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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Back to the Land"”.
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Back to the Land Again: Environmentalism in English georgic life writing 1940-2023
This thesis is in two parts: a creative piece composed of four linked essays, entitled Red Earth, followed by a critical essay entitled Back to the Land Again: Environmentalism in English georgic life writing 1940-2023. The creative work is life writing based on my experience of living and working …
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Appalachian Alter-Natives: The Back-to-the-Land Migration and Community Change in Appalachia, 1970--2000
Beginning in the late 1960s and continuing through the 1970s, thousands of people migrated from America's cities to the countryside to establish communes and independent homesteads on small plots of land. By working the land they hoped to achieve autonomy, self-sufficiency, and closeness with …
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Going back-to-the-land in the Anthropocene: a more-than-human journey into anarchist geography
This thesis is a theoretical and empirical journey into the more-than-human worlds of countercultural back-to-the-land farmers: radical environmentalists who migrate to rural places and take up farming as a way of living. It investigates their everyday life and relations to the land as a key …
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Biochemical Changes in Anaerobic Digest From a Static Pile and an In-Vessel Composting Reactor.
… waste production by our society is beginning to cause severe problems with disposal. Municipal production alone amounts to 150 million tons annually (14). Rural production represents less of a problem since farmers have been recycling manure and other farm wastes back to the land for …
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The Pine Mountain Valley Rural Community Project 1934-1946
<p>During the Great Depression New Deal planners attributed much of the nation's unemployment problem to automation in the workplace. It was believed that structural economic changes had dislocated millions of city workers permanently. To get these people off relief, the Federal Emergency Relief …
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The Peasant and the Farmer: (Re)Constituting Settler Colonialism and Capitalist Relations in the US Imaginary
In the face of catastrophic climate change, scholars and activists have sought to fundamentally transform the existing food system in the United States. One solution being offered, repeasantization, seeks to reinvigorate the idea of the small farm accompanied by principles of ecological production. …
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The Integration of Art, Architecture, and Identity: Alfred Kastner, Louis Kahn, and Ben Shahn at Jersey Homesteads
<p>During the New Deal, the United States government created the Jersey Homesteads co-operative in order to help a group of Jewish immigrant garment workers from New York City during the economic downturn of the Great Depression. This dissertation examines how a 1930s utopian enclave utilized …
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Ill fares the Land? The concept of national food self sufficiency in political discourse 1880-1939.
After the repeal of the Corn Laws ended the policy of protectionism which had enabled Britain to feed herself from within her own resources, free trade resulted in domestic food production constituting only 30% of the British diet. This study looks at the political discourse from 1880 to 1939 when …
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Aspects of national identity in the art songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams before the Great War
This dissertation explores how the art songs of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) composed before the Great War expressed the composer’s vision of “Englishness” or “English national identity”. These terms can be defined as the popular national consciousness of the English people. …