LEADER 03152nam 22005055 450 001 9910838236303321 005 20230814223636.0 010 $a0-300-23514-3 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300235142 035 $a(CKB)4100000005464021 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5431577 035 $a(DE-B1597)536138 035 $a(OCoLC)1041139803 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300235142 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000005464021 100 $a20191126d2018 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFor-Profit Democracy $eWhy the Government Is Losing the Trust of Rural America /$fLoka Ashwood 210 1$aNew Haven, CT : $cYale University Press, $d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (323 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aYale Agrarian Studies Series 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-300-21535-5 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tReaction -- $t1. Welcome to Burke County -- $t2. For-Profit Democracy -- $tMeltdown -- $t3. The Moral Economy of Democracy -- $t4. The Rule of Numbers -- $tFallout -- $t5. The Rural Rebel -- $t6. The Transcendent People -- $t7. Freedom under the Gun -- $tRecovery -- $t8. The Moral Economy's Freedom -- $tAppendix 1: Methodology -- $tAppendix 2: A Summary of People and Concepts -- $tNotes -- $tIllustration Captions and Credits -- $tIndex 330 $aA fascinating sociological assessment of the damaging effects of the for?'profit partnership between government and corporation on rural Americans Why is government distrust rampant, especially in the rural United States? This book offers a simple explanation: corporations and the government together dispossess rural people of their prosperity, and even their property. Based on four years of fieldwork, this eye?'opening assessment by sociologist Loka Ashwood plays out in a mixed?'race Georgia community that hosted the first nuclear power reactors sanctioned by the government in three decades. This work serves as an explanatory mirror of prominent trends in current American politics. Churches become havens for redemption, poaching a means of retribution, guns a tool of self?'defense, and nuclear power a faltering solution to global warming as governance strays from democratic principles. In the absence of hope or trust in rulers, rural racial tensions fester and divide. The book tells of the rebellion that unfolds as the rights of corporations supersede the rights of humans. 410 0$aYale agrarian studies. 606 $aSociology, Rural$zUnited States 606 $aPublic opinion$zUnited States 606 $aRural population$zUnited States$xAttitudes 615 0$aSociology, Rural 615 0$aPublic opinion 615 0$aRural population$xAttitudes. 676 $a320.9730905 700 $aAshwood$b Loka, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01727776 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910838236303321 996 $aFor-Profit Democracy$94135603 997 $aUNINA