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 …

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme
and is available on www. bloomsburycollections. com. It is funded by the University of Otago …

This paper explores the productive role of radiological overflows in the historical evolution of
the 100 mSv assumption—a technopolitical tool used to frame human–radionuclide …

The current period is one of worry and concern over collapse. While many still go hungry, we
anticipate a future of food without farmers. Yet in the wake of multiple disasters, the new can …

This project explores the coordination of everyday eating in the aftermath of Tokyo Electric
Power Company's (TEPCO's) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster. With the …

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 …

This dissertation examines the paired social and environmental impacts of farmer-driven
innovation through on-site interviews and participant observation with US hop growers …

Over the last three decades, the emergence of 'audit culture'providing assurance about the
qualities of consumer products has become a ubiquitous element of economic worlds. In the …

In contemporary Japan–a place where seismic activity is unusually frequent and often
devastating–geological processes tend to be regarded as threats to be constantly monitored …