Michael K Goodman
Biographic Data
| ID | 174068 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael K Goodman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael K |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodman |
| SIGNATURE | GOODMAN M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4861-029X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1215 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 17 |
Exploring the everyday feminist geographies of the Anthro-No-Pause: Vernacular labour, burdens and the (in)visible spaces of women’s foodwork during covid-19 in Manchester, England
The Covid-19 pandemic has been described by geographers as a time of ‘pause’ and ‘reflection’ full of possibility for more sustainable relationships to non-human nature. This has been conceptualised as the ‘Anthropause’ during which an ‘anthropause environmentalism’ (re)configured human-nature relationships. Using a critical feminist lens, we challenge the notion of a ‘paused’ pandemic society by analysing the domestic and community foodwork of m…
It's a Gender Issue’: Women Farmers in Community‐Supported Agriculture
This paper delves into the experiences of new‐entrant women farmers in creating leadership roles in community‐supported agriculture (CSA) and how these experiences relate to the transformative potential of this agri‐food model. It contributes to the literature on gender relations in CSA and agri‐food transformation more broadly by offering new insights into disidentification from the traditional ‘woman farmer’ identity prescribed by capitalist ag…
Spying in the digital era. An interview with Sir David Omand and John Taylor
This article is the edited transcript of a conversation held between Michael Goodman, David Omand and John Taylor. It brings together an academic view with those of two collectors of intelligence. The focus is on spying and how it has changed from the Cold War era when Omand and Taylor joined Her Majesty’s Government, to the modern, digital and connected nature of the 21st century. It highlights five areas of continuity and change: that the futur…
Assembling the plant-based meat proposition: Towards food systems transitions in Australia
The mounting social, ecological and animal welfare issues associated with animal agriculture have inspired research and development on novel protein technologies that promise pathways towards less harmful futures. Protein transitions advocates envision significant changes to food production, including the potential removal of millions of animals from food production systems. This future is not at all guaranteed and dependent upon the complex and …
The Bondian Cold War: The Transnational Legacy of a Cultural Icon by Martin D. Brown, Ronald J. Granieri, and Muriel Blaive
The title of this book initially took me aback and aroused my worst fears. I worried that it would be an over-intellectual history of what is, after all, a Hollywood movie franchise. As a huge James Bond fan—and, let's face it, the films are a large part of the reason I studied intelligence in the first place—I had watched all the movies but had never read anything academic on the subject. Thankfully, my concerns were short-lived; the book is gre…
Initiating transformation within a Dutch grassroots agri-food initiative: An analysis of social processes
This article brings new empirical evidence and nuanced reflections on the social processes of transformation within grassroots agri-food initiatives that propose relocalised, decentralised and autonomous ways of organising around food systems. We facilitated and analysed a fieldlab on the initial phase of designing a participatory guarantee system with a Dutch consumer-buying group (CBG) who explored ways to define, measure and assess sustainable…
The Making of #CovidTwitter: Who Were the Loudest 'Covid Influencers' and What Did They Say About the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study explores COVID-19 communications disseminated by the top 100 most followed Twitter profiles-what we call the Twitter influencing elite. Focusing on a critical period from January to July 2020, we conducted a quantitative and qualitative analysis of 6,602 tweets about COVID-19 produced by these Covid Influencers. The findings reveal that approximately two-thirds of the COVID-19 tweets in our sample originated from established global med…
Cultura alimentar digital, poder e a vida cotidiana
Comida e cultura digital estão mutuamente implicadas nos processos contemporâneos da produção de conhecimento e da contestação de poder ao redor do mundo. Nossa introdução e os artigos nesta edição especial do European Journal of Cultural Studies buscam traçar distinções, paralelos e sobreposições entre a comida e o digital para oferecer insights críticos sobre as capacidades, paradoxos e impactos da cultura alimentar digital sobre a vida cotidia…
Collective memories, place-framing and the politics of imaginary futures in sustainability transitions and transformation
A geographical perspective is crucial to understanding sustainability transitions and transformation, but previous research on place framing in sustainability transitions and transformation has had a marked focus on the politics of the future and its performativity in the present. This paper analyzes place-framing in sustainability transitions and transformation by examining how the conflicting collective memories of a place and the framings of t…
Celebrity Chefs, Food Media and the Politics of Eating
