CFP: 'Rural Prospects in a Globalizing World: Trends and Transformations' Ruralities are currently the target of many discussions - World Bank reports, investment decisions by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, sovereign land acquisitions, and the film satire on farmer suicides in India, 'Peepli [Live].' Rural geographers have contributed in various ways to sharpening such discussions, from analyses of globalization of the countryside (Woods, 2007) to political-economic studies of new trends in accumulation by dispossession (Moore, 2009).
This session will provide critical reflections on new flows animating rural geographies. Such rural prospects include: -- the survival of small-scale livelihoods in the face of violent appropriation masked as development -- financial speculation, farm price volatility, land grabs and their consequences for food production -- rural-urban intersections which question the claim that the world is inexorably becoming more urban -- rural social movements and their class dimensions including peasant struggles, organic and food sovereignty movements -- South-South exchanges in sustainable crop-dairy development Its overall aim is to showcase theoretical, methodological, and empirical papers on contemporary rural realities and the construction of socially just rural futures from all parts of the world. Please email abstracts or expressions of interest now to organizers: Pratyusha Basu (pb...@usf.edu ), and Bruce Scholten ( b.a.schol...@durham.ac.uk , bruce.schol...@btopenworld.com) **The Economic Geography Specialty Group is a sponsor of this session. -- Norma Rantisi, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Geography, Planning & Environment Concordia University 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8 Tel.: 514-848-2424, ext. 2018 Fax: 514-848-2032 E-mail: norma.rant...@gmail.com
