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  1. A Call to Community
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1969
    A proposed community.
  2. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
  3. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
  4. Connexions Library: Agriculture and Farming Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on farming and agriculture.
  5. Connexions Library: Central and South Asia Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on central and southern Asia.
  6. Connexions Library: Rural Issues Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on rural issues.
  7. Everybody Loves a Good Drought 
    Stories from India's Poorest Districts
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    P. Sainath devoted 2½ years to visiting and recording the realities - delving into the fundamentals, the why of the realities - in India's 10 poorest districts.
  8. The Harrowsmith Reader
    An Anthology from Canada's National Award Winning Magazine of Country Life and Alternatives to Bigness
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    Articles on land, country careers, shelter, gardening, husbandry, food, trees, and rural life.
  9. Intentional Communities
    Resource Type: Website
    Resource for intentional Communities including ecovillages, cohousing, residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives and other related projects.
  10. Land and Community 
    Crisis in Canada's Countryside
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Sim's thesis is that rural society is overlooked due to urban dependence upon "great associations," economies of scale, and other socio-cultural institutions of unmanageable size.
  11. Land, Food, Freedom
    Struggles for the Gendered Commons in Kenya
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
  12. Mistranslating Marx? The "idiocy of rural life"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    One often hears the criticism that Marxism was from the beginning an extreme modernizing philosophy that looked with complete disdain on rural existence. Did not Marx himself in The Communist Manifesto, it is frequently asked, refer to "the idiocy of rural life"? Here a misconception has arisen through the mistranslation of a single word in the English translation of the Manifesto. In fact, Marx's criticism of the isolation of rural life then had to do with the antithesis of town and country under capitalism as expressed throughout his work.
  13. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 26, 2015
    Ukraine
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    Ukraine is spotlighted in this issue of Other Voices, with several articles on the events of the past year, from the overthrow of the government, to the rise of the far right, the armed conflict in the east, and aggressive US/NATO moves setting the stage for a possible nuclear war between the US and Russia. Also in this issue, #DomesticExtremists ridicule police state legislation in the UK, world inequality in one simple graphic, and people's history items about mass strikes in the First World War, and the new People's Archive of Rural India.
  14. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2015
    Sustainability, ecology, and agriculture
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    This issue features a number of items related to sustainability, ecology, and agriculture, including Vandana Shiva's article "Small is the New Big," the Council of Canadians' new report on water issues, "Blue Betrayal," the film "The Future of Food," the Independent Science News website, which focuses on the science of food and agriculture, and the memoir "Journey of an Unrepentant Socialist" by Brewster Kneen, a former farmer and long-time critic of corporate agriculture.
  15. Out Our Way
    Gay & Lesbian Life in Rural Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996   Published: 1998
    Explores the richly varied life experience of gay and lesbian Canadians living in small towns and rural areas across the country. Travelling 27,000 km and recording more than 300 conversations, the author distills stories of people aged fifteen to eighty-one, including First Nations/Two-Spirited, people living with HIV/AIDS, individuals, couples, communes, and a range of chosen families. Riordon includes his own experience and his partner's in rural eastern Ontario.
  16. Reporting the Realities of Poverty
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    Review of Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India's Poorest Districts, by P. Sainath.
  17. Rural Americans and the Language Too Many People Use to Talk About Them
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    With the rural-urban divide more pronounced now than it has been in generations, the author takes a closer look at the derogatory language too many people use, as well their meaning and contradictions.
  18. Rural India - a living journal, a breathing archive
    The everyday lives of everyday people
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Project on rural India consisting of an archive which depicts its diverse and complex countryside.
  19. Rural Women In Latin America
    Experiences from Ecuador, Peru, and Chile
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  20. Save the Tiger, Keep the People
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    On the fate of India’s forest-dwelling peoples: and how many will be aware that so many of them are being illegally evicted as part of the drive to conserve flora and fauna? Despite having co-existed with tigers and other animals for centuries, many of India's tribal peoples are currently being persecuted in the name of conservation.
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