(Part 2) Best human geography books according to redditors

What I've seen is a term called urbanormativity. I've only seen it pop up periodically in my research (how urban elites have engaged with rural communities is part of my dissertation research), so I'm not sure that there really is a cohesive framework as of yet. Below are some books/papers on the subject (or at least related to the subject). I would recommend the last two, as I've met and seen presentations by both Lisa Pruitt (UC-Davis) and Alexander Thomas (SUNY-Oneonta), and I find both scholars work to be interesting and well done.

Studies in Urbanormativity: Rural Community in Urban Society

Urbanormativity, Spatial Privilege, and Judicial Blind Spots in Abortion Law

Critical Rural Theory: Structure, Space, Culture

Other general books that might be of interest:

[Born in the Country](https://www.amazon.com/Born-Country-History-America-Revisiting/dp/0801850401/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1479150780&sr=1-1] by David Danbom (a general history of rural America)

Remaking the Heartland by David Wuthnow

Note: Because of my focus, I'm mostly familiar with rural agricultural communities, especially those in the Midwest. If you want more on Coal Country or the Mountain West, I can dig for more resources. I know that there has been a pronounced interest as of late in the Appalachian identity and attempts to use it as a source of pride.

Thanks, this was really interesting! I had heard of burakumin before, but I didn't know a lot of this other context. Other articles about them tend to focus a lot on the marriage issue too, rather than the unemployment and poverty levels, which I always wondered about.

A book I've had on my to-read list forever: Japan's Minorities: The illusion of homogeneity

There are lots of more sources to confirm Israel's assistance to Iran during the war. But like always, you chose to be in denial.
These are dozens of other sources confirming the deals between Iran and Israel through different perspectives. You're more than welcome to red-pill yourself out of the category of "poorly informed people":

• Mark Phythian's Arming Iraq also points out the details of how Reagan permitted Israel to sell arms to Iran, to prevent a fast Iraqi victory. This of course goes to tell the arm sells wasn't for the goodwill of Iranians, but rather to prolong Saddam's victory. Regardless, it confirms Israel's arms deal with Iran, which after 8 years 'did' result in 'goodwill' of Iranian people.
  
  
  
• The book The secret war with Iran jumps into details of Israel's assistance to Iran during the war and even post war.
  
  
• Tita Parsi's treacherous alliance goes into the details of what was bought and sold during the war, and how the treaties and sales were conducted. Don't hit me with "he's a well known anti-Iranian author, unless you have the resources to back it up.
  
  
  
• The Iran-contra sources confirm the same story, in addition to bringing more evident light to the rumoured claims that "Israel supplied more than half of all of Iran's arms" (search for "Irangatc: The Israel Connection" in the document to get you straight to the paragraphs I'm addressing. If you think it's curropted and you want to read the book, buy it from here).
  
  
• Another book, Israel's quest for acceptance in Asia also confirms this story, in addition to highlighting Khomeini himself approved the arm deal, in exchange for recognising Israel after the war. Classic IRI living up to promises (ツ).
  
  
• A notable figure of these deals was [Marc Rich[(http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/-king-of-oil--discloses-his--secret-lives-/7657620). A Mossad agent who conducted these sales. His side of the story is also quite interestingly in detail.
  
  
• John Bulloch's Gulf War Documentation is another source that confirms such deals; but also bring up the perspective of how Israelis not only sold arms to Iran, but also provided strong military logistical assistance, during and even after the war (during the Gulf War, for the sake of ensuring safety of Jewish communities in Abadan, and Kuwait). But there you have your kinsman bitching about how MOSSAD trained SAVAK.
  
  
• Other sources confirm Israel not only sold weapons to Iran, but also conducted strikes on Saddam's chemical arsenal during Iran-Iraq War.
  
  
• Even Pro-Palestinian resources confirm Israel's assistance to Iran.
  
  The other side of the story is just Khomeini's utter denial, which was contagious for the ones who blindly followed him. In despite of all the evidences to support Israel's assistance to Iran, you can be entitled to your opinion regardless of how true or false it is.
  
  PS: I have a bias against the "show sympathy towards Palestine and hate 8 million ordinary jews zionists" dogma that IRI has been trying to shove down everyone's throat. Rationally there is no point for anyone to want to back Palestinians. If they really wanted peace, they'd do more to oust Doofus Abbas for the sake of electing someone more responsive.
  
  

I personally admire Reza Khan and recognize his achievements in creating the modern nation of Iran, so we have no disagreements there.


The issue with Reza Khan which worsened with his son, was that at their core, they were ashamed of Iranians. Their motivation for everything they achieved was the thought that Iranians were weaker, lesser, and generally inferior to Europeans so they strived to make them more like the Europeans. This made them lose sight of their priorities and pursue things that the ordinary Iranian didn't identify with, because they did not identify with Iranians.


