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)