Leland Glenna
Biographic Data
| ID | 238218 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leland Glenna |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leland |
| FAMILY NAME | Glenna |
| SIGNATURE | GLENNA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0112-9140 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 259 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
On Repeat? The Logic of Agricultural Modernization, the Choices of Tanzanian Small‐Scale Farmers, and Implications for the Second Green Revolution
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) is the latest in a series of initiatives aimed at modernizing small‐scale farming to address food insecurity and poverty, yet AGRA has fallen short of its goals. This study explores whether these shortcomings might stem from flawed assumptions in AGRA's theory of change—assumptions long embedded in top‐down agricultural modernization efforts. We situate AGRA within broader debates on the agrari…
Divergent approaches to the ‘family farm’: Celebrate, reform, or abolish
Religion and Climate Change Indifference: Linking the Sacred to the Social
This study seeks to identify the influence of religion on indifference toward anthropogenic climate change. This influence is conceptualized by adapting Durkheim's classic sociological model where religion serves to integrate individuals into society using sacred beliefs. We test this theory by conceptualizing and estimating a path model where climate change indifference is regressed on religion and political ideology. The study data are five cro…
Regenerative landscape design: An Integrative Framework to Enhance Sustainability Planning
Addressing contemporary environmental and social crises requires solutions-based, systems-level changes. To achieve these changes, transdisciplinary research approaches are needed to align problem framing with solution deployment at landscape scales. However, practical frameworks to guide this work are lacking. Here we propose a new framework to help bridge this gap: regenerative landscape design (RLD). We define RLD as a process for finding patt…
On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography
The Challenge of Christian Deliberation in a Libertarian Context: The Case of the Elca’s Social Statement on Genetics
In 2005, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s ( ELCA ) Churchwide Assembly authorized the formation of a task force to prepare a social statement on genetics and faith. Although the Churchwide Assembly voted to adopt the social statement in August of 2011 by a wide margin, there had been an earlier controversy. In June 2010, an article in the Dakota Farmer questioned whether the ELCA was accusing farmers of “sin” for planting genetically …
Assessing the scientific support for U.S. EPA pesticide regulatory policy governing active and inert ingredients
The Challenge of Christian Deliberation in a Libertarian Context: The Case of the Elca’s Social Statement on Genetics
In 2005, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s ( ELCA ) Churchwide Assembly authorized the formation of a task force to prepare a social statement on genetics and faith. Although the Churchwide Assembly voted to adopt the social statement in August of 2011 by a wide margin, there had been an earlier controversy. In June 2010, an article in the Dakota Farmer questioned whether the ELCA was accusing farmers of “sin” for planting genetically …
Data-Driven Sustainability: Metrics, Digital Technologies, and Governance in Food and Agriculture
In recent years, performance metrics and digital technologies have gained substantial support to advance on-farm sustainability. The combined use of metrics and digital technologies represents a potentially important shift in agricultural sustainability governance, which has largely been dominated by the use of standards and certification. Focusing on the U.S. context, this paper examines the operationalization of the emerging metrics and data (M…
Environmental Concern in a Capitalist Economy: Climate Change Perception Among U.S. Specialty-Crop Producers
The agricultural sector offers a unique opportunity to examine the topic of climate change because agriculture is more susceptible to climate disruptions than many other industrial sectors. Based on the analysis of the survey data and in-depth interviews with specialty-crop producers in California, New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, we test the capacity of ecological modernization and treadmill of production perspectives to explain how resou…
Democratizing ownership and participation in the 4th Industrial Revolution: Challenges and opportunities in cellular agriculture
The emergence of the "4th Industrial Revolution," i.e. the convergence of artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, advanced materials, and bioengineering technologies, could accelerate socioeconomic insecurities and anxieties or provide beneficial alternatives to the status quo. In the post-Covid-19 era, the entities that are best positioned to capitalize on these innovations are large firms, which use digital platforms and big data to or…
How data-driven, privately ordered sustainability governance shapes US food supply chains: The case of field to market
Plant Science and Intellectual Property Protections in Taiwan
Beginning in 1980, and due to a number of significant court decisions, legislative initiatives and international economic agreements, there has been an increase in the importance and use of intellectual property mechanisms, such as patents, in protecting biological materials, including seeds and engineered crop traits. The trend originated in the U.S. but has since diffused to OECD and non-OECD nations. A parallel but related set of policies desi…
The value of public agricultural and food knowledge during pandemics
Sustainability assemblages: From metrics development to metrics implementation in United States agriculture
