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Rural Young Women, Education, and Socio-Spatial Mobility - Landscapes of Success (Hardcover)
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Rural Young Women, Education, and Socio-Spatial Mobility - Landscapes of Success (Hardcover)
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Much of the literature on globalization has centered on the large,
macro-level forces that influence the ways ideas, people, and
various forms of capital move around the world. From this vantage
point, discussions about the progressive feminization of migration,
in particular the feminization of out-migration from rural areas,
indicate an intriguing trend. Simultaneously, the local experience
of global forces is an important way of exploring how macro-level
processes are navigated by social actors on the ground. This
provides added texture to our understanding of why and how people
make decisions about their lives within an increasingly
interconnected social, economic, and political environment. This
volume explores whether concurrent patterns in identity
development, social relations, and youth behaviors on the
micro-level might help explain similarities observable at the
macro-level. Through a triangulated approach that balances between
statistical backdrops, extant quantitative research, and in-depth
qualitative interviews, this book theorizes about shifts in gender
normativity, efforts towards social mobility, and the possible
effects of an increasingly globalized society. To do this, it
examines the decision-making processes employed by high-achieving
young women from rural areas in Vermont and Leinster, Ireland as
they figured out who they wanted to become as adults and where they
wanted to be those people. Remaining mindful of structural
constraints and using the lens of the "psychic landscape" (Reay
2005) to view class as a reflexive practice, this book peers into
the ways certain types of identity evident among blue-collar
students seem to be carving out some potential for social and
spatial mobility amidst both global and local trends.
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