Mike Bell's Articles and Book Chapters

Follow the links to download Mike's articles and chapters. Note that some of these are "preprints," which means that there may have been some changes to these articles and chapters before final publication. When citing these items, please note that they are preprints and were downloaded from this site.

Harden, Noelle M., Loka L. Ashwood, William L. Bland, and Michael M. Bell.  In press. “For the Public Good: Weaving a Multifunctional Landscape in the Corn Belt.” Agriculture and Human Values. Preprint

Oates, L. Gary, David J, Undersander, Michael M. Bell, Claudio Gratton, Randall D. Jackson. In press. “Net Ecosystem Carbon Balance Under Management-Intensive Rotational Grazing on Subhumid Cool-Season Pastures.” Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment..

Ubert, Emanuel and Michael M. Bell.  2013. “Welcome to the Consumption Line: Sustainability, Social Organization, and the Wage-Price Gap.”  In Innovations in Sustainable Consumption: New Economics, Socio-technical Transitions, and Social Practices, Maurie J. Cohen, Halina Szejnwald Brown and Philip J. Vergragt, eds. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, USA: Edward Elgar. Preprint.

Bell, Michael M. and Pierre M. Stassart.  2011. “Toward Pagan Agroecology.” Journal of Rural Studies 27(4): 348-349. Reprint.

Lyon, Alexandra, Michael M. Bell, Claudio Gratton, and Randall D. Jackson. 2011. “Farming without a Recipe: Wisconsin Graziers and New Directions for Agricultural Science.”  Journal of Rural Studies 27(4): 384-393. Reprint.

Stiles, Kaelyn, Ozlem Altiok, and Michael M. Bell. 2011. “The Ghosts of Taste: Food and the Cultural Politics of Authenticity.” Agriculture and Human Values. 28(2): 225-236. Preprint.

Oates, L. Gary, David J. Undersander, Michael M. Bell, Claudio C. Gratton, Randall D. Jackson. 2011. “Management-Intensive Rotational Grazing Promotes Forage Production and Quality of Subhumid Cool-Season Pastures.” Crop Science. 51(2): 892-901.

Lyon, Alexandra, Michael M. Bell, Nora Swan Croll, Randall Jackson, and Claudio Gratton. 2010. “Maculate Conceptions: Power, Process, and Creativity in Participatory Research.” Rural Sociology 75(4): 538-559. Reprint.

Pretty, Jules, William J. Sutherland, Jacqueline Ashby, David Baulcombe, Michael Bell, Jeffrey Bentley, and 49 others. 2010. “The Top 100 Questions of Importance in the Future of Global Agriculture.” International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 8(4): 219-236.

Bell, Michael M. and Giorgio Osti. 2010. “Mobilities and Ruralities: An Introduction.” Sociologia Ruralis 50(3):200-204. Reprint.

Bell, Michael M., Sarah Lloyd, and Christine Vatovec. 2010. “Activating the Countryside: Rural Power, the Power of the Rural, and the Making of Rural Politics.” Sociologia Ruralis. Reprint.

Brewster, Bradley H. and Michael M. Bell. 2010.  “The Environmental Goffman: Toward an Environmental Sociology of Everyday Life.” Society and Natural Resources. 23(1):1-13. Reprint.

Bell, Michael M. 2009. “Can We? The Audacity of Environmental Hope.” Nature and Culture. 4(3):316-323. Reprint.

Bell, Michael M. 2009. “The Problem of the Original Capitalist.” Environment and Planning A 41(6): 1276-1282. Reprint. See also an extended version in this preprint.

Bland, William L. and Michael M. Bell. 2009. “Beyond Systems Thinking in Agroecology: Holons, Intentionality, and Resonant Configurations.”  Pp. 85-94 in Sustainable Agroecosystem Management: Integrating Ecology, Economics, and Society, Patrick Bohlen and Gar House, eds.  CRC Press/Taylor and Francis Group. Reprint.

Banerjee, Damayanti and Michael M. Bell. 2008. “Environmental Justice.” In Richard T. Schafer, ed. Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society. Thousand Oaks, CA and London: Sage Publications.

Bell, Michael M. and Peter Korsching. 2008. “Town-Country Relations,” in The Encyclopedia of Rural Life, 2nd edition, Gary Goreham, ed. Millerton, NY: Grey House Publishing. Preprint.

Korsching, Peter F. and Michael M. Bell. 2008. “Technology,” in The Encyclopedia of Rural Life, 2nd edition, Gary Goreham, ed. Millerton, NY: Grey House Publishing.

