Justice and Tyranny: Bringing “Rural” Back into the Sociology of Food and Agriculture
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- Keiko Tanaka
- Department of Community and Leadership Development University of Kentucky
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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>In the current polarizing political climate, what constitutes <jats:italic>just</jats:italic> has become increasingly questioned and debated in the public arena. Tyrants seem everywhere to shape people's understanding of who belongs in communities and nation‐states and, therefore, who should be given a voice and what should be valued. This paper unpacks the mechanisms of tyranny and the pursuit of justice in the global agri‐food system. The first section discusses justice and tyranny as sociological concepts and practice, followed by the second section that examins two types of tyrannies in the globalized agri‐food system: <jats:italic>neoliberal capitalism</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>community</jats:italic>. I argue that neoliberal capitalism and community are the <jats:italic>logics</jats:italic> for organizing social relations and the <jats:italic>sites</jats:italic> of enacting tyrannies and justice. Third, I argue that in the tension between capitalism and community in achieving justice, <jats:italic>rural</jats:italic> becomes critical both theoretically and empirically for understanding the current transformations and the future challenges for transforming agri‐food systems. Finally, the paper concludes with possible contributions of rural sociological imagination<jats:italic>s</jats:italic> to shaping the discourse of justice and explore the process of justice.</jats:p>
収録刊行物
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- Rural Sociology
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Rural Sociology 85 (1), 3-21, 2019-12-10
Wiley