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Can Rural Voices Effect Rural Choices? Contesting Deregulation in New Zealand’s Apple Industry
Author(s) -
McKenna Megan K.L.
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 - 10.1111/1467-9523.00153
Subject(s) - globalization , deregulation , neoliberalism (international relations) , locality , political science , sociology , economic geography , political economy , economic growth , economics , market economy , law , linguistics , philosophy
Recurrent themes in agrifood literature examine the shifting relationships between globalization,regulation and locality. Drawing on lessons from New Zealand’s pipfruit sector and the activities of the rural lobby group United Fruit,this paper evaluates the relative success of local contestation of the terms of neoliberalism and globalization. Arguments are made for reconceptualizing rural phenomena as inexorably linked to wider socio‐economic processes of transformation in New Zealand and elsewhere.