Pacification or contestation? The role of discourse in agricultural policy
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Leland Glenna's article analyzing agricultural policy as discourse provides a detailed picture of soil conservation policy that was made through contested discourses. At the same time, he points out instrumental rationality as dominating other forms of rationality in soil conservation policy. However, the theory of the instrumentally rational and systematically constrained state advanced by Glenna does not permit a theoretical framework that allows the readers to ask questions of why.
Publication Name: Rural Sociology
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0036-0112
Year: 1999
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Should we go "home" to eat?: Toward a reflexive politics of localism
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The ideas from human geography, political sociology and political science that are believed to provide useful pointers on ways to bring politics into analyses of local food networks are presented. These ideas would enable to understand the claims for and against localism as a normative solution to globalization.
Publication Name: Journal of Rural Studies
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0743-0167
Year: 2005
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Toward an interactional approach to sustainable community development
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The theories behind the concept of sustainable development are discussed with particular regard to the application of principles of sustainable community development. Topics addressed include constrained growth, resource maintenance, and interactional methods for community development.
Publication Name: Journal of Rural Studies
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0743-0167
Year: 1999
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- Abstracts: Political orientations and the social well-being of the Ukrainian population. Living standards and economic attitudes of the population: from illusory prosperity to illusory impoverishment
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