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Overcoming Barriers

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We’ve talked about agricultural technologies and land—but ladders? The following is taken from a 1919 article titled “The Agricultural Ladder”

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    W. J. Spillman, “The Agricultural Ladder,” American Economic Review 9, no. 1 (March 1919): 170–179, www.jstor.org/stable/1813998.

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    See, e.g., Jack R. Kloppenburg Jr. and Charles C. Geisler, “The Agricultural Ladder: Agrarian Ideology and the Changing Structure of U.S. Agriculture,” Journal of Rural Studies 1, no. 1 (1985): 59–72, doi:10.1016/0743-0167(85)90091-9.

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    Michael S. Carolan, Embodied Food Politics (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011).

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    See, e.g., Shoshanah Inwood, Jill K. Clark, and Molly Bean, “The Differing Values of Multigeneration and First Generation Farmers: Their Influence on the Structure of Agriculture at the Rural Urban Interface,” Rural Sociology 78, no. 3 (September 2013): 346–370, doi:10.1111/ruso.12012.

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    Carol Simpson, “Agriculture Research Project: Waterloo Wellington,” Government of Ontario,Canada,December 2015, http://workforceplanningboard.com/Files/English/Agriculture_Research_final.pdf, accessedMarch5, 2017.

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    The Farmers Guild home page, www.farmersguild.org/, accessed March 5, 2017.

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    “Iowa Corn: Who We Are,” www.iowacorn.org/about/, accessed March 5, 2017.

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    U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency, “Minority and Women Farmers and Ranchers,” www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/farm-loan-programs/minority-and-women-farmers-and-ranchers/index, accessed March 5, 2017.

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    Michael Carolan, The Sociology of Food and Agriculture (New York: Routledge, 2016).

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    See, e.g., Jo Little, “Rural Geography: Rural Gender Identity and the Performance of Masculinity and Femininity in the Countryside,” Progress in Human Geography 26, no. 5 (2002): 665–670, doi:10.1191/0309132502ph394pr; Michael S. Carolan, “Barriers to the Adoption of Sustainable Agriculture on Rented Land: An Examination of Contesting Social Fields,” Rural Sociology 70, no. 3 (September 2005): 387–413, doi:10.1526/0036011054831233.

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    Adam Calo, “For Farmers, This Land Is Often Someone Else’s,” San Francisco Chronicle, October 28, 2016, www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/For-farmers-this-land-is-often-someone-else-s-10420689.php, accessedDecember 25, 2016.

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    U.S. Department of Agriculture, Census of Agriculture, “2012 Census Highlights: Farm Demographics—U.S. Farmers by Gender, Age, Race, Ethnicity, and More,” ACH12-3, May 2014, www.agcensus.usda.gov/Publications/2012/Online_Resources/Highlights/Farm_Demographics/, accessed March 5, 2017.

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    Steven B. Emery, “Independence and Individualism: Conflated Values in Farmer Cooperation?,” Agriculture and Human Values 32, no. 1 (March 2015): 47–61, doi:10.1007/s10460-014-9520-8.

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    See, e.g., Margaret Alston, “Rural Male Suicide in Australia,” SocialScience & Medicine 74, no. 4 (February 2012): 515–522, doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.04.036; Lia Bryant and Bridget Garnham, “The Fallen Hero: Masculinity, Shame, and Farmer Suicide in Australia,” Gender, Place & Culture 22, no. 1 (2015): 67–82, doi:10.1080/0966369X.2013.855628; Mensah Adinkrah, “Better Dead than Dishonored: Masculinity and Male Suicidal Behavior in Contemporary Ghana,” Social Science & Medicine 74, no. 4 (February 2012): 474–481, doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.10.011.

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    See, e.g., Krystal D’Costa, “Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts?,” Scientific American, April 26, 2017, https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/anthropology-in-practice/why-dont-people-return-their-shopping-carts/.

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    Jonathan T. Rothwell and Pablo Diego-Rosell, “Explaining Nationalist Political Views: The Case of Donald Trump,” November 2, 2016, doi: 10.2139/ssrn.2822059, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2822059, accessed September 25, 2016.

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Carolan, M.S. (2018). Overcoming Barriers. In: The Food Sharing Revolution. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-887-9_7

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