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2. Social theory and the de/reconstruction of agricultural science : local knowledge for an alternative agriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kloppenburg, Jack, Jr. (author / Department of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI) and Department of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1991
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06474
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 56 (4) : 519-548
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection, As a result of environmental and agrarian activism and of academic critique, a substantial amount of space is available now for moving agricultural technoscience onto new trajectories. A critical rural sociology has played a key role in pushing forward the deconstructive project that has been instrumental in creating this space. And rural sociologists can be active agents in the reconstruction of the alternative science that must emerge from "actually existing" science and that must be developed if there is to be a truly alternative agriculture. But to be effective in this effort we need to enlarge not only the canon of our colleagues in the natural sciences, but our own canon as well. This article suggests that the theoretical resources for such reconstruction are available in contemporary sociological and feminist interpretations of science. Material resources for the reconstruction of a "successor science" are to be found in the "local knowledge" that is continually produced and reproduced by farmers and agricultural workers. Articulations and complementarities between theoretical resources are suggested and potentially productive research areas are outlined. (original)
3. The 2007 farm bill: U.S. producer preferences for agricultural, food and public policy
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Novak, James L. (author), Lubben, Bradley D. (author), Bills, Nelson L. (author), and Johnson, James B. (author)
- Format:
- Research report
- Publication Date:
- 2006-09
- Published:
- USA: Farm Foundation, Oak Brook, Illinois
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: C25254
- Notes:
- National Public Policy Education Committee, Publication No. 2006-01. 64 pages.