The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America
The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America
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落后者：美国农村的衰落与愤怒
DOI：
10.1093/sf/soy118
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发表时间：
2018
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影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
Jennifer Sherman
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作者：
Jennifer Sherman
怨恨的政治和霍克希尔德的陌生人在自己的土地。基于对美国农村十年的研究，这本书很好地解决了这个问题。Wuthnow有意识地将这本书定位为特朗普崛起的另一种解释，并试图在现有的经济苦难与种族主义和厌女症之间做出裁决。这本书并没有解决这个问题，而是阐明了农村居民讨论这些问题的方式，并对他们的投票行为提出了新的解释。Wuthnow将农村城镇描述为“道德社区”，这些社区受到现代化力量的威胁，包括去工业化、农业整合、人口下降和一系列社会问题。他认为，随之而来的道德义愤来自“恐惧和愤怒的混合”（第6页），即农村社区正在消失和被围困。这本书通过深入探讨地方和社区对农村居民的意义的章节探索了这种愤怒的来源;对农村社区的威胁;基层试图解决农村社会问题;对华盛顿和政府的不满;对道德滑坡的担忧;以及偏执和种族主义。写作是清晰和简洁的，使留守一个容易，快速阅读。它面向主流读者而不是学术读者，主要避免理论或与现有文献的接触，尽管书末的一节指出读者对一些农村话题和问题的进一步阅读。与这一类型的许多其他研究不同，Wuthnow的书的优势在于它包括来自美国农村的采访数据，而不是深入研究单个案例研究或实地考察。他从一个数据集，其中包括1,000多个深入的采访，在多个领域的网站，包括讨论了广泛的来源，既自豪
Politics of Resentment and Hochschild’s Strangers in Their Own Land. Based on a decade of research on rural America, the book is well situated to address this question. Wuthnow consciously positions this book as another explanation for the rise of Trump, and attempts to adjudicate between existing explanations of economic suffering versus racism and misogyny. The book does less to resolve this question than it does to elucidate the ways in which these issues are discussed by rural residents, as well as to introduce new explanations for their voting behaviors. Wuthnow presents rural towns as “moral communities” that are threatened by forces of modernity including deindustrialization, consolidation in the agricultural industry, population decline, and a host of social problems. The ensuing moral outrage, he argues, comes from “a mixture of fear and anger”(p. 6) that rural communities are both disappearing and under siege. The book explores the sources of this outrage through chapters that look in depth at the meanings of place and community to rural dwellers; threats to rural communities; grassroots attempts to address rural social problems; dissatisfaction with Washington and the government; concerns regarding moral decline; and bigotry and racism. The writing is clear and concise, making The Left Behind an easy, swift read. It is pitched toward a mainstream audience rather than an academic one, mostly avoiding theory or engagement with existing literature, although a section at the end of the book points readers toward further reading on a number of rural topics and issues. Unlike many other studies in this genre, a strength of Wuthnow’s book is that it includes interview data from across the rural US, rather than looking in depth at a single case study or field site. He draws from a dataset that includes more than 1,000 in-depth interviews in multiple field sites, including discussions of a wide range of sources of both pride