P-1/05 The relevance of interaction: Skånaliseter farm dairy and development of rural business
Revised version of paper presented at the 18th Annual IMP Conference, Dijon, France, September 5th-7th 2002
Read MoreP-9/04 Political rhetoric, conception of ‘the farmer,’ and implications for recruitment
Revised version of paper presented at the XI World Congress of Rural Sociology, Trondheim, Norway, July 25 – 30. What is a farmer and how do farmers come into existence? These have turned out to be crucial questions in a study of recruitment to Norwegian farming. The reason is simple: The view of what constitutes…
Read MoreP-8/04 Sustaining agricultural in Australia and Norway: A multifunctional approach
Paper presented at Globalisation, Risks and Resistance: XI World Congress of Rural Sociology, Trondheim, Norway, July 25 – 30. Ideals of a productivist agriculture in the western world have faded as the unintended consequences of intensive agriculture and pastoralism have led to environmental problems. In Norway and Australia, there has been an increasing acceptance of…
Read MoreP-07/04 Green Care services on farms –characteristics of Norwegian enterprises.
This paper was first presented at the Nordic Conference on Small Buisiness, Tromsø, June 2004 Green Care is a term covering welfare services provided on farms for the purposes of health care, work training, child care or education. In Norway such services have been developing over the last 10-15 years, and are part of a…
Read MoreP-06/04 The legitimacy of a multifunctional agriculture.
Paper presented at the XI World Congress of Rural Sociology, Trondheim, Norway, July 25 – 30. What is the legitimacy of an agricultural policy directed towards collective goods production? This Norwegian study based on qualitative interview material with representatives of the agricultural sector, supplemented with two quantitative surveys, explores the acceptance of and adaptations towards…
Read MoreP-5/04 Is there a ‘feminine principle’ of farming – and is organic farming a way of expressing it?
Paper presented at the XI World Congress of Rural Sociology, Trondheim, Norway, July 25 – 30. It is often claimed that men and women, due to different value orientations, execute agriculture differently. In particular, the idea that women practice a more environmentally friendly or ecological style of management is found to be one of the…
Read MoreP-03/04 Constructing the countryside: Differences in teenagers’ images of the rural.
Paper presented at the XI World Congress in Rural Sociology Trondheim – Norway, July 25 – 30. Following the ‘cultural turn’ within the social sciences, recent debates on how to conceptualize ‘the rural’ have focused on ‘rurality’ as a phenomenon produced by processes of social construction. This paper presents an empirical account of the ‘outcome’…
Read MoreP-02/04 Social stratification and changing division of labour in rural Norway
Paper presented at the XI World Congress in Rural Sociology Trondheim – Norway, July 25 –30. The point of departure for this paper is changes in the forms and relations of production in rural Norway over the last decades. Some opportunities for making a living have closed, while a vast number of other opportunities have…
Read MoreP-1/04 From logger to tourist host. Changing rural masculinity
Paper presented at the XI World Congress in Rural Sociology Trondheim – Norway, July 25 – 30. Forestry has traditionally been one of the most masculine rural work activities. Over the recent decades the forestry industry has gone through considerable transition regarding technology, organisation of work and decline in employment. One consequence is that forest…
Read MoreP-15/03 Body, gender and machinery in agricultural work
Paper-presentasjon på XX Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology, Sligo, Irland, 18.-22.8.03
Read MoreP-13/03 The countryside – a rural idyll or a boring place? Young peoples’ images of the rural
Based on a study among rural and urban college students this paper presents young people’s images of rural Norway. It elaborates their images and ideas of rural life and the rural population. Central questions are what images of rural Norway are dominant and whether there are differences between those living in urban and rural areas.…
Read MoreP-11/03 Consequences of rural to urban migration. A micro-level analysis.
Paper presentert på XXth Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology. Sligo, Irland, 18-22.08.03
Read MoreP-12/03 Class and rural to urban migration.
Paper på The 43rd European Congress of the Regional Science Association, Jyväskylä, Finland, 27-30.08.03
Read MoreP-10/03 Changing political discourse and genetically modified strawberries- a new role for concerned social scientists?
Paper-presentasjon på XX Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology, Sligo, Irland, 18.-22.8.03
Read MoreP-7/03 A Paradox? Homogeneity in the IMP Perspective
Paper presentert på The 19th Annual IMP Conference, University of Lugano, Switzerland, 4.-6.9.03
Read MoreP-06/03 Ethical values and social sciences: Objectivity, neutrality, and the emprowerment of rural actors.
Plenary talk at the 20 Biennial Conference of the European Society for Rural Sociology, Sligo, Ireland.18.08.03
Read MoreP-05/03 Paradigm lost? The post-modern situation in the Fisheries in Finnmark, Norway
Paradigm lost? The post-modern situation in the Fisheries in Finnmark, Norway Jahn Petter Johnsen, Centre for Rural Research Summary In more than 50 years considerable effort has been put into the project of modernising fishing communities in the northern and eastern county of Norway, Finnmark. Modernity has pervaded Finnmark, and has changed the material conditions…
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