Working across food studies and media studies, Joanne Hollows examines the impact of celebrity chefs on how we think about food and how we cook, shop and eat. Hollows explores how celebrity chefs emerged in both restaurant and media industries, making chefs like Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay into global stars. She also shows how blogs and YouTube enabled the emergence of new types of branded food personalities such as Deliciously Ella and BOSH! …
Double exposure to capitalist expansion and climatic change: A study of vulnerability on the Ghanaian coastal commodity frontier
Konstantinou, Z. I., Y. N. Krestenitis, D. Latinopoulos, K. Pagou, S. Galinou-Mitsoudi and Y. Savvidis 2012. Aspects of mussel-farming activity in Chalastra, Thermaikos Gulf, Greece: an effort to untie a management Gordian Knot Ecology and Society 17(1): 1. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04455-170101
The High Priests of Global Development: Capitalism, Religion and the Political Economy of Sacrifice in a Celebrity-led Water Charity
Throughout the world, 785 million people lack a basic drinking-water service and at least 2 billion people consume contaminated drinking water. At the same time, numerous global water charities fronted by 'caring', politicized celebrity figures - dubbed the 'high priests' of global development by the authors of this article - have sought to 'solve' inequalities in access to clean water through market-based solutions and charity donations. This ar…
Priorities for social science and humanities research on the challenges of moving beyond animal-based food systems
Increasingly high-profile research is being undertaken into the socio-environmental challenges associated with the over-production and consumption of food from animals. Transforming food systems to mitigate climate change and hidden hunger, ensure food security and good health all point to reducing animal-based foods as a key lever. Moving beyond animal-based food systems is a societal grand challenge requiring coordinated international research …
Digital food culture, power and everyday life
Food and digital culture are mutually implicated in contemporary processes of knowledge production and power contestation around the world. Our introduction and the papers in this special issue of the European Journal of Cultural Studies seek to draw out the distinctions, parallels and overlaps across food and the digital to offer critical insights into digital food culture’s capacities, paradoxes and impacts on everyday life. We ask a series of …
Why are humanitarian sentiments profitable and what does this mean for global development
The Biopolitics of Cattle Methane Emissions Reduction: Governing Life in a Time of Climate Change
In this paper we analyse ongoing attempts to mitigate cattle methane emissions through the lens of biopower. Drawing on IPCC and FAO reports as well as the scientific literature, we detail how the problem of cattle methane has been made visible and the subsequent efforts that have emerged to govern human and non‐human life from molecular to global scales. Such efforts have been thwarted by the liveliness of cattle, farmers and consumers. Rather t…
Organising Alternative Food Networks (AFNs): Challenges and Facilitating Conditions of different AFN types in three EU countries
This study aimed to explore the constraining and facilitating factors impacting the emergence and consolidation of different types of alternative food networks (AFNs) in different countries. Drawing on the expertise of organizers of seventeen AFNs, we investigated the conditions and actors that hinder and promote the development of different types of AFNs in Poland, Portugal and the Netherlands. Using a multi-actor perspective framework, we categ…
Mapping digital foodscapes: Digital food influencers and the grammars of good food
In the shadows of power: The infrastructural violence of thermal power generation in Ghana's coastal commodity frontier
This research adopts Jason Moore's concept of the commodity frontier, which portrays the socio-ecological impacts of capitalist expansion, to analyze the spread of Independent Power Provision in Sub-Saharan Africa. This form of power provision has thus far been under-theorized, especially its impacts on local communities, which must be addressed considering its contemporary popularity in the region. The article uses the concept of 'infrastructura…
Ordinary land grabbing in peri-urban spaces: Land conflicts and governance in a small Colombian city
Food, media and space: The mediated biopolitics of eating
The celebrification of farmers: Celebrity and the New Politics of Farming
‘Farmers are the real rock stars’, says American celebrity chef Mario Batali (2014, p. 9) in the opening line of his 10th and most recent cookbook, America Farm to Table: Simple, Delicious Recipes
The diffusion of grassroots innovations for sustainability in Italy and Great Britain: An Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis
Little research so far has been devoted to understanding the diffusion of grassroots innovation for sustainability across space. This paper explores and compares the spatial diffusion of two networks of grassroots innovations, the Transition Towns Network (TTN) and Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale (Solidarity Purchasing Groups - GAS), in Great Britain and Italy. Spatio-temporal diffusion data were mined from available datasets, and patterns of diffusi…
Eating bioeconomies
This chapter offers a polemic and several short provocations designed as possible interventions to this approach but also to the field of agri-food studies more broadly. The author&s;s polemic surrounds this desire to shift rhetoric and conceptualisations from consumer to eater. The chapter follows three short provocations these are: The first begins to question the ways that the vital materialisms work by Jane Bennett and others has been applied…
