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Full-Text Articles in Rural Sociology
Opting For Elsewhere: Lifestyle Migration In The American Middle Class, Brian A. Hoey
Opting For Elsewhere: Lifestyle Migration In The American Middle Class, Brian A. Hoey
Brian A. Hoey, Ph.D.
Place For Personhood: Individual And Local Character In Lifestyle Migration, Brian A. Hoey
Place For Personhood: Individual And Local Character In Lifestyle Migration, Brian A. Hoey
Brian A. Hoey, Ph.D.
While drawing on literature of narrative interpretations of the construction of self and place-based, embodied identity, this article will explore the impact of invasive market forces on intertwined processes of person, self, and place-making. It considers how resources for these projects have changed in the face of translocal market forces and neoliberal ideals. Despite numerous proclamations of an essential placelessness to contemporary American society, place continues to be a basic part of the construction of the person. In fact, a variety of place-making practices are increasingly pursued as ways of negotiating tension between personal experience with material demands in pursuit …
Pursuing The Good Life: American Narratives Of Travel And A Search For Refuge, Brian A. Hoey
Pursuing The Good Life: American Narratives Of Travel And A Search For Refuge, Brian A. Hoey
Brian A. Hoey, Ph.D.
American Dreaming: Refugees From Corporate Work Seek The Good Life, Brian A. Hoey
American Dreaming: Refugees From Corporate Work Seek The Good Life, Brian A. Hoey
Brian A. Hoey, Ph.D.
Grey Suit Or Brown Carhartt: Narrative Transition, Relocation And Reorientation In The Lives Of Corporate Refugees, Brian A. Hoey
Grey Suit Or Brown Carhartt: Narrative Transition, Relocation And Reorientation In The Lives Of Corporate Refugees, Brian A. Hoey
Brian A. Hoey, Ph.D.