Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2007. / Title from file title page. Sally Wallace, committee chair; James R. Alm, Jorge L. Martinez-Vazquez, Ragan Petrie, Yongsheng Xu, Stephen D. Younger, committee members. Electronic text (186 p. : ill., col. map)) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Dec. 11, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-144).

Thèse d'État--Lettres--Clermont-Ferrand, 1946. / Bibliogr. p. 507-519. CRÉER = Centre de réalisations, d'études et d'éditions régionales.

Extr. de: Thèse de 3e cycle--Histoire moderne--Poitiers, 1983. / Bibliogr. p. 295-301. Notes bibliogr. Index.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 2003. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves : [119]-125).

Although agri-environmental policies represent only a small part of the agricultural support system, they symbolise a major change in the direction of government policy. Consequently, the move from supporting farmers for food production to supporting them for looking after the environment, involves a significant change in the culture of farming. In this thesis, the way farmers gave meaning to the changes occurring in agriculture, and to the growing importance of conservation issues, was considered. An actor-oriented approach was used to theorise farmers' interpretations of the situation in agriculture. This approach acknowledged individuals as knowing, active subjects directing their lives, but the importance of external conditions in facilitating and constraining farmers' choices and interpretations was recognised. The research was carried out in southern Scotland, where farmers' perceptions of changing agriculture, in the light of the designation of the Southern Uplands Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESA) scheme, were examined. In-depth, qualitative interviews with farmers were the main source of data. Major themes in farmers' interpretations of the situation in agriculture were the uncertainty and growing bureaucracy in farming. Additionally, many farmers felt they were increasingly dependent on, and controlled by, the government. The changing role of farmers in society was of interest; many felt that the status of farmers had declined. Whereas previously the public depended on them for food production, now farmers were reliant on public support. Farmers' construction of conservation, their views of Nature, and the meanings they attached to conservation activities, were examined. Their perceptions of conservationists were found to influence interpretations of conservation.

This thesis argues that the multiple geographies of political practice are an important feature of activism. It investigates the women in agriculture movement, which is an informally connected web of groups and events working to increase the recognition and participation of women in Australian agriculture. By approaching agriculture as a political and social activity, as well as and economic one, the study demonstrates diverse relations to place, in the mobilisation of the women in agriculture movement. The thesis argues that the movement is challenging Australian agriculture through actions over a variety of sites, scales and spheres. / The thesis sets out to explain the development and impact of women in agriculture activism. In doing so it studies both the contexts and effects of the movement. Multiple dimensions of the movement’s contexts are examined: agricultural, political, discursive and locational dimensions are shown to have shaped its development and character. These dimensions have then been challenged by the movement as it acts on its agenda of recognition and participation. / Three case groups within the movement were investigated to demonstrate the personal, farm and public scales at which the activism of women in agriculture has had an impact. First, the individual and collective agency of participants, at a personal level, is noted as women negotiate diverse subject positions and experience the collective relational aspects of ‘movement politics’. Second, the impact of the movement is analysed at the level of the farm unit where it challenges many of the conventional arrangements operating within family farms. Third, the movement’s impact is described within a number of spheres of agricultural and community affairs. It is argued that the movement applied specific political strategies to farmer, industry, media and state spheres which resulted in the varying success of their goals for women’s increased recognition and participation in agriculture. / Analysis of the multiple geographies of activism illustrated by the women in agriculture movement reveals the political and discursive processes that operate to construct family farming. Moreover, it demonstrates the impact of activism where a movement strategically operates in multiple places and spaces to effect the social change and desires.

Thesis (M.A.B.S.)--Denver Seminary, 2005. / [Gōren] appears in Hebrew letters on t.p. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 149-160).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on February 13, 2008) Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.Sc.(Plant Production and Soil Science))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Abstract in English. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 179 - 194).

Thesis (D.Phil.)--University of Oxford, 2008. / Supervisor: Professor Diana Liverman. Bibliography: p. 320-332.