Geography 490c The Country and the City Fall 2009

Course Schedule and Reading List

The following is the anticipated schedule of topics and assignments for the course. Most reading assignments from your text are short and I’ve made an effort to balance the reading load. We may not get to every reading so don’t panic. Changes will be made as necessary and an updated schedule will be posted here.

If a link does not work you can search for the articles on your own in the Library databases. Start with the Journal Title.

W	Day	Date		Topic/Activity	Reading/Assignment
	Introduction: What is Rural?
1	W	Jan 7	Welcome Y’all/ Review Syllabus, How to Read, Boot Scootin’ Boogie
1	F	Jan 9	What’s Rural? Discussion Lookin’ at pretty pictures		Woods Ch 1,
2	M	Jan 12	Understanding the Rural Discussion—Rural Paradigms, lecture		Woods Ch 2
	W	Jan 14	The Country and the World		Woods Ch. 3, Patnode
	F	Jan 16	The Changing Rural Landscape / Discussion of Rural Landscape Assignment and rural change		McCarthy 2008, Rural Landscape Assignment Due
3	Rural Restructuring
	M	Jan 19	MLK Day No Class
	W	Jan 21	Farmin’		Woods Ch 4, Reading Journal Check
	F	Jan 23	Multifunctional Landscape/Small Town News		McCarthy 2005
4	M	Jan 26	Cotton in Arizona		Judkins. 2008,
	W	Jan 28	Farm Diversification and Agrotourism/ slides		Barbieri 2008, Veek et al 2006
	F	Jan 30	Library Visit (Meet at Library)		Help Page
5	M	Feb 2	Rural Economy and Demographic Change		Woods Ch 5, 6, 7
	W	Feb 4	Snow Day
	F	Feb 6	Working in the Country		Woods 18, Montrie,
6	M	Feb 9	Manufacturing and Rural Immigrants		Broadway, Demographic Change Assignment Due
	W	Feb 11	Rural Policy, Development and Governance		Woods Ch 9, 10, 11
	Rural Environment, Tourism and Recreation
	F	Feb 13	The Rural Environment		Woods Ch 8, Urban, Bicknell
7	M	Feb 16	Tourism, and Preservation, Selling the Countryside		Ch 12, 13, Carter
	W	Feb 18	Hunting		Fine
	F	Feb 20	Rural Conflicts/Farms vs. Suburbs		Woods Ch 14, Smith and Sharp
8	M	Feb 23	Rural Lifestyles		Woods Ch 15 and Salamon
	W	Feb 25	Housing and Health		Woods 16, Rounds Economic Development and Environment Assignment Due
	F	Feb 27	Crime (Cattle Rustling and where to dump the body)		Mears, Häkkänen, Reading Journal Check
			Feb 28-Mar 15 Spring Break
9	Rural Society, Identities, and Cultures
	M	Mar 16	Age and the Country		Woods Ch 17, Muilu & Rusanen
	W	Mar 18	Poverty and Exclusion		Woods 19, Foulkes
	F	Mar 20	Alternative Rural Lifestyles and Utopian Communities		Woods Ch 21
10	Mar 23-25		No Class AAG
11	M	Mar 30	Gender and The Country		Jensen, Bonds
	W	April 1	Rural Sexualities		Kass, Tuss, Wysocki
	F	April 3	Race and National Identity in the Country/Fighting Racism		Woods 20
12	M	April 6	Race in the Country		McVeigh, (Note Johnson is not available)
	W	April 8	Rodeo and Identity		Penrose, Warren
	F	April 10	Good Friday No Class
13	M	April 13	Rural Identities/Creating Progressive rural identities		Culture and Identity Assignment Due
	The Geography of Country Music
	W	April 15	Country Music and Rural Development		Gibson
	F	April 17	Country Music and Place		Lewis 2005
14	M	April 20	Place, Class and Country Music		Fox Preface Ch 1-3
	W	April 22	Language and Identity		Fox Ch 4-5
	F	April 24	Gender and Country Music		Fox Ch 6-7
15	M	April 27	Performance		8-9 Coda Country Song Due
	W	April 29	Race, and Country Music		Kyriakoudes, Lewis 2001, Manuel,
	F	May 1	Global Country Music		Furmanovsky, Erlanger, van Elteren Final Research Paper Due
16	M	May 4	Conclusion		Woods 22, Final Reflection Paper Due
	M	May 11	Final Exam		Reading Journal Due

Country and City Readings

Barbieri, Carla, Edward Mahoney, and Larry Butler. 2008. Understanding the Nature and Extent of Farm and Ranch Diversification in North America. Rural Sociology 73, no. 2 (June): 205-229.

