About Karen R. Foster Karen Foster is Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Rural Futures for Atlantic Canada and an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University. Books by Karen R. Foster The Right to Be Rural edited by Karen R. Foster & Jennifer Jarman Productivity and Prosperity A Historical Sociology of Productivist Thought by (author) Karen R. Foster Reimagining Intervention in Young Lives Work, Social Assistance, and Marginalization by (author) Karen R. Foster & Dale C. Spencer