Megan A Styles
Biographic Data
| ID | 166599 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megan A Styles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megan A |
| FAMILY NAME | Styles |
| SIGNATURE | STYLES M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois at Springfield |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-1532-190X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Special Issue Introduction
CBD Hemp Pharming in Illinois
Based on interviews and participant observation activities conducted in 2024, this article investigates the perspectives and experiences of Illinois farmers cultivating CBD (cannabidiol) hemp. The 2018 U.S. Farm Bill legalized hemp, defined as cannabis containing < 0.3% delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the intoxicating compound found in marijuana. Hemp includes both non-intoxicating CBD varieties used to help alleviate anxiety, pain, and relat…
Suspending ruination
This article focuses on the financial collapse of and the subsequent interplay between material deterioration and maintenance on a flower farm in Naivasha that was placed under receivership in 2014. Our research is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the three authors before, during, and after the farm’s collapse. We examine how laid-off workers, current employees, owners, and new management engage in a process we call ‘suspending ruinat…
Agricultural Expertise, Market Connections, and Rural Futures
In the face of rapid neoliberal globalization and climate change, agricultural communities across the globe have demonstrated creative ways to adapt and build resilience. Many of the articles collected in this volume are based on ethnographic research conducted in regions deemed peripheral from the standpoint of national and global markets—the Aysén region in Chile, the Parry Sound District in Ontario, rural Oaxacan villages impacted by labor out…
Finding Hope in Food Systems During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The pandemic is here to stay, and it has tested our endurance mechanisms, especially when it comes to food access and provision. This special issue edited by Dr. Caela O’Connell, titled “More than a Disaster: Creativity in Growing, Distributing, and Accessing Food During COVID-19,” highlights how food distribution and food-related networks responded to the challenge of procurement and distribution during the onset and unfolding of the pandemic. T…
Anthropological Perspectives on Anti-Immigrant Policies and Food System Precarity in the Trump Era
As we go to print with this issue at the end of October 2020, the November 3rd presidential election and the indeterminate end of the COVID-19 pandemic weigh heavily on our minds. The results of this election and decisions about how to deal with the economic crisis triggered by the pandemic will affect us all for years to come. In a moment when essential workers are honored as heroes, perhaps the most essential workers in our labor system-immigra…
Crisis, Disruption, and Renewal
At the time we are writing this, the world is focused on fighting an unprecedented global pandemic following the spread of COVID-19. Many have been advised to work from home, and “social distancing” policies prohibit face-to-face interactions or social gatherings of more than ten. The articles in this issue reflect the creative and collaborative ways that anthropologists, including archaeologists, study how people experience and adapt to rapid or…
"Saving" Plant Genetic Resources (& Ourselves) in a Time of Accelerating Ecological Change
The articles in this issue examine the strategies that farmers, scientists, and citizens use to “save” the things that matter to us (our seeds, our bodies, our farms, and our communities) in the midst of accelerating, human-induced environmental degradation. They investigate the ways that these actors imagine the future-the ways that they seek to preserve what they see as vital, prevent what they see as unacceptable, and (sometimes) give in to wh…
Transitional Moments, Mediators, and Alternative Modernities
The articles presented in this issue explore familiar anthropological territory. The authors examine the ways that farmers and other food system actors adapt in the context of changing markets, negotiating pressures to abandon the “traditional” in favor of the “modern.” Although the themes investigated in this set of articles may be well-known, the authors’ innovative approaches illuminate new areas of inquiry. In particular, they focus on the ro…
Navigating the Middle Ground
In a 2009 blog post, Gene Logsdon, the self-proclaimed “Contrary Farmer” noted, “So there's nothing new under the sun. Farming begins with small holdings and then slowly graduates to larger and larger units until it falls apart. Or starts with large holdings and breaks up into small ones and then repeats the cycle over and over again.” The statement conjures a vision of a pendulum, swinging between two disparate points. Those end points of the sp…
Agriculture, Anxiety, and Amazonification
The articles in this issue of CAFE investigate how farmers and eaters conceive of and manage the many forms of “risk” and “anxiety” posed by urban and industrial development and the “Amazonification” of the global economy. To sustain rural livelihoods and safeguard their physical well-being, they blend practices and beliefs that sometimes appear contradictory. The contributors to this issue explore the many ways that farmers and eaters perceive r…
Suspending ruination
This article focuses on the financial collapse of and the subsequent interplay between material deterioration and maintenance on a flower farm in Naivasha that was placed under receivership in 2014. Our research is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the three authors before, during, and after the farm’s collapse. We examine how laid-off workers, current employees, owners, and new management engage in a process we call ‘suspending ruinat…