Qualitative Research Ethics in the Big Data Era: Part II
This serves as a brief introduction to Part II of the articles presented in the special issue, Qualitative Research Ethics in the Big-Data Era
Qualitative Research Ethics in the Big-Data Era
A brief introduction to the articles presented in the special issue, Qualitative Research Ethics in the Big-Data Era
Qualitative Research Ethics in the Big Data Era
This article examines the developments that have motivated this special issue on Qualitative Research Ethics in the Big Data Era. The article offers a broad overview of many pressing challenges and opportunities that the Big Data era raises particularly for qualitative research. Big Data has introduced to the social sciences new data sources, new research methods, new researchers, and new forms of data storage that have immediate and potential ef…
Value Chain Development and the Agrarian Question: Actor Perspectives on Native Potato Production in the Highlands of Peru
Value chain development seeks to integrate smallholder farmers into competitive markets to promote economic and social development. This article, conceptually based on the agrarian question, considers how the perspectives of various value chain actors, with particular focus on smallholders, have important implications for the outcomes of these market-oriented initiatives. Utilizing Long's concept of social interface, we present a mixed-methods ca…
A decade of Marcellus Shale: Impacts to people, policy, and culture from 2008 to 2018 in the Greater Mid-Atlantic region of the United States
AFHVS 2017 presidential address: The purpose-driven university: the role of university research in the era of science commercialization
Intellectual Property and Agricultural Science and Innovation in Germany and the United States
In the 1950s and 1960s, prominent institutional economists in the United States offered what became the orthodox theory on the obstacles to commercializing scientific knowledge. According to this theory, scientific knowledge has inherent qualities that make it a public good. Since the 1970s, however, neoliberalism has emphasized the need to convert public goods to private goods to enhance economic growth, and this theory has had global impacts on…
Pro-poor? Inclusion and exclusion in native potato value chains in the central highlands of Peru
Neoliberalism, the University, Public Goods and Agricultural Innovation
After World War II, most industrialising nations adopted some form of welfare-state approach to balance the economic activities of self-interested agents and social welfare. In the realm of scientific research and innovation, this often meant that governments took primary responsibility for funding public research organisations, including research universities and government laboratories. Over the past four decades, however, the significance of p…
Intellectual Property, Scientific Independence, and the Efficacy and Environmental Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops
Neoliberalism is the political ideology behind efforts to commercialize university science. The development of genetically engineered (GE) crops has facilitated the commercialization process because GE crops generally have more restrictive intellectual property protections than conventional crops. Those restrictions have led some to question whether long-term university research and innovations are being compromised to protect short-term intellec…
The Relationship between Marcellus Shale Gas Development in Pennsylvania and Local Perceptions of Risk and Opportunity
Recent advances in gas and oil drilling technology have led to dramatic boomtown development in many rural areas that have endured extended periods of economic decline. In Pennsylvania's Marcellus gas fields, the recent development of unconventional shale gas resources has not been without controversy. It has been variously framed as a major opportunity for economic revitalization at the local and regional levels and energy independence at the na…
Local Impacts of Unconventional Gas Development within Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale Region: Gauging Boomtown Development through the Perspectives of Educational Administrators
Using survey and interview data gathered from educators and educational administrators, we investigate school and community impacts of unconventional gas extraction within Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale region. Respondents in areas with high levels of drilling are significantly more likely to perceive the effects of local economic gains, but also report increased inequality, heightened vulnerability of disadvantaged community members, and pronoun…
University Administrators, Agricultural Biotechnology, and Academic Capitalism: Defining the Public Good to Promote University-Industry Relationships
The theory of academic capitalism explains how federal, state, and university policies and people have expanded university–industry relationships (UIRs) and the commercialization of knowledge. These changes represent a profound shift in the way university research is expected to contribute to the public good. Because university administrators are responsible for creating organizational policies and infrastructures that are consistent with their o…
Pro-poor? Inclusion and exclusion in native potato value chains in the central highlands of Peru
Constructing 'Disinterested' Academic Science: Relational Work in University-Industry Research Collaborations
This article analyzes how exchange participants in university-industry agricultural biotechnology research collaborations manage and create differences between the academy and industry with regard to the open dissemination and commercialization of scientific knowledge. Our focus is on the constitutive relations that define the boundary between academic and commercial science. We identify a particular 'relational package' that formalizes and stand…
