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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- PART ONE INTRODUCTION -- 1 Social Science Contributions to Aquacultural Development -- PART TWO AQUACULTURALDEVELOPMENTIN INDUSTRIALIZED NATIONS -- 2 The Sky Is the Limit? The Rise and Fall of Norwegian Salmon Aquaculture, 1970-1990 -- 3 Norway's Cod Farming Industry: Adaptation, Imitation or Innovation? -- 4 Aquaculture in the Baltic Sea: Regional Development and Environmental -- 5 Along the Coast and in the State: Aquaculture and Politics in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick -- 6 Paradise Under Siege: A Case Study of Aquacultural Development in Nova Scotia -- 7 The Political and Social Context of Technology Transfer: Two Oyster Projects in Florida -- 8 Catfish in the Farming System of West Alabama -- 9 Colonizing the Coastal Frontier: Governing Marine Salmon Farming in Scotland -- PART THREE AQUACULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN NON-INDUSTRIALIZED NATIONS -- 10 Shrimp Mariculture Development in Two Rural Mexican Communities -- 11 Social and Environmental Impacts of Coastal Aquaculture in Indonesia -- 12 Household and Community Factors Affecting Development of Small-Scale Fish Farming in Africa -- 13 Institutional Requirements for Aquacultural Development in Africa: Lessons from Rwanda -- 14 Cages, Controversies, and Conflict: Carp Culture in Lake Toba, Indonesia -- 15 Fish, Pigs, Poultry, and Pandora's Box: Integrated Aquaculture and Human Influenza -- About the Editors and Contributors -- About the Book.

AbstractOver the past four decades, inequality of income, wealth, and power have become increasingly extreme in the United States. The triumph of a neoliberal agenda to reduce taxes, deregulate the economy, and promote international trade has undermined the economic status of the middle class, increased poverty, and led to a concentration of wealth. This nation has gone through such periods before, followed by progressive movements that have realigned economic and political forces. I argue that we may be at a point where a new progressive social movement is about to emerge and I point out several areas where rural sociologists are working, such as local food systems, that reflect a reorientation of social values supporting such a movement. Promoting local food systems and similar locality‐based enterprises can foster economic relationships embedded in multistranded social relationships and contribute to progressive change through reducing the central role of large corporations in our daily lives. Building on Busch's (1999) concept of Leviathan, I identify the roles of researchers and community activists in which rural sociologists can work to democratize social, economic, and political relationships in society.

AbstractWe use critical race theory (CRT) to examine the involuntary loss of land and homes among Black residents of the southeastern United States and in particular among the Gullah/Geechee. An Afro‐indigenous population, the Gullah/Geechee have deep roots in the federally designated Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, an area of sea islands and coastal Lowcountry within 25 coastal counties in North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. We identify legal vulnerabilities associated with heirs property, in particular tax sales and predatory partition actions, as mechanisms used within the legal system to dispossess owners of their land. Our use of CRT allows us to understand heirs property as a legacy of the Jim Crow era and to recognize material motivations behind continued racial discrimination that has led to involuntary land loss. CRT also leads us to consider the question of empowerment of the Gullah/Geechee population through a program of reparations for wrongful taking of land and homes since coastal development began roughly 70 years ago. One possible mechanism for reparations is to increase existing lodging taxes on coastal tourism along the Gullah/Geechee coast.