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        Farm Fresh Broadband

        Farm Fresh Broadband

        Farm Fresh Broadband

        The Politics of Rural Connectivity

        by Christopher Ali

        ISBN: 9780262543064

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 21, 2021

        An analysis of the failure of U.S. broadband policy to solve the rural–urban digital divide, with a proposal for a new national rural broadband plan.
        Resigned Activism

        Resigned Activism, revised edition

        Resigned Activism

        Living with Pollution in Rural China

        by Anna Lora-Wainwright

        ISBN: 9780262542494

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 25, 2021

        An examination of the daily grind of living with pollution in rural China and of the varying forms of activism that develop in response.
        Left Elsewhere

        Left Elsewhere

        Left Elsewhere

        Edited by Elizabeth Catte

        ISBN: 9781946511409

        Publisher: Boston Review

        Pub Date: February 19, 2019

        An examination of the emerging rural left, from environmentalists blocking pipeline construction to teachers on strike.
        Resigned Activism

        Resigned Activism

        Resigned Activism

        Living with Pollution in Rural China

        by Anna Lora-Wainwright

        ISBN: 9780262533850

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: June 9, 2017

        An examination of the daily grind of living with pollution in rural China and of the varying forms of activism that develop in response.
        China’s Vanishing Worlds

        China's Vanishing Worlds

        China's Vanishing Worlds

        Countryside, Traditions, and Cultural Spaces

        by Matthias Messmer and Hsin-Mei Chuang

        ISBN: 9780262019866

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 25, 2013

        Photographs and text document disappearing cultural landscapes and lifestyles in rural China, capturing poignant scenes far from Beijing or Shanghai.
        Agroecology in Action

        Agroecology in Action

        Agroecology in Action

        Extending Alternative Agriculture through Social Networks

        by Keith Douglass Warner

        ISBN: 9780262731805

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 9, 2006

        American agriculture has doubled its use of pesticides since the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962. Agriculture is the nation's leading cause of non-point-source water pollution—runoffs...
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