Considering the Role of the University in Conducting Research on Agri-biotechnologies
Private sector firms have dominated the research, development, and commercialization processes for transgenic crops. This has led to a narrow focus on a few commercially important crops and engineered traits, while minor crops and traits remain largely ignored. Analysts have decried this situation and called for more public-centered research regimes, such as research on minor crops and traits. Universities are often identified as places where res…
Systemic Constraints to Ecological Well-Being: The Case of the 1985 Food Security Act1
Although the conservation title of the 1985 Food Security Act was hailed by many as revolutionary in its attempts to control soil erosion, it has failed to live up to its billing. A theory is used that asserts that the state's systemic commitment to promoting capitalist growth constrains it from establishing and implementing policies that accomplish anything more than displacing one environmental problem onto others. The theory is tested through …
Democratizing ownership and participation in the 4th Industrial Revolution: Challenges and opportunities in cellular agriculture
The emergence of the "4th Industrial Revolution," i.e. the convergence of artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, advanced materials, and bioengineering technologies, could accelerate socioeconomic insecurities and anxieties or provide beneficial alternatives to the status quo. In the post-Covid-19 era, the entities that are best positioned to capitalize on these innovations are large firms, which use digital platforms and big data to or…
A decade of Marcellus Shale: Impacts to people, policy, and culture from 2008 to 2018 in the Greater Mid-Atlantic region of the United States
Intellectual Property, Scientific Independence, and the Efficacy and Environmental Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops
Neoliberalism is the political ideology behind efforts to commercialize university science. The development of genetically engineered (GE) crops has facilitated the commercialization process because GE crops generally have more restrictive intellectual property protections than conventional crops. Those restrictions have led some to question whether long-term university research and innovations are being compromised to protect short-term intellec…
Industry Perceptions of University-Industry Relationships Related to Agricultural Biotechnology Research
Following a rise in university-industry relationships (UIRs), scholars began questioning the efficacy of those relationships, as well as whether industry and university research interests and integrity are being compromised. Although many of these studies focus on the university, few examine the perspectives of industry participants. We conducted intensive interviews with 63 managers and scientists at agricultural biotechnology companies involved…
Assessing participatory processes and outcomes in agricultural research for development from participants' perspectives
Sustainability assemblages: From metrics development to metrics implementation in United States agriculture
AFHVS 2017 presidential address: The purpose-driven university: the role of university research in the era of science commercialization
Rationality, habitus, and agricultural landscapes: Ethnographic case studies in landscape sociology
On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography
Neoliberalism, the University, Public Goods and Agricultural Innovation
After World War II, most industrialising nations adopted some form of welfare-state approach to balance the economic activities of self-interested agents and social welfare. In the realm of scientific research and innovation, this often meant that governments took primary responsibility for funding public research organisations, including research universities and government laboratories. Over the past four decades, however, the significance of p…
Value-Laden Technocratic Management and Environmental Conflicts: The Case of the New York City Watershed Controversy
Environmental controversies are often framed as conflicts between environmentalist and antienvironmentalist positions. The underlying dimensions of ethics and justice tend to be overlooked. This article seeks to integrate insights from environmental ethics and sociological observations through a case study of a watershed conflict. A controversy emerged in the 1990s when residents of the New York City (NYC) watershed filed a lawsuit to block NYC's…
Divergent approaches to the ‘family farm’: Celebrate, reform, or abolish
Qualitative Research Ethics in the Big Data Era
This article examines the developments that have motivated this special issue on Qualitative Research Ethics in the Big Data Era. The article offers a broad overview of many pressing challenges and opportunities that the Big Data era raises particularly for qualitative research. Big Data has introduced to the social sciences new data sources, new research methods, new researchers, and new forms of data storage that have immediate and potential ef…
The Link Between Voter Choice and Religious Identity in Contemporary Society: Bringing Classical Theory Back In
Objectives. In this article, we analyze voter choice data from six U.S. presidential elections for evidence of religious identity and sociodemographic effects on voter choice. Methods. Voter choice is analyzed over the period 1980 to 2000 with multivariate statistical models. Results. A link is found between voter choice and religious identity, where the effect of religious identity on voter choice is contingent on location within the stratificat…
Data-Driven Sustainability: Metrics, Digital Technologies, and Governance in Food and Agriculture
