Desire, belonging and absence in rural places

Between places: Indigenous mobility in remote and rural Australia

Aging in Rural Places: Policies, Programs, and Professional Practice.

According to current statistics (USDA, 2015), nonmetro populations are seeing a 4-year trend of declining population(s). Although this decline in residents has not been equitably distributed across all of rural America, this tendency has a direct correlation to the foundational message of Aging in Rural Places, and how this migration in rural areas is impacting older adults, aging in place, car...

Health services at risk in "vulnerable" rural places.

$ State governmentCOffices of rural health can use this method to identify places in their states that they should target with programs designed to support health care providers. These might include loan repayments as financial incentives, technical assistance to providers to help them achieve efficiencies within the constraints of lower revenues, incentives to establish regional systems of car...

Desire and Desire Regulation

A good deal of people’s waking time is, more or less directly, spent thinking about and dealing with desire. There is no question that desires are often benign, functional, and evolutionary adaptive for the individual. However, there are cases where desire stands in conflict with important (selfregulatory) goals or (moral) values. Prime examples include the exsmoker who, upon seeing other peopl...

Ethnicity, 'Race' and Place: experiences and issues of identity and belonging in rural minority ethnic households

This thesis seeks to make visible the presence and voices of minority ethnic households in rural communities by addressing the ‘place blindness’ in research on ethnicity / ‘race’, and the ethnicity / ‘race’ blindness in rural literature. The overall aim of this thesis is to develop an understanding of the lived experiences and perspectives of minority ethnic households and individuals in parts ...