These two passages are from Imagining Iran: The Tragedy of Subaltern Nationalism:


> [Alam-e Nesvan] also published essays, training women in sewing techniques on newly imported sewing machines, and advised them how to be moderate in spending money on fashion. In these absurd displays of modernity, Reza Shah's two daughters, Shams and Ashraf, performed as role models for being modern and fashionable. But such concerns were not relevant for most Iranian women at the time.

> Not having running water in most homes was a major struggle for most women in Iran in the early decades of the 1900s, during which women gathered around the nearest local water sources, usually a small stream running through each neighborhood, to do their washing--a time-consuming job, to say the least. Additionally, women were responsible for carrying drinking water from local water houses, usually in open containers on their heads--a back breaking job. Women were also in charge of preparing food, which had to be purchased, gathered, and picked from various local sources on a daily basis--a necessary job for sustaining family life. In contrast the national concern for the state's elites was to look Western.


And, from one of Reza Shah's retired ministers, Hedayat Mukhber Saltane:


> In a meeting, the shah lifted my hat and asked, "What do you think now?" [referring to his latest civilizing attempt by changing the previously mandated hat referred to as the Pahlavi cap to the newly mandated brimmed ones], to which I responded, "The Pahlavi cap had a better name." Agitated, his majesty stepped back retorting "All I am trying to do is for us to look like them [European] so they [Westerners] would not ridicule us." To which I replied, "And, of course, this has been a thoughtful consideration of yours." Then, I said to myself, why [Westerners] ridicule us is because of what is under our hats (minds) which show our perverted emulation of them.


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> Pictures you show were in the 1940-1950s, which was in the middle of this change. This is important because Iran by the late 1970s was nothing like this anymore


So it's clear that you didn't even look through the album or read the title of this post. I posted pictures from 1952, 10 years into the SECOND Pahlavi's reign and the worst depictions of poverty are the 1977 photos of the slums of Tehran.


In fact, the last picture is from 1979. The caption talks about how a Kurdish village was still undeveloped 26 years after the Shah's White Revolution.

Even books written about this kind of xenophobia: https://www.amazon.com/Japan-Bashing-Anti-Japanism-since-Routledge-Contemporary/dp/0415499348

> The ongoing influence of ‘Japan-bashing’ also has parallels in other ‘bashing’ phenomena, such as ‘China-bashing’.

> actually increased south of Vindhyas where sterilization had not been done on the same scale.

Karnataka has Devaraj Urs to thank for that. He would apparently send huge sums of money to Delhi and give them fake numbers to assure the high command that nasbandi targets had been met. Source.

assimilation is peace, if you are against assimilation you are against peace.

> Says who? Adolf Hitler?

no my divided societie's class in grad school.....why is everything about hitler with you people? are you so vapid you can't entertain new ideas without attacking them?

you need to unify a society to make it work. you can't just cram different groups of people together and expect them to get a long. that means consuming the minority culture slowly and peacefully generation by generaiton until they conform to the majority

its better for everyone this way

here is the textbook we used if you wana have a look https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Deeply-Divided-Societies-Adrian/dp/0745648509

Relevant reading.

Spirit of the Mountain, by David Mason. It's about the mountain spirit, Sanshin, who just has all this cool mythology around him as part of traditional Korean 무속. His website is here.

I'd also recommed Korea: A religious History, and Myths and Legends from Korea, both of which are written by James Grayson, who I promise is unparalleled by anyone when it comes to this subject.

The Power of Place by Harm de Blij is in the same vein and really interesting. It discusses how geography is still impeding globalization not just in Africa, but across the world. Isn't as historical as Guns, Germs and Steel, but it shows you how a region's religion, culture, and nature can trap its people.

Looking for:

Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology, preferably 2nd edition (the one I have below)

https://www.amazon.com/Twenty-Lessons-Environmental-Sociology-Kenneth/dp/0199325928

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https://www.amazon.com/Contemporary-Human-Geography-James-Rubenstein/dp/0134746228

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This is the paper version, hope that helps

Same club.
https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Heroin-Southeast-Asia/dp/0060129018

If you are unaware of the fact that the US is sponsoring Uyghur separatists, I honestly can't help you.

The National Endowment for Democracy is heavily supporting separatist groups in China, such as the World Uyghur Congress.

It's quite disturbing, really.

If you are actually interested in the topic, I guess start by reading English literature like this?
https://www.amazon.com/Uyghur-Lobby-Coalitions-Strategies-Contemporary/dp/0415709644

To get a better understanding, I would suggest learning Chinese and reading some Chinese sources on the subject.