P-1/12 Farm couple breakup and rural local support
A first version of this paper was presented at the XIII World Congress of Rural Sociology, July 29 – August 4, Lisbon, Portugal
Les merP-1/11 Negotiating space and business in rural tourism
P-1/10 Farm tourism: a question of gender and competence?
P-1/07 The Dream of a Small-holding
Paper to the XXII ESRS Congress 20-24 August 2007 in Wageningen, The Netherlands
Les merP-2/06 Emotional work in host-guest relations
This paper was presented at the Research Partners Meeting Crossroads of tourism and work in Kilpisjärvi, Finnish Lapland, 21-24 May 2006
Les merP-04/06 Kan Aktør-nettverk-teori være et nytt perspektiv for
P-5/05 New Patterns of Gender Division of Work on Norwegian Family Farms?
Paper presented at the XXI Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology,22-27 August, Keszthely, Hungary Working Group 14: Gendered rural space East and West?
Les merP-4/05 Gossip and rumour – the dark side of the rural safe and good?
Paper to the European Society for Rural Sociology XXI Congress, 22-27 August, 2005 Keszthely, Hungary.
Les merP-3/05 Borderline-land: Norwegian Cross Border Shopping between Purchase and Trip
The paper is based on Follo (2003), a report from the project ‘Cross border shopping – rationality more than madness?’ financed by The Research Council of Norway. Other reports from the same project are Døving (2003), Lavik (2003) and Storstad (2003).
Les merP-2/05 Farmers as tourist hosts. Consequences for work and identity
Paper presented at the European Society for Rural Sociology XXI Congress “A Common European Countryside? Change and continuity, diversity and cohesion in the enlarged Europe”. Keszthely, Hungary. 22-27 August, 2005
Les merP-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
Les merP-4/05 Naboskap i bygda
Paper til Nordisk Sosiologkongress, Reykjavik, Island, 15-17 August 200
Les merP-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…
Les merP-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…
Les merP-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…
Les merP-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…
Les merP-4/04 Sosial bakgrunn, livsstil og migrasjonspraksis. En casestudie av rurale ungdomsgrupper i Fjellregionen (Norge)
Paper presentert på den 22 Nordiska Sociologikongressen 2004, 20-22 August, Malmö, Sverige. Fraflytting fra rurale områder, til fordel for befolkningsmessig konsentrasjon i urbane strøk, er et sentralt tema innen norsk og nordisk ruralsosiologi. Fokus har spesielt vært rettet mot ungdom og deres migrasjonspraksiser. Hvorfor velger så mange rurale ungdommer å flytte fra hjembygda og heller…
Les merP-14/03 Mellom lokal omsorg og globale føringer
Myndighetenes målsetting med havbruksnæringen har endret seg fra å være en støtteording for Distrikts-Norge til å sikre nasjonale veksthensyn. Før 1991 var det knyttet strenge eierbegrensinger til konsesjonene, og som en følge av disse reguleringene var de aller fleste av selskapene i næringen relativt små lokalt eide foretak. Etter omreguleringen av konsesjonsbestemmelsen i oppdrettslovverket i…
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