For-Profit Democracy - Why the Government Is Losing the Trust of Rural America

A 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, divide, and conquer. The book tells of the rebellion that unfolds as the rights of corporations supersede the rights of individuals.

Summary

"A sociological assessment of the damaging effects of the for-profit partnership between government and corporation on rural Americans."--Provided by publisher.

Product details

• Authors: Loka Ashwood
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9780300215359
• ISBN: 978-0-300-21535-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Series; Yale Agrarian Studies; Yale Agrarian Studies Series; Yale Agrarian Studies; Yale Agrarian Studies (YUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 21. Jahrhundert (2000 bis 2100 n. Chr.), Amerikanische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, USA Süden