Petroniana

Pad at Aeneid 6.852 defended against the objections raised by Prof. E. Kraggerud (this journal 66, 1991, 115–117).     

‘It can be good there too’: home and continuity in refugee children's narratives of settlement

Drawing on refugee children's narratives about their experiences of settlement after prolonged stays in asylum centres, this article explores how the process of home-making is experienced in the everyday lives of children (7–12 year olds) settling with their parents in Norway. This article examines the importance of home as a material and relational space where children's expectations of an ideal home and existing standards together influence the process of home-making. Settlement is found to be a turning point in the lives of refugee families; it is a way of making oneself at home, sustaining continuity in children's world of movement, as well as linking space and time in their lives.     

Lost in the Supermarket: The Corporate-Organic Foodscape and the Struggle for Food Democracy

Abstract:  The corporatization of organics has been critiqued for the concentration of ownership, as well as the ecological consequences of the long distances commodities travel between field and table. These critiques suggest a competing vision of food democracy which strives to organize the production and consumption of food at a proximate geographic scale while increasing opportunities for democratically managed cooperation between producers and consumers. This paper examines how the corporate-organic foodscape has interacted and evolved alongside competing counter movements of food democracy. Using discourse and content analysis, we examine how corporate organics incorporate messages of locally scaled food production, humble origins, and a commitment to family farms and employees, and explore some of the complexity of the corporate-organic foodscape. This paper contributes to the understanding of commodity fetishism in the corporate-organic foodscape, and speaks more generally to the need for sophisticated understandings of the complex relationship between social movement innovation and market adaptation.     

High-Modernist Dreams and Nightmares

Book reviewed:
David C. Engerman. Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. vi + 399 pp. Essay on sources, notes, index. $49.95 (cloth).
Nils Gilman. Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xi + 329 pp. Essay on sources, notes, index. $48.00 (cloth).