In recent years, performance metrics and digital technologies have gained substantial support to advance on-farm sustainability. The combined use of metrics and digital technologies represents a potentially important shift in agricultural sustainability governance, which has largely been dominated by the use of standards and certification. Focusing on the U.S. context, this paper examines the operationalization of the emerging metrics and data (M…
How data-driven, privately ordered sustainability governance shapes US food supply chains: The case of field to market
Value Chain Development and the Agrarian Question: Actor Perspectives on Native Potato Production in the Highlands of Peru
Value chain development seeks to integrate smallholder farmers into competitive markets to promote economic and social development. This article, conceptually based on the agrarian question, considers how the perspectives of various value chain actors, with particular focus on smallholders, have important implications for the outcomes of these market-oriented initiatives. Utilizing Long's concept of social interface, we present a mixed-methods ca…
Politics, Religion, and Society: Is The United States Experiencing a
This study investigates the effect of religious identity on U.S. Presidential voter choice in order to determine whether this relationship changed over time. The research literature is divided on this question with several investigators finding a positive trend in religious-political polarization since 1980, and others finding no polarization. The study further addresses a putative link between social inequality and religious politics by identify…
Rationality, habitus, and agricultural landscapes: Ethnographic case studies in landscape sociology
The Relative-Autonomy State Theory and Emancipatory Strategies1
Systemic Constraints to Ecological Well-Being: The Case of the 1985 Food Security Act1
Although the conservation title of the 1985 Food Security Act was hailed by many as revolutionary in its attempts to control soil erosion, it has failed to live up to its billing. A theory is used that asserts that the state's systemic commitment to promoting capitalist growth constrains it from establishing and implementing policies that accomplish anything more than displacing one environmental problem onto others. The theory is tested through …
Liberal Economics and the Institutionalization of Sin: Christian and Stoic Vestiges in Economic Rationality
The recognition that ecological problems often extend beyond nation-state boundaries has prompted environmentalists, politicians, and academics to call for and generate problem-solving discourses meant to be global in perspective. Free-market rhetoric has emerged as one of the more prominent of the global discourses, even though the free market's commodification of human beings and nature causes many environmental problems. To discredit this econ…
Operationalizing evil: Christian realism, liberal economics, and industrial agriculture
The Eclipse of Morality: Science, State, and Market
Considering the Role of the University in Conducting Research on Agri-biotechnologies
Private sector firms have dominated the research, development, and commercialization processes for transgenic crops. This has led to a narrow focus on a few commercially important crops and engineered traits, while minor crops and traits remain largely ignored. Analysts have decried this situation and called for more public-centered research regimes, such as research on minor crops and traits. Universities are often identified as places where res…
Eugenic Opportunity Structures: Teaching Genetic Engineering at US Land-Grant Universities Since 1911
The eugenics movement during the first half of the 20th century has been described as a transnational social movement because of the way it flourished on different continents between World Wars I and II. Political opportunity structure is a term used to explain the social rules and resources that enable such a movement to emerge seemingly simultaneously in diverse settings. One opportunity structure in the eugenics movement that requires further …
Industry Perceptions of University-Industry Relationships Related to Agricultural Biotechnology Research
Following a rise in university-industry relationships (UIRs), scholars began questioning the efficacy of those relationships, as well as whether industry and university research interests and integrity are being compromised. Although many of these studies focus on the university, few examine the perspectives of industry participants. We conducted intensive interviews with 63 managers and scientists at agricultural biotechnology companies involved…
University Administrators, Agricultural Biotechnology, and Academic Capitalism: Defining the Public Good to Promote University-Industry Relationships
The theory of academic capitalism explains how federal, state, and university policies and people have expanded university–industry relationships (UIRs) and the commercialization of knowledge. These changes represent a profound shift in the way university research is expected to contribute to the public good. Because university administrators are responsible for creating organizational policies and infrastructures that are consistent with their o…
Redeeming Labor: Making Explicit the Virtue Theory in Habermas's Discourse Ethics
The assertion that neo-classical economics is value-neutral is not just problematic because it is false, but also because it masks the origins of neo-classical economics as a moral science that has had a normative influence on social interaction. However, critics need to move beyond merely exposing the value-laden nature of neo-classical economics if the social sciences are to counter the emotivism of neo-classical economics and to reclaim their …
Global neo-liberalism, global ecological modernization, and a swine Cafo in rural Bulgaria
The Link Between Voter Choice and Religious Identity in Contemporary Society: Bringing Classical Theory Back In
