{"id":74,"date":"2011-02-17T23:31:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T05:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/rural-development\/"},"modified":"2023-11-17T11:32:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T17:32:34","slug":"bessant","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/rural-development\/faculty\/bessant\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Ken Bessant"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Ph.D. (University of Manitoba)<\/p>\n

Professor<\/strong>
\n(204) 571-8516
\nbessant@brandonu.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

Research Interests<\/h2>\n

I have been a resident and student of varying rural environments for the better part of my life, most notably as a long-term member of two Manitoba communities, a “part-time” farmer, and a rural social scientist for over 25 years. My research interests include:<\/p>\n

    \n
  • social and community capital<\/li>\n
  • rural community health, vitality, resilience\u2026<\/li>\n
  • academic versus lay definitions of “community”<\/li>\n
  • the diverse functions, activities, and linkages among community (economic) development organizations<\/li>\n
  • multiple job-holding within the farm family household (division of labour)<\/li>\n
  • the role of women in agriculture<\/li>\n
  • the farm “crisis” and farm stress<\/li>\n
  • the changing structure of agriculture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    In addition to the above rural-community-development issues, I maintain a keen interest in the dynamic interchange among theory, research, practice, and instruction in the field of rural community development and rural studies. My desire to become a more effective researcher and methods instructor is reflected in several publications in the fields of mathematics education, statistics, and measurement.<\/p>\n

    Although my research activities may appear, on the surface, to be somewhat diverse, they emanate from an unwavering concern for \u201crural\u201d people and places.<\/p>\n

    Publications (Since 2000)<\/h2>\n

    Bessant, K.C. 2018. The Relational Fabric of Community<\/em>. Palgrave Macmillan: New York.<\/p>\n

    Bessant, K.C. 2016. Whither Gemeinschaft: Willing and acting together as a community. In Mathieu , D. (ed.), The Anthem Companion to Ferdinand T\u00f6nnies.<\/em> 59-78.<\/p>\n

    Bessant, K.C. 2014. An interactional approach to emergent interorganizational fields. Community Development. 45(1): 60-75.<\/em><\/p>\n

    Bessant, K.C. 2014. The relational genesis of community: Self-other dialogue. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology<\/em>. 24: 467-478.<\/p>\n

    Bessant, K.C. 2013. Community development corporations as vehicles of\u00a0 community economic development: The case of rural Manitoba. In R. G. Phillips and T. L. Besser (Eds.), Community Economic Development<\/em>. New York, NY: Routledge (re-release\u00a0of an article published in Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society<\/em> (2005).<\/p>\n

    Bessant, K.C. 2012. The interactional community: Emergent fields of collective agency. Sociological Inquiry<\/em>, 82<\/em>, 628-645.<\/p>\n

    Bessant, K.C. 2011. Authenticity, community, and modernity. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour<\/em>, 41<\/em>, 2\u201332.<\/p>\n

    Bessant, K.C. 2010.\u00a0Pluriactivity: More than just \u2018fringe\u2019 behaviour. In K. B. Beesley (Ed.), The rural-urban fringe in Canada: Conflict and controversy<\/em>. Brandon, MB: The Rural Development Institute.<\/p>\n

    Bessant, K. C. 2008. A Reconsideration of Typological Method for Prairie Community Life. Prairie Forum<\/em>.<\/p>\n

    Bessant, K. C. 2007. Multiple Discourses on Crisis: Agricultural, Farm, and Rural Policy Implications. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics<\/em>. 55<\/em>: 443\u201347.<\/p>\n

    Bessant, K. C. 2006. A Farm Household Conception of Pluriactivity in Canadian Agriculture: Motivation, Diversification, and Livelihood. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology<\/em>. 43<\/em>: 51\u201372.<\/p>\n

    Bessant, K. C. 2005. Community Development Corporations as Vehicles of Community Economic Development. Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society<\/em>. 36<\/em>: 52\u201372.<\/p>\n

    Bessant, K. C. and E. D. MacPherson. 2002. Thoughts on the Origins, Concepts, and Pedagogy of Statistics as a \u201cSeparate Discipline.\u201d The American Statistician<\/em>. 56<\/em>: 22\u201328.<\/p>\n

    Bessant, K. C. 2001. A Commentary on Drodge and Reid\u2019s \u201cEmbodied Cognition and the Mathematical Emotional Orientation.\u201d Mathematical Thinking and Learning<\/em>. 3<\/em>: 315\u201321.<\/p>\n

    Bessant, K. C. and E. D. Monu. 2001. Motivational and Attitudinal Correlates of Female and Male Farm Operators\u2019 Off-farm Employment in Agro-Manitoba. Prairie Forum<\/em>. 26<\/em>: 107\u201318.<\/p>\n

    Bessant, K. C. 2000. Part-time Farming Situations Among Manitoba Farm Operators: A Typological Approach. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics<\/em>. 48<\/em>: 259\u201377.<\/p>\n

    Book Reviews<\/h2>\n

    Bessant, K. C. 2007. Book review: S. Markey, J.T. Pierce, K. Vodden, M. Roseland (2005), Second Growth: Community Economic Development in Rural British Columbia<\/em>. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press. Journal of Rural Studies<\/em>, 23<\/em>, 118\u201324.<\/p>\n

    Bessant, K. C. 2005. Book review: H. P. Diaz, J. Jaffe, and R. Stirling (Eds.)(2003), Farm Communities at the Crossroads: Challenge and Resistance<\/em>. Regina, SK: Canadian Plains Research Center. Great Plains Research<\/em>, 15<\/em>: 166\u201368.<\/p>\n

    Papers in Progress<\/h2>\n
      \n
    • The search for rurality in the twenty-first century: Anachronism or reality?<\/li>\n
    • A comparative analysis of academic and lay discourses on the meaning of community.<\/li>\n
    • A cusp catastrophe model of the relationships among cognitive, affective, and statistics achievement variables.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Current Research Activities<\/h2>\n
        \n
      • A Field-Interactional Perspective on Interorganizational Relationships Among Local Development Associations<\/li>\n
      • Community Capacity Building through Interorganizational Collaboration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Courses<\/h2>\n

        88:352\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rural Restructuring<\/p>\n

        88:562\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rural Community Development<\/p>\n

        88:580\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Guided Individual Study<\/p>\n

        88:592\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Research Methods II<\/p>\n

        88:600\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thesis<\/p>\n

        88:602\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Advanced Skills for Rural Development<\/p>\n

        88\/90:260\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Introduction to Community Development<\/p>\n

        88\/90:261\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rural Society<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Ph.D. (University of Manitoba) Professor (204) 571-8516 bessant@brandonu.ca Research Interests I have been a resident and student of varying rural environments for the better part of my life, most notably as a long-term member of two Manitoba communities, a “part-time” farmer, and a rural social scientist for over 25 years. My research interests include: social […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":22,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-74","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/rural-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/rural-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/rural-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/rural-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/rural-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/rural-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/rural-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions\/468"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/rural-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/rural-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}