Finding Hope in Food Systems During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The pandemic is here to stay, and it has tested our endurance mechanisms, especially when it comes to food access and provision. This special issue edited by Dr. Caela O’Connell, titled “More than a Disaster: Creativity in Growing, Distributing, and Accessing Food During COVID-19,” highlights how food distribution and food-related networks responded to the challenge of procurement and distribution during the onset and unfolding of the pandemic. T…
Navigating the Middle Ground
In a 2009 blog post, Gene Logsdon, the self-proclaimed “Contrary Farmer” noted, “So there's nothing new under the sun. Farming begins with small holdings and then slowly graduates to larger and larger units until it falls apart. Or starts with large holdings and breaks up into small ones and then repeats the cycle over and over again.” The statement conjures a vision of a pendulum, swinging between two disparate points. Those end points of the sp…
Navigating the Middle Ground
In a 2009 blog post, Gene Logsdon, the self-proclaimed “Contrary Farmer” noted, “So there's nothing new under the sun. Farming begins with small holdings and then slowly graduates to larger and larger units until it falls apart. Or starts with large holdings and breaks up into small ones and then repeats the cycle over and over again.” The statement conjures a vision of a pendulum, swinging between two disparate points. Those end points of the sp…
Agriculture, Anxiety, and Amazonification
The articles in this issue of CAFE investigate how farmers and eaters conceive of and manage the many forms of “risk” and “anxiety” posed by urban and industrial development and the “Amazonification” of the global economy. To sustain rural livelihoods and safeguard their physical well-being, they blend practices and beliefs that sometimes appear contradictory. The contributors to this issue explore the many ways that farmers and eaters perceive r…
"Saving" Plant Genetic Resources (& Ourselves) in a Time of Accelerating Ecological Change
The articles in this issue examine the strategies that farmers, scientists, and citizens use to “save” the things that matter to us (our seeds, our bodies, our farms, and our communities) in the midst of accelerating, human-induced environmental degradation. They investigate the ways that these actors imagine the future-the ways that they seek to preserve what they see as vital, prevent what they see as unacceptable, and (sometimes) give in to wh…
Transitional Moments, Mediators, and Alternative Modernities
The articles presented in this issue explore familiar anthropological territory. The authors examine the ways that farmers and other food system actors adapt in the context of changing markets, negotiating pressures to abandon the “traditional” in favor of the “modern.” Although the themes investigated in this set of articles may be well-known, the authors’ innovative approaches illuminate new areas of inquiry. In particular, they focus on the ro…
Anthropological Perspectives on Anti-Immigrant Policies and Food System Precarity in the Trump Era
As we go to print with this issue at the end of October 2020, the November 3rd presidential election and the indeterminate end of the COVID-19 pandemic weigh heavily on our minds. The results of this election and decisions about how to deal with the economic crisis triggered by the pandemic will affect us all for years to come. In a moment when essential workers are honored as heroes, perhaps the most essential workers in our labor system-immigra…
Crisis, Disruption, and Renewal
At the time we are writing this, the world is focused on fighting an unprecedented global pandemic following the spread of COVID-19. Many have been advised to work from home, and “social distancing” policies prohibit face-to-face interactions or social gatherings of more than ten. The articles in this issue reflect the creative and collaborative ways that anthropologists, including archaeologists, study how people experience and adapt to rapid or…
Agricultural Expertise, Market Connections, and Rural Futures
In the face of rapid neoliberal globalization and climate change, agricultural communities across the globe have demonstrated creative ways to adapt and build resilience. Many of the articles collected in this volume are based on ethnographic research conducted in regions deemed peripheral from the standpoint of national and global markets—the Aysén region in Chile, the Parry Sound District in Ontario, rural Oaxacan villages impacted by labor out…
Finding Hope in Food Systems During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The pandemic is here to stay, and it has tested our endurance mechanisms, especially when it comes to food access and provision. This special issue edited by Dr. Caela O’Connell, titled “More than a Disaster: Creativity in Growing, Distributing, and Accessing Food During COVID-19,” highlights how food distribution and food-related networks responded to the challenge of procurement and distribution during the onset and unfolding of the pandemic. T…
Suspending ruination
This article focuses on the financial collapse of and the subsequent interplay between material deterioration and maintenance on a flower farm in Naivasha that was placed under receivership in 2014. Our research is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the three authors before, during, and after the farm’s collapse. We examine how laid-off workers, current employees, owners, and new management engage in a process we call ‘suspending ruinat…
Special Issue Introduction
CBD Hemp Pharming in Illinois
Based on interviews and participant observation activities conducted in 2024, this article investigates the perspectives and experiences of Illinois farmers cultivating CBD (cannabidiol) hemp. The 2018 U.S. Farm Bill legalized hemp, defined as cannabis containing < 0.3% delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the intoxicating compound found in marijuana. Hemp includes both non-intoxicating CBD varieties used to help alleviate anxiety, pain, and relat…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works)