{"464301":{"#nid":"464301","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Faculty in the School of History and Sociology Active at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of History and Sociology faculty members \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/pearson\u0022\u003EWillie Pearson Jr.\u003C\/a\u003E (professor of sociology) and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/winders\u0022\u003EBill Winders\u003C\/a\u003E (associate professor of sociology) recently attended the 110\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E\u0026nbsp;annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA) in Chicago. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWinders gave a presentation titled \u201cThe Geopolitics of Grains: Neoliberalism and Economic Conflict in Agriculture, 1975 to 2010\u201d in the session \u201cNew Directions in the Study of Agriculture and Food Systems.\u201d The papers in the session examined new questions about changes in farming and the food system that span the political economy to local food systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWinders\u2019 research showed that over the past 40 years the world economy has experienced significant liberalization in many economic sectors, including agriculture. For agriculture, liberalization has meant changes in national and international regulations and coordination of prices, production, and trade.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn light of these changes, Winders\u2019 paper examined how key conflicts that have long existed among producers of different kinds of grains \u2014 corn, rice, and wheat \u2014 have contributed to liberalization, and how liberalization has, in turn, exacerbated competition between grain producers. His research utilized key cases such as North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the wheat trade war between the United States and Europe, the battle to put agriculture in General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the battle of export subsidies, and the expansion of global meat consumption.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPearson participated in an invitation-only reception on data and policy analysis, hosted by ASA Executive Director Sally Hillsman. Among the invitees were ASA executive office senior staff; deputy of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Division at the National Science Foundation (NSF); the senior program officer for sociology at NSF; members of the ASA Council; and data analysts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPearson serves as a consultant to a major American Sociological Association research initiative examining the career patterns and experiences of sociologists and economists, especially those from underrepresented groups. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of History and Sociology faculty members \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/pearson\u0022\u003EWillie Pearson Jr.\u003C\/a\u003E (professor of sociology) and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/winders\u0022\u003EBill Winders\u003C\/a\u003E (associate professor of sociology) recently attended the 110\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E\u0026nbsp;annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA) in Chicago.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"School of History and Sociology faculty members Willie Pearson Jr. (professor of sociology) and Bill Winders (associate professor of sociology) recently attended the 110th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA) in Chicago."}],"uid":"28513","created_gmt":"2015-10-29 15:20:46","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:51","author":"Daniel Singer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-10-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-10-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"464371":{"id":"464371","type":"image","title":"Willie Pearson","body":null,"created":"1449256385","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:13:05","changed":"1475895211","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:31","alt":"Willie Pearson","file":{"fid":"205674","name":"williepearsonweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/williepearsonweb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/williepearsonweb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":107080,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/williepearsonweb.jpg?itok=6Opxcjtj"}},"405961":{"id":"405961","type":"image","title":"Bill Winders","body":null,"created":"1449254153","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:35:53","changed":"1475895129","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:09","alt":"Bill Winders","file":{"fid":"76121","name":"billwindersweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/billwindersweb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/billwindersweb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":73198,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/billwindersweb.jpg?itok=s1VjDJEN"}}},"media_ids":["464371","405961"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.asanet.org\/","title":"American Sociological Association"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.hsoc.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of History and Sociology website."}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"669","name":"agriculture"},{"id":"140591","name":"American Sociological Association"},{"id":"28641","name":"policy analysis"},{"id":"167053","name":"sociology"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003EDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003Erebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}