Le Heron / Campbell / Lewis Biological Economies

Experimentation and the politics of agri-food frontiers
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-55104-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 286 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment

Recent agri-food studies, including commodity systems, the political economy of agriculture, regional development, and wider examinations of the rural dimension in economic geography and rural sociology have been confronted by three challenges. These can be summarized as: ‘more than human’ approaches to economic life; a ‘post-structural political economy’ of food and agriculture; and calls for more ‘enactive’, performative research approaches.

This volume describes the genealogy of such approaches, drawing on the reflective insights of more than five years of international engagement and research. It demonstrates the kinds of new work being generated under these approaches and provides a means for exploring how they should be all understood as part of the same broader need to review theory and methods in the study of food, agriculture, rural development and economic geography. This radical collective approach is elaborated as the Biological Economies approach. The authors break out from traditional categories of analysis, reconceptualising materialities, and reframing economic assemblages as biological economies, based on the notion of all research being enactive or performative.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Le Heron, Richard

Campbell, Hugh

Lewis, Nick

Carolan, Michael

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Assembling Generative Approaches in Agri-food Research

Nick Lewis, Richard Le Heron, Michael Carolan, Hugh Campbell and Terry Marsden

Part 1: Re-making Knowledges of Agri-food

2. Practices, Qualities and the Vital Materialism of Food: Biological Economies and Processes of Consumption

David Evans

3. The Borderlands of Animal Disease: Knowing and Governing Animal Disease in Biological Economies

Gareth Enticott

4. Re-shaping "Soft Gold": Fungal Agency and the Bioeconomy in the Caterpillar Fungus Market Assemblage

Janke Linke

5. Enacting Swiss Cheese: About the Multiple Ontologies of Local Food

Jeremie Forney

6. Worlds of Rice: Understanding Agri-food Systems as Assemblages

Angga Dwiartama, Chris Rosin and Hugh Campbell

7. Materialising Taste: Fatty Lambs to Eating Quality, Taste Projects in Red Meat

Matt Henry and Michael Roche

8. Enactive Encounters with the Langstroth Hive: Post-human Framing of the Work of Bees

Roseanna Spiers and Nick Lewis

9. Ever-Redder Apples: How Aesthetics Shape the Biology of Markets

Katharine Legun

10. Value and Values in the Making of Merino

Harvey Perkins and Eric Pawson

11. Eating the Unthinkable: The Case of ENTO, Eating Insects and Bioeconomic Experimentation

Paul V. Stock, Catherine Phillips, Hugh Campbell and Anne Murcott

12. Enacting BAdairying: Towards an Emergent Politics of New Soil Resourcefulness?

Richard Le Heron, Geoff Smith, Erena Le Heron and Mike Roche

Part 2: Enacting New Politics of Knowledge

13. In Your Face: Why Food Is Politics and Why We Are Finally Starting to Admit It

Michael M. Bell

14. Geographers at Work in Disruptive Human-biophysical Projects: Methodology as Ontology in Reconstituting Nature-society Knowledge

Erena Le Heron, Nick Lewis and Richard Le Heron

15. Food Utopias: Performing Emergent Scholarship and Agri-food Futures

Chris Rosin, Paul Stock and Michael Carolan

16. The Very Public Nature of Agri-food Scholarship, and its Problems and Possibilities

Michael Carolan

17. Eating Bioeconomies

Michael Goodman

18. Biological Economies as an Academic and Political Project

Hugh Campbell, Richard Le Heron, Michael Carolan and Nick Lewis

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Le Heron is Professor of Geography, School of Environment, The University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Hugh Campbell is Chair of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Gender and Social Work, University of Otago, New Zealand.

Nick Lewis is Associate Professor in Geography, School of Environment, The University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Michael Carolan is Chair of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Colorado State University, USA.