Emma L Sharp
Biographic Data
| ID | 1852519 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma L Sharp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma L |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharp |
| SIGNATURE | SHARP E L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4052-6918 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Probiotic Approaches to Agricultural Microbiomes
In this paper we explore the nature of probiotic cultivation. Cultivation of the relations that biodynamic (BD) wine farmers establish with the microbes they materially cultivate in their vineyards for plant protection, biodiversity, and taste. We outline a suite of probiotic approaches to plant health and winemaking through which BD farmers recast vineyard microbes as biopolitical collaborators rather than scourge. We argue that these farmers’ p…
Pandemic impacts on experiences of food gardening in New Zealand: Implications for food wellbeing during Covid-19 lockdown
Participants gardened mostly at home, with some gardening in community gardens/other locations • Almost two-thirds of participants reported mental or physical wellbeing as important for why they gardened during lockdown • Participants prioritised gardening for physical and mental wellbeing during lockdown, over healthy food production (the primary reason for gardening before lockdown) • Food wellbeing requires consideration of cultural wellbeing …
Looking at the Wood, Seeing the Trees and More: Australia-New Zealand Tree-Ring Science Conference, January 2025
The Australia-New Zealand Tree-Ring Conference was held January 21–23, 2025, at Waipapa Taumata Rau/University of Auckland, in Aotearoa/New Zealand. It was intended to provide an opportunity for the Australian and New Zealand dendrochronological researchers to meet, present current research, and discuss the challenges and opportunities in working with Southern Hemisphere tree species, but it was open to others outside of Australasia, including so…
Getting to 'Yes: Reflections on "Shimmer" by Deborah Bird Rose
Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study
Committing to diversity in participants, participation and knowledge production: Place-based insights from the community science of Soilsafe Aotearoa
Researchers have an obligation to study aspects of our world that have meaning for society. This means recognising a place-based diversity of society, of potential participants, of types of participation and of knowledge production. Therefore, developing a successful community science (CS) programme that engenders a sense of ownership for a diversity of public participants requires the prioritisation of getting to know what diverse participants v…
Diverse methodologies of care: Thinking with and practising (soil) in situated, affective and enactive ways
This research article outlines a provocation for diverse and experimentally open, situated approaches to exploring care and caring. The diversely positioned authors discuss this idea using the subject of soil, in the place and context of Aotearoa New Zealand. Little is known about the diversity of ways that everyday people value, or, have caring relationships for/with soil, among a plethora of research that positions soil ‘care’ around, for examp…
Children’s food gardening: Valuing experiential, intergenerational and multi‐cultural learning
Urban food growing has been promoted for its benefits of improved food security, governance and sovereignty, as well as providing opportunities for environmental education. Despite a resurgence of research into adults’ food‐growing in urban environments, there is limited literature examining where and how children grow food, with whom, what it means to them, and what they want to know more about. Here we present the results of 20 focus groups wit…
The ‘Good Kiwi’ and the ‘Good Environmental Citizen’: Dairy, national identity and complex consumption-related values in Aotearoa New Zealand
Alongside concerns for animal welfare, concerns for land, water, and climate are undermining established food identities in many parts of the world. In Aotearoa New Zealand, agrifood relations are bound tightly into national identities and the materialities of export dependence on dairying and agriculture more widely. Dairy/ing identities have been central to national development projects and the politics that underpin them for much of New Zealan…
Emerging transitions in organic waste infrastructure in Aotearoa New Zealand
Aotearoa New Zealand is at a critical juncture in reducing and managing organic waste. Research has highlighted the significant proportion of organic waste sent to landfills and associated adverse effects such as greenhouse gas emissions and loss of valuable organic matter. There is current debate about what practices and infrastructure to invest in to better manage and use organic waste. We highlight the diversity of existing organic waste pract…
Collective action is needed to build a more just science system
Bringing citizen science to life: Evaluation of a national citizen science program for public benefit
Geoethical futures: A call for more-than-human physical geography
This paper aims to foster an explicit geoethical orientation in physical geography. Using examples from Aotearoa New Zealand, we approach the work of physical geography with a set of ethical coordinates derived from our research, arguing that they allow for greater sensitivity in considering what is more-than-human in our research relationships. Working with these ethical co-ordinates lays the political groundwork for thinking and doing physical …
Diverse values of surplus for a community economy of fish(eries)
This paper develops a diverse economies account of fish ‘waste’ that revalues it as ‘surplus’. We examine ‘ Kai Ika ’, a community marine conservation experiment in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland), Aotearoa New Zealand. Kai Ika rescues fish heads, frames and offal that were previously ‘going to waste’ and redistributes them to fish eaters who would otherwise struggle to access these foods. It involves fishers and community sector and Indigenous actors…
