Publications
Our monthly workshops involve discussing drafts of papers. Most of these papers have subsequently been published in a range of journals in agri-food, STS and beyond. The feedback authors receive at these workshops is often crucial in helping the authors turn drafts into published papers. This is a list of the published papers that were workshopped in our meetings.
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.20
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/10.1080/09505431.2022.209091
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)
Broad, G.M. & Biltekoff, C. (2022). Food System Innovations, Science Communication, and Deficit Model 2.0: Implications for Cellular Agriculture. Environmental Communication.
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
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)
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)
Heimstädt, C. (2023). Making plant pathology algorithmically recognizable. Agriculture and Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-023-10419-5 (STSFAN Special Issue)
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
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)
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)
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
Mather, C. and Martin, S.J. (2025) The antimonies of feed and feeding in animal agriculture, Progress in Environmental Geography, https://doi.org/10.1177/27539687241309955
Martin, S.J. and Mather, C. (2024) ‘Finprint’ technopolitics: and the corporatisation of global food governance, Area, 56(2), e12907
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.
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)
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)