The Rural Research Centre Team has been involved in three main research programmes, with key publications listed below.

For additional publications see individual Team members’ pages.

Changing Paradigms:

Deborah Stiles and Greg Cameron. (2011). Feast to famine.Coastlands: The Maritimes Policy Review, 4(1), p.8.

Steven Dukeshire., Garbes, R., Chloe Kennedy, Boudreau, A., Osborne, T. (in press, 2011). Beliefs, attitudes, and propensity to buy locally produced food. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development.

Louise Hanavan, Chloe Kennedy, Greg Cameron. (2010). And Now for the Main Discourse: A Critique of the Popular Food and Farm Literature. Humboldt Journal of Social Relations.

Greg Cameron. (2009). Thinking Strategically about a (Re)Localization Transition in the West. New Community Quarterly 7:3, 8-11.

Lauranne Sanderson, Steven Dukeshire, Rangel, C. and  Garbes, R. (2010).  The Farm

Apprentice: Agricultural College Students Recollections of Learning to Farm 'Safely.' Journal Agricultural Safety and Health 16(4).

Deborah Stiles and Greg Cameron. (2009). Changing paradigms? Rural communities, agriculture, and corporate and civic models of development in Atlantic Canada. Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy Vol. 3 No. 4. 341-354.

Deborah Stiles, "Agriculture Transformed." Commentary. Charlottetown Guardian 8 December 2009. Online: http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/index.cfm?sid=309180&sc=104.

WHIRC (Women’s Health in Rural Communities):

Kirkland, S., Raina, P., Wolfson, C., Strople, G., Kits, O., Dukeshire, S., Angus, C., Szala-Meneok K., Uniat, J., Keshavarz, H., Furlini, L., Pelletier, A. (2009). Exploring the acceptability and feasibility of conducting a large longitidunal population-based study in Canada. Canadian Journal on Aging, 28(3), 231-242.

Stiles, D. Dukeshire, S. Kenneth S. Paulsen, KS, Goodridge, M., Hobson, D., MacLaughlin, J., MacNeil, K and J. Rangel, JC. Rural community identity, women, leisure,  and health and well-being: Historical and contemporary connections. [under review] Chapter in Rural Women’s Health in Canada (Eds. Belinda Leipert, Belinda Leach, and Wilfreda Thurston).

Stiles, D.; Rangel, C.; MacLaughlin, J.; Sanderson, L.; and K. MacNeil. 2007. Rurality, gender, and leisure: Experiences of young rural women in a Nova Scotia community. Journal of Rural Community Psychology E10(2). Available: http://www.marshall.edu/jrcp/V10 N2/stiles.pdf.

Stiles, D. “From Margins to Margins: Cultural Integrity, Ecological Survival and Future Transcripts
in the Historical Home-Based Health Narratives of Nova Scotia and West Virginia.” Probing the Boundaries [Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship]. 7th Global Conference, Inter-Disciplinary Net. Mansfield College, Oxford, England.  11 July 2008.   Online:  http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/publishing/id-press/ebooks/connected-accountabilities/

HUGS (Health, Underdevelopment, Gender and Sustainability):

Heather Levie, “Trouble at Home: The Anxieties of Belonging and Selfhood in the Fiction of Lynn Coady and Christy Ann Conlin.” MA Thesis, Dalhousie University. October 2008. Co-supervisor:  Deborah Stiles.

Carmen Reems, “In Black and White: Subverting the Racial Stereotypes of Historical Mainstream News Media in Black Canadian Literature.” MA Thesis. Dalhousie University. October 2008. Co-supervisor:  Deborah Stiles

Stiles, Deborah. 2003. Rural Women, Underdevelopment, Health Knowledge, and Modernity:  Women and Family Farms as Part of a Broader Context of Change.  Anita Silvana Ilak Persuric, ed. Perspektive Žena u Obiteljskoj Poljoprivredi I Ruralnom Razvoju / Women Perspectives in Family Farming (Porec, Croatia: The Institute for Agriculture and Tourism, 2003), 130-35.

Deborah Stiles. ‘Butter the size of a walnut’ :West Virginia Food and Folklore--and Changes in Rural Women’s Health?.  West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies (accepted April 2008).

Bibliographies:

Members of the Team and RRC Research Partners have assembled several bibliographies of use to students of rural history:

Bibliographies: Tools for Rurally-Oriented Research

Older RRC Publications:

Here, below, are links to older Rural Research Centre publications (Conference Proceedings, Research Papers, and Rural Studies Working Papers). Most are available in PDF file format. Those not available in PDF may be found in hard copy at the NSAC MacRae Library.

Agriculture

Elderly Living

Metropolitan and Non metropolitan Studies

Rural Community Perceptions

Rural-Urban Fringe

Conference Proceedings

Please note that all Rural Research Centre publications are protected by copyright laws and authors must be properly credited when referencing any work.