Showing posts with label globalization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label globalization. Show all posts
Friday, March 20, 2026

Rastafari roots of plant-based eating

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An Ital meal of rice, ackee, callaloo, and veggie chunks. Source: Wikimedia Commons (2009) In considering a vegan diet, I imagine a young, p...
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Thursday, March 5, 2026

Rural morality and the left

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Western Norway Source: Wikimedia Commons (2016) Internationalism, the idea that people and states should organize across borders, is a popu...
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Sunday, February 4, 2024

Art Cullen on how Trump came between him and his long-time, small-town friend

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Cullen is the Pulitzer Prize winning editor of the Storm Lake Times Pilot, and his column in today's New York Times is titled , " W...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Coronavirus in rural America (Part XX): Another story of economic devastation

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This one, from the New York Times , is out of Bristol, New Hampshire, population 3,054 .  David Gelles reports under the headline, "Thi...
Sunday, April 9, 2017

On Main Street, nostalgia, efficiency, and rural America

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Louis Hyman of Cornell's Institute for Workplace Studies has a provocative op-ed in today's New York Times , " The Myth of Mai...
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Saturday, February 25, 2017

The FCC's (continued) plan to expand broadband service

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Internet access is essential in today's world. If you want to conduct an effective job search, apply to an educational program, find a g...
Monday, September 15, 2014

Are rural areas really "safer" than urban areas?

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Watching Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s documentary, “Brother’s Keeper”, brought to mind the two conflicting stereotypes of crime in rur...
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Saturday, September 28, 2013

Federal judge in Idaho sides with Nez Perce to stop transport of tar sands equipment

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The New York Times reported yesterday on the decision by federal district judge B. Lynn Winmill to prohibit the transport of "megaload...
Monday, February 11, 2013

Mo money mo problems? Does quinoa’s popularity pose a B.I.G food security risk in South America?

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Forget TJ’s butter chicken, Quinoa is the latest food making headlines these days. A number of recent articles documenting its rapid increas...
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Friday, December 16, 2011

What do MF Global and ranchers in Kansas have to do with one another?

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Well, according to this NPR story , many farmers and ranchers "were major clients of MF Global, buying futures contracts to hedge again...
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Monday, October 17, 2011

Possible institutions of rural integration: Catholic church and the medical field

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The authors of the 2007 study "National estimates of racial segregation in rural and small-town America," found that towns with c...
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Democratist manifesto

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Representative Paul Ryan's GOP budget proposal for 2012, titled "The Path to Prosperity," would impose spending cuts unpreced...
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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Rural feminist grassroots organizations, and CEDAW as an expressive document

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Beloved, by Toni Morrison On March 30, 2011, Professor Pruitt and I presented our upcoming paper at a symposium entitled Applying Femini...
Friday, March 18, 2011

Pondering globalization

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Globalization , whether good or bad, has certainly transformed the world. Globalization can be defined in different ways, but it is fair t...
Friday, December 18, 2009

Conference: Gender, Rurality, Transformation

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Here's a call for papers for what sounds like an amazing event, May 13-14, 2010 in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. The subtitle for the event ...
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Friday, November 13, 2009

A rural corner of India gets a slice of the outsourcing boom

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The headline from today's New York Times is "Rural India Gets Chance at Piece of Jobs Boom," and in it Lydia Polgreen tells ...
Monday, September 28, 2009

Norman Borlaug, RIP

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On September 12, agricultural innovator and Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug died at age 95 . Mr. Borlaug is best known as the primary force be...
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