Ruth Liepins
Biographic Data
| ID | 343695 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Liepins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Liepins |
| SIGNATURE | LIEPINS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 331 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Naming Organics: Understanding Organic Standards in New Zealand as a Discursive Field
The New Zealand organic industry has grown rapidly over the last ten years. While New Zealand did have a small organic agriculture social movement from the 1970s, the size and scope of the industry increased rapidly during the 1990s as a result of large export companies establishing organic product lines. This transformation, and the eventual resistance to corporate styles of organic exporting, provides a useful case study of the way in which org…
Exploring rurality through `community: Discourses, practices and spaces shaping Australian and New Zealand rural `communities
Writing On/Across the Margins
New energies for an old idea: Reworking Approaches to `Community' in Contemporary Rural Studies
Making Men: The Construction and Representation of Agriculture-Based Masculinities in Australia and New Zealand
Gender analyses of farming have become well established in rural sociological literature. In recent years, however, increasing attention has been given to the discursive processes influencing gender relations and identities. In the current paper I continue this trend by exploring how a range of key agriculture-related masculinities are constructed and articulated in Australia and New Zealand. First, a conceptual discussion identifies the need to …
Neo-Liberal Agricultural Discourse in New Zealand: Economy, Culture and Politics Linked
Based upon a detailed reading of various texts emanating from the Federated Farmers of New Zealand, this paper considers the ways in which this farm organization has acted as a conduit between farmers and broader economic, cultural and political institutions and structures influencing New Zealand agriculture. These texts portray the Federation as an articulate partner in wider constructions of a neo-liberal discourse, which champions the market f…
The gendering of farming and agricultural politics: A matter of discourse and power
Agricultural geography has long been a predominantly economic field of inquiry. Recently, however, wider rural studies have incorporated more cultural approaches, and have considered the notion of discourse as a way of understanding the social construction of spaces and the social relations that are found in rural settings. Discourse is a useful medium for studying how gender is socially constructed within agriculture. Thus, this paper documents …
Women of Broad Vision: Nature and Gender in the Environmental Activism of Australia's 'Women in Agriculture' Movement
The author examines the construction of nature and gendered subjectivities occurring in environmental activism. The paper follows recent thinking in rural geography in attending to the discourses and agency of activists. Such an approach enables a reading of Australian agricultural women's environmental activism. Initially it is shown how the 'women in agriculture' movement engages with the range of discourses that contextualise the agri-environm…
Gender and Education: Towards a Framework for a Critical Analysis of Agricultural Training
Studies of education are an example of developments in feminist rural studies which move debates about gender and power beyond the now substantial discussions of farming. The work of Shortall (Sociologia ruralis 1996) has been crucial in reviewing current literatures on agriculture and education, and identifying some of the ways training perpetuates dominant processes of socialization which differentially shape men's and women's experiences. This…
Fields of Action: Australian Women's Agricultural Activism in the 1990s1
In recent years, women's contribution to farming has been increasingly recognized by academics, decision makers, and some sectors of the farming community. In contrast, women's activism in agricultural politics is less well accepted or understood. This paper investigates data from a number of farm activist groups operating on a variety of scales in Australia. The paper examines the ways in which farm women develop political agency and then mobili…
Women in agriculture: Advocates for a gendered sustainable agriculture
A gendered consideration of rural geography has been barely discernible within Australian and New Zealand literature. The notable exceptions in this case have illustrated the complexity and merit of studying the gender patterns and relations of rural life. Outside geography, there is an expanding literature on rural women in Australia. These works parallel significant developments in the lives and politics of rural and agricultural women themselv…
New energies for an old idea: Reworking Approaches to `Community' in Contemporary Rural Studies
Making Men: The Construction and Representation of Agriculture-Based Masculinities in Australia and New Zealand
Gender analyses of farming have become well established in rural sociological literature. In recent years, however, increasing attention has been given to the discursive processes influencing gender relations and identities. In the current paper I continue this trend by exploring how a range of key agriculture-related masculinities are constructed and articulated in Australia and New Zealand. First, a conceptual discussion identifies the need to …
Naming Organics: Understanding Organic Standards in New Zealand as a Discursive Field
The New Zealand organic industry has grown rapidly over the last ten years. While New Zealand did have a small organic agriculture social movement from the 1970s, the size and scope of the industry increased rapidly during the 1990s as a result of large export companies establishing organic product lines. This transformation, and the eventual resistance to corporate styles of organic exporting, provides a useful case study of the way in which org…
Exploring rurality through `community: Discourses, practices and spaces shaping Australian and New Zealand rural `communities
The gendering of farming and agricultural politics: A matter of discourse and power
Agricultural geography has long been a predominantly economic field of inquiry. Recently, however, wider rural studies have incorporated more cultural approaches, and have considered the notion of discourse as a way of understanding the social construction of spaces and the social relations that are found in rural settings. Discourse is a useful medium for studying how gender is socially constructed within agriculture. Thus, this paper documents …
Fields of Action: Australian Women's Agricultural Activism in the 1990s1
In recent years, women's contribution to farming has been increasingly recognized by academics, decision makers, and some sectors of the farming community. In contrast, women's activism in agricultural politics is less well accepted or understood. This paper investigates data from a number of farm activist groups operating on a variety of scales in Australia. The paper examines the ways in which farm women develop political agency and then mobili…
