Rural Sociology Democratization in Theory.
Democracy: the missing element in the market celebration (L. Busch). Milpas of the millenium: where will the excluded ones go if the system is global? (A. Bartra). Democracy in the era of globalization (A. Bonanno, R.J. Antonio). Dialogue and isodemocracy: creating the social conditions of good talk (M. Mayerfeld Bell). Democracy: balancing market, state and civil society (C. Butler Flora).
Rural Democratization in Rich Countries.
Global capital and the transformation of rural communities (T.A. Lyson). Civic watershed communties (L. Wright Morton). Are the new rural development programmes strengthening democracy in Europe? The case of southern Spain (E. Ramos and M. del Mar Delgado).
Rural Democratization in Poor Countries.
Opening democratic spaces in rural Mozambique (R. E. Galli). Land inequality in democratic South Africa (F. Hendricks). Democracy, class, and gender in land reform: the case of Zimbabwe (S. Jacobs). Investing in indigenous people's territories, a new form of ethnocide? The Mapuche case (J. Calbucura). Democratization processes in rural sociology development (G. Landázuri Benítez).
Seminar in Rural Sociology
This volume brings together some of the recent work of rural sociologists on democracy, in an effort to bring into sharper focus this work's distinctive contributions to the understanding the question of what is and should be globalized, with particular emphasis on rural sociology and rural people. Half the world still lives in rural areas, and the entire world depends upon the success of rural areas in providing the means for human subsistence.
The impact of globalization on rural sociology thus has implications for everyone. The volume has three sections. The first draws together a range of theoretical work on rural sociology. The second explores processes of rural democratization in the rich countries of the world. The third investigates the distinctive manifestations of rural democratization efforts in the poor countries.
rural sociology, environmental sociology, michael m. bell, sustainable agriculture