Bell, Michael M., Alexandra Lyon, Claudio Gratton, and Randall Jackson.  2008. “The Productivity of Variability: An Agroecological Hypothesis.”  International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 6(4): 233-235. Reprint.

Bell, Michael M. 2008. “Shifting Agrifood Systems: A Comment.”  Geojournal 73(1):83-85. Reprint.

Bell, Michael M. 2007. “In the River: A Sociohistorical Account of Dialogue and Diaspora.” Humanity and Society. 31 (2-3): 210-234. This paper is part of a discussion and reply with David Nickell. Here is a reprint of the entire discussion and reply. And here is a reprint of only my portion of the discussion. Note that there were some errors in the images in the printed version, which are fixed with these preprints.

Bland, William L. and Michael M. Bell. 2007. “A Holon Approach to Agroecology.”  International Journal of Agricultural Sustainablity. 5(4): 280-294. Reprint.

Bell, Michael M. 2007. “The Two-ness of Rural Life and the Ends of Rural Scholarship.” Journal of Rural Studies.  23 (4): 402-415. Reprint.

Jackson, Randall D., Michael M. Bell, and Claudio Gratton. 2007. “Assessing Ecosystem Variance at Different Scales to Generalize About Pasture Management in Southern Wisconsin.” Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 122:471-478. Reprint.

Banerjee, Damayanti and Michael M. Bell. 2007. “Ecogender: Locating Gender in Environmental Social Science.”  Society and Natural Resources. 20(1): 3-19. Reprint.

Campbell, Hugh, Michael M. Bell, and Margeret Finney. 2006. “Masculinity and Rural Life: An Introduction.”  In Country Boys: Masculinity and Rural Life, Hugh Campbell, Michael M. Bell, and Margeret Finney, eds. Rural Studies Series of the Rural Sociological Society. College Station, PA: Penn State University Press. Preprint.

Peter, Gregory, Michael Bell, Susan Jarnagin, and Donna Bauer.  2006.  “Cultivating an Ecological Dialogue: Sustainable Agriculture and Masculinities.”  In Country Boys: Masculinity and Rural Life, Hugh Campbell, Michael M. Bell, and Margeret Finney, eds. Rural Studies Series of the Rural Sociological Society. College Station, PA: Penn State University Press. Preprint.

Bell, Michael M. 2005. “The Vitality of Difference:  Systems Theory, the Environment, and the Ghost of Parsons.”  Society and Natural Resources.  18(5): 471-478. Reprint.

Peter, Gregory, Michael Bell, Susan Jarnagin, and Donna Bauer. 2005. “Farm Dads: Contemporary Challenges to Fatherhood in the Fields of the Midwest,” pp. 235-253 in Situated Fatherhood: Negotiating Involvement in Physical and Social Contexts,  William Marsiglio, Kevin Roy, and Greer Fox, eds.  Rowman and Littlefield.

Bell, Michael M. 2004. “Farms,” pp. 142-143 in Patterned Ground: Ecologies and Geographies of Nature and Culture, Stephan Harrison, Steve Pile, and Nigel Thrift, editors. London, UK: Reaktion Books.

Carolan, Michael and Michael M. Bell. 2004. “No Fence Can Stop It: Debating Dioxin Drift from a Small US Town to Arctic Canada.” Pp. 385-422 in Science and Politics in the International Environment, Neil Harrison and Gary Bryner, eds. Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield.

Carolan, Michael S., Diane Mayerfeld, Michael M. Bell, and Derrick Exner. 2004. “Rented Land: Barriers to Sustainable Agriculture.” Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 59(4): 70A-75A. Reprint.

Bell, Michael M. and Frederick Hendricks. 2003. “Democratization in Rural Life: Introduction,” in Walking Towards Justice: Democratization in Rural Life, Michael M. Bell and Frederick Hendricks, eds., with Azril Bacal. Research in Rural Sociology and Development book series. Amsterdam and New York: JAI/Elsevier.

Bell, Michael M. 2003. “Dialogue and Isodemocracy: Creating the Social Conditions of Good Talk,” in Walking Towards Justice: Democratization in Rural Life, Michael M. Bell and Frederick Hendricks, eds., with Azril Bacal. Research in Rural Sociology and Development book series. Amsterdam and New York: JAI/Elsevier.

Anderson, Cynthia and Michael M. Bell. 2003. “The Devil of Social Capital: A Dilemma for American Rural Sociology.” Pp. 232-244 in Country Visions, Paul Cloke, ed. London: Pearson.

