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Transforming the Rural
In recent decades, globalization has transformed rural societies and economies across the world. Much has been written by social scientists about the actors and structures …
Dairy Industry Restructuring
This volume focuses on the 'dairy problem', a complex issue that relates directly to the agricultural debate of the past two decades and that concerns the socioeconomic well-being …
Welfare Reform in Rural Places
Research on welfare has tended to focus on the national scale with relatively little attention given to the differential impacts of welfare restructuring in rural places and the …
Between the Local and the Global
The volume presents a range of critical perspectives on the contemporary agri-food sector. The starting point is the recognition that geography matters in agri-food more than ever, …
Globalization and the Time-space Reorganization
This volume explores capital mobility under globalization by studying some of its salient consequences in agriculture and food in North and South America. It probes the manner in …
Food and Agriculture in Urbanized Societies
For the first time in human history, more people inhabit urban than rural areas. Investigating the experience of hunger and malnutrition in urban spaces, Food and Agriculture in …
New Directions in the Sociology of Global Development
Why is global development so unequal in its social impact? How are global relations represented in local developments, and vice versa? What role do social movements play in shaping …
Labor Relations in Globalized Food
In recent years labor relations have altered significantly and new and more serious forms of labor marginalization and control have emerged. This book looks at labor in agriculture …
Walking Towards Justice
Democracy is back, at least as a topic of concern among rural sociologists. The Neoliberal cast of the recent pursuit of globalization in world politics has led to the development …
Alternative Agrifood Movements
This volume explores the issues of convergence and divergence in alternative agrifood movements through a theoretical and empirical engagement of the topic by notable agrifood …
Constructing a new framework for rural development
"This volume seeks to answer modern questions and concerns regarding peasants, their production techniques, and their links to wider society. In the past, peasants and their …
Focus on Migration
This seventh volume in the series covers a variety of topics in research in rural sociology and development.