Evan Bowne
Biographic Data
| ID | 228601 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Evan Bowne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Evan |
| FAMILY NAME | Bowne |
| SIGNATURE | BOWNE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6038-960X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A just transition for cellular dairy: Reflections from the Fraser Valley
Food systems globally are under growing pressure to transition in response to climate change, ecological degradation, shifting consumer expectations, and persistent social inequities. Emerging biotechnologies, including cellular agriculture, are increasingly positioned as part of these transitions, yet their social and political implications remain unclear. This study examines the potential emergence of cellular dairy in British Columbia’s Fraser…
Reparative research for the climate and nature emergency
Research about the climate and nature emergency (CNE) often reinforces colonial patterns, including the separation of humans from the rest of nature, the privileging of western scientific knowledge, and the treatment of frontline communities as data sources rather than knowledge producers. In this viewpoint, we propose a reparative approach to CNE research that foregrounds relational, material, and epistemic repair as pathways to interrupt the re…
Beyond redistribution: A framework for reparative just transitions
Prevailing just transition proposals often assume the continuity of colonial land relations and see ‘greener’ industrial development as a pathway to prosperity for all. Our paper aligns with and aims to contribute to emerging scholarship that questions these assumptions. Through a review of interdisciplinary just transition research, we map a distinction between mainstream, critical and reparative approaches to just transitions. Mainstream perspe…
Agroecological transition or agroecological repossession ? Resurgence of traditional food culture in the Tremembé da Barra do Mundaú
Industrial food systems, as extensions of colonial dispossession, are destroying the planet. Agroecology is increasingly promoted as a response, framed as an ecological farming practice, a grassroots movement, and an academic field. Yet, much agroecological knowledge remains embedded in the same Western institutions and epistemologies that underpin industrial agriculture. As such, agroecological science can reproduce patterns of knowledge extract…
Envisioning prairie agroecology: Farmer visual constructions of place-based ecological agriculture in Canada
Climate change is driving new challenges for farmers around the world, provoking a sense of urgency in the search for on-farm solutions and pathways to sustainable agricultural systems. While agroecology has gained recognition as a promising option for climate resilience, it remains nascent in the Canadian Prairies—a significant agricultural region dominated by large-scale conventional agriculture. Amid the sprawling fields of grains and oilseeds…
Tasting the “Future of Food” on a Bay-Area Cellular Agriculture Tour
It’s a sunny spring morning in San Francisco. In the Bay Area, we’re on the traditional and ancestral territory of the Ohlone People, though now Indigenous Peoples of many nations find their home on these lands.My colleagues and I traveled to the Bay Area to meet with a few “cellular agriculture” start-ups. This morning is our first visit of several this week. We’re in the “Dogpatch” neighborhood. Subway tracks line the main street. We are surrou…
Beyond colonial futurities in climate education
Many pedagogies that seek to address the climate and nature emergency (CNE) promise hope and solutions for an idealized future. In this article, we suggest these pedagogies are rooted in the same modern/colonial system that created the CNE and other ‘wicked’ socio-ecological challenges in the first place, and thus they are not well-suited for preparing students to navigate these challenges. We also ask what kind of climate education could invite …
Sites, stakes, and scales: Radical relationalism and the shifting nature of food sovereignty mobilization
Food sovereignty movements emerged in the 1990s as a global constellation of struggles against the corporate food regime. Here, we propose a radically relational ‘sites, stakes, and scales' framework for analyzing food sovereignty mobilization, adopting a flat ontology that considers both actual and potential relations. ‘Sites' refer to the actually existing relations between actors engaged in a social struggle; ‘stakes' are dynamic interests tha…
Towards Settler Responsibility in Conservation
This conceptual paper reviews recent efforts to confront colonialism in conservation, with an emphasis on the challenges and complexities that have emerged among settler organizations engaged in this work. We consider recent academic and grey literature in the field in order to map different approaches to conservation, including the emerging interface of Indigenous and western approaches. We also map different approaches to Indigenous engagement …
Sélection thématique de livres
Cette rubrique signale des ouvrages rcemment parus. Ils sont classs en trois catgories : les ouvrages thmatiques par objet d'tude ; les ouvrages sur la science et ses rapports avec la socit ; les ouvrages de rflexion sur les sciences. Pour une description plus dtaille, cliquez sur le titre