Hopeful approaches to teaching and learning environmental “wicked problems”
“Wicked problems” are complex to understand and challenging to teach. Our experience of teaching about environmental concerns in Aotearoa New Zealand suggests how these concepts are taught is more important for student learning than the nature of wicked problems themselves. By offering opportunities for students to co-develop their own situated knowledges about wicked problems, they can conceptualise and tackle them more effectively at their own …
Care-fully enacting diverse foodworlds in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
Sharp, Emma L. 2018. ‘Enacting other foodworlds: affective food initiatives performing a care-full politics of difference.’ PhD Diss. University of Auckland.My dissertation is a critique of some in
(Re)assembling foodscapes with the Crowd Grown Feast
This paper uses an assemblage framework to examine the Crowd Grown Feast, an “alternative food initiative” that engaged 100 participants in a collective food growing and eating event in Auckland's city centre. Assemblage thinking here derives from the intersecting theoretical and political interests of multiplicity and uncertainty. It offers a generative framework for a feminist ethnography concerned with the transformative potential of actually …
Geoethical futures: A call for more-than-human physical geography
This paper aims to foster an explicit geoethical orientation in physical geography. Using examples from Aotearoa New Zealand, we approach the work of physical geography with a set of ethical coordinates derived from our research, arguing that they allow for greater sensitivity in considering what is more-than-human in our research relationships. Working with these ethical co-ordinates lays the political groundwork for thinking and doing physical …
Diverse values of surplus for a community economy of fish(eries)
This paper develops a diverse economies account of fish ‘waste’ that revalues it as ‘surplus’. We examine ‘ Kai Ika ’, a community marine conservation experiment in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland), Aotearoa New Zealand. Kai Ika rescues fish heads, frames and offal that were previously ‘going to waste’ and redistributes them to fish eaters who would otherwise struggle to access these foods. It involves fishers and community sector and Indigenous actors…
Care-fully enacting diverse foodworlds in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
Sharp, Emma L. 2018. ‘Enacting other foodworlds: affective food initiatives performing a care-full politics of difference.’ PhD Diss. University of Auckland.My dissertation is a critique of some in
Emerging transitions in organic waste infrastructure in Aotearoa New Zealand
Aotearoa New Zealand is at a critical juncture in reducing and managing organic waste. Research has highlighted the significant proportion of organic waste sent to landfills and associated adverse effects such as greenhouse gas emissions and loss of valuable organic matter. There is current debate about what practices and infrastructure to invest in to better manage and use organic waste. We highlight the diversity of existing organic waste pract…
(Re)assembling foodscapes with the Crowd Grown Feast
This paper uses an assemblage framework to examine the Crowd Grown Feast, an “alternative food initiative” that engaged 100 participants in a collective food growing and eating event in Auckland's city centre. Assemblage thinking here derives from the intersecting theoretical and political interests of multiplicity and uncertainty. It offers a generative framework for a feminist ethnography concerned with the transformative potential of actually …
Diverse methodologies of care: Thinking with and practising (soil) in situated, affective and enactive ways
This research article outlines a provocation for diverse and experimentally open, situated approaches to exploring care and caring. The diversely positioned authors discuss this idea using the subject of soil, in the place and context of Aotearoa New Zealand. Little is known about the diversity of ways that everyday people value, or, have caring relationships for/with soil, among a plethora of research that positions soil ‘care’ around, for examp…
Bringing citizen science to life: Evaluation of a national citizen science program for public benefit
Hopeful approaches to teaching and learning environmental “wicked problems”
“Wicked problems” are complex to understand and challenging to teach. Our experience of teaching about environmental concerns in Aotearoa New Zealand suggests how these concepts are taught is more important for student learning than the nature of wicked problems themselves. By offering opportunities for students to co-develop their own situated knowledges about wicked problems, they can conceptualise and tackle them more effectively at their own …
(Re)assembling foodscapes with the Crowd Grown Feast
This paper uses an assemblage framework to examine the Crowd Grown Feast, an “alternative food initiative” that engaged 100 participants in a collective food growing and eating event in Auckland's city centre. Assemblage thinking here derives from the intersecting theoretical and political interests of multiplicity and uncertainty. It offers a generative framework for a feminist ethnography concerned with the transformative potential of actually …
Care-fully enacting diverse foodworlds in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
Sharp, Emma L. 2018. ‘Enacting other foodworlds: affective food initiatives performing a care-full politics of difference.’ PhD Diss. University of Auckland.My dissertation is a critique of some in
Hopeful approaches to teaching and learning environmental “wicked problems”
“Wicked problems” are complex to understand and challenging to teach. Our experience of teaching about environmental concerns in Aotearoa New Zealand suggests how these concepts are taught is more important for student learning than the nature of wicked problems themselves. By offering opportunities for students to co-develop their own situated knowledges about wicked problems, they can conceptualise and tackle them more effectively at their own …