Objectives. In this article, we analyze voter choice data from six U.S. presidential elections for evidence of religious identity and sociodemographic effects on voter choice. Methods. Voter choice is analyzed over the period 1980 to 2000 with multivariate statistical models. Results. A link is found between voter choice and religious identity, where the effect of religious identity on voter choice is contingent on location within the stratificat…
From Renewable to Alternative: Waste Coal, the Pennsylvania Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard, and Public Legitimacy
Efforts to explain the failure of the U.S. federal government to pass energy legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions often turn to the theory of resource dependency. This theory is challenged by Pennsylvania's adoption of a Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (RPS) policy, since Pennsylvania produces more coal than any of the other 27 with an RPS policy. However, we resist rejecting a theory that emphasizes resource dependence in this case…
How farmers matter in shaping agricultural technologies: Social and structural characteristics of wheat growers and wheat varieties
Value-Laden Technocratic Management and Environmental Conflicts: The Case of the New York City Watershed Controversy
Environmental controversies are often framed as conflicts between environmentalist and antienvironmentalist positions. The underlying dimensions of ethics and justice tend to be overlooked. This article seeks to integrate insights from environmental ethics and sociological observations through a case study of a watershed conflict. A controversy emerged in the 1990s when residents of the New York City (NYC) watershed filed a lawsuit to block NYC's…
Politics, Religion, and Society: Is The United States Experiencing a
This study investigates the effect of religious identity on U.S. Presidential voter choice in order to determine whether this relationship changed over time. The research literature is divided on this question with several investigators finding a positive trend in religious-political polarization since 1980, and others finding no polarization. The study further addresses a putative link between social inequality and religious politics by identify…
Constructing 'Disinterested' Academic Science: Relational Work in University-Industry Research Collaborations
This article analyzes how exchange participants in university-industry agricultural biotechnology research collaborations manage and create differences between the academy and industry with regard to the open dissemination and commercialization of scientific knowledge. Our focus is on the constitutive relations that define the boundary between academic and commercial science. We identify a particular 'relational package' that formalizes and stand…
The Efficacy of a Program Promoting Rice Self-Sufficiency in Ghana during a Period of Neoliberalism
The number of the world's food insecure rose at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century. Despite these negative developments, however, a 2010 United Nations report argues that food security could be improved if development efforts are supported by government programs that target smallholder farmers. This report is significant because it challenges the neoliberal perspective, which tends to promote a private-enterprise market syste…
The Relationship between Marcellus Shale Gas Development in Pennsylvania and Local Perceptions of Risk and Opportunity
Recent advances in gas and oil drilling technology have led to dramatic boomtown development in many rural areas that have endured extended periods of economic decline. In Pennsylvania's Marcellus gas fields, the recent development of unconventional shale gas resources has not been without controversy. It has been variously framed as a major opportunity for economic revitalization at the local and regional levels and energy independence at the na…
Local Impacts of Unconventional Gas Development within Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale Region: Gauging Boomtown Development through the Perspectives of Educational Administrators
Using survey and interview data gathered from educators and educational administrators, we investigate school and community impacts of unconventional gas extraction within Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale region. Respondents in areas with high levels of drilling are significantly more likely to perceive the effects of local economic gains, but also report increased inequality, heightened vulnerability of disadvantaged community members, and pronoun…
Assessing participatory processes and outcomes in agricultural research for development from participants' perspectives
Corporate Crops: Biotechnology, Agriculture, and the Struggle for Control
Neoliberalism, the University, Public Goods and Agricultural Innovation
After World War II, most industrialising nations adopted some form of welfare-state approach to balance the economic activities of self-interested agents and social welfare. In the realm of scientific research and innovation, this often meant that governments took primary responsibility for funding public research organisations, including research universities and government laboratories. Over the past four decades, however, the significance of p…
Intellectual Property, Scientific Independence, and the Efficacy and Environmental Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops
Neoliberalism is the political ideology behind efforts to commercialize university science. The development of genetically engineered (GE) crops has facilitated the commercialization process because GE crops generally have more restrictive intellectual property protections than conventional crops. Those restrictions have led some to question whether long-term university research and innovations are being compromised to protect short-term intellec…
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