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Michael Mayerfeld Bell (born June 7, 1957) is an American sociologist and social theorist. He is currently Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is Co-Chair of the Agroecology Program. In addition, Bell has been the Director of UW-Madison's Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS) since 2011.〔http://www.cias.wisc.edu/michael-bell-named-director-of-uw-madison-center-for-integrated-agricultural-systems/〕 Created in 1989, CIAS is a research center for sustainable agriculture programs that respond to the needs of farmers and citizens.〔 http://www.cias.wisc.edu/about/〕 Bell is best known for his work in developing a dialogic approach to sociology and environmental sociology. He is also the author of ''Childerley: Nature and Morality in a Country Village'', which won the 1995 Best Book Award〔http://www.ibiblio.org/culture/awards.shtml〕 in the Sociology of Culture from the American Sociological Association, and of ''Farming for Us All: Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability'', which won an Outstanding Academic Title〔http://www.cro2.org/〕 award from the American Library Association. Bell is as well the author of ''An Invitation to Environmental Sociology'', a textbook now in its fourth edition. In the area of agroecology, Bell has worked with William L. Bland, a soil scientist also at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to develop holon agroecology, an approach to agroecology that emphasizes the role of intentionality in agroecological relations. Bell is also a mandolinist and guitarist and part-composer of grassroots and classical music, and has appeared on A Prairie Home Companion,〔http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/20020223/〕 the long-time radio variety show on National Public Radio in the United States. He currently performs with (Graminy ), a Wisconsin-based "class-grass" ensemble. == Notable publications == *Bell, Michael M. 2011. (An Invitation to Environmental Sociology ). 4th edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press (Sage). *Bell, Michael M. and others. 2011. (The Strange Music of Social Life: A Dialogue on Dialogic Sociology. ) Ann Goetting, ed. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. *Bell, Michael M. 2009. “The Problem of the Original Capitalist.” (Environment and Planning A ) 41(6): 1276-1282. *Bland, William L. and Michael M. Bell. 2007. “A Holon Approach to Agroecology.” (International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability. ) 5(4): 280-294. *Campbell, Hugh; Michael M. Bell, and Margaret Finney, eds. 2006. (Country Boys: Masculinity and Rural Life ). Rural Studies Series of the Rural Sociological Society. College Station, PA: Penn State University Press. *Bell, Michael M.; with Donna Bauer, Sue Jarnagin, and Greg Peter. 2004. (Farming for Us All: Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability ). Rural Studies Series of the Rural Sociological Society. College Station, PA: Penn State University Press. *Bell, Michael M. and Fredrick Hendricks, eds., with Azril Bacal. 2003. (Walking Towards Justice: Democratization in Rural Life ). Research in Rural Sociology and Development book series. Amsterdam and New York: JAI/Elsevier. *Bell, Michael M. and Michael Gardiner, editors. 1998. (Bakhtin and the Human Sciences: No Last Words. ) London: Sage. *Bell, Michael M. 1997. “The Ghosts of Place,” (Theory and Society ). 26:813-836. *Bell, Michael M. 1994. (Childerley: Nature and Morality in a Country Village ). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. *Bell, Michael M. 1985. (The Face of Connecticut: People, Geology, and the Land. ) Hartford, CT: Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Mayerfeld Bell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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