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Author:   Terry Marsden (Cardiff University, UK) ,  Mara Miele (Cardiff University, UK) ,  Vaughan Higgins (Charles Sturt University, Australia) ,  Hilde Bjørkhaug (Centre for Rural Research, Norway)
Publisher:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Volume:   24
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9781787148246

ISBN 10:   1787148246
Pages:   382
Publication Date:   18 July 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"IntroductionSection 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"

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"Selected from presentations to an August 2012 rural sociology conference in Lisbon, 15 papers look at financialization, standardization, and commodification and consumption. Among their topics are impacts of financialization on agricultural and rural investment: lessons from the Portuguese case, creating actionable knowledge for sustainability: a case of standards in the making, a blot on the landscape: consensus and controversies on wind farms in rural Portugal, consuming rural connections: tracking leeks back to their roots, return to the land: decommodification of local foods in South Italy, and nutrition and the Mediterranean diet: a historical and sociological analysis of the concept ""healthy diet"" in Spanish society. -- Annotation ©2017 * (protoview.com) *"

Selected from presentations to an August 2012 rural sociology conference in Lisbon, 15 papers look at financialization, standardization, and commodification and consumption. Among their topics are impacts of financialization on agricultural and rural investment: lessons from the Portuguese case, creating actionable knowledge for sustainability: a case of standards in the making, a blot on the landscape: consensus and controversies on wind farms in rural Portugal, consuming rural connections: tracking leeks back to their roots, return to the land: decommodification of local foods in South Italy, and nutrition and the Mediterranean diet: a historical and sociological analysis of the concept healthy diet in Spanish society. -- Annotation (c)2017 * (protoview.com) *

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