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9780271023878

Farming for Us All

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  • ISBN13:

    9780271023878

  • ISBN10:

    0271023872

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-05-01
  • Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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Summary

Farming for Us All gives us the opportunity to explore the possibilities for social, environmental, and economic change that practical, dialogic agriculture presents.

Author Biography

Michael Mayerfeld Bell is Associate Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

Table of Contents

OVERTURE: Cultivating Sustainability 1(28)
Intermezzo
22(7)
PART I THE UNCERTAIN LANDSCAPE OF INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE
1. Economy and Security
29(27)
2. Community and Environment
56(15)
3. Home and Family
71(14)
Intermezzo
85(6)
PART II THE CULTURE OF CULTIVATION
4. Farming the Self
91(32)
5. Farming Knowledge
123(22)
Intermezzo
145(6)
PART III THE SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPE OF PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE
6. Rolling a New Cob
151(24)
7. Farming with Practice
175(26)
8. New Farms, New Selves
201(29)
Intermezzo
230(4)
CODA: Sustaining Cultivation 234(17)
Acknowledgments 251(4)
Notes 255(18)
References 273(14)
Index 287

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