Finance and fossil capital: A community divided
Bringing the city to the country? Responsibility, privilege and urban agrarianism in Metro Vancouver
This paper furthers the development of the theory of agrarian citizenship-the bundle of rights and responsibilities underpinning the food sovereignty movement. Through interviews with 34 participants engaged with urban agriculture in Metro Vancouver, Canada, we introduce the concept of urban agrarianism, defined as an urban ethic of care for foodlands and, by extension, a relational responsibility to exercise solidarity with those who cultivate a…
Risk and responsibility in the corporate food regime: Research pathways beyond the Covid-19 crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has focused renewed public attention on the risks and harms generated by a globalized, industrialized, and corporatized food system. This crisis reinvigorates the need for a research agenda that identifies compelling ways of holding key actors in the corporate food regime accountable for creating and profiting from systemic risk in the food system. We draw upon theoretical conceptions of "risk," "rights," and "(ir)responsibi…
Sand in the cogs? Power and public participation in the Alberta tar sands
Public participation in natural-resource management has been theorised as a potential means of slowing or halting the 'treadmill of production'. We examine the institutional processes for citizen participation in bitumen development proposals in Alberta, Canada, home of the tar sands – one of the world's largest reserves of fossil fuel. Within the context of economic and ecological impacts of fossil-fuel resource development in Alberta, we chart …
Bringing the city to the country? Responsibility, privilege and urban agrarianism in Metro Vancouver
This paper furthers the development of the theory of agrarian citizenship-the bundle of rights and responsibilities underpinning the food sovereignty movement. Through interviews with 34 participants engaged with urban agriculture in Metro Vancouver, Canada, we introduce the concept of urban agrarianism, defined as an urban ethic of care for foodlands and, by extension, a relational responsibility to exercise solidarity with those who cultivate a…
Sand in the cogs? Power and public participation in the Alberta tar sands
Public participation in natural-resource management has been theorised as a potential means of slowing or halting the 'treadmill of production'. We examine the institutional processes for citizen participation in bitumen development proposals in Alberta, Canada, home of the tar sands – one of the world's largest reserves of fossil fuel. Within the context of economic and ecological impacts of fossil-fuel resource development in Alberta, we chart …
Risk and responsibility in the corporate food regime: Research pathways beyond the Covid-19 crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has focused renewed public attention on the risks and harms generated by a globalized, industrialized, and corporatized food system. This crisis reinvigorates the need for a research agenda that identifies compelling ways of holding key actors in the corporate food regime accountable for creating and profiting from systemic risk in the food system. We draw upon theoretical conceptions of "risk," "rights," and "(ir)responsibi…
Agroecological transition or agroecological repossession ? Resurgence of traditional food culture in the Tremembé da Barra do Mundaú
Industrial food systems, as extensions of colonial dispossession, are destroying the planet. Agroecology is increasingly promoted as a response, framed as an ecological farming practice, a grassroots movement, and an academic field. Yet, much agroecological knowledge remains embedded in the same Western institutions and epistemologies that underpin industrial agriculture. As such, agroecological science can reproduce patterns of knowledge extract…
Finance and fossil capital: A community divided
Sand in the cogs? Power and public participation in the Alberta tar sands
Public participation in natural-resource management has been theorised as a potential means of slowing or halting the 'treadmill of production'. We examine the institutional processes for citizen participation in bitumen development proposals in Alberta, Canada, home of the tar sands – one of the world's largest reserves of fossil fuel. Within the context of economic and ecological impacts of fossil-fuel resource development in Alberta, we chart …
Risk and responsibility in the corporate food regime: Research pathways beyond the Covid-19 crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has focused renewed public attention on the risks and harms generated by a globalized, industrialized, and corporatized food system. This crisis reinvigorates the need for a research agenda that identifies compelling ways of holding key actors in the corporate food regime accountable for creating and profiting from systemic risk in the food system. We draw upon theoretical conceptions of "risk," "rights," and "(ir)responsibi…
Finance and fossil capital: A community divided
Bringing the city to the country? Responsibility, privilege and urban agrarianism in Metro Vancouver
