Abstract

In her recent book, Endangered Spaces, Enduring Places, Janet Fitchen delivers on her promise to create a work that "provides the needed context and wholeness" (p. 1) for understanding the myriad changes currently affecting rural America and providing a sound basis for understanding their effects on rural people and rural places. Employing an anthropological research approach that included more than 400 separate interviews and observations in 15 counties in rural New York between 1985 and 1990, Fitchen documents the magnitude, complexity, and interrelatedness of these changes. Although she acknowledges that broad social changes have been impinging on rural areas for most of their history, Fitchen emphasizes that the threatened demise of rural America today is the result of the cumulative effect of these changes occurring in a "compressed period of time" (p. 2).

How to Cite:

Elliott, J., (1994) “Book Review: Endangered Spaces, Enduring Places: Change, Identity, and Survival in Rural America”, Journal of Research in Rural Education 10(2), 129–130.

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