THE LEGACY OF FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE
The impact the Foot and Mouth crisis had on farming communities across the UK was vast. There was widespread devastation as animals were destroyed and farmers became imprisoned in their homes.
Although there was substantial media coverage at the time, little is actually known of the social cost to the farmers and their local communities.
Laurie Taylor is joined by Dr Brigitte Nerlich to discuss the findings of a project she co-researched: Caught between Science and Society: Foot and Mouth Disease . The project looked at the social and cultural impact the disease had on farmers, their families and farming communities.
GLOBAL SOCIOLOGY
Next week Les Back, Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, London will give his inaugural lecture entitled Speaking of Remarkable Things: The Scale of Global Sociology.
This lecture is part of a book that Professor Back is completing called The Art of Listening: Sociology in a Divided World in which he writes about the scale of sociology and what it might offer in an increasingly globalised and technologically integrated world.
Laurie Taylor talks to ProfessorÌýLes Back about his idea that there is now a need for what he calls sociological listening - not just listening to a story but listening for a story.
Additional information:
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Principal Research Officer at the Institute for the Study of Genetics, Bio-risks and Society, University of Nottingham
Science in Society funding (L144 25 0050)
There is no book based on the project but lots of articles written about it, the latest of which is called Poetic Justice?
Rural policy clashes with rural poetry in the 2001 outbreak of the foot and mouth disease in the UK, forthcoming from the Journal of Rural Studies.
Sociology Department, Goldsmiths College, University of LondonÌý
Inaugural Lecture by Professor Les Back
17 May 2005
17:30 - Ends: 18:30
Location: Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, Goldsmiths College
Cost: free
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