Arunas Juska
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Lithuaniam Academy of Sciences 1989, M.A., Syracuse University 1991, Ph.D., Michigan State University 1996
Areas of Interest: Agro-food studies, East European Studies, Policing
Office: Brewster A-410
Tel: 252.328.6386
E-mail: juskaa@ecu.edu

Curriculum Vita

Research

Selected publications:

Juska, Arunas.  2010. “"Profits to the Danes, for us -- hog stench?" Campaign against Danish swine CAFOs in rural Lithuania.”  Journal of Rural Studies (Forthcoming).

Juska, Arunas.  2009. "Privatization of state security and policing in Lithuania." Policing and Society, 19(3), pp. 226-246.

Edwards, Bob, Maria Dillard and Arunas Juska.  2009. "Gender and leadership in the Lithuanian rural community movement: issues, activities and impacts." Transitions, 49(1), pp. 107-131.

Juska, Arunas and Vladas Gaidys. 2008. "Lay Discourses on Soviet power in Lithuania during Brezhnev Period (1964-1982)." In Vladimir Shlapentokh, Eric Shiraev and Eero Carroll (eds.) The Soviet Union. Internal and External Perspectives on Soviet Society.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, pp. 132-139.

Juska, Arunas, Arunas Poviliunas, Ruta ?iliukaite and Vilma Gegu?iene. 2008.  "Rural intelligentsia and path dependency in post-socialist civic organizing: The case of Lithuania." Sociologia Ruralis 48(2), pp. 93-117.

Juska, Arunas. 2007. "Discourses on Rurality in Post-Socialist News Media: The Case of Lithuania's Leading Daily 'Lietuvos Rytas' (1991-2004),” Journal of Rural Studies 23(2), pp. 238-253.

Juska, Arunas and Vygandas Paulikas. 2006. "Rural Marginalization, Policing and Crime in Lithuania," Police Practice and Research, 7(5), pp.431-447.

Juska, Arunas, Arunas Poviliunas and Richard Pozzuto. 2006. "Rural Grass-Roots Organizing in Eastern Europe: The Experience from Lithuania," Community Development Journal, 41(2), pp. 174-188 .

Yevdokimov, Sergey and Arunas Juska. 2006. "Republic of Belarus." In: Dilip, Das (ed.) World Police Encyclopedia. London and New York: Routledge, vol.1, pp. 74-78.

Juska, Arunas and Vladas Gaidys. 2005. "Lithuanian public opinion on September 11th attacks and their aftermath." In: Shlapentokh, Vladimir and Eric Shiraev (eds.) America: Sovereign Defender or Cowboy Nation? Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 163-173.

Juska, Arunas, Arunas Poviliunas and Richard Pozzuto. 2005. "Resisting Marginalization: The Rise of the Rural Community Movement in Lithuania," Sociologia Ruralis, 45(1/2), pp. 3-21.

Pozzuto, Richard, Arunas Juska, G. Brent Angell and Peter Johnstone. 2004. "Social work opportunities in rural development: Lithuania 1991-2004," Rural Social Work, vol. 9, December, pp. 43-48.

Gutauskas, Aurelijus, Arunas Juska, Peter Johnstone and Richard Pozzuto. 2004. "Changing typology of organized crime in post-socialist Lithuania (the late 1980s - early 2000s)." Global Crime, 6(2), pp. 195-215.

Juska, Arunas, Peter Johnstone and Richard Pozzuto. 2004.  "The changing character of criminality and policing in post-socialist Lithuania: From fighting organized crime to policing marginal populations." Crime, Law and Social Change, 41(2), pp. 161-177.

Juska, Arunas and Richard Pozzuto.  2004.  "Work-based welfare as a ritual: Understanding marginalization in post-independence Lithuania." Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, XXXI(2), pp. 3-25.

Juska, Arunas, Lourdes Gouveia, Jackie Gabriel, and Kathleen P. Stanley.  2003. "Manufacturing bacteriological contamination outbreaks in industrialized meat production systems: The Case of E. coli O157:H7." Agriculture and Human Values, 20 (1): 3-19.

Gouveia, Lourdes and Arunas Juska. 2002. "Taming nature, taming workers: Constructing the separation between meat consumption and meat production in the U.S." Sociologia Ruralis, 42(4), pp. 370-390.

Juska, Arunas, Lourdes Gouveia, Jackie Gabriel and Susan Koneck. 2000. "Negotiating bacteriological meat contamination standards: The case of E. coli O157:H7." Sociologia Ruralis, 40(2), pp. 249-271.

Juska, Arunas.  1999.  "Ethno-Political Transformation in the states of the former USSR." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 22(3), pp.524-553.

Tanaka, Keiko, Arunas Juska and Lawrence Busch.  1999.  "Globalization of Agricultural Production and Agricultural Research:  The Case of Rapeseed Subsector."  Sociologia Ruralis, 39(1), pp. 54-77.

Busch, Lawrence and Arunas Juska.  1997.  "Beyond Political Economy: Actor Networks and the Globalization of Agriculture." Review of International Political Economy, 4(4), pp. 688-708.

Arunas Juska, Lawrence Busch and Keiko Tanaka.  1997.  "The Blackleg Epidemics in Canadian Rapeseed as a "Normal Agricultural Accident." Ecological Applications, 7(4), pp. 1350-1356.

Juska, Arunas, Lawrence Busch and Feng Huang Wu.  1997.  "Producing Genetic Diversity in Crop Plants: The Case of Canadian Rapeseed, 1954-1991." Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 9(4), 5-24.

Juska, Arunas and Lawrence Busch.  1994. "The Production of Knowledge and Production of Commodities: The Case of Rapeseed Technoscience," Rural Sociology, 59(4), 581-597.

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