Food, Nature and Society : Rural Life in Late Modernity

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ISBN: 9780754618287 | 0754618285
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Copyright: 1/1/2002

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Focusing on the distinctive ways in which rural social, economic and political life is experienced in developed societies in late modernity, this striking volume draws on empirical material from a wide range of countries within and outside the EU. It also incorporates comparative case studies from South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

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List of Tables

Contributors

Introduction

(18)

Part I: Agriculture and rural life in late modernity

Rurality and late modernity in transition countries: the case of Bulgaria

(26)

Veska Kozhucharova

Rossitsa Rangelova

Food industry responeses to global integration: fruit producers, state legislators and women farm workers in South Africa

(22)

Andrienetta Kritzinger

Jan Vorster

Institutionalisation and resistance: organic agriculture in Australia and New Zealand

(22)

Kristen Lyons

Geoffrey Lawrence

Part II: Food producers and food consumers

The evolution of rural food provisioning in France between 1978 and 1991

(24)

Gwenael Larmet

The impact of consumer trust in the Norwegian food market

113

(22)

Oddveig Storstad

Towards a consumer images approach - exploring the quirks of modern food consumer behaviour

135

(28)

J.C. Dagevos

H.J.M. Hansman

Part III: Living with Nature?

Changing social representations of the countryside: rurality, nature and heritage within a French National Park

163

(18)

Eileen O'Rourke

Farm families as local environmental managers?: a case study on wider farm development

181

(28)

Bareld van der Ploeg

Reading `participation in forest management' through `modern' and `post-modern' concepts, or: where to start normative debates?

209

(26)

Urs Geiser

Part IV: Rural development, policy and civil society

Becoming a part of the union - changing rurality in East Germany

235

(18)

Rosemarie Siebert

Lutz Laschewski

Europeanising rural Hungary - rural policy networks and policy representations of the countryside in Hungary in the 1990s

253

(22)

Andras Csite

The role of associations in local development - the case of Garfagnana

275

(20)

Giorgio Osti

From agricultural to rural co-operation in France's Midi vineyard: network theory for a renewal of innovative collective action

295

(26)

Yuna Chiffoleau

The co-operative movement in Ireland: reconstructing civil society

321

(18)

Hilary Tovey

Bibliography

339

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