Roots Revisited - A Hometown Study

Decades after pulling up stakes, three sixty-something Canadians living in three different countries are drawn back to the town in which they spent their formative years and built their lifelong friendship. In Roots Revisited, they share their memories of the town that molded them and sent them on their way, and examine the effect of those hometown experiences on their adult lives out in the world. They go on to chronicle what has become of their hometown, and examine the effect the place has had on those who never left and on members of a younger generation deciding whether to leave or stay. Employing a variety of research methods and undertaking a broad interdisciplinary approach, the authors observe and trace key developments in their hometown over the past half century, examine how those developments pertain to the wider modern world, and illustrate how their journey reflects the experience of countless people who've left the towns and cities in which they grew up only to find, sometimes half a century later, that they've retained more of their hometown roots than they ever realized.

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS - ACKNOWLEDGMENTS - PREFATORY NOTE - INTRODUCTION: THE SEEDS, SCOPE, AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS STUDY - PART ONE: EVOLUTION OF A HOMETOWN - PART TWO: SPIRIT OF A HOMETOWN - PART THREE: ATTENTION OF A HOMETOWN - PART FOUR: METAMORPHOSIS OF A HOMETOWN - CONCLUSION - EPILOGUE - BIBLIOGRAPHY

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: P. David Marshall, Marshall P. David, Dave Riddell, David Riddell, Riddell David, Steven Verrier
• Con la collaborazione di: Irene Maria F. Blayer (Editore), Dulce Maria Scott (Editore), Blayer Irene Maria F. (Editore della collana), Scott Dulce Maria (Editore della collana)
• Editore: Peter Lang
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 29.08.2025
• EAN: 9781636679532
• ISBN: 978-1-63667-953-2
• Pagine: 280
• Peso: 502 g
• Illustrazioni: 25 Abb.
• Serie: Interdisciplinary Studies in Diasporas
• Categorie: Migration, London, David, Maria, Ontario, History, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Cultural Studies, PHILOSOPHY / General, Immigration, HISTORY / General, Small Town, HISTORY / Ancient / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, ART / General, ART / History / General, Roots, Anthropology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Marshall, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Irene, Rural communities, Steven, Dave, Political science & theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / State, Archaeology, Scott, Study, Political science and theory, Urban communities, Sociology and anthropology, Southwestern Ontario, Cultural and media studies, Municipalities, hometown, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, dulce, Media and cultural studies, revisited, Blayer, Southern Ontario, hometown study, Verrier, Strathroy-Caradoc, Strathroy, place attachment, municipal history, Riddell