Bicknell, Sharon and Phil McManus. 2006. The Canary in the Coalmine: Australian Ski Resorts and their Response to Climate Change. Geographical Research 44, no. 4 (December): 386-400.

Bonds, Anne . 2006. Calling on Femininity? Gender, Call Centers, and Restructuring in the Rural American West. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 5, no. 1: 28-49.

Broadway, Michael. 2007. Meatpacking and the Transformation of Rural Communities: A Comparison of Brooks, Alberta and Garden City, Kansas. Rural Sociology 72, no. 4 (December): 560-582.

Carter, Jennifer, Pam Dyer, and Bishnu Sharma. 2007. Dis-placed voices: sense of place and place-identity on the Sunshine Coast. Social & Cultural Geography 8, no. 5 (October): 755-773.

(Notice how he used a smaller font to fit everything in?)

Erlanger, Steven. 2002. Berlin Journal; Germany's Cowpokes, Longing for the Big Sky - New York Times. New York Times, February 20. .

Fine, Lisa M. 2000. Rights of Men, Rites of Passage: Hunting and Masculinity at Reo Motors of Lansing, Michigan, 1945-1975. Journal of Social History 33, no. 4: 805-823.

Foulkes, Matt, and K. Bruce Newbold. 2008. Poverty Catchments: Migration, Residential Mobility, and Population Turnover in Impoverished Rural Illinois Communities. Rural Sociology 73, no. 3: 440-462.

Furmanovsky, Michael. 2008. American Country Music in Japan: Lost Piece in the Popular Music History Puzzle. Popular Music & Society 31, no. 3 (July): 357-372.

Gibson C. Davidson D. Tamworth, Australia's 'country Music Capital': Place Marketing, Rurality, and Resident Reactions. Journal of Rural Studies.

Häkkänen, Helinä, Katri Hurme, And Markku Liukkonen. 2007. Distance patterns and disposal sites in rural area homicides committed in Finland. Journal of Investigative Psychology & Offender Profiling 4, no. 3 (October): 181-197.

(We’re only up to J?)

Jensen, Joan M. 2001. "I'd Rather Be Dancing": Wisconsin Women Moving On. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 22, no. 1: 1-20.

Johnson, Cassandra Y., Patrick M. Horan, and William Pepper. 1997. Race, Rural Residence, and Wildlands Visitation: Examining the Influence of Sociocultural Meaning. Rural Sociology 62, no. 1 (Spring97): 89-110.

Judkins, Gabe. 2008. Declining Cotton Cultivation in Maricopa County, Arizona: An Examination of Macro-and Micro-Scale Driving Forces. Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 70: 70-95.

Kass, Jeff. 1999. A collision of values in rural West. (Cover story). Christian Science Monitor 91, no. 80 (March 23): 1.

Kyriakoudes, Louis M. 2004. The Grand Ole Opry and the Urban South. Southern Cultures 10, no. 1: 67-84.

Lewis, George H. 2001. The Color of Country: Black Influence and Experience in American Country Music. Popular Music & Society 25, no. 3/4 (Fall): 107.

Lewis, George H. 2005. Dirt Roads and White Lines: Identity and Place in the Country Sound of the Other California. Journal of Popular Culture 38, no. 5: 855-887.

Manuel, Jeffrey T. 2008. The Sound of the Plain White Folk? Creating Country Music's “Social Origins”. Popular Music & Society 31, no. 4 (October): 417-431.

McCarthy, James. 2005. Rural geography: multifunctional rural geographies – reactionary or radical? Progress in Human Geography 29, no. 6 (December): 773-782.

McCarthy, James. 2008. Rural geography: globalizing the countryside. Progress in Human Geography 32, no. 1 (February): 129-137.

McVeigh, Rory., Daniel J. Myers, and David. Sikkink. 2004. Corn, Klansmen, and Coolidge: Structure and Framing in Social Movements. Social Forces 83, no. 2: 653-690.

