Contested agri-food futures: Introduction to the Special Issue

M Gugganig, KA Burch, J Guthman… - Agriculture and Human …, 2023 - Springer
Over recent decades, influential agri-food tech actors, institutions, policymakers and others
have fostered dominant techno-optimistic, future visions of food and agriculture that are …

Overcoming Barriers to Including Agricultural Workers in the Co‐Design of New AgTech: Lessons from a COVID‐19‐Present World

KA Burch, K Legun - Culture, Agriculture, Food and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Collaborative design (co‐design) is a design strategy for generating relevant and socially
acceptable technologies, and is inherently political by nature of its inclusion of particular …

Containment and Leakage: Notes on a General Containerology

O Pyyhtinen, S Zavos - Theory, Culture & Society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In the article, we set out to develop the contours of a general containerology, interrogating
containment as a technology and an ontological condition that shapes human and more …

Opening up containment

I Schoot, C Mather - Science, Technology, & Human Values, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Our paper contributes to Science, Technology and Society (STS) scholarship on the
practices and technologies of containment. We build on existing work in STS that has …

Locating the boundaries of the nuclear north: Arctic biology, contaminated caribou, and the problem of the threshold

J Luedee - Connecting to the Living History of Radiation Exposure, 2022 - Springer
This essay is a historical–geographical account of how scientists and public health officials
conceptualized and assessed northern radioactive exposures in the late 1950s and 1960s …

Environmental remediation as social archaeology: Excavating sites contaminated by early nuclear weapons activities in New York City, both literally and …

MB Bolton, K Ketterer - Global Policy, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract New York City, where the Manhattan Project began, has some of the world's oldest
nuclear weapons production sites, exposing New Yorkers to ongoing risks of ionising …

Optimizing Stewardship of the Land? Exploring the Environmental Sustainability Dimensions of Digital Agriculture in Canada

S Marquis - 2024 - ruor.uottawa.ca
Digital agriculture (DA) is understood as an approach to agriculture that is high-tech and
data intensive; it includes technologies such as robotic machinery, big data applications …

Attending to Messy Troubles of the Anthropocene with Institutional Ethnography and Material Semiotics: The Case for Vital Institutional Ethnography

K Burch - The Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography, 2021 - Springer
Drawing on my Ph. D. research into everyday eating in the aftermath of Tokyo Electric Power
Company's 2011 nuclear disaster, in this chapter I propose vital institutional ethnography as …