Carolan, Michael and Michael M. Bell. 2003. “In Truth We Trust: Discourse, Phenomenology, and the Social Relations of Knowledge in an Environmental Dispute.” Environmental Values. 12(2):225-245. Reprint.

Peter, Greg and Michael M. Bell. 2003. “Farming.” Entry in Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities. Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson, eds. ABC-Clio Press.

Bell, Michael M. 2002. “Diálogo e Isodemocracia: Un Ensayo Sobre Las Condiciones de la Buena Conversación,” pp. 15-37 in Democracia Es Camino a la Justia y a la Dignitad, Azril Bacal, Bernardino Mata, and Rosemary Galli, eds. Chapingo, Mexico: Universidad Autónoma Chapingo.

Bell, Michael M. 2001. “Dialogue and Isodemocracy: An Essay on the Social Conditions of Good Talk.” Revue Internationale de Sociologie (International Review of Sociology). 11(3): 281-297. Reprint.

Bell, Michael M. 2001. “Can the World Develop and Sustain Its Environment?” pp. 440-459 in Sociology for a New Century, York Bradshaw, Joseph Healey, and Rebecca Smith, eds. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.

Campbell, Hugh and Michael M. Bell. 2000. “The Question of Rural Masculinities,” Rural Sociology. 64(4). Reprint.

Petrzelka, Peggy and Michael M. Bell. 2000. “Rationality and Solidarity: The Social Organization of Common Property Resources in the Imdrhas Valley of Morocco,” Human Organization. 59(3): 343-352. Reprint.

Peter, Gregory, Michael M. Bell, Susan Jarnagin, Donna Bauer. 2000. “Coming Back Across the Fence: Masculinity and the Transition to Sustainable Agriculture,” Rural Sociology. 65(2): 215-233.The Social Economy of Rural Life: An Introduction.” Journal of Rural Studies. 16: 269-272. Reprint.

Bell, Michael M. Bell and Philip Lowe. 2000. “Regulated Freedoms: The Market and the State, Agriculture and the Environment,” Journal of Rural Studies. 16: 285-294. Reprint.

Bell, Michael M. 1998. “The Dialogue of Solidarities, or Why the Lion Spared Androcles,” Sociological Focus. 31(2):181-199. Reprint.

Bell, Michael M. 1998. “Culture as Dialog,” pp. 49-62 in Bakhtin and the Human Sciences: No Last Words, Michael M. Bell and Michael Gardiner, eds. London: Sage.

Gardiner, Michael and Michael M. Bell. 1998. “Bakhtin and the Human Sciences: An Introduction,” pp. 1-12 in Bakhtin and the Human Sciences: No Last Words, Michael M. Bell and Michael Gardiner, eds. London: Sage.

Bell, Michael M. 1997. “The Ghosts of Place,” Theory and Society. 26:813-836. Reprint.

Bell, Michael M. and Peter F. Korsching. 1997. “Town-Country Relations,” pp. 708-711 in Encyclopedia of Rural America, Gary Goreham, ed. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.

Korsching, Peter F. and Michael M. Bell. 1997. “Technology,” pp. 677-681 in Encyclopedia of Rural America, Gary Goreham, ed. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.

Bell, Michael M. 1996. “Stone Age New England: A Geology of Morals,” pp. 29-64 in Creating the Countryside: The Politics of Rural and Environmental Discourse, Melanie Dupuis and Peter Vandergeest, eds., Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.

Bell, Michael M. 1995. “The Dialectic of Technology: Commentary on Warner and England,” Rural Sociology, 60(4): 623-632. Reprint.

Bell, Michael M. 1994. "Deep Fecology: Mikhail Bakhtin and the Call of Nature," Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 5(4):65-84. Reprint.

Bell, Michael M. 1992. "The Fruit of Difference: The Rural-Urban Continuum as a System of Identity," Rural Sociology, 57(1):65-82. Reprint.

Bell, Michael and Edward Laine. 1990. Reprint of “Erosion of the Laurentide Region...,” pp. 173-202 in Ice Age Research, H. Liedtke, ed. Darmstadt, Germany: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.

Bell, Michael M.1989. "Did New England Go Downhill?" Geographical Review, 79(4):451-467. Reprint.

Bell, Michael and Edward Laine. 1985. "Erosion of the Laurentide Region of North America by Glacial and Glacio-fluvial Processes." Quaternary Research, 23:154-174. Reprint.

Laine, Edward and Michael Bell. 1982. "New Evidence from Beneath the Western North Atlantic for the Depth of Glacial Erosion in Greenland and North America: Reply to Andrew's Comment." Quaternary Research, 17:125-127. Reprint.

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