Neo-Liberal Agricultural Discourse in New Zealand: Economy, Culture and Politics Linked
Based upon a detailed reading of various texts emanating from the Federated Farmers of New Zealand, this paper considers the ways in which this farm organization has acted as a conduit between farmers and broader economic, cultural and political institutions and structures influencing New Zealand agriculture. These texts portray the Federation as an articulate partner in wider constructions of a neo-liberal discourse, which champions the market f…
Women in agriculture: Advocates for a gendered sustainable agriculture
A gendered consideration of rural geography has been barely discernible within Australian and New Zealand literature. The notable exceptions in this case have illustrated the complexity and merit of studying the gender patterns and relations of rural life. Outside geography, there is an expanding literature on rural women in Australia. These works parallel significant developments in the lives and politics of rural and agricultural women themselv…
Gender and Education: Towards a Framework for a Critical Analysis of Agricultural Training
Studies of education are an example of developments in feminist rural studies which move debates about gender and power beyond the now substantial discussions of farming. The work of Shortall (Sociologia ruralis 1996) has been crucial in reviewing current literatures on agriculture and education, and identifying some of the ways training perpetuates dominant processes of socialization which differentially shape men's and women's experiences. This…
Women of Broad Vision: Nature and Gender in the Environmental Activism of Australia's 'Women in Agriculture' Movement
The author examines the construction of nature and gendered subjectivities occurring in environmental activism. The paper follows recent thinking in rural geography in attending to the discourses and agency of activists. Such an approach enables a reading of Australian agricultural women's environmental activism. Initially it is shown how the 'women in agriculture' movement engages with the range of discourses that contextualise the agri-environm…
Women in agriculture: Advocates for a gendered sustainable agriculture
A gendered consideration of rural geography has been barely discernible within Australian and New Zealand literature. The notable exceptions in this case have illustrated the complexity and merit of studying the gender patterns and relations of rural life. Outside geography, there is an expanding literature on rural women in Australia. These works parallel significant developments in the lives and politics of rural and agricultural women themselv…
The gendering of farming and agricultural politics: A matter of discourse and power
Agricultural geography has long been a predominantly economic field of inquiry. Recently, however, wider rural studies have incorporated more cultural approaches, and have considered the notion of discourse as a way of understanding the social construction of spaces and the social relations that are found in rural settings. Discourse is a useful medium for studying how gender is socially constructed within agriculture. Thus, this paper documents …
Women of Broad Vision: Nature and Gender in the Environmental Activism of Australia's 'Women in Agriculture' Movement
The author examines the construction of nature and gendered subjectivities occurring in environmental activism. The paper follows recent thinking in rural geography in attending to the discourses and agency of activists. Such an approach enables a reading of Australian agricultural women's environmental activism. Initially it is shown how the 'women in agriculture' movement engages with the range of discourses that contextualise the agri-environm…
Gender and Education: Towards a Framework for a Critical Analysis of Agricultural Training
Studies of education are an example of developments in feminist rural studies which move debates about gender and power beyond the now substantial discussions of farming. The work of Shortall (Sociologia ruralis 1996) has been crucial in reviewing current literatures on agriculture and education, and identifying some of the ways training perpetuates dominant processes of socialization which differentially shape men's and women's experiences. This…
Fields of Action: Australian Women's Agricultural Activism in the 1990s1
In recent years, women's contribution to farming has been increasingly recognized by academics, decision makers, and some sectors of the farming community. In contrast, women's activism in agricultural politics is less well accepted or understood. This paper investigates data from a number of farm activist groups operating on a variety of scales in Australia. The paper examines the ways in which farm women develop political agency and then mobili…
Neo-Liberal Agricultural Discourse in New Zealand: Economy, Culture and Politics Linked
Based upon a detailed reading of various texts emanating from the Federated Farmers of New Zealand, this paper considers the ways in which this farm organization has acted as a conduit between farmers and broader economic, cultural and political institutions and structures influencing New Zealand agriculture. These texts portray the Federation as an articulate partner in wider constructions of a neo-liberal discourse, which champions the market f…
Exploring rurality through `community: Discourses, practices and spaces shaping Australian and New Zealand rural `communities
Writing On/Across the Margins
New energies for an old idea: Reworking Approaches to `Community' in Contemporary Rural Studies
Making Men: The Construction and Representation of Agriculture-Based Masculinities in Australia and New Zealand
Gender analyses of farming have become well established in rural sociological literature. In recent years, however, increasing attention has been given to the discursive processes influencing gender relations and identities. In the current paper I continue this trend by exploring how a range of key agriculture-related masculinities are constructed and articulated in Australia and New Zealand. First, a conceptual discussion identifies the need to …
Naming Organics: Understanding Organic Standards in New Zealand as a Discursive Field
The New Zealand organic industry has grown rapidly over the last ten years. While New Zealand did have a small organic agriculture social movement from the 1970s, the size and scope of the industry increased rapidly during the 1990s as a result of large export companies establishing organic product lines. This transformation, and the eventual resistance to corporate styles of organic exporting, provides a useful case study of the way in which org…
Rural development and sustainability (9 works) · Agriculture (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development (6 works) · Social science (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works)