Transforming the Rural : Global Processes and Local Futures /: Global Processes and Local Futures. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Terry Marsden, Mara Miele, Vaughan Higgins, Hilde Bjørkhaug, Monica Truninger.
• Editors: Marsden, Terry; Miele, Mara; Higgins, Vaughan; Bjørkhaug, Hilde; Truninger, Mónica
• Contents: Table of Contents Introduction Section I: Financialization Chapter 1 The Financialization of Farming: The Hancock Company of Canada and Its Embedding in Rural Australia Sarah Ruth Sippel, Geoffrey Lawrence and David Burch Chapter 2 Impacts of financialization on agricultural and rural investment: lessons from the Portuguese case Manuel Belo Moreira Chapter 3 The Chicken Game – organization and integration in the Norwegian agri-food sector Hilde Bjørkhaug, Jostein Vik and Carol Richards Chapter 4 Re-Ordering the Rural? Canada, Dairy Supply Management and the Trans Pacific Partnership Negotiations Bruce Muirheads Section 2: Standardization Chapter 5 Standards and Their Problems: From Technical Specifications to World-Making Lawrence Busch Chapter 6 Creating Actionable Knowledge for Sustainability: A Case of 'Standards in the Making' Allison Loconto and Marc Barbier Chapter 7 Legitimation and De-legitimation in Non-State Governance: LEO-4000 and Sustainable Agriculture in the United States Maki Hatanaka and Jason Konefal Chapter 8 Farmers' Freedom in the Productive World Order: Standard Takers, Contesters and Negotiators or Dissenters? Minna Mikkola Section 3: Commodification and Consumption Chapter 9 A blot on the landscape: consensus and controversies on wind farms in rural Portugal Ana Delicado, Mónica Truninger, Elisabete Figueiredo, Luís Silva, Ana Horta Chapter 10 Changing the olive oil's value chain: Food regime and development in Portugal Dulce Freire Chapter 11 Consuming Rural Connections: Tracing Leeks back to their roots Moya Kneafsey, Laura Venn, Elizabeth Bos Chapter 12 Consuming Animals, constructing naturalness Mara Miele Chapter 13 Return to the land. De-commodification of local foods in South Italy. Annamaria Vitale and Sílvia Sivini Chapter 14 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 Chapter 15 School meals and the rural idyll: children's engagements with animals, plants and other nature Monica Truninger and Ana Horta.
• Publisher Details: Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (382 pages)
• Subjects: Rural communities; Social Science -- Sociology -- Rural; Rural planning; Sociology: work & labour; Social Science -- Regional Studies; Social Science -- Human Geography
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781787432444
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