- Amish Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Connexions Library: Agriculture and Farming Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on farming and agriculture.
- Connexions Library: Central and South Asia Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on central and southern Asia.
- Connexions Library: Rural Issues Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on rural issues.
- Everybody Loves a Good Drought
Stories from India's Poorest Districts
Resource Type: Book
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.
- The Harrowsmith Reader
An Anthology from Canada's National Award Winning Magazine of Country Life and Alternatives to Bigness
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
Articles on land, country careers, shelter, gardening, husbandry, food, trees, and rural life.
- Harrowsmith Sourcebook Number One
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
- Land and Community
Crisis in Canada's Countryside
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Limits on Liberty
The Experience of Mennonite, Hutterite and Doukhobor Communities in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
In this book, Janzen examines the beliefs and way of life of the Mennonite, Hutterite and Doukhobor Communities in Canada.
- Mistranslating Marx? The "idiocy of rural life"
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Natural light
Life among Vermont's hippies, hunters, bears, and moose
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2000
An essay on the author's experience in his second home, in rural Vermont.
- On The Land
Essays and Images
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- On The Land
Essays and Images
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 26, 2015
Ukraine
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
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.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2015
Sustainability, ecology, and agriculture
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
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.
- Out Our Way
Gay & Lesbian Life in Rural Canada
Resource Type: Book
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.
- People's Archive of Rural Ontario
Resource Type: Website
Voices and stories of rural Ontario.
- Reporting the Realities of Poverty
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1997
Review of Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India's Poorest Districts, by P. Sainath.
- Rural Americans and the Language Too Many People Use to Talk About Them
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Rural India - a living journal, a breathing archive
The everyday lives of everyday people
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Project on rural India consisting of an archive which depicts its diverse and complex countryside.
- Rural Routes
Exploring the Back Roads of Saugeen Country
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
- Rural Women In Latin America
Experiences from Ecuador, Peru, and Chile
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- P. Sainath
Resource Type: Website
The website of P. Sainath, rural reporter in India.
- Save the Tiger, Keep the People
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Sources welcomes Michael Riordon
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Sources welcomes a new member: Michael Riordon. Canadian writer and documentary-maker Michael Riordon writes/directs/produces books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, plays for radio and stage.
- The Waterloo Mennonites
A Community in paradox
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Fretz discussed about the history and life of the Mennonites as a community. He concludes that Mennonites have contributed much in community leadership, education, health professions, business and political office once they overcome prior distrust of the world.
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