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Contingent or Structural Crisis in British Agriculture?
Author(s) -
Drummond Ian,
Campbell Hugh,
Lawrence Geoffrey,
Symes David
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
sociologia ruralis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.005
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1467-9523
pISSN - 0038-0199
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9523.00134
Subject(s) - agriculture , rationality , politics , sort , agricultural policy , economics , political science , political economy , economic system , development economics , geography , law , archaeology , computer science , information retrieval
The British agricultural sector is either already in or rapidly approaching some sort of crisis. Two features are particularly significant in the political response to the current situation. First, there is an increasingly neoliberal approach to agricultural policy. Second, agricultural policy per se is being subsumed with wider rural policies. In this paper we question the rationality of both these trends, both theoretically through ‘new wave regulation theory’ and by relating the British situation to the recent experiences of the agricultural sectors in Australia and New Zealand