Biological Economies · Experimentation and the Politics of Agri-Food Frontiers (Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment) by Heron, Richard le -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Biological Economies Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment Praise Title Copyright Contents Contributors 1 Assembling Generative Approaches in Agri-Food Research

Assemblage Thinking A Situated Initiative Biological Economies in New Zealand Biological Economies in Networked Association The Defining Intellectual Challenges The Assembled Book References

PART 1 Re-making Knowledges of Agri-food

Introduction Consumption Household Food Waste Freshness Conclusion Notes References

Introduction: The Borderlands of Disease Control Veterinary Borderlands in Managing bTB in the UK Veterinary Borderlands in New Zealand Conclusion: The Borderlands of Biological Economies References

Introduction Approaching Fungal–Human Relationships in the Caterpillar Fungus Market Assemblage Valuing Caterpillar Fungus Procuring Safe Caterpillar Fungus in China Translating Bioeconomy Creating New Values Conclusion Notes References

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

Beyond Radical Criticism in Food Localisation Current Transformation of the Swiss Dairy Sector Data and Methods Non-Human Actors, Multiple Ontologies and Enactive Research The Enrolment of Local Cheese Specialities in the Struggle for Better Milk Prices The Multiple Ontologies of the Local Cheese The (En-)Active Cheese A Third Ontology and the Enactiveness of the Research? Notes References

6 Understanding Agri-Food Systems as Assemblages: Worlds of Rice in Indonesia

Introduction A Political History of Rice in Indonesia A Look Beyond Political Economy Rice in its Multiplicity Notes References

Introduction Making Taste Silver Fern Farms Eating Quality Programme Canterbury Frozen Meat and Carcass Grading Standardising Lamb: The New Zealand Meat Producers Board Breaking the Link Between Taste and Grade Conclusion Note References

Speaking bees in Aotearoa: a Langstroth framed radical historicity and Vital Materiality Roseanna at Work in the Shed (and Field) The Post-Human Work of ‘Bees’ Conclusion Notes References

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

Introduction Redness as a Political Aesthetic The Red Delicious and its Discontents Apples, Redness, and Political Economies of Insatiability Twenty-First-Century Food Fantasies References

10 Value and Values in the Making of Merino

Introduction The Merino Story Methods Metrology: Wool, Sheep And Farms Provenance Embodying and Co-Constituting Merino Conclusion Note References

Introduction ENTO and its Context Disgust, Design and Future Foodways Security, Supply and Safety ENTO as Enactive Experimentation Note References

PART 2 Enacting New Politics of Knowledge

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Introduction Disruptive Human–Biophysical Projects: A Situated Experiment An Emergent Experiment: Situated Possibility and the Possibilities of Situatedness Disrupting Reflections: Disruptive Directions Conclusions Note References

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

Why Food Utopias? Utopias as Critique Utopias as Experimentation Food Utopias as Process Conclusions References

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

Public Agri-Food Studies: From Burawoy to More-Than-Dewey Method: From Third Thing to Intra-Active “Thing” Enacting More-Than . . . More More-Than Publics Notes References

17 Eating Bioeconomies

Moving from Consumer to Eater, Consumption to Eating: A Short Polemic A Short Tale of Three Provocations for Bioeconomies Acknowledgements Notes References

18 Conclusion: Biological Economies Asan Academic and Political Project

The Key Themes in the Book Biological Economies as a Political Project The Politics of the Anthropocene References

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