Transforming the rural : global processes and local futures /

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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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Other Authors: Bjørkhaug, Hilde (Editor), Miele, Mara (Editor), Higgins, Vaughan, 1974- (Editor), Truninger, Mónica (Editor)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Research in rural sociology and development ; v. 24.
Subjects:
Globalization > Economic aspects.
Rural population.
Sociology, Rural.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > General.
Rural communities.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Full-text access
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.

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