Call for Papers: World Congress of Rural Sociology, 2012

XIII World Congress of Rural Sociology, July 29-August 4, 2012 | Lisbon, Portugal

SESSION 4 STANDARDS AND INNOVATION TRANSITIONS: Practising and Knowing Sustainable Rural Futures

Deadline 15 January 2012

Session Organisers:

Allison Loconto, Marc Barbier, Pierre-Benoit Joly

Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA - Sciences en Société) | Institut Francilien Recherche Innovation et Société (IFRIS) | Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée

Maarten van der Kamp

Lancaster University Management School

Lawrence Busch

Michigan State University, Center for the Study of Standards in Society (CS3)

Eve Fouilleux

CIRAD (Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement)

Maki Hatanaka, Jason Konefal

Department of Sociology, Sam Houston State University

Call for Papers:

Standards are instrumental in ordering the diverse practices of rural life such as how farming is done, how produce is traded and how rural enterprises operate. Specifically, voluntary standards for agriculture and food serve as examples of 'responsible innovations' which assemble networks of actors in the creation, implementation and evaluation of technologies and practices aimed at radically changing how food is produced and consumed. Yet, to move beyond discursive accounts of such sustainable futures, it is important to explore how 'sustainability' is known and practised in rural contexts.

This panel will explore the themes of innovation transitions, the governance of/by standards and sustainable rural futures in light of the recent boom in 'sustainability' standards through three sessions (Theoretical Contributions, Methodological Considerations and Empirical Cases). We invite papers that exemplify a diverse range of standards and intend to foster in-depth discussions based on experiences from different disciplinary backgrounds and geographical contexts.

Please address any questions about this session to Allison Loconto (loconto@inra-ifris.org) and Maarten van der Kamp (m.vanderkamp@lancaster.ac.uk).

Please submit a brief abstract (150 words) by 15 January 2012 online (http://irsa2012.com/event/irsa-2012/proposals/). Please indicate that you are submitting your paper to Session 4 (Standards and Innovation Transitions). Note that only online submissions will be accepted.

Call for Papers: “Gender, Family and Peasant Farming: North-South Perspectives”

Dialogs between academic, development and teaching worlds

Call for articles

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

UMR Dynamiques Rurales, ENFA, Toulouse,

UMR CNRS 5600, « Environnement, ville, société », Lyon,

Réseau « Genre en action », Bordeaux

May 22, 23, 24 & 25, 2012

Scientific context

The conference “Gender, Family and Peasant Farming” offers a gendered social and cultural reading of the evolution of agricultural worlds in the North and the South confronted to a certain number of difficulties and impasses. This conference aims at showing how a gendered reading of agriculture throws light on new organizational experiences, but also on new ways of producing, on choices of productive systems, and on particular relationships to the land. Particularly, the conference questions the links between agriculture, community development, and environment by mobilizing the tools of gender analysis.

These broad questions are both of interest to the academic world and the area of development and meet major current societal challenges. Our hope is that the academia, on the occasion of this conference, builds the adequate conditions to strike a dialogue. To that end, we will organize workshops aiming to become fora for exchanges and discussions among researchers, experts and on- field actors. We will encourage different forms of expression including paper presentations, research movies, discussions, etc.

Encouraging a dialogue between research/teaching/development with a significant diversity of actors is a way for the academia to create a proxemics involving new objects, new questions, and new methods. This conference answers the need to bring academia closer to the professional world by paying attention to innovations and male and female actors in rural worlds.

Eligible papers should focus on four different themes:

Theme 1 : Family Organizations and Social Forms of Production in Agriculture

Theme 2: Gender and Social Management of Resources

Theme 3: Gender Inequalities in the Definition and Impact of Agricultural and Environmental

Policies.

Theme 4: Men and Women in Territorialized Food Systems

Conference organizers: Anne Marie Granié, Dynamiques Rurales, Toulouse ; Hélène Guetat-Bernard, UMR 5600 CNRS « Environnement, ville, société », Lyon 3

Schedule

Abstracts for articles should be sent before January 15, 2012 and should include: - The name, the position currently held and the institutional affiliation of the author(s), and - 5 key words Abstract should be 5000 characters (including spaces) in length. Please, mention the number and the title of the theme of your abstract.

You will be informed if your proposed article has been selected by the scientific committee from February 15, 2012.

Selected articles should be sent by April 30, 2012 (Word .rtf format, Times 12, 1.5 line space) and should include a duly completed conference registration form and fees. Articles should incorporate an abstract in French and in English, and should not be more than 45,000 characters (spaces included). Only articles meeting these requirements will be accepted.

All articles should be sent to the following e-mail addresses:

http://blogs.univ-tlse2.fr/genre-et-agricultures/

Information related to the conference will be available on the conference website

(http://sites.univ-Tlse2 and ENFA website)

Required format for proposed articles

Last name(s) and first name(s) of authors

Position held by author(s) (student, researcher, professor, expert, etc.)

Institutional affiliation (name of the department, research team or research lab):

First author’s contact information: Mailing address: E-mail address: Phone number:

Tittle of article:

Key words:

Specify here the number of the theme of your article, the name of the workshop in which your article is included, as well as the theme of your workshop: