Social Theory and the De/Reconstruction of Agricultural Science: Local Knowledge for an Alternative Agriculture

Rural Sociology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 519-548

  Kloppenburg, Jack ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE; ALTERNATIVE SCIENCE; LOCAL KNOWLEDGE; RURAL SOCIOLOGY; SOCIAL THEORY;

EID: 0026300819     PISSN: 00360112     EISSN: 15490831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1549-0831.1991.tb00445.x     Document Type: Article

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