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Publications

Many papers have been workshopped as drafts by STSFAN members, and gone on to be published in academic journals across the globe. The list below showcases the intellectual diversity of our group and is constantly growing! 

Argüelles, L., & March, H. (2023). A relational approach to pesticide use: Farmers, herbicides, nutsedge, and the

weedy path to pesticide use reduction objectives. Journal of Rural Studies, 101, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2023.103046

 

Baur, P., & Iles, A. (2022). Inserting machines, displacing people: How automation imaginaries for agriculture

promise ‘liberation’ from the industrialized farm. Agriculture and Human Values. (STSFAN Special Issue)

 

Biltekoff, C. & Guthman, J. (2022). Conscious, Complacent, Fearful: Agri-Food Tech’s Market-Making

Public Imaginaries, Science as Culture, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2022.2090914

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Bomford, M. (2023). More bytes per acre: Do vertical farming’s land sparing promises stand on solid ground?

Agriculture and Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-023-10472-0 (STSFAN Special Issue)

 

Broad, G. M. (2023). Improving the agri-food biotechnology conversation: Bridging science communication with

science and technology studies. Agriculture and Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-023-10436-4 (STSFAN Special Issue)

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Broad, G.M. & Biltekoff, C. (In Press). Food System Innovations, Science Communication, and Deficit Model 2.0:

Implications for Cellular Agriculture. Environmental Communication.

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Brock, S. (2023). What is a food system? Exploring enactments of the food system multiple. Agriculture and Human

Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-023-10457-z (STSFAN Special Issue)
 

Bronson, K., & Sengers, P. (2022). Big Tech Meets Big Ag: Diversifying Epistemologies of Data and Power. Science

as Culture, 31(1), 15-28.​ https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2021.1986692

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Burch, K., Gugganig, M., Guthman, J., Reisman, E., Comi, M., Brock, S., Kagliwal, B., Freidberg, S., Baur, P.,

Heimstädt, C., Sippel, S. R., Speakman, K., Marquis, S., Argüelles, L., Biltekoff, C., Broad, G., Bronson, K., Faxon, H., Frohlich, X., … Martin, S. J. (2023). Cultivating intellectual community in academia: Reflections from the Science and Technology Studies Food and Agriculture Network (STSFAN). Agriculture and Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-023-10439-1 (STSFAN Special Issue)

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Burch, K., Guthman, J., Gugganig, M., Bronson, K., Comi, M., Legun, K., Biltekoff, C., Broad, G., Brock, S.,

Freidberg, S., Baur, P., & Mincyte, D. (2023). Social science – STEM collaborations in agriculture, food and beyond: An STSFAN manifesto. Agriculture and Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-023-10438-2 (STSFAN Special Issue)

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Heimstädt, C. (2023). Making plant pathology algorithmically recognizable. Agriculture and Human Values.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-023-10419-5 (STSFAN Special Issue)

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Heimstädt, C. (2023). The exploratory assetization of a crop protection app. Environmental Science & Policy, 140,

242-249.

 

Fairbairn, M., Kish, Z., & Guthman, J. (2022). Pitching agri-food tech: Performativity and non-disruptive disruption

in Silicon Valley. Journal of Cultural Economy, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2022.2085142

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Faxon, H. O. (2023). Small farmers, big tech: Agrarian commerce and knowledge on Myanmar Facebook.

Agriculture and Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-023-10446-2 (STSFAN Special Issue)

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Gugganig, M., Burch, K. A., Guthman, J., & Bronson, K. (2023). Contested agri-food futures: Introduction to the

Special Issue. Agriculture and Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-023-10493-9 (STSFAN Special Issue)

 

Guthman, J., & Butler, M. (2023). Fixing food with a limited menu: On (digital) solutionism in the agri-food tech

sector. Agriculture and Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-023-10416-8 (STSFAN Special Issue)

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Guthman, J., Butler, M., Martin, S. J., Mather, C., & Biltekoff, C. (2022). In the name of protein. Nature Food, 3,

391-393. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-022-00532-9

 

Legun, K., & Burch, K. (2021). Robot-ready: How apple producers are assembling in anticipation of new AI

robotics. Journal of Rural Studies, 82, 380–390. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.01.032

 

Reisman, E. (2021). Sanitizing agri-food tech: COVID-19 and the politics of expectation. The Journal of Peasant

Studies, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2021.1934674

 

Schoot, I & Mather, C. (2022). Opening up containment, Science, Technology and Human Values, 47(5), 937-

960. https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439211039013.

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Sippel, S. R. (2023). Tackling land’s ‘stubborn materiality’: The interplay of imaginaries, data and digital

technologies within farmland assetization. Agriculture and Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-023-10453-3 (STSFAN Special Issue)

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Sippel, S. R., & Dolinga, M. (2022). Constructing agri-food for finance: Startups, venture capital and food future

imaginaries. Agriculture and Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-022-10383-6 (STSFAN Special Issue)

 

Sullivan, S. (2023). Ag-tech, agroecology, and the politics of alternative farming futures: The challenges of bringing

together diverse agricultural epistemologies. Agriculture and Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-023-10454-2 (STSFAN Special Issue)

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