Big Rural

In Big Rural, Crystal Cook Marshall unveils the rural not as wild and unknowable but as measured and intervened-in as big cities, deserving of conceptual rethinking and fresh research, policy, and practical approaches for the benefit of both their citizens and their environments.

Crystal Cook Marshall is director at The North Carolina AgrAbility Partnership (NC AgrAbility) and is faculty at North Carolina A&T State University.

Table of Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Technology and the State of the State in the Pocahontas Coalfield Interlude One: Jason Tartt, Sr. Chapter Two: Scientific Promises and Prosperity: Constructing Big Rural Interlude Two: Atlas Charles Chapter Three: Democratic Possibilities and Policies in Big Rural Chapter Four: So, What of a National Rural Strategy? Interlude Three: Amelia Bandy Chapter Five: Toward a National Sustainable Agricultural Strategy Interlude Four: A White Paper as Community Act Conclusion: Research, Resources, Revealing, Redefining, Remaking Epilogue Appendices Glossary Bibliography About the Author