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Dr. Arunas Juska

Arunas Juska
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Lithuania Academy of Sciences 1989, M.A., Syracuse University 1991, Ph.D., Michigan State University 1996
Office: Brewster A-410
Tel: 252.328.6386
E-mail: juskaa@ecu.edu
Curriculum Vita

Areas of Interest: Agro-food studies, East European Studies, Policing


Research

Selected Publications and Papers:


Juska, Aurnas and Charles Woolfson. 2012. "Policing political protest in Lithuania" Crime, Law and Social Change.  ttp://www.springerlink.com/content/g22u64612q432123/ (forthcoming) 

 

Juska, Arunas and Charles Woolfson. 2012. "Exodus from Lithuania: State, social disenfranchisement and resistance in an era of austerity." In Kay Goodall, Margaret Malloch, Bill Munro (eds.) Building Justice in Post-Transition Europe Processes of Criminalisation within Central and Eastern European Societies. London: Routledge, http://www.routlege.com/books/details/9780415697132

Woolfson, Charles and Arunas Juska. 2011. “Economic crisis, social unrest and post-Communist labour migration: The case of Lithuania.” Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe (forthcoming). 

Tanaka, Keiko and Arunas Juska. 2010. “Technoscience in Agriculture: Reflections on the Contributions of the MSU School of Sociology of Food and Agriculture.” Journal of Rural Social Sciences 25(3), pp. 34-55.

Juska, Arunas and Arunas Poviliunas. 2010. “Conceptualizing the rise of rural community movement in Lithuania: A framework for analysis.” Eastern European Countryside 16, pp.65-88.

Juska, Arunas.  2010. “"Profits to the Danes, for us -- hog stench?" Campaign against Danish swine CAFOs in rural Lithuania.”  Journal of Rural Studies 26(3), pp 250-259.

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 Ziliukaite and Vilma Geguziene. 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.

 

Current projects:

Rural restructuring and civic society in post-socialist countries.  Communal elderly care in rural areas.