Spectacular environmentalisms: Media, Knowledge and the Framing of Ecological Politics
As we move firmly into the so-called Anthropocene - an era defined by human-induced global environmental change, neoliberal, consumer capitalism and the unprecedented flow of media, knowledge and c
Reading fair trade: Political Ecological Imaginary and the Moral Economy of Fair Trade Foods
Shifting plates in the agrifood landscape: The tectonics of alternative agrifood initiatives in California
Consuming narratives: The Political Ecology of ‘Alternative’ Consumption
This paper examines how political ecology themes of tropical conservation and social justice become representational practices underpinning ‘alternative’ consumption in the North. The notion of commodity culture is adopted to understand the ambiguous rationalities and ethical assumptions of two sets of consumption practices. The first case considers Edenic myth‐making used to assimilate concerns over tropical deforestation in the South to consump…
Place Geography and the Ethics of Care: Introductory Remarks on the Geographies of Ethics, Responsibility and Care
In a recent review article, Jeff Popke (2006 Popke, J. 2006. Geography and ethics: everyday mediations through care and consumption. Progress in Human Geography, 30(4): 504–512. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], p. 510) calls for a ‘more direct engagement with theories of ethics and responsibility’ on the part of human geographers, and for a reinscription of the social as a site of ethics and responsibility. This requires that we…
Conspicuous redemption? Reflections on the promises and perils of the ‘Celebritization’ of climate change
The mirror of consumption: Celebritization, developmental consumption and the shifting cultural politics of fair trade
Food geographies I: Relational foodscapes and the busy-ness of being more-than-food
The study of foodscapes has spread throughout geography at the same time as food scholarship has spearheaded post-disciplinary research. This report argues that geographers have taken to post-disciplinarity to explore the ways that food is ‘more-than-food’ through analyses of the visceral nature of eating and politics and the vital (re)materializations of food’s cultural geographies. Visceral food geographies illuminate what I call the ‘contingen…
Spectacular environmentalisms: Media, Knowledge and the Framing of Ecological Politics
As we move firmly into the so-called Anthropocene - an era defined by human-induced global environmental change, neoliberal, consumer capitalism and the unprecedented flow of media, knowledge and c
Collective memories, place-framing and the politics of imaginary futures in sustainability transitions and transformation
A geographical perspective is crucial to understanding sustainability transitions and transformation, but previous research on place framing in sustainability transitions and transformation has had a marked focus on the politics of the future and its performativity in the present. This paper analyzes place-framing in sustainability transitions and transformation by examining how the conflicting collective memories of a place and the framings of t…
Mapping digital foodscapes: Digital food influencers and the grammars of good food
Spectacular Foodscapes: Food Celebrities and the Politics of Lifestyle Mediation in an Age of Inequality
This editorial introduces a special issue of Food, Culture & Society and works to add a parallel, substantive take on the phenomenon of the food celebrity and the mediated, everyday cultural politics they create. We start by exploring the concept of the foodscape. Specifically, we argue that food celebrities represent a fundamental component of contemporary foodscapes, how they “perform” and function, and the socio-material means by which they ar…
Ethical Foodscapes: Premises, Promises, and Possibilities
Ethical foodscapes?: premises, promises, and possibilities That food is good to `think' as much as eat, is most certainly true.Yet, it is even more true that `good' food is even better to both think and feel with (and sometimes eat) at the moment, particularly in an era of food scares, continuing poverty, a supposed `obesity crisis', debates concerning food (in)security and food sovereignty, and environmental degradation.In short, the good food `…
The diffusion of grassroots innovations for sustainability in Italy and Great Britain: An Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis
Little research so far has been devoted to understanding the diffusion of grassroots innovation for sustainability across space. This paper explores and compares the spatial diffusion of two networks of grassroots innovations, the Transition Towns Network (TTN) and Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale (Solidarity Purchasing Groups - GAS), in Great Britain and Italy. Spatio-temporal diffusion data were mined from available datasets, and patterns of diffusi…
Food, media and space: The mediated biopolitics of eating
Celebrity Ecologies: Introduction
Out of the efforts of environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to raise their profiles amidst frenetic global mediascapes, the construction of celebrity in a dispersed post-Fordist promo
Geographies of food: Afters
