Agricultural History Society (AHS) (Web)
Time: 03.-06.06.2020
Venue: University of Tennessee-Knoxville in the Appalachian Mountains, USA
Submissions by: 28.09.2019
Globally, agriculture occurs in diverse environments, including mountains, deserts, swamps, rain forests, tundra, places of extreme temperatures, and on marginal soils. People have transformed environments to meet the demands of agricultural production through both private and state -sponsored actions. The small farms of Appalachia and the massive dams of the Tennessee Valley Authority that surround Knoxville illustrate these strategies, adaptations, and associated controversies. Inspired by this backdrop, the AHS encourages submission that explore how farmers and other rural people wrestle with challenging and changing environments:
- How farmers adapt agriculture to challenging environments, including exploited microclimates.
- How difficult environments shape dynamics of rural landscapes and local power arrangements, including how these intersect with race, class, ethnicity, and/or gender.
- How farmers and rural people have adapted to climate or other environmental changes.
- The impacts, whether environmental, cultural, social, or political, of private and state-sponsored projects to alter difficult environments
- How agriculture has altered fragile ecosystems
- Scientific and technical approaches to environmental changes over time
- Roles/experiences of women and minorities in difficult farming environments Read more and source … (Web)