ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the intersection of political and economic interests as they have found their expression in a particular kind of place and time. The place is a farm-yard. But it is a nested hierarchy of farms; it is situated in a rural landscape; it is in Estonia; in the Baltic region; is becoming/has become part of Europe. The theoretical and the empirical nestle together in a forest bed. The world is there; globalisation impinges; capitalism seeks to penetrate; rhetorics of liberal democracy and free market dominate the listened-to spoken worlds of ministries and bars. But it is a world of peat bogs, of dry dusty fields, of fungi and berries, of empty cattle sheds, of foreign tourist voices, of home and away.
