FOREWORD

Abstract

Bell and Hendricks’ Walking Towards Justice is the first volume in the post-Schwarzweller era of Research in Rural Sociology and Development. Harry Schwarzweller – a Past President of both the Rural Sociological Society and the International Rural Sociology Association, and now Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Michigan State University – was the ideal person to mould and nurture Research in Rural Sociology and Development (RRSD) into becoming one of the world’s foremost publications in the fields of rural sociology and development studies. Harry had broad interests in rural sociology and development and a strong commitment to rural sociology as an internationally relevant enterprise. Schwarzweller was not only the Series Editor from the inception of RRSD in the mid-1980s, but he was editor or co-editor of seven of the eight volumes of RRSD that had been published as of 2000. The rural sociological community the world over owes Harry Schwarzweller its gratitude for paving this way for this important research publication.

Citation

Buttel, F.H. (2003), "FOREWORD", Bell, M.M. and Hendricks, F. (Ed.) Walking Towards Justice: Democratization in Rural Life (Research in Rural Sociology and Development, Vol. 9), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. XI-XII. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1057-1922(03)09016-4