Instructions for the essay

• Return to kari.vesala@helsinki.fi, Deadline ?• 7-10 pages, line spacing 1.5 • Cover page: title of the essay, subtitle: an

essay for the CEAF-course/UHEL Spring 2010; name of the author + student number

• Include list of references; see below; reference to the lectures: (lecturer)/CEAF/(date)

Instructions for the essay • Define the topic and content according to your own

interests, but try to cover (at least some of) the essential topics and points of the course.

• Utilize both the lectures and the regular readings• In addition to summarizings lectures and readings,

your own analytical comments and discussions are welcome

• Try to include how you understand:

*Agency/self/identity/control beliefs/values*Entrepreneurship discourses/farm context

Regular readings• Dudley, A. (2003): The Entrepreneurial self. Identity and morality in a

Midwestern Farming community. In J. Adams (ed.) Fighting for the Farm. Rural America Transformed. Philadelphia:University of Pennsylvania Press.

• Halpin, D. & Guilfoyle A. (2005) The Attribution of Self Amongst Australian Family Farm Operators: Personal Responsibility and Control. Journal of Comparative Family Studies. XXXVI (3) 475-487.

• Perren, L., & Jennings, P. L. (2005). Goverment discourses on entrepreneurship: Issues of legitimization, subjugation, and power. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 29(2), 173-184.

• Vesala H.T. & Vesala, K.M. Entrepreneurs and producers: Identities of Finnish farmers in 2001 and 2006. Journal of Rural Studies 26, 21-30.