For-Profit Democracy
Why is government distrust rampant, especially in the rural United States? Loka Ashwood’s book offers a simple explanation: corporations and the government together dispossess rural people of their prosperity, and even their property.
For interpretations and coverage, see Publishers Weekly, C-Span, Against the Grain, and Front Porch Republic.
Based on four years of fieldwork, Ashwood’s eye-opening assessment plays out in a mixed-race Georgia community hosting the first nuclear power reactors sanctioned by the government in three decades. The book explains prominent trends in current American politics through the lens of for-profit democracy.
the REACTION
Churches become havens for redemption for black families, and poaching a means of retribution for white men, as land takings abound.
the MELTDOWN
Guns become a tool of self-defense as a right tantamount to local understandings of democracy – land ownership – remains perennially under threat through corporate use of eminent domain.
the FALLOUT
Nuclear’s over exertion of power as a commodity, as a boss, and as a corporation affronts democratic ideals of governance by the people.
the RECOVERY
Learn more about the people of rural Georgia, and how to reverse the troubling trends of for-profit democracy, by checking out the book.
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You can purchase For-Profit Democracy here. All author royalties from the book are donated to the Shell Bluff Community Organization. To donate directly to the Shell Bluff Community Organization, email bredlutley@gmail.com or call at (706) 772-5558.