Global neo-liberalism, global ecological modernization, and a swine CAFO in rural Bulgaria

Rural and development sociology studies have tended to credit globalization with low-wage, extractive, environmentally destructive outcomes. Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) have been treated as a local manifestation of the destructive tendencies of globalization. However, recent schol...

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Published in:Journal of rural studies 2009-07, Vol.25 (3), p.289-298
Main Authors: Glenna, Leland L., Mitev, Georgi V.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
agricultural policy
Agriculture
Animals
Bulgaria
concentrated animal feeding operations
Ecological modernization
Economic Development
Environmental Degradation
environmental impact
Environmental policy
Environmentalism
Foreign Countries
Global Approach
Globalization
Human Ecology
Institutional Characteristics
Modernization
Neo-liberalism
Neoliberalism
Policy
Political Attitudes
Regional Characteristics
Rural Development
Socioeconomic Factors
Sustainable Development
Sustainable rural development
swine
wage rates
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Summary:Rural and development sociology studies have tended to credit globalization with low-wage, extractive, environmentally destructive outcomes. Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) have been treated as a local manifestation of the destructive tendencies of globalization. However, recent scholarship on globalization suggests that globalization may also be credited with high-wage, value-added, environmentally friendly economic growth. Moving beyond a general emphasis on the destructive tendencies of globalization, these studies reveal that variation in industry, national and international policies, firm characteristics, and local geography (socio-economic and biophysical) may influence socioeconomic and ecological outcomes. We discuss how these factors help to create a more complex understanding of the relationship between agrifood globalization and local manifestations of CAFOs. We then highlight an example of a rural Bulgarian CAFO that is locally owned and has come to internalize its waste stream. Our findings support recent scholarship that distinguishes between global neo-liberalism and global ecologically modernization and that emphasizes a more complex understanding of how local socio-economic and biophysical factors interact with global processes to influence rural development.
ISSN:0743-0167
1873-1392
DOI:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2009.01.001