<p>"The way in which contributors to this volume interrogate the knowledge-deficit model with reference to cognitive and social linguistics is timely"<br /><br />(Paul R. Gilbert, Agriculture Hum Values 29:275-276, 2012)</p>
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List of plates
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Preface
List of abbreviations
I. Introduction and historical overview
1. From mayhem to meaning: an introduction to the cultural meaning of the 2001 outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease in the UK – Martin Döring and Brigitte Nerlich
2. The historical roots of FMD control in Britain, 1839–2001 – Abigail Woods
II. Experiences expressed
3. Farmers/writers: ‘They may be experts but they know nowt’ – Pamela Sandiford
4. Farmers: FMD and the abuse of democratic process – Susan Atkinson
5. Media: FMD in the West Country and the role of the Western Morning News – Barrie Williams
6. Artists and photographers: trembling representations – picturing FMD – Michael Madden (artwork) and Ian Geering (photography)
III. Experiences analysed
7. Farmers and valuers: divisions and divisiveness and the social cost of FMD – a sociological analysis of FMD in one locality – Sam Hillyard
8. Churches: the response of local churches to FMD – Lewis Burton
9. Children: ‘Mary had a little lamb...’ – trauma, stress and coping during the 2001 FMD crisis, as seen through the medium of children’s poems – Martin Döring
IV. Experiences, contexts, analysis
10. Biosecurity: biosecurity and idyllic England in millennial Britain – Samantha Twigg Johnson
11. Life changes: altered lifescapes – Ian Convery, Cathy Bailey, Maggie Mort and Josephine Baxter
12. Technology: FMD 2001 – lessons emerging from county council websites – Briony Oates
13. Technology: the information and social needs of Cumbrian farmers during the UK 2001 FMD outbreak and the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) – Chris Hagar
14. Media: conceptualising Foot and Mouth Disease – the socio-cultural role of metaphors, frames and narratives – Brigitte Nerlich
15. Rumour: viral cows and viral culture? Towards an explanation of rumour in the 2001 UK outbreak of FMD – Nick Wright and Brigitte Nerlich
16. Disaster: a further species of trouble? Disaster and narrative – John Law and Vicky Singleton
V. Epilogue
17. Speaking truth to power: Foot and Mouth and the future of agriculture and its communities – Jules Pretty
Index