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Weber, Karl, ed. (2023) Food, Inc.2. Inside the Quest for a Better Future for Food. NY: Hachette Book Group-Public Affairs. ISBN: 9781541703575. 336 pages. Ellen Messer Cover design…
Weber, Karl, ed. (2023) Food, Inc.2. Inside the Quest for a Better Future for Food. NY: Hachette Book Group-Public Affairs. ISBN: 9781541703575. 336 pages. Ellen Messer Cover design…
Harris, Will (2023) A Bold Return to Giving a Damn. One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food. With Amely Greeven. Viking. ISBN 9780593300473. 304 pages. Ellen Messer…
The Familiar Strange · Ep107# Net Zero & Bullsh*t: Corporate Sustainability Metrics with Dr Matthew Archer This week Emma Quilty sat down with Matthew Archer, Assistant Professor at…
Überschwemmungen, Dürren, Hitzewellen: die klimatischen Bedingungen für das Leben auf der Erde verändern sich – und das Mensch-Natur-Verhältnis ist in der ökologischen Krise. Rund 130 Teilnehmer*innen…
Der Klimawandel mit seinen extremen Auswirkungen auf Menschen und Umwelt wie Hitzewellen und Dürren, Überschwemmungen, Eis- und Gletscherschmelzen sind in allen Weltregionen zu erleben. Klima-Aktivism…
Budka, P. (2023). Relational infrastructures: Transportation and sustainability in the Subarctic town of Churchill, Canada. Paper at Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, Rovani…
Budka, P. (2023). Sustainability transformation and transport infrastructures in Northern Manitoba, Canada. Paper at Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW2023), Vienna, Austria: University of Vienna, 17-2…
I did prepare the paper “Infrastructural sustainability?” for the Vienna Anthropology Days (VANDA) 2022 and the session “Infrastructure and the Built Environment in the Anthropocene…
This piece was originally posted on November 24, 2021 on the EnviroSociety blog here. To cite, please use the following: Caporusso, Jessica, Duygu Kaşdoğan, and Katie Ulrich. 2021.…
Shingo Hamada and Richard Wilk, Seafood: Ocean to the Plate, Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology, Routledge. 2019. Pp. 138. ISBN: 9781138191877 (paperback). Dav…
SAFN recently announced the 2020 winners of our student awards. The undergraduate Christine Wilson paper award went to Adele Woodmansee, for her paper “‘It is Pure Criollo Maize’:…
SAFN is pleased to announce that the 2020 Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right Student Award winner is Gifty Dzorka from the University of Manitoba for her research project “Corporate Agricultural…
SAFN is happy to announce that the winner of the 2020 Christine Wilson Award for an Undergraduate Student is Adele Woodmansee of Harvard University for her paper “’It…
We are happy to announce the first winner of the new SAFN Student Research Award. This annual award supports the research phase of an original project focused on…
Here is a call for papers for a special issue of the journal Sustainability that we recently received. Note that the deadline for submissions is near! Deadline: 30th June…
In New York, the sustainable city is being built on its own undoing. In 2014, residents of Staten Island’s Elm Park neighborhood found their cars covered in dust.…
A great looking new title from Simon Dalby from the University of Ottawa Press. Anthropocene Geopolitics: Globalization, Security, Sustainability We now find ourselves in a new geological age:…
Ellen Messer, Ph.D. (Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, Boston, MA) What’s new in food and nutrition research and policy in the world, the US,…
Chrzan, Janet and Jacqueline A. Ricotta, eds. Organic Food, Farming and Culture. An Introduction. Bloomsbury Academic. 2019. 332 pp. ISBN 1350027839, 9781350027831 Ellen Messer, Ph.D. (Friedman Schoo…
Regulation and the Archipelago Sea ”You are looking at the last generation of coastal fishers!” a fisherman told me, as I was getting my coffee at a seminar…
Whether it’s our disposable coffee cup or the vanilla flavouring in the coffee; this morning’s shaving cream or last week’s false nails; lifesaving medicines or the components for…
The accelerating growth of the technosphere, climate crises, shifting species distribution and other phenomena contribute to increasingly dramatic socio-ecological changes across the planet, impacting…
Peaceful and warring—where does the truth lie about the Indigenous people of the Caribbean? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
First Peoples populated America long before Europeans arrived to stake their claim. We have largely forgotten this legacy. A mapping tool is looking to change that — Read…