota
Tourism
Working the edge: joining Appalachia
Commodifying rurality
Developing agricultural alternatives
Questions for
Students
How to live in a small town
Incorporating diversity
Networks, for better or worse, and the role of media
Civil participation
Flexible justice
Sites of socialization
Global encounters
Questions for students
Tobacco town futures
Loretta Mann
Mike Phillips
Betty Gates Poe
Jim and Kathy Caswell
Three Springs Farm: David Wagoner and Arwen Donahue
Postscript: students essays on the future of Nicholas County.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-180) and index.
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