Sociologia Ruralis

Virtual Issue on the themes of Crisis and Opportunity

Responses to the New Rural World:
A Virtual Issue of Sociologia Ruralis on the themes of Crisis and Opportunity of the XIII World Congress of Rural Sociology, Lisbon, July 2012

Crise Économique, Initiative Collective et Developpement
P. Rambaud

The Interdependence of Rural and Urban Environmental Problems in Advanced Capitalist Societies: Models of Linkage
Frederick H. Buttel & William L. Flinn

Food Matters and the Matter of Food: Towards a New Food Governance?
Terry Marsden

Contingent or Structural Crisis in British Agriculture?
Ian Drummond, Hugh Campbell, Geoffrey Lawrence & David Symes

Rural Community Life and the Importance of Reciprocal Survival Strategies
Henk Meert

Taming Nature, Taming Workers: Constructing the Separation Between Meat Consumption and Meat Production in the U.S.
Lourdes Gouveia & Arunas Juska

Rural Development: From Practices and Policies towards Theory
Jan Douwe Van Der Ploeg, Henk Renting, Gianluca Brunori, Karlheinz Knickel, Joe Mannion, Terry Marsden, Kees De Roest, Eduardo Sevilla-Guzmán & Flaminia Ventura

The Final Foods Industry and the Changing Face of the Global Agro-Food System
John Wilkinson

Knowing food and growing food: Beyond the production–consumption debate in the sociology of agriculture
David Goodman & E.Melanie. DuPuis

‘A World Free From Hunger’: Global Imagination and Governance in the Age of Scientific Management
Lynne Phillips & Suzan Ilcan

Biotechnology and the Politics of Truth: From the Green Revolution to an Evergreen Revolution
Sally Brooks

The Third Food Regime: Neoliberal Globalism and Agricultural Biotechnology in North America
Gabriela Pechlaner & Gerardo Otero

Creating Sustainable Rural Development through Stimulating the Eco-economy: Beyond the Eco-economic Paradox?
Lawrence Kitchen & Terry Marsden