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Contributors JANE ADAMS is Associate Professor of Anthropology and of History at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She is the author of The Transformation of Rural Life: Southern Illinois 1890-1990 (1994), ~ll Anybody Ever Wanted ofMe Was to Work": The Memoirs ofEdith Bradley Rendleman (1996), and numerous articles on U.S. rural history. Her current research explores the civil rights era in Mississippi through interviews with people about the ways their racial, ethnic, religious, and gender locations shaped their experiences. She is also part of a project studying watershed planning in the Cache River Watershed in southern Illinois. BARRY J. BARNETT is Associate Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Georgia. He has written extensively on U.S. agricultural policy with a particular emphasis on the Federal Crop Insurance Program. Current research interests include potential agricultural applications of emerging markets for weather derivatives . This chapter was written while Barnett was on the faculty of Mississippi State University. DOUGLAS H. CONSTANCE is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Sam Houston State University. His primary research focus is the socioeconomic impacts of the globalization of the agri-food system. He has published several book chapters, articles, and a book on this topic. He is President of the Southern Rural Sociological Association and serves on the Executive Committee of the Research Committee on Agriculture and Food of the International Sociological Association. LAURA B. DELIND is Senior Academic Specialist in the Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University. As a scholar-activist, she writes about the contemporary agri-food system, paying particular attention to the long-term costs and social and political inequities at the local level. She is an advocate of more place-based and democratized 326 Contrlbuton systems of food production, distribution, and consumption. In 1996 she established Growing In Place Community Farm, a working member CSA project in Mason, Michigan. KATHRYN MARIE DUDLEY is Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at Yale University. She is the author of The End of the Line: Lost Jobs, New Lives in Postindustrial America (1994) and Debt and Dispossession : Farm Loss in America's Heartland (2000). Her current research interests include the experience of land loss among Mrican American farmers in the rural South and the role of the courts in adjudicating issues of racial discrimination and economic justice. HARRIET FRIEDMANN is Professor of Sociology and a member of the faculty of the Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto in Canada. She is the author of articles on international food regimes, farm structure (including class, gender, and age relations), agricultural regions, the political ecology of food and agriculture, and food cultures. She is former Chair of the Political Economy of the World-System Section of the American Sociological Association and former Community Co-Chair of the Toronto Food Policy Council. Her current project is to synthesize research on farm structures with international food regimes, and to link environmental history with political economy through the history of the hamburger. JESS GILBERT is Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin , Madison, and also Co-Director of the Center for Minority Land and Community Security (based at Tuskegee University). He has published many articles on u.S. land tenure, Mrican American farmers, family vs. industrial farming, and agricultural policy, and is currently finishing a book on democratic planning and agrarian intellectuals in the New Deal Department ofAgriculture. ALAN HALL is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Windsor. He has published a number of articles on sustainable agriculture and organic farming in Canada. ANNA M. KLEINER is a Research Assistant and Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Rural Sociology at the University of MissouriColumbia . Her dissertation research focuses on the economic, social, and environmental impacts of large-scale swine operations on rural communities in northern Missouri. She has extensive experience as a community and economic development practitioner in urban and rural communities within Missouri. Contributors 327 K. MURRAY KNUTIILA teaches in the Department of Sociology and Social Studies at the University of Regina. His books include That Man Partridge: E. A. Partridge, His Thoughts and Times (1994), Introducing Sociology : A Critical Perspective (1996), and State Theories: Classical, Feminist and Global Perspectives (3rd ed., with Wendee Kubik, 2001). He has written numerous papers and book chapters addressing the role of the state in Western Canadian society. He is currently researching the impact of globalization on politics in rural Canada ANN REISNER is Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at...

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