Bygone utopias and farm protest in the rural Midwest : returning home / Daniel Jaster.
Jaster, Daniel, author.
2021
GN407.4
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Title Bygone utopias and farm protest in the rural Midwest : returning home / Daniel Jaster.
Author Jaster, Daniel, author.
ISBN 9783030710132 (electronic book)
3030710130 (electronic book)
9783030710125
3030710122
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71013-2
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource (vii, 222 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-71013-2 doi
Call Number GN407.4
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.3/4909770904
Summary This book explores those who long for "bygone utopias"--Times before rapid, culturally destructive social change stripped individuals of their perceived agency. The case of the wave of foreclosure protests that swept through the rural American Midwest during the 1930s illustrates these themes. These actions embodied a utopian understanding of agrarian society that had largely disappeared by the late 19th century: hundreds to thousands of people fixed public auctions of foreclosed farms, returning owners property and giving them a second chance to save their farm. Comparisons to later movements, including the National Farmers Organization and the protests surrounding the 1980s Farm Crisis highlight the importance of culturally catastrophic social change occurring at a breakneck pace in fomenting these types of bygone utopian actions. These activists and movements should cause scholars to re-think what it means to be conservative and how we view conservatism, helping us better understand why were seeing a contemporary resurgence in nationalist and reactionary movements across the globe. Daniel Jaster is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Eureka College, USA, and affiliated with the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work and a member at the Peace, War, and Social Conflict Laboratory at Texas Tech University. His research centers on social change: how people experience it, how they create it, and how they resist it. More specifically, he focuses on social theory, political sociology, and comparative-historical sociology, with emphases on utopias, sociological pragmatism, and social movement tactics/strategies. His work has appeared in journals such as Political Power and Social Theory, Mobilization, Social Movement Studies, Time and Society, and the Journal of Classical Sociology
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Introduction
Social change, agency, and resistance : the cultural double movement and the rural Midwest, 1830-1929
Farmers' protest : from local clubs to third-party politics, 1830-1900
Post-populist politics : lobbying, third parties, and the victories and defeats of the new repertoire, 1900-1932
Returning home : Midwestern farmers' protests and refiguring the past, 1931-1934
Collective actions in the gloaming of the past : modern Midwestern farm protests and social change from the post-WWII era until now
Social change and bygone utopias : refiguring what has been lost.

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