Transforming the Rural: Volume 24

Editors:

• Mara Miele
• Vaughan Higgins
• Hilde Bjørkhaug
• Monica Truninger

Chapters:

• Prelims

Part I Financialization

• The Financialization of Farming: The Hancock Company of Canada and its Embedding in Rural Australia
• Impacts of Financialization on Agricultural and Rural Investment: Lessons from the Portuguese Case
• The Chicken Game – Organization and Integration in the Norwegian Agri-Food Sector
• Re-Ordering the Rural? Canada, Dairy Supply Management and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations

Part II Standardization

• Standards and Their Problems: From Technical Specifications to World-Making
• Creating Actionable Knowledge for Sustainability: A Case of “Standards in the Making”
• Legitimation and De-legitimation in Non-State Governance: LEO-4000 and Sustainable Agriculture in the United States
• Farmer’s Freedom in the Productive World Order: Standard Takers, Contesters and Negotiators, or Dissenters?

Part III Commodification and Consumption

• A Blot on the Landscape: Consensus and Controversies on Wind Farms in Rural Portugal
• Changing the Olive Oil Value Chain: Food Regime and Development in Portugal
• Consuming Rural Connections: Tracing Leeks Back to Their Roots
• Consuming Animals, Constructing Naturalness
• Return to the Land: Decommodification of Local Foods in South Italy
• Nutrition and the Mediterranean Diet: A Historical and Sociological Analysis of the Concept of a ‘Healthy Diet’ in Spanish Society
• School Meals and the Rural Idyll: Children’s Engagements with Animals, Plants and Other Nature
• About the Authors
• Index