This paper furthers the development of the theory of agrarian citizenship-the bundle of rights and responsibilities underpinning the food sovereignty movement. Through interviews with 34 participants engaged with urban agriculture in Metro Vancouver, Canada, we introduce the concept of urban agrarianism, defined as an urban ethic of care for foodlands and, by extension, a relational responsibility to exercise solidarity with those who cultivate a…
Sélection thématique de livres
Cette rubrique signale des ouvrages rcemment parus. Ils sont classs en trois catgories : les ouvrages thmatiques par objet d'tude ; les ouvrages sur la science et ses rapports avec la socit ; les ouvrages de rflexion sur les sciences. Pour une description plus dtaille, cliquez sur le titre
Tasting the “Future of Food” on a Bay-Area Cellular Agriculture Tour
It’s a sunny spring morning in San Francisco. In the Bay Area, we’re on the traditional and ancestral territory of the Ohlone People, though now Indigenous Peoples of many nations find their home on these lands.My colleagues and I traveled to the Bay Area to meet with a few “cellular agriculture” start-ups. This morning is our first visit of several this week. We’re in the “Dogpatch” neighborhood. Subway tracks line the main street. We are surrou…
Beyond colonial futurities in climate education
Many pedagogies that seek to address the climate and nature emergency (CNE) promise hope and solutions for an idealized future. In this article, we suggest these pedagogies are rooted in the same modern/colonial system that created the CNE and other ‘wicked’ socio-ecological challenges in the first place, and thus they are not well-suited for preparing students to navigate these challenges. We also ask what kind of climate education could invite …
Sites, stakes, and scales: Radical relationalism and the shifting nature of food sovereignty mobilization
Food sovereignty movements emerged in the 1990s as a global constellation of struggles against the corporate food regime. Here, we propose a radically relational ‘sites, stakes, and scales' framework for analyzing food sovereignty mobilization, adopting a flat ontology that considers both actual and potential relations. ‘Sites' refer to the actually existing relations between actors engaged in a social struggle; ‘stakes' are dynamic interests tha…
Towards Settler Responsibility in Conservation
This conceptual paper reviews recent efforts to confront colonialism in conservation, with an emphasis on the challenges and complexities that have emerged among settler organizations engaged in this work. We consider recent academic and grey literature in the field in order to map different approaches to conservation, including the emerging interface of Indigenous and western approaches. We also map different approaches to Indigenous engagement …
Envisioning prairie agroecology: Farmer visual constructions of place-based ecological agriculture in Canada
Climate change is driving new challenges for farmers around the world, provoking a sense of urgency in the search for on-farm solutions and pathways to sustainable agricultural systems. While agroecology has gained recognition as a promising option for climate resilience, it remains nascent in the Canadian Prairies—a significant agricultural region dominated by large-scale conventional agriculture. Amid the sprawling fields of grains and oilseeds…
Beyond redistribution: A framework for reparative just transitions
Prevailing just transition proposals often assume the continuity of colonial land relations and see ‘greener’ industrial development as a pathway to prosperity for all. Our paper aligns with and aims to contribute to emerging scholarship that questions these assumptions. Through a review of interdisciplinary just transition research, we map a distinction between mainstream, critical and reparative approaches to just transitions. Mainstream perspe…
Agroecological transition or agroecological repossession ? Resurgence of traditional food culture in the Tremembé da Barra do Mundaú
Industrial food systems, as extensions of colonial dispossession, are destroying the planet. Agroecology is increasingly promoted as a response, framed as an ecological farming practice, a grassroots movement, and an academic field. Yet, much agroecological knowledge remains embedded in the same Western institutions and epistemologies that underpin industrial agriculture. As such, agroecological science can reproduce patterns of knowledge extract…
A just transition for cellular dairy: Reflections from the Fraser Valley
Food systems globally are under growing pressure to transition in response to climate change, ecological degradation, shifting consumer expectations, and persistent social inequities. Emerging biotechnologies, including cellular agriculture, are increasingly positioned as part of these transitions, yet their social and political implications remain unclear. This study examines the potential emergence of cellular dairy in British Columbia’s Fraser…
Reparative research for the climate and nature emergency
Research about the climate and nature emergency (CNE) often reinforces colonial patterns, including the separation of humans from the rest of nature, the privileging of western scientific knowledge, and the treatment of frontline communities as data sources rather than knