Publications in Organic Agriculture

Jennifer Sumner
Organic

Refereed Publications
  • Sumner, Jennifer. 2003. "Visions of Sustainability: Women Organic Farmers and Rural Development." Canadian Woman Studies, Special Issue on Women and Sustainability: From Rio de Janeiro (1992) to Johannesburg (2002), Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 146-150.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
  • Sumner, Jennifer. 2003. "Whose New Rural Economy? Organic Farmers and the Move from the Global to the Local." Paper presented at the Fourth Annual Rural Studies Conference, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, November 7.
  • Sumner, Jennifer. 2003. "Challenges to Corporate Agriculture: The Rise of the Organic Farming Movement." Paper presented at the session entitled Neoliberal Globalism and Its Challengers at the annual meeting of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Dalhousie University, June 4.
  • Sumner, Jennifer. 2003. "Small is Beautiful: Organic Farmers and Rural Development." Paper presented at the session entitled Rurality at the annual meeting of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Dalhousie University, June 1.
Invited Conference Papers
  • Sumner, Jennifer. 2003. "Globalization and the Rise of the Organic Farming Movement." Paper presented at the 9th Annual Environmental Science Symposium, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, March 22.
Sustainability but not Organic
Books and Book Chapters
  • Sumner, Jennifer. (2004 forthcoming). Searching for Sustainability: Rural Communities in the Age of Globalization. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Sumner, Jennifer. (forthcoming). "From the Knowledge Economy to the Knowledge Commons: Resisting the Commodification of Knowledge." In Gordon Laxer and Dennis Soron (eds.), Decommodifying Public Life: Resisting the Enclosure of the Commons. London: Zed Books.
  • Sumner, Jennifer. 2003. "Environmental Learning and Community Sustainability in the Age of Corporate Globalization." In Darlene E. Clover and Lilian H. Hill (eds.), Environmental Adult Education: Issues and Concerns. New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
Refereed Publications
  • Sumner, Jennifer. (forthcoming). "Value Wars in the New Periphery: Sustainability, Rural Communities and Agriculture." Agriculture and Human Values.
  • Sumner, Jennifer. 2003. "Learning Our Way In: Sustainable Learning and the Civil Commons." Convergence, Vol. XXXVI, No. 1, pp. 18-28.
  • Sumner, Jennifer. 2000. "Community Sustainability and Adult Education: Learning to Build Civil Capital and Resist Corporate Globalization." Australian Journal of Adult and Community Education. Vol. 40, No.2, July, pp. 53-65.
Refereed Conference Presentations
  • Sumner, Jennifer. 2003. "Developing Our Commons Sense: Sustainable Learning in Rural and Urban Communities." Paper presented at the international conference on Lifelong Citizenship Learning, Participatory Democracy and Social Change, Transformative Learning Centre, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto, October 18-19.
  • Sumner, Jennifer. 2002. "Reconceptualizing Our Relationship to Place: Sustainable Development in Rural and Remote Communities." Paper presented at the third annual Rural Studies Conference, University of Guelph, October 4.
  • Sumner, Jennifer. 2002. "Sustainability: A Critical Look at a Controversial Concept." Paper presented at Rural Studies of Canada: Critique and New Directions, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada, March 22-23.
  • Sumner, Jennifer. 2001. "Swimming Against the Current: Sustainable Learning in the Age of Corporate Globalization." Paper presented at the Fourth International Conference on Transformative Learning, Transformative Learning Centre, OISE/UT, Toronto, November 1-3.
  • Sumner, Jennifer. 2001. "Challenges to Sustainability: The Impacts of Corporate Globalization on Rural Communities." Paper presented at the Canadian Society of Extension, AIC 2001: Sustaining Rural Canada Conference, Agricultural Institute of Canada, University of Guelph, July 9. Available at: http://www.uoguelph.ca/~csext/ConfProg/Issues1.html.
  • Sumner, Jennifer. 2001. "Community Sustainability and Lifelong Learning: Two Sides of Our Future Well-Being." Paper presented at the 20th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Quebec City, May 25-27.
  • Sumner, Jennifer. 2000. "Civil Capital, Adult Education and Community Sustainability: A Theoretical Overview." Paper presented at the 41st Annual Adult Education Research Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, June 2-4.