Mears, Daniel P., Michelle L. Scott, and Avinash S. Bhai. 2007. Opportunity Theory and Agricultural Crime Victimization. Rural Sociology 72, no. 2 (June): 151-184.

Montrie, Chad. 2008. Continuity in the Midst of Change: Work and Environment for West Virginia Mountaineers. West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies 1, no. 1: 1-22.

Muilu, Toivo, and Jarmo Rusanen. 2003. Rural young people in regional development--the case of Finland in 1970-2000. Journal of Rural Studies 19, no. 3 (July): 295-307.

(Is that all? Oh wait there’s MORE? You gotta be kidding!)

Patnode, Randall. 2003. "What These People Need Is Radio": New Technology, the Press, and Otherness in 1920s America. Technology and Culture 44, no. 2: 285-305.

Penrose, Jan. 2003. When All the Cowboys Are Indians: The Nature of Race in All-Indian Rodeo. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 93, no. 3: 687-705.

Rounds, Kathleen A. 1988. AIDS in Rural Areas: Challenge to Providing Care. Social Work 33, no. 3 (May): 257-261.

Salamon, Sonya. 2003. From Hometown to Nontown: Rural Community Effects of Suburbanization. Rural Sociology 68, no. 1 (March): 1-24.

Smith, Molly Bean, and Jeff S. Sharp. 2005. Growth, Development, And Farming In An Ohio Exurban Region. Environment & Behavior 37, no. 4 (July): 565-579.

Tuss, Alex J. 2006. Brokeback Mountain and the Geography of Desire. Journal of Men's Studies 14, no. 2 (Spring2006): 243-246.

Urban, Mark C. 2004. The Town that Sold its Sunset. River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative 5, no. 2: 90-102.

van Elteren, Mel. 1996. Country music in the Netherlands: Why it is still marginal? Popular Music & Society 20, no. 3 (Fall96): 53.

Veeck, Gregory, Deborah Che, and Ann Veeck. 2006. America's Changing Farmscape: A Study of Agricultural Tourism in Michigan. Professional Geographer 58, no. 3: 235-248.

Warren, Patricia Nell. 2006. Real Cowboys, Real Rodeos. Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide 13, no. 4 (July): 19-23.

Wysocki, Diane Kholos. 2000. 'Growing Up Gay In Rural Nebraska' Or A Feminist Relocates To The Midwest. Sexuality & Culture 4, no. 3 (Summer2000): 57.

Additional (Optional) Reading

(Like I’ll have time to get to any of that this semester.)

Coclanis, Peter A., and Louis M. Kyriakoudes. 2007. Selling Which South? Economic Change in Rural and Small-Town North Carolina in an Era of Globalization, 1940–2007. Southern Cultures 13, no. 4: 86-102.

Donato, Katharine M., Charles M. Tolbert II, Alfred Nucci, and Yukio Kawano. 2007. Recent Immigrant Settlement in the Nonmetropolitan United States: Evidence from Internal Census Data. Rural Sociology 72, no. 4 (December): 537-559.

McCarthy, James. 2006. Rural geography: alternative rural economies – the search for alterity in forests, fisheries, food, and fair trade. Progress in Human Geography 30, no. 6 (December): 803-811. doi:10.1177/0309132506071530.

Foley, Douglas E. 1990. The Great American Football Ritual: Reproducing Race, Class, and Gender Inequality. Sociology of Sport Journal 7, no. 2 (June): 111-135.

Lichter, Daniel T., Domenico. Parisi, Steven Michael. Grice, and Michael C. Taquino. 2007. National Estimates of Racial Segregation in Rural and Small-Town America. Demography 44, no. 3: 563-581.

Little, Jo. 2002. Rural geography: rural gender identity and the performance of masculinity and femininity in the countryside. Progress in Human Geography 26, no. 5 (October): 665-670.

Rausch, Anthony S. 2005. Local Identity, Cultural Commodities, and Development in Rural Japan: The Potential as Viewed by Cultural Producers and Local Residents. International Journal of Japanese Sociology 14, no. 1 (November): 122-137. doi:10.1111/j.1475-6781.2005.00073.x.

Tynan, Michael. 2007. Shifting Egalitarianisms and Contemporary Racism in Rural Victorian Football: The Rumbalara Experience. Australian Journal of Anthropology 18, no. 3 (December): 276-294.