Journal of Rural Studies 

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use the concept of social embeddedness from economic sociology to analyze the interplay of the economic and the social in direct agricultural markets, and propose an analytical framework that more accurately describes the social relations of two types of direct agricultural market * the farmers' market and community supported agriculture.

TL;DR: The authors examined the practice and politics of food system localization efforts in Iowa, USA and argued that desirable social or environmental outcomes may not always map neatly onto the spatial content of local, which itself involves the social construction of scale.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that rather than declaiming the "radical particularism" of localism, it is more productive to question an "unreflexive localism" and to forge localist alliances that pay attention to equality and social justice.

TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between quality and local embeddedness in five rural localities of England and Wales and suggested that the patterns of food purchasing revealed, with local food figuring more highly than organic, illustrate a defensive politics of localism rather than a strong turn to quality based around organic and ecological production.

TL;DR: In this article, a modified version of the theory of social representations is used to define the rural in terms of the disembodied cognitive structures which we use as rules and resources in order to make sense of our everyday world, through both discursive and non-discursive actions.