Bringing citizen science to life: Evaluation of a national citizen science program for public benefit
Geoethical futures: A call for more-than-human physical geography
This paper aims to foster an explicit geoethical orientation in physical geography. Using examples from Aotearoa New Zealand, we approach the work of physical geography with a set of ethical coordinates derived from our research, arguing that they allow for greater sensitivity in considering what is more-than-human in our research relationships. Working with these ethical co-ordinates lays the political groundwork for thinking and doing physical …
Diverse values of surplus for a community economy of fish(eries)
This paper develops a diverse economies account of fish ‘waste’ that revalues it as ‘surplus’. We examine ‘ Kai Ika ’, a community marine conservation experiment in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland), Aotearoa New Zealand. Kai Ika rescues fish heads, frames and offal that were previously ‘going to waste’ and redistributes them to fish eaters who would otherwise struggle to access these foods. It involves fishers and community sector and Indigenous actors…
Emerging transitions in organic waste infrastructure in Aotearoa New Zealand
Aotearoa New Zealand is at a critical juncture in reducing and managing organic waste. Research has highlighted the significant proportion of organic waste sent to landfills and associated adverse effects such as greenhouse gas emissions and loss of valuable organic matter. There is current debate about what practices and infrastructure to invest in to better manage and use organic waste. We highlight the diversity of existing organic waste pract…
Collective action is needed to build a more just science system
Committing to diversity in participants, participation and knowledge production: Place-based insights from the community science of Soilsafe Aotearoa
Researchers have an obligation to study aspects of our world that have meaning for society. This means recognising a place-based diversity of society, of potential participants, of types of participation and of knowledge production. Therefore, developing a successful community science (CS) programme that engenders a sense of ownership for a diversity of public participants requires the prioritisation of getting to know what diverse participants v…
Diverse methodologies of care: Thinking with and practising (soil) in situated, affective and enactive ways
This research article outlines a provocation for diverse and experimentally open, situated approaches to exploring care and caring. The diversely positioned authors discuss this idea using the subject of soil, in the place and context of Aotearoa New Zealand. Little is known about the diversity of ways that everyday people value, or, have caring relationships for/with soil, among a plethora of research that positions soil ‘care’ around, for examp…
Children’s food gardening: Valuing experiential, intergenerational and multi‐cultural learning
Urban food growing has been promoted for its benefits of improved food security, governance and sovereignty, as well as providing opportunities for environmental education. Despite a resurgence of research into adults’ food‐growing in urban environments, there is limited literature examining where and how children grow food, with whom, what it means to them, and what they want to know more about. Here we present the results of 20 focus groups wit…
The ‘Good Kiwi’ and the ‘Good Environmental Citizen’: Dairy, national identity and complex consumption-related values in Aotearoa New Zealand
Alongside concerns for animal welfare, concerns for land, water, and climate are undermining established food identities in many parts of the world. In Aotearoa New Zealand, agrifood relations are bound tightly into national identities and the materialities of export dependence on dairying and agriculture more widely. Dairy/ing identities have been central to national development projects and the politics that underpin them for much of New Zealan…
Looking at the Wood, Seeing the Trees and More: Australia-New Zealand Tree-Ring Science Conference, January 2025
The Australia-New Zealand Tree-Ring Conference was held January 21–23, 2025, at Waipapa Taumata Rau/University of Auckland, in Aotearoa/New Zealand. It was intended to provide an opportunity for the Australian and New Zealand dendrochronological researchers to meet, present current research, and discuss the challenges and opportunities in working with Southern Hemisphere tree species, but it was open to others outside of Australasia, including so…
Getting to 'Yes: Reflections on "Shimmer" by Deborah Bird Rose
Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study
Probiotic Approaches to Agricultural Microbiomes
In this paper we explore the nature of probiotic cultivation. Cultivation of the relations that biodynamic (BD) wine farmers establish with the microbes they materially cultivate in their vineyards for plant protection, biodiversity, and taste. We outline a suite of probiotic approaches to plant health and winemaking through which BD farmers recast vineyard microbes as biopolitical collaborators rather than scourge. We argue that these farmers’ p…
Pandemic impacts on experiences of food gardening in New Zealand: Implications for food wellbeing during Covid-19 lockdown
Participants gardened mostly at home, with some gardening in community gardens/other locations • Almost two-thirds of participants reported mental or physical wellbeing as important for why they gardened during lockdown • Participants prioritised gardening for physical and mental wellbeing during lockdown, over healthy food production (the primary reason for gardening before lockdown) • Food wellbeing requires consideration of cultural wellbeing …
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Aotearoa (7 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Politics (4 works)