▪ Abstract One of the most profound changes in the United States in the past century is the
national abandonment of farming as a livelihood strategy. This change is evident both in the …

The purpose of this book is to take stock of the 50 or more years of rural sociological
research on agriculture in the USA and to provide an overview of changing research foci …

PREFÁCIO ste é um livro que se justifica plenamente, pois traz uma contri-Ebuição
importante para buição importante para o conhecimento de uma questão ainda não …

Internet, means that most seemingly rural places in the Western world are effectively
culturally urbanized. Although distinctive cultural traits are formed in particular globalizations …

Every now and then, a book comes along that you positively want to be asked to read and
review, and this is one of them a major work of scholarship in its own right, while at the same …

As the first book in the Restructuring Rural Areas series," Constructing the countryside"
presents a new methodological approach to the analysis of rural change. The authors seek …

Who can deny the significance of food? It has a central role in our health and pleasure as
well as in our economy, politics and culture. Food in Society provides a social science …

We live in a society as dominated by food preference as by sexual preference, as obsessed
with eating too much as with eating too little. In this accessible, cross-disciplinary text, David …

Examining the effects of economic and political restructuring on regions in Europe and North
America, the main themes here are: international economic restructuring; political …

This paper considers how shifts within the social sciences towards conceptualising spatiality
in relational terms have unfolded in rural studies in particular ways over the past decade or …