“No matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican or neither”: Pragmatic politics in opposition to industrial animal production

Looking for rural transformation? Certainly, the government is a part of it. But arguably more important is mutual aid: rural people’s capacity to enact it in their everyday lives and affront forces that prevent the flourishing of reciprocity. Read about two groups that beat the odds by using pragmatic politics to stop industrial hog feeding operations, forthcoming in a special issue on rural emancipation in the Journal of Rural Studies.