CALL FOR PAPERS
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October 7 and 8, 1995 the Department of Political Science at the University of
Oregon will convene an interdisciplinary conference entitled:
THE POLITICS OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
Interested scholars from relevant disciplines are invited to submit a short
prospectus by April 15, 1995. Research may include, but is not limited to,
work in the following areas:
- United States and/or comparative agriculture policy
- International Agricultural Development
- Economic Globalization, free trade, and farm self-sufficiency
- Agricultural ethics and agrarian reform movements
- Technology and the implications of agricultural modrnization
- Agriculture and "new" social movements
Featured speakers will include:
Wes Jackson - President of the Land Institute. Jackson has written numerous
papers, book chapters, and has four book titles, including New Roots for
Agriculture (1980), and Alters of Unhewn Stone (1987).
Angus Wright - Professor of Environmental Studies at California State
University, Sacramento. Wright has an extensive list of publications of the
environmental impact of current agricultural practices. His book The Death of
Ramon Gonzales (1990) looks at the problems of pesticide use in Mexican
agriculture.
Patricia Allen - Senior Analyst with the Agroecology Program at the University
of California, Santa Cruz. Allen researches and publishes materials focusing
on the long-term sustainability of agriculture. She edited Food for the
Future: Conditions and Contradictions of Sustainability (1993).
Peter Rosset - Executive Director of the Institute for Food and Development
Policy (Food First) based in Oakland. His books include The Greening of the
Revolution: Cuba's Experiment with Organic Agriculture (1994) and Agroecology
(1990).
The Graduate School of the University of Oregon will publish a peer-review
proceedings featuring the outstanding papers presented at the conference. All
inquiries and submissions can be addressed to:
Stuart Shulman, Department of Political Science, University of Oregon, Eugene,
OR, 97403-1284.
(503)346-4864
email to stu@gladstone.uoregon.edu