Z Kish
Biographic Data
| ID | 20851 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Z Kish |
| GIVEN NAMES | Z |
| FAMILY NAME | Kish |
| SIGNATURE | KISH Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ontario Tech University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4899-3964 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Indifference of Nature
Recent estimates suggest that approximately one-third of Ukrainian land has been degraded, including at least a quarter of the country’s agricultural land, since the outset of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. This interview with Ukrainian artist Kateryna Aliinyk explores how her paintings and other artworks make the environmental devastation of the conflict visible through a focus on what war buries in the soil. The interview probes how Alii…
Agrarian Platform Capitalism
With the rise of digital technologies, a political‐economic configuration recognised as “platform capitalism” has raised concerns over monopolistic tendencies, lack of accountability, expanded rentiership, workers’ precarity, and more. Existing analyses, however, show a distinctly urban bias—centring on housing, transportation, retail, and gig labour—and have yet to engage with the agrarian dimensions of this phenomenon despite considerable poten…
Setting data free
Open data is increasingly being promoted as a route to achieve food security and agricultural development. This article critically examines the promotion of open agri-food data for development through a document-based case study of the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative as well as through interviews with open data practitioners and participant observation at open data events. While the concept of openness is strikin…
Farm media
This essay introduces the first special issue to explore the subject of farm media, which the authors identify as the multiple forms of mediation—representational, infrastructural, and elemental—that reproduce the modern agri-food system. Through this multi-lens framework, media scholars are invited to take the farm seriously as a site of analysis, particularly the recent transformation of agriculture through intensive datafication and its accomp…
Pitching agri-food tech
Food and agriculture have recently become focal points of tech sector innovation and financing. Rapidly multiplying agri-food tech startups are promising to import the tech sector's trademark disruptive innovation into an industry they deem sclerotic, inefficient, and unsustainable. This paper interrogates the cultural and market frictions attending Silicon Valley's foray into food and agriculture through the lens of what is perhaps the tech sect…
Investing for profit, investing for impact
The recent global boom in agricultural investment has spurred much normative critique of "land grabbing," but amidst this critical scrutiny investor morality has remained a black box. This article examines the role of ethical narratives in advancing the financialization of nature by comparing how agricultural investment projects are pitched and implemented among two different groups of investors: mainstream agricultural investors and impact inves…
The reproach of hunger
Bonded Life
Amid public critiques of Wall Street's amorality and protests against sharpening inequality since the financial crisis of 2008, the emergent discourse of philanthrocapitalism – philanthropic capitalism – has sought to recuperate a moral centre for finance capitalism. Philanthrocapitalism seeks to marry finance capital with a moral commitment to do good. These strategies require new financial instruments to make poverty reduction and other forms o…
My Fema People
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, hip-hop artists responded to the disaster with an outpouring of songs that engaged with the racialization, misrepresentation and violence that framed survivors as refugees in dominant discourse. This paper explores post-Katrina hip-hop in relation to the history of post-disaster black musical production in the U.S., and considers the ways in which the music not only narrates the dislocation of the Katrina diaspor…
Pitching agri-food tech
Food and agriculture have recently become focal points of tech sector innovation and financing. Rapidly multiplying agri-food tech startups are promising to import the tech sector's trademark disruptive innovation into an industry they deem sclerotic, inefficient, and unsustainable. This paper interrogates the cultural and market frictions attending Silicon Valley's foray into food and agriculture through the lens of what is perhaps the tech sect…
Investing for profit, investing for impact
The recent global boom in agricultural investment has spurred much normative critique of "land grabbing," but amidst this critical scrutiny investor morality has remained a black box. This article examines the role of ethical narratives in advancing the financialization of nature by comparing how agricultural investment projects are pitched and implemented among two different groups of investors: mainstream agricultural investors and impact inves…
Setting data free
Open data is increasingly being promoted as a route to achieve food security and agricultural development. This article critically examines the promotion of open agri-food data for development through a document-based case study of the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative as well as through interviews with open data practitioners and participant observation at open data events. While the concept of openness is strikin…