This third and final 'Geographies of food' review is based on an online blog conversation provoked by the first and second reviews in the series (Cook et al., 2006; 2008a). Authors of the work featured in these reviews - plus others whose work was not but should have been featured - were invited to respond to them, to talk about their own and other people's work, and to enter into conversations about - and in the process review - other/new work w…
A social life for carbon? Commodification, markets and care
Unlike the wishes of many – or the prognostications of some – the 'privatisation of everything' (Watts 1994) has yet to be a fait accompli. And, indeed, this is even true in the continuing hotbed of neoliberal capitalism that is the USA, whereby efforts to instantly develop one of the largest markets in recent history – in the form of purchasable, own-able and trade-able carbon dioxide emissions – was successfully buried under the faux-populist t…
Star/poverty space: The Making of the 'Development Celebrity
In this paper, we explore this ‘celebrity praxis’ through the lens of the creation of the contemporary ‘development celebrity’ in those stars working for development writ large in the so-called Third World. Drawing on work in science studies, material cultures and the growing geo-socio-anthropologies of things, the key to understanding the material practices embedded in and creating development celebrity networks is the multiple and complex circu…
Ordinary land grabbing in peri-urban spaces: Land conflicts and governance in a small Colombian city
A new regime of carbon counting: The practices and politics of accounting for everyday carbon through CO2e
Why are humanitarian sentiments profitable and what does this mean for global development
The Biopolitics of Cattle Methane Emissions Reduction: Governing Life in a Time of Climate Change
In this paper we analyse ongoing attempts to mitigate cattle methane emissions through the lens of biopower. Drawing on IPCC and FAO reports as well as the scientific literature, we detail how the problem of cattle methane has been made visible and the subsequent efforts that have emerged to govern human and non‐human life from molecular to global scales. Such efforts have been thwarted by the liveliness of cattle, farmers and consumers. Rather t…
Digital food culture, power and everyday life
Food and digital culture are mutually implicated in contemporary processes of knowledge production and power contestation around the world. Our introduction and the papers in this special issue of the European Journal of Cultural Studies seek to draw out the distinctions, parallels and overlaps across food and the digital to offer critical insights into digital food culture’s capacities, paradoxes and impacts on everyday life. We ask a series of …
Organising Alternative Food Networks (AFNs): Challenges and Facilitating Conditions of different AFN types in three EU countries
This study aimed to explore the constraining and facilitating factors impacting the emergence and consolidation of different types of alternative food networks (AFNs) in different countries. Drawing on the expertise of organizers of seventeen AFNs, we investigated the conditions and actors that hinder and promote the development of different types of AFNs in Poland, Portugal and the Netherlands. Using a multi-actor perspective framework, we categ…
ICare Capitalism? The Biopolitics of Choice in a Neoliberal Economy of Hope
Journal Article iCare Capitalism? The Biopolitics of Choice in a Neoliberal Economy of Hope Get access Michael K. Goodman Michael K. Goodman King's College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2013, Pages 103–105, https://doi.org/10.1111/ips.12011_6 Published: 25 March 2013
Shifting plates in the agrifood landscape: The tectonics of alternative agrifood initiatives in California
Consuming narratives: The Political Ecology of ‘Alternative’ Consumption
This paper examines how political ecology themes of tropical conservation and social justice become representational practices underpinning ‘alternative’ consumption in the North. The notion of commodity culture is adopted to understand the ambiguous rationalities and ethical assumptions of two sets of consumption practices. The first case considers Edenic myth‐making used to assimilate concerns over tropical deforestation in the South to consump…
Reading fair trade: Political Ecological Imaginary and the Moral Economy of Fair Trade Foods
A pioneering reputation: Assessing Piers Blaikie’s contributions to political ecology
Did Ronald McDonald Also Tend To Scare You As A Child?”: Working to Emplace Consumption, Commodities and Citizen-Students in a Large Classroom Setting
So-called ‘radical’ and ‘critical’ pedagogy seems to be everywhere these days on the landscapes of geographical teaching praxis and theory. Part of the remit of radical/critical pedagogy involves a de-centring of the traditional ‘banking’ method of pedagogical praxis. Yet, how do we challenge this ‘banking’ model of knowledge transmission in both a large-class setting and around the topic of commodity geographies where the banking model of inform…
Conspicuous redemption? Reflections on the promises and perils of the ‘Celebritization’ of climate change
The media and climate change
Progressive voices in the arts and heritage sector have called for a politics of cultural democracy as a means of empowering all to participate in public life. Through a rejection of policies of 'inclusion', they have asked more searching questions about the role culture can play in the fight for social justice. At the same time the sector is preparing for a change of ideological direction, as rumours run rife about what a future Tory government,…
