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Hot Off the Press! Charlotte Biltekoff and Julie Guthman explore how the food industry imagines the public
Out today in Science as Culture, “Conscious, Complacent, Fearful: Agri-Food Tech’s Market-Making Public Imaginaries” explores how innovators in the agri-food tech sector navigate a terrain dogged by concerns of public acceptance. To both secure markets...
Read all about it: Pitching Agri-Food Tech published in the Journal of Cultural Economy
In Pitching agri-food tech: performativity and non-disruptive disruption in Silicon Valley Fairbairn, Kish, and Guthman take a look at the disruptive discourses rife in Silicon Valley. Interrogating key moments of the agri-food tech pitch, they highlight how carefully...
Hot Off The Press: In the Name of Protein published in Nature Food
Recognizing that the framing of global food challenges as a matter of producing enough protein deserves critical assessment sparked this collaborative commentary in Nature Food. Guthman, Butler, Martin, Mather, and Biltekoff argue that powerful actors in the food...
On Air! Julie Guthman on the Feed Podcast
In their second conversation exploring power in the food system, the Feed Podcast speaks with Julie Guthman, professor and food geographer at UC Santa Cruz. Asking: how is Silicon Valley trying to transform the food system, who within Silicon Valley has the most...
On Air! Madeleine Fairbairn speaks to the problem with financialized farmland on the Reversing Climate Change Podcast
Farmland has transformed into a financial asset class. So, what happens when land is owned by large financial institutions? How does it impact farmer autonomy? And could it be good for fighting climate change? Dr. Madeleine Fairbairn is Associate Professor of...
Can ag-tech support organic farming? A political economy perspective
Professor Julie Guthman opens up the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems’ (CASFS) lecture series at University of California, Santa Cruz with this question. Dr. Guthman delves into the dynamics surrounding both agri-food tech and organics to...
On Air! Charlotte Biltekoff featured on the Red to Green FoodTech Podcast
Speaking to the socio-political dynamics at play in the space, this episode will make you reflect on some bigger topics and ask some bigger questions. Charlotte offers a valuable and contrarian take on how alternate proteins engage with the public. Tune in on...
Hot off the Press! Read Emily Reisman’s take on COVID-19 and the politics of expectation
As the pandemic brought the brokenness and instability of the food system into sharp relief, technologists have rallied narratives of safety, security, and resilience as they pivot to address the crisis. Reisman highlights the political contours of these...
Julie Guthman @ Neubauer Collegium
How have historical experiences informed contemporary approaches to agricultural adjustment and sustainability in different polities and economies? Julie Guthman discusses insights from the AFTeR project at this interdisciplinary workshop hosted virtually by...