Transforming the rural : global processes and local futures /
This book analyses the key global processes transforming rural spaces in the early 21st century - financialization; standardization; consumption, and commodification. Through detailed case studies, the book examines why these processes are important, how they work in practice, and the challenges the...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bingley :
Emerald Publishing Limited,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Research in rural sociology and development ;
v. 24. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- The financialization of farming: the Hancock company of Canada and its embedding in rural Australia / Sarah Ruth Sippel, Geoffrey Lawrence and David Burch
- Impacts of financialization on agricultural and rural investment: lessons from the Portuguese case / Manuel Belo Moreira
- The chicken game: organization and integration in the Norwegian agri-food sector / Hilde Bjørkhaug, Jostein Vik and Carol Richards
- Re-ordering the rural? Canada, dairy supply management and the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations / Bruce Muirhead
- Standards and their problems from technical specifications to world-making / Lawrence Busch
- Creating actionable knowledge for sustainability: a case of "standards in the making" / Allison Loconto and Marc Barbier
- Legitimation and de-legitimation in non-state governance: Leo-4000 and sustainable agriculture in the United States / Maki Hatanaka and Jason Konefal
- Farmer's freedom in the productive world order: standard takers, contesters and negotiators, or dissenters? / Minna Mikkola
- A blog on the landscape: consensus and controversies on wind farms in rural Portugal / Ana Delicado, Mónica Truninger, Elisabete Figueiredo, Luís Silva and Ana Horta
- Changing the olice oil value chain: food regime and development in Portugal / Dulce Freire
- Consuming rural connections: tracing leeks back to their roots / Moya Kneafsey, Laura Venn and Elizabeth Bos
- Consuming animals, constructing naturalness / Mara Miele
- Return to the land: decommodification of local foods in south Italy / Annamaria Vitale and Silvia Sivini
- Nutrition and the mediterranean diet: a historical and sociological analysis of the concept of a 'healthy diet' in Spanish society / Cecilia Díaz-Méndez and Cristobal Gómez-Benito
- School meals and the rural idyll: children's engagements with animals, plants and other nature / Mónica Truninger and Ana Horta.
