This thesis addresses an agricultural community facing change and its struggle to make sense of and confront both life and work. This ethnographic project situates one farming family and their neighbors from Fountaintown, North Carolina, within and against the culture of contemporary industrial agriculture. This thesis argues that habitus shapes their work and vision
Following the Civil War, American agriculture changed dramatically, and New England was no exception...
In a farming business, much of the success depends upon management. Farming is a complex business. S...
In South Carolina, many farmers and homesteaders have utilized goats as an adaptive and versatile re...
This thesis addresses an agricultural community facing change and its struggle to make sense of and ...
Since the 1980s, farmers, researchers and activists have questioned the effects on the environment a...
This thesis is a case study of a family of farmers in Mississippi’s Piney Woods who use horse-drawn ...
This thesis examines the role of an agrarian imaginary in the history of Tillery, North Carolina. Lo...
From production to sale, farm operations thrive on the demanding work of farm labor. However, social...
This thesis discusses the detrimental effects that industrialized farming practices have on public h...
This thesis focuses on the presence of livestock waste in the Raccoon River watershed in northwest I...
In 1992 Smithfield Foods opened the biggest hog processing plant in the world in Bladen County, Nort...
This thesis explores the role of innovation in the enactment of tradition through the flourishing of...
This thesis examines the historical context of small scale farming and grassroots social movements i...
This study analyzes the transformation of burley tobacco farming underway in the late twentieth cent...
This paper reports on two years of maintaining an urban community farm in the City of Greensboro, No...
Following the Civil War, American agriculture changed dramatically, and New England was no exception...
In a farming business, much of the success depends upon management. Farming is a complex business. S...
In South Carolina, many farmers and homesteaders have utilized goats as an adaptive and versatile re...
This thesis addresses an agricultural community facing change and its struggle to make sense of and ...
Since the 1980s, farmers, researchers and activists have questioned the effects on the environment a...
This thesis is a case study of a family of farmers in Mississippi’s Piney Woods who use horse-drawn ...
This thesis examines the role of an agrarian imaginary in the history of Tillery, North Carolina. Lo...
From production to sale, farm operations thrive on the demanding work of farm labor. However, social...
This thesis discusses the detrimental effects that industrialized farming practices have on public h...
This thesis focuses on the presence of livestock waste in the Raccoon River watershed in northwest I...
In 1992 Smithfield Foods opened the biggest hog processing plant in the world in Bladen County, Nort...
This thesis explores the role of innovation in the enactment of tradition through the flourishing of...
This thesis examines the historical context of small scale farming and grassroots social movements i...
This study analyzes the transformation of burley tobacco farming underway in the late twentieth cent...
This paper reports on two years of maintaining an urban community farm in the City of Greensboro, No...
Following the Civil War, American agriculture changed dramatically, and New England was no exception...
In a farming business, much of the success depends upon management. Farming is a complex business. S...
In South Carolina, many farmers and homesteaders have utilized goats as an adaptive and versatile re...