Big Rural

Rural Industrial Places, Democracy, and What Next

Crystal Cook Marshall, Alexander R. Thomas, Gregory M. Fulkerson

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English

Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
15 December 2023

Regional studies; Social classes; Rural communities; Industrial chemistry & manufacturing technologies; Mining technology & engineering

Series: Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics

In Big Rural: Rural Industrial Places, Democracy, and What Next, Crystal Cook Marshall unveils the rural not as wild and unknowable but as measured and intervened-in as big cities. Drawing international comparisons with a case study centering on the Pocahontas Coalfield, Cook Marshall documents that rural places are often systems among systems that scientists and engineers heavily shape both in landscape and culture. Often single sector economies with consolidated power and automation away of jobs, these rural industrial places compound the problems of their inhabitants, even threatening their capacity to practice democracy. Cook Marshall interacts with rural interveners from industry to Rural Studies and Science and Technology scholars to policy advocates, also detailing the gaps in related scholarship. Building from analysis, she proposes a range of antidotes to the extraction and destruction of “Big Rural” both in material life and in knowledge, such as potential National Rural and Sustainable Agricultural strategies. Through these, in interviews with rural change agents, through research, and through local and federal paths, Cook Marshall asserts a way forward for the rural that is more equitable and just.

By: Crystal Cook Marshall
Foreword by: Alexander R. Thomas, Gregory M. Fulkerson
Imprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 157mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9781666930740
ISBN 10: 1666930741
Series: Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 15 December 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Crystal Cook Marshall is director at The North Carolina AgrAbility Partnership (NC AgrAbility) and is faculty at North Carolina A&T State University.

Reviews for Big Rural: Rural Industrial Places, Democracy, and What Next

"In a clear, eminently practical, utterly heartfelt, disarmingly honest, and exhaustively researched voice, Crystal Cook Marshall urges us to observe, think, and talk carefully and imaginatively about ""big rural""--the rural space that connects us all in vital and identifiable ways to Appalachia and to the Pocahontas Coalfield. Dr. Cook Marshall brings together and listens intently to an extraordinary range of variously informed opinions and policies, scientific and engineering research, and personal desires regarding Appalachia past, present and future. Yet, she cannot abide easy answers. She stands, in that cold gray light of dawn, both weary and hopeful about Appalachia. She shows us how and what we can learn from big rural about our collective human future. It's a complex and compelling future. I can think of no better guide than Crystal Cook Marshall."