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THE DRIVE TOWARD value-based payments in healthcare means that doctors will have to pay more attention to the social, economic and environmental factors that affect their patients' health. Collectively, these [...]

The U.S. state of Vermont is often portrayed as a place where 'race' is of little significance, yet notions of whiteness are central to how the state has been represented and represents itself. A critical analysis of historical and contemporary economies of representation examines how Vermont has been imagined as one of the last remaining spaces of authentic Yankee whiteness while more recently becoming an imagined homeland for particular brands of white liberal politics and social practice in the United States. Narratives of white Vermont identity have often explicitly drawn on oppositions to other forms of whiteness, particularly those associated with the U.S. South, in constructing an image of a comparatively racially benign Yankee whiteness. Recent right-wing discourses have explicitly attempted to construct Vermont whiteness as outside the American mainstream (not least through its discursive association with gay and lesbian sexualities), suggesting a need for geographical work on the (re)configuration of whiteness to reconsider where 'normal' American whiteness is imagined to reside. The examination of the case of Vermont highlights the need for future geographical research to attend to continuities between various territorialized constructions of whiteness as well as contestations within whiteness. Key Words: imaginative geographies; New England; racialization; Vermont; whiteness.

By now, it's a ritual. I weigh out two kilos of flour a little before noon and make dough, then set it aside to rise. At 3 P.M. I realize [...]

The Vermont Commission on Country Life (VCCL) was an organization that attempted to improve the quality and quantity of rural people in Vermont through rural development, social reform and eugenics. Its focus on eugenics as a reform tool caused it to be forgotten in history because of Adolph Hitler's use of eugenics. The VCCL caused social policy to be centralized at the state, not regional, level and developed a state health care system while also influencing social reform up to modern times.

Vermont's small town communities, and the corporate community at Rhino Foods Inc, a 60-employee frozen dessert firm in Burlington, VT, illustrate some of the requirements for workplace community building. Building a real community requires all members to share the same values, have a common vision of the future, recognize the community's boundaries, share both power and responsibility, strive to develop themselves personally and protect themselves physiologically, develop training, conflict resolution and feedback mechanisms, and encourage friendship with other community members.

In Vermont, 83% of schoolchildren with disabilities are educated in 'regular' classrooms, as opposed to just 36% nationwide. Ms. Thousand and Mr. Villa explore the outcomes of Vermont's inclusion policies [...]

I WAS RAISED during the 1970's in a small town in southern Vermont, populated largely by mill workers who lived in trailers and hippies who lived in lean-tos. My parents, [...]

VERMONT -- Five years ago I became the first openly gay statewide official in America: state auditor of Vermont. My main commitment was to make sure that taxpayers' money was [...]

Devolution proponents frequently cite Vermont as an example of what a state can do to improve its welfare system when it is given the leeway to experiment. Since receiving a [...]

JOHNSON, VT. THE VERMONT STUDIO CENTER, an artists' colony, has 22 buildings, including a sculpture workshop and a meditation hall. Jonathan T. Gregg, one of the center's founders, is most [...]