THE AMERICAN AG·RICULTURE MOVEMENT: MANIFEST AND LATENT PARTICIPANT ATTRACTIONS IN A SOCIAL MOVEMENT

the relationship between language and social capital in ilami kurdish: a sociopragmatic approach

چکیده زبان به عنوان یک وسیله در ایجاد و بازسازی سرمایه اجتماعی در چند دهه گذشته مورد توجه بوده است. اگر چه درباره سرمایه اجتماعی و سازه های مربوط به آن زیاد نوشته شده است ولی خیلی کم بر روی اینکه چطور زبان می تواند باعث ایجاد اعتماد یا بی اعتمادی بشود مطالعه ای انجام شده است. این مطالعه به منظور تحقق دو هدف انجام گرفته است. اول تلاش خواهد شد تا یک گونه شناسی از واژگانی که مردم کرد زبان شهر ا...

Social movement organizations in the local food movement: linking social capital and movement support

Social movement actors seeking alternatives to the highly industrialized, global food system have been advocating for more sustainable, local food systems. Many of the local food movement strategies and initiatives to counter the conventional practices of the industrial food system have proven successful. Social movement researchers have documented the importance of the roles and services socia...

The American Codification Movement

The ecological agriculture movement in modern China

Chinese ecological agriculture (CEA) is a relatively recent agricultural and rural development approach, which has emerged in light of continuous efforts in exploring sustainable agriculture and rural development in modern China. Based on the discussion of the ecological agricultural concepts and practices in ancient China, as well as the agro-ecological problems that have emerged in modern Chi...

Manifest Destiny and American Identity in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian

McCarthy scholarship has predominantly tended to stress the writer’s revisionism with regard to his rendering of the myth of the American West in Blood Meridian (1985). McCarthy’s novel has beenmainlyhailed as a critique of the violence of manifest destiny. This study aims to delineate aspects of McCarthy’s narrative which resist the predominant view of him as a revisionist. In this re...