Originally from St. Louis, Missouri (USA), Dr. Paul Stock received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Colorado State University in 2009. His dissertation on the Catholic Worker Movement focused on small-scale agricultural communes and moral relationships with the environment. His master’s degree from Illinois State University focused on organic farmers’ identity as "good farmers."

Paul's main interests revolve around agriculture, food, the environment and morality, and their intersections. A further interest includes creativity and knowledge formation, most closely associated with understanding of language and society. While varied, these interests revolve around the themes of understanding human freedom and the nuanced relationship between human activity – individually and communally – and nature or the environment. Furthermore, by understanding the relationships to nature and one another, often embedded in language, one can explore the moral relationships between people and the natural environment.

Paul is also a lecturer in the new Department of Sociology, Gender and Social Work at the University of Otago, with an emphasis on global food systems, environmental sociology, sustainability and sociological theroy.

Significant Publications

Stock, Paul V. 2012. "Consensus Social Movements and the Catholic Worker." Forthcoming in Politics and Religion.

Stock, Paul V. 2011. "Catholic Worker Economics: Subsistence and Resistance Strategies of Householding." Bulletin for the Study of Religion 40(1): 10-15.

Stock, Paul V. 2010. “Sociology and the Mix Tape: A Metaphor of Creativity.” The American Sociologist, 41(3): 277-291.

Stock, Paul V. 2007. "'Good Farmers' as Reflexive Producers: An Examination of Family Organic Farmers in the US Midwest." Sociologia Ruralis 47(2): 83-102.

Stock, Paul V. 2007. “Katrina and Anarchy: A Content Analysis of a New Disaster Myth.” Sociological Spectrum, 26(6): 705-726.

Book

Rosin, Chris, Paul Stock and Hugh Campbell (eds). Forthcoming 2011. Food Systems Failure: The Global Food Crisis and the Future of Agriculture. Earthscan: London.

Book Chapter

Stock, Paul and Michael Carolan. "A Utopian Perspective on Global Food Security." To be included in Food Systems Failure: The Global Food Crisis and the Future of Agriculture, edited by Christopher Rosin, Paul Stock and Hugh Campbell. Earthscan: London. 

Newspaper Articles

Stock, Paul. 2011. "Let's Listen to One Another, and Learn Together." The Otago Daily Times [Dundein, New Zealand], 21 March. http://www.odt.co.nz/news/farming/152567/lets-listen-one-another-and-learn-together

Stock, Paul. 2010. "Lack of Trust Puts Farmers at Risk." The Otago Daily Times [Dundein, New Zealand], 20 September, p. 16. http://www.odt.co.nz/news/farming/127094/lack-trust-puts-farming-risk.

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