基本説明
Leading rural sociologists compare and contrast the various experiences of communities in countries such as Australia, Brazil, Finland, Norway, South Arica and the United States.
Full Description
One of the greatest concerns facing the world is how to ensure that sustainable outcomes are generated as globalization proceeds apace. Quite simply, many people are finding their life chances deteriorating - with resistance to globalization being a common response. The question is: is it possible to guarantee sustainable livelihoods for individuals, families and communities as global processes increasingly shape local social relations? This volume is a collection of 16 chapters from leading rural sociologists and human geographers based in Europe, Australasia, and the Americas. The book, in three parts, deals with globalization and food; the restructuring of local agriculture; and communities and resistance in a globalizing world. The introduction to the book compares and contrasts the various experiences of communities in countries such as Australia, Brazil, Finland, Norway, South Africa and the United States as they "struggle" to cope with globalization and its effects. Each chapter discusses options to ameliorate the local consequences of global change.
Contents
Globalizing and FoodReidar Almas and Geoffrey Lawrence; Fast food/slow food - standardizing and differentiating cultures of food, Mara Miele and Jonathan Murdoch; Restructuring of the sugar supply to the industrially processed food chain - the Brazilian case, Maria Rita Pontes Assumpcao; Forging new local/global links through fair trade agro-food networks, Laura T. Raynolds; The power of food, Philip McMichael. The Restructuring of Local Agriculture: Assessing the neoliberal experiment in antipodean agriculture, Hugh Campbell and Geoffrey Lawrence; Resisting integration in the global agro-food system - corporate chickens and community controversy in Texas, Douglas H. Constance, Alessandro Bonanno, Caron Cates, Daniel L. Argo and Mirenda Harris; Globalization and agro-food systems in Argentina, Miguel Teubal and Javier Rodriguez; Technological transformation of household milk production in the south of Brazil - social impacts, Ivaldo Gehlen; Co-operatives to companies - the South African wine industry in the face of globalization, Joachim Ewert. Communities and Resistance in a Globalizing World: Two roads to the global village - a comparison of how a coastal and a mountain region of Norway have found strategies to cope with globalization, Reidar Almas; Local consequences and responses to global integration - the role of the state and less favoured zones, Manuel Belo Moreira; Global change, social exclusion and sustainable livelihoods in rural Britain, Mark Shucksmith; Countering localized impacts of globalization - some rural community development initiatives in Australia, Erica Hallebone, Mary Mahoney and Mardie Townsend; The problem of trust at the margins of the network economy - trust and confidence among rural entrepreneurs in Finland, Petri Ruuskanen.
