International Rural Sociology Association - IRSA
In IRSA we are now introducing a more outspoken, actual and vivid homepage. As of today we launch a President's Corner and an IRSA Forum, where members and others may comment the Corner text and other IRSA issues. You are also invited as members to send us longer texts, up to 600 words, in which you may take part in a discussion of upcoming issues and concerns in international rural sociology. The aim is to become a more living organisation with more active members.
12 positions for early stage researchers
PUREFOOD project has 12 vacant positions for early stage researchers in the socio-economic and socio-spatial dynamics of the (peri-)urban and regional foodscape.
PUREFOOD offers 12 individual research projects in 6 countries.
ESRS Newsletter 29.9.2010
The ESRS Newsletter 29.9.2010 has been published on the ESRS Website. The contents of the ESRS Newsletter are call for working groups to the XXIV ESRS Congress (22-25 August 2011) in Chania (Greece), announcement of conferences and a new book published.
Minutes from the Mid Year Council Meeting (July 13 2010 in Gothenberg, Sweden) are now available.
The Asian Rural Sociology Association (ARSA) announces the 4th International Conference in Legazpi City, Philippines on September 6-10, 2010. The theme for the conference is “The Multidimensionality of Economy, Energy and Environmental Crises and their Implications for Rural Livelihoods”.
ESRS Newsletter 27.5.2010
The ESRS Newsletter 27.5.2010 has been published on the ESRS Website. The contents of the ESRS Newsletter are New Scientific Committee, Extended dl. for the ESRS Summer School, Conferences and Job opportunity
A Turning Point of Women, Families and Agriculture in Rural Japan
edited by Masae Tsutsumi (ISBN: 978-4-7620-2015-5) has just been released by Gakubunsha Publishing of Tokyo. The book’s six chapters focus is the changing and emerging role of entrepreneurial women in rural Japan, with special emphasis on women farmers. The chapters include studies of example of women from non-farm backgrounds who are becoming farmers, women who are inheriting farms, and the significant role played by Japanese women in emerging alternative agri-food systems. All of the chapters are in English and were built upon contributions made at the World Congress of the International Rural Sociological Association in Seoul in 2008.
ESRS Newsletter 15.2.2010
The ESRS Newsletter 15.2.2010 has been published on the ESRS Website. Contents of the ESRS Newsletter:
Agri-Food Research Network has launched its new website: http://www.afrn.org.au/
At the XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology in Sweden (11th-17th July 2010) IRSA will host a session called “Comparative perspective on the new productivism: Agricultural system and policy responses to increasing food and energy prices and climate change.”
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IRSA XII World Congress Papers
European Society for Rural Sociology (ESRS) invites to the XXIII Congress in Vaasa, Finland 17-21 August 2009.
The theme for the congress is Re-inventing the Rural- between the Social and the Natural.
ESRS XXIII Congress Website
Rural Sociological Society (RSS) hosts its 72nd Annual Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin (USA), July 30-August 2, 2009.
The theme for this meeting is Climate Change and Societal Response: Livelihoods, Communities, and the Environment
2009 Annual Meeting Website