Agrarian Platform Capitalism
With the rise of digital technologies, a political‐economic configuration recognised as “platform capitalism” has raised concerns over monopolistic tendencies, lack of accountability, expanded rentiership, workers’ precarity, and more. Existing analyses, however, show a distinctly urban bias—centring on housing, transportation, retail, and gig labour—and have yet to engage with the agrarian dimensions of this phenomenon despite considerable poten…
My Fema People
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, hip-hop artists responded to the disaster with an outpouring of songs that engaged with the racialization, misrepresentation and violence that framed survivors as refugees in dominant discourse. This paper explores post-Katrina hip-hop in relation to the history of post-disaster black musical production in the U.S., and considers the ways in which the music not only narrates the dislocation of the Katrina diaspor…
Farm media
This essay introduces the first special issue to explore the subject of farm media, which the authors identify as the multiple forms of mediation—representational, infrastructural, and elemental—that reproduce the modern agri-food system. Through this multi-lens framework, media scholars are invited to take the farm seriously as a site of analysis, particularly the recent transformation of agriculture through intensive datafication and its accomp…
My Fema People
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, hip-hop artists responded to the disaster with an outpouring of songs that engaged with the racialization, misrepresentation and violence that framed survivors as refugees in dominant discourse. This paper explores post-Katrina hip-hop in relation to the history of post-disaster black musical production in the U.S., and considers the ways in which the music not only narrates the dislocation of the Katrina diaspor…
Bonded Life
Amid public critiques of Wall Street's amorality and protests against sharpening inequality since the financial crisis of 2008, the emergent discourse of philanthrocapitalism – philanthropic capitalism – has sought to recuperate a moral centre for finance capitalism. Philanthrocapitalism seeks to marry finance capital with a moral commitment to do good. These strategies require new financial instruments to make poverty reduction and other forms o…
The reproach of hunger
Investing for profit, investing for impact
The recent global boom in agricultural investment has spurred much normative critique of "land grabbing," but amidst this critical scrutiny investor morality has remained a black box. This article examines the role of ethical narratives in advancing the financialization of nature by comparing how agricultural investment projects are pitched and implemented among two different groups of investors: mainstream agricultural investors and impact inves…
Pitching agri-food tech
Food and agriculture have recently become focal points of tech sector innovation and financing. Rapidly multiplying agri-food tech startups are promising to import the tech sector's trademark disruptive innovation into an industry they deem sclerotic, inefficient, and unsustainable. This paper interrogates the cultural and market frictions attending Silicon Valley's foray into food and agriculture through the lens of what is perhaps the tech sect…
Setting data free
Open data is increasingly being promoted as a route to achieve food security and agricultural development. This article critically examines the promotion of open agri-food data for development through a document-based case study of the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative as well as through interviews with open data practitioners and participant observation at open data events. While the concept of openness is strikin…
Farm media
This essay introduces the first special issue to explore the subject of farm media, which the authors identify as the multiple forms of mediation—representational, infrastructural, and elemental—that reproduce the modern agri-food system. Through this multi-lens framework, media scholars are invited to take the farm seriously as a site of analysis, particularly the recent transformation of agriculture through intensive datafication and its accomp…
Agrarian Platform Capitalism
With the rise of digital technologies, a political‐economic configuration recognised as “platform capitalism” has raised concerns over monopolistic tendencies, lack of accountability, expanded rentiership, workers’ precarity, and more. Existing analyses, however, show a distinctly urban bias—centring on housing, transportation, retail, and gig labour—and have yet to engage with the agrarian dimensions of this phenomenon despite considerable poten…
The Indifference of Nature
Recent estimates suggest that approximately one-third of Ukrainian land has been degraded, including at least a quarter of the country’s agricultural land, since the outset of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. This interview with Ukrainian artist Kateryna Aliinyk explores how her paintings and other artworks make the environmental devastation of the conflict visible through a focus on what war buries in the soil. The interview probes how Alii…
Political science (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works)