Introduction: Toward a Transformative Understanding of Rural Social Change / John R. Parkins and Maureen G. Reed

Part 1: History, Trends, and Territory

1 Notes toward a History of Rural Canada, 1870-1940 / R.W. Sandwell

2 Globalization and Rural Change in Canada’s Territorial North / Chris Southcott

3 Destination Rural Canada: An Overview of Recent Immigrants to Rural Small Towns / Yoko Yoshida and Howard Ramos

Part 2: Structure and Discourse

4 Rural-Urban Interdependence: Understanding Our Common Interests / Bill Reimer

5 Labour Migration and Mobility in Newfoundland: SocialTransformation and Community in Three Rural Areas / Martha MacDonald, Peter Sinclair, and Deatra Walsh

6 Producing Globalization: Gender, Agency, and the Transformation of Rural Communities of Work / Belinda Leach

7 Changes in the Social Imaginings of the Landscape: The Management of Alberta’s Rural Public Lands / Lorelei L. Hanson

8 Logic of Land and Power: The Social Transformation of Northern Natural Resource Management / Ken J. Caine

9 Including Youth in an Aging Rural Society: Reflections from Northern British Columbia’s Resource Frontier
Communities / Laura Ryser, Don Manson, and Greg Halseth

Part 3: Culture and Identity

10 It’s Who We Are: Locating Cultural Strength in Relationship with the Land / Jonaki Bhattacharyya, Marilyn Baptiste, David Setah, and Roger William

11 Visions of Rootedness and Flow: Remaking Economic Identity in Post-Resource Communities / Nathan Young

12 Governing Transformation and Resilience: The Role of Identity in Renegotiating Roles for Forest-Based
Communities of British Columbia’s Interior / Emily Jane Davis and Maureen G. Reed

13 Mill Town Identity Crisis: Refra