The Discursive Space of Farming
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This article has evolved from a research project following a micro-level approach to the postwar ‘agricultural revolution’. Above all, it focuses on the diversity of post-1945 agricultural development, i.e. the various ways farming actors experienced, interpreted and acted upon the natural and societal structures of their rural lifeworlds, thereby reproducing and/or transforming the local, regional and supra-regional agrosystems they were embedded in. This investigation follows the approach of farming styles which has evolved from actor-network theory as well as the
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