"If the Lord's Willing and the Creek Don't Rise": Flood Control and the Displaced Rural Communities of Irving and Broughton, Kansas

Autor/in	Hanson, Robin A.
Titel	"If the Lord's Willing and the Creek Don't Rise": Flood Control and the Displaced Rural Communities of Irving and Broughton, Kansas
Quelle	In: Great Plains Quarterly, 30 (2010) 4, S.251-269 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0275-7664
Schlagwörter	Rural Population; Natural Disasters; Resilience (Psychology); Identification; Community Characteristics; Municipalities; Kansas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Landbevölkerung; Natural disaster; Naturkatastrophe; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Magistrat
Abstract	The author examines how the residents of two displaced rural Kansas towns, and their descendants, exhibit a sense of identity common to small farm communities throughout the Great Plains, and how tenacious these ties are even after the physical reminder of their communal bonds no longer exists. By examining the struggles to survive faced by these two towns, Irving and Broughton, the resiliency of the people who called them home, and the continuing expression of community solidarity by the individuals associated with them, the author proposes that the individuals living within these communities created a transcendental identity similar to that of Benedict Anderson's "Imagined Communities." This communal identity remains a unifying bond without the need for an enduring physical signifier. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10