ALESSANDRO BONANNO

Professor and Chair

 

(PhD, University of Kentucky, 1985) Professor and Department Chair. Dr. Bonanno joined the Department of Sociology at Sam Houston State University in 1996. Previously he was a Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Bonanno specializes in Economy and Society, Social Theory and Sociology of Agriculture and Food. In recent years, he has focused his research on issues related to the globalization of the economy and society. Employing the case of the agricultural and food sector, Dr. Bonanno has explored areas such as concentration of production, commodity chains, the role and actions of the environmental and labor movements, and the consequences that globalization has on democracy. He is the author and/or co-author of more than one-hundred refereed publications and the author and/or editors of twelve books which were published in English and in other six major languages. Dr. Bonanno taught and researched in Europe and Latin America.  He is the director of SHSU Field School in Italy and the current (2004-2008) President of the International Rural Sociological Association.

 

Selected  Publications (2000-2008)         

 

2008.      Stories of Globalization. University Park: Penn State University Press. Forthcoming, in production. Co-authored with Douglas Constance.

 

2008     "Globalização e a Nova Crises de Legitimação." Estudos de Sociologia 14(1).

 

2007   “Agency and Resistance in the Sociology of Agriculture and Food.” Pp. 29-43 in Wynne Wright and Gerad Midderndorf (eds.) Food Fights. University Park: Penn State University Press. Co-authored with Douglas Constance.

2007    La Construcción de Resistencia en un Mundo Global . Saltillo, Mexico: Plaza y Valdes Editores. Co-authored with Gilberto Aboites, Douglas Constance, Kristen Erlandson, and Francisco Martinez.

2007   “La Globalización Agro-Alimentaría: Elementos Empíricos y Reflexiones Teóricas.” Revista de ALASRU. 4:243-264.

2006   “Globalization, the Crisis of Realization and New Forms of Consumption.” Research in Political Sociology . 15: 243-267. Co-authored with Robert J. Antonio.

2006   “Relations et Contradictions entre Développement Régional et Globalisation.” Pp. 41-60 In Amedee Mollard (ed.) Territoires et Enjeux du Développement Régional . Versailles, France” Editions Quae.

2006   “Corporations and the State in the Global Era: The Case of Seaboard Farms and Texas.” Rural Sociology 71 (1): 59-84. Co-authored with Douglas Constance.

2006  “The State and Rural Polity.” Pp 317-329 in Paul Cloke, Terry Marsden, and Pat Money (eds.) Handbook of Rural Studies . London: Sage Publications.

2005   “Periodizing Globalization: From Cold War Modernization to the Bush Doctrine.” Current Perspectives in Social Theory 24:1-57. Co-authored with Robert J. Antonio.

2004    “Globalization, Transnational Corporations, the State and Democracy.” International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food 11(1).

2003 “Democracy in the Era of Globalization.” Pp 43-66 in  Michael Bell, Fred Hendricks and Azril Bacal,(eds.) Democracy is the Road to Justice: Democracy in Rural Societies. Bristol: Great Britain: Elsevier Ltd. Co-authored with Robert J. Antonio.

2003 “The Global/Local Interface.” Pp. 241-51  in David L. Brown and Louis E. Swanson (eds.) Challenges for Rural America in the Twentieth First Century. University Park: Penn State University Press. Co-authored with Douglas Constance.

2003 “La Globalizatión y la Cuestión de la Democracia.” Pp. 20-45 in Monica Bending, Pedro Tsakoumagko, Miguel Murmis and Salute Cavalcanti (eds.) El Campo en la Sociologic Actual. Una Perspectiva Latino Americana. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2002 “Resisting Integration in the Global Agro-food System: Corporate Chickens and Community Controversy in Texas.” Pp. 103-118 in Reidar Almas and Geoffrey Lawrence (eds.), Globalisation, Localization, and Sustainable Livelihoods. London: Ashgate Press. Co-authored with Douglas Constance, Caron Cates, Daniel Argo, and Mirenda Harris.

2001. “Globalization, Fordism, and Post-Fordism in Agriculture and Food: A Critical review of Salient Literature.” Culture & Agriculture. Vol. 23 (2). Co-Authored with Douglas Constance.

2001. “The Environmental Movement and Labor in Global Post-Fordism: Lessons from the Case of the Headwaters Forest.” Agriculture and Human Values 18 (3):1-17. Co-authored with Bill Blome.

2001. “Corporate Strategies in the Global Era: Mega-Hog Farms in the Texas Panhandle Region.” International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food 9 (1): 5-28. Co-authored with Douglas Constance.

2000. “A New Global Capitalism? From ‘Americanism and Fordism’ to ‘Americanization-Globalization.” American Studies 41 (2/3): 33-77. Co-authored with Robert J. Antonio.

2000. “The Crisis of Representation: The Limits of Liberal Democracy in the Global Era.” Journal of Rural Studies 16:305-323.

2000. “Powers and Limits of Transnational Corporations: the Case of ADM." Rural Sociology 65 (3): 440-460. Co-authored with      Douglas Constance.

2000 "Mega Hog Farms in the Texas Panhandle Region: Corporate Actions and Local Resistance." Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change 22: 83-110. Co-authored with Douglas Constance.

2000. "Regulating the Global Fisheries: The World Wildlife Fund, Uniliver, and the Marine Stewardship Council." Agriculture and Human Values. 17 (2):125-139. Co-authored with Douglas Constance.