Curing the Future

Issues & Strategies in Remaking Tobacco-Dependent Communities

Abstract

[First Paragraph] The past two decades have witnessed a proliferation of new research on rural areas in industrialized countries. Since the farm crisis of the mid-1980s, and the restructuring of agri-food industries throughout the 1990s, such studies have concerned themselves with questions ranging from the impacts of globalization and rural restructuring on rural communities to postmodern constructions of the countryside. Numerous new lines of inquiry within rural development studies in general and agrarian political economy in particular have taken root, and the contributions of geographers to this emerging body of research have been significant.