The mirror of consumption: Celebritization, developmental consumption and the shifting cultural politics of fair trade
Place Geography and the Ethics of Care: Introductory Remarks on the Geographies of Ethics, Responsibility and Care
In a recent review article, Jeff Popke (2006 Popke, J. 2006. Geography and ethics: everyday mediations through care and consumption. Progress in Human Geography, 30(4): 504–512. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], p. 510) calls for a ‘more direct engagement with theories of ethics and responsibility’ on the part of human geographers, and for a reinscription of the social as a site of ethics and responsibility. This requires that we…
Geographies of food: Afters
This third and final 'Geographies of food' review is based on an online blog conversation provoked by the first and second reviews in the series (Cook et al., 2006; 2008a). Authors of the work featured in these reviews - plus others whose work was not but should have been featured - were invited to respond to them, to talk about their own and other people's work, and to enter into conversations about - and in the process review - other/new work w…
Ethical Foodscapes: Premises, Promises, and Possibilities
Ethical foodscapes?: premises, promises, and possibilities That food is good to `think' as much as eat, is most certainly true.Yet, it is even more true that `good' food is even better to both think and feel with (and sometimes eat) at the moment, particularly in an era of food scares, continuing poverty, a supposed `obesity crisis', debates concerning food (in)security and food sovereignty, and environmental degradation.In short, the good food `…
Star/poverty space: The Making of the 'Development Celebrity
In this paper, we explore this ‘celebrity praxis’ through the lens of the creation of the contemporary ‘development celebrity’ in those stars working for development writ large in the so-called Third World. Drawing on work in science studies, material cultures and the growing geo-socio-anthropologies of things, the key to understanding the material practices embedded in and creating development celebrity networks is the multiple and complex circu…
A social life for carbon? Commodification, markets and care
Unlike the wishes of many – or the prognostications of some – the 'privatisation of everything' (Watts 1994) has yet to be a fait accompli. And, indeed, this is even true in the continuing hotbed of neoliberal capitalism that is the USA, whereby efforts to instantly develop one of the largest markets in recent history – in the form of purchasable, own-able and trade-able carbon dioxide emissions – was successfully buried under the faux-populist t…
Alternative Food Networks: Knowledge, Practice, and Politics
Farmers’ markets, veggie boxes, local foods, organic products and Fair Trade goods – how have these once novel, "alternative" foods, and the people and networks supporting them, become increasingly familiar features of everyday consumption? Are the visions of "alternative worlds" built on ethics of sustainability, social justice, animal welfare and the aesthetic values of local food cultures and traditional crafts still credible now that these fo…
Grammars of the Anthropocene
The Ecologies of Food Power: An Introduction to the Environment and Food Book Symposium
Ethical disturbances in the force(s): Reflecting on G lobalizing responsibility and its doings unto others
Celebrity Ecologies: Introduction
Out of the efforts of environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to raise their profiles amidst frenetic global mediascapes, the construction of celebrity in a dispersed post-Fordist promo
ICare Capitalism? The Biopolitics of Choice in a Neoliberal Economy of Hope
Journal Article iCare Capitalism? The Biopolitics of Choice in a Neoliberal Economy of Hope Get access Michael K. Goodman Michael K. Goodman King's College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2013, Pages 103–105, https://doi.org/10.1111/ips.12011_6 Published: 25 March 2013
Michael Carolan's Embodied Food Politics
Societal transformation in response to global environmental change: A review of emerging concepts
Technicolor foods: The everyday biopolitics of Cuba
Spectacular Foodscapes: Food Celebrities and the Politics of Lifestyle Mediation in an Age of Inequality
This editorial introduces a special issue of Food, Culture & Society and works to add a parallel, substantive take on the phenomenon of the food celebrity and the mediated, everyday cultural politics they create. We start by exploring the concept of the foodscape. Specifically, we argue that food celebrities represent a fundamental component of contemporary foodscapes, how they “perform” and function, and the socio-material means by which they ar…
Food geographies I: Relational foodscapes and the busy-ness of being more-than-food
The study of foodscapes has spread throughout geography at the same time as food scholarship has spearheaded post-disciplinary research. This report argues that geographers have taken to post-disciplinarity to explore the ways that food is ‘more-than-food’ through analyses of the visceral nature of eating and politics and the vital (re)materializations of food’s cultural geographies. Visceral food geographies illuminate what I call the ‘contingen…
A new regime of carbon counting: The practices and politics of accounting for everyday carbon through CO2e
Political science (35 works) · Sociology (30 works) · Law (22 works) · Politics (20 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Geography (14 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (13 works) · Economics (13 works) · Environmental ethics (13 works)