Search Results for future of food

...Julie Guthman Abstract A 2020 report published by the think tank RethinkX predicts the “second domestication of plants and animals, the disruption of the cow, and the collapse of industrial livestock farming” by 2035. Although typical of promissory discourses about the future of food, the report...

..., Robot depicts the united Far Eastern peoples of a future Earth subsisting almost entirely on yeast, bioengineered and processed into every desirable food. More recently, Joss Whedon’s space-cowboy television drama Firefly depicts twenty-sixth-century spacefarers relying on standard protein rations...

... evidence that human population and economic expansion will outstrip the capacity to grow food or procure critical material resources in the foreseeable future.” The authors add that there are essentially no “fixed physical boundaries to human consumption,” and that with the right technologies...

..., and a microbiological process through which feminisms might be reenergized—through symbiotic cultures of feminisms, fermentation prompts fizzy change with the simultaneity of preservation and transformation, futurity and decay. 69. Edelman, No Future , 19 . 70. Edreva and Williams, Family Jewels...

... and affective relations of place production. Environmental humanities scholarship that engages with Black ecocriticism along these lines is well positioned to examine the geographies of the past, present, and future with attention to the racial politics of human embodiment. Such scholarship would...

... system in response to chemical signals, hormones write to distant organs. Their task is the prosody of metabolism—cellular rhythms harvest energy from food and air to fuel digestion, reproduction, growth, and the general health of a body. This book of glands and hormones makes up the endocrine system...

... indestructible waste materials from past to present to future: through waste, we bequeath a set of politically, historically, and materially constituted relations, structures, norms, and practices with which future generations must engage. 21 Dominique Henri, “Managing Nature, Producing Cultures: Inuit...

.... 28 Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (New York: Harper Collins, 2007), 31. 29 Bill McKibben, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (New York: St Martin's Griffin, 2007), 94. 30 The Economist, “The Third Industrial...

... Pledge committed more than one hundred nation-states to a 30 percent methane reduction by 2030, moving cattle up the contemporary climate agenda. 6 Political objectives and technocratic practices have imagined a new protagonist in the future of food: the climate cow, whose metabolism is directly...

... World, our state and counties. While we must provide enough food and energy for our growing population, we must rectify the mistakes of past years yet continue to develop and introduce new technologies which will provide the essentials for mankind in the future. And we must ensure, as we know we can...

.../articles/8221-why-roots-not-iron-are-key-to-a-more-prosperous-no-till-future . 45. See, e.g., Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Status of the World’s Soil Resources . 46. Stockdale and Watson, “Managing Soil Biota.” 47. See, e.g., Bommarco, Kleijn...

... for solutions to this dystopian future in the numbers of people rather than in the way food is grown, distributed, and consumed. Why does limiting people’s reproductive options seem a less problematic approach than changing food systems? Why focus on limiting the numbers of one, albeit highly destructive...

... forest peoples, and a catastrophic COVID-19 pandemic. Some environmentalists suggest that escaping such devastation means returning to previous neoliberal policies such as “climate-smart agriculture” (CSA) that were promoted as a way to open a future of endless economic expansion and forest preservation...

... ignoring the social and material implications that it would have. I therefore trouble the metaphorical “desert” within the food desert, opening it up to scrutiny and reckoning with the representations, politics, and material futures that are hidden within. 9 This approach illuminates the centuries...

... a coproduction framework that involves experts in making their own science. Incorporating tactile knowledge of the environment, they make life-strengthening claims on the future amid state promises of revival and progress. Soil becomes alive in madei , which emerges from the processes of separating radiocesium...

... of a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). This license permits use and distribution of the article for non-commercial purposes, provided the original work is cited and is not altered or transformed. What will it take to change the future? Towards the end of Specters of Marx, Derrida argues...

...Liu Mankun Abstract This article navigates the obligatory relationship between extinction narratives and future imaginaries through the lens of an artist’s films. Taking Chinese artist Mao Chenyu’s works as case studies, the first part examines the notion of extinction that his video essay Becoming...

...” that govern food and land. 75 These come with their own distinctive pleasures and normativities for co-flourishing, which are essential to creating more livable and just futures. In this context, counternarratives to humanist gastronomy could invite the formulation of new normative frameworks from which...

...—to an endoskeleton —an internal support mechanism, a “psycho-spiritual spine ... made from conscious self-awareness so that we can evolve into a better life.” 7 Similarly, ecomodernists are saying that, if humanity can develop a ‘technological endoskeleton’ that will enable it to meet its needs for food, shelter...

... sustainable soil futures, are, we believe, important intellectual and practical tasks for social sciences and environmental humanities alike. We are therefore delighted to present this special section’s collection of articles, which illustrate and critically engage diverse forms of human-soil relations...