01766nam a22001577a 4500999001900000008004100019100002600060245009400086260002100180300002900201520123000230773002101460906001601481942000701497952010401504  c514400d514400201031b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aTanaka, Keiko 920558  aJustice and tyranny: Bringing “Rural” back into the sociology of food and agriculture  aRural Sociology   a85(1), Mar, 2020: p.3-21  aIn the current polarizing political climate, what constitutes just has become increasingly questioned and debated in the public arena. Tyrants seem everywhere to shape people's understanding of who belongs in communities and nation‐states and, therefore, who should be given a voice and what should be valued. This paper unpacks the mechanisms of tyranny and the pursuit of justice in the global agri‐food system. The first section discusses justice and tyranny as sociological concepts and practice, followed by the second section that examins two types of tyrannies in the globalized agri‐food system: neoliberal capitalism and community. I argue that neoliberal capitalism and community are the logics for organizing social relations and the sites of enacting tyrannies and justice. Third, I argue that in the tension between capitalism and community in achieving justice, rural becomes critical both theoretically and empirically for understanding the current transformations and the future challenges for transforming agri‐food systems. Finally, the paper concludes with possible contributions of rural sociological imaginations to shaping the discourse of justice and explore the process of justice.- Reproduced  aRural Sociology   aAGRICULTURE  cAR  00102ddc40709388409aIIPAbIIPAd2020-10-31h85(1), Mar, 2020: p.3-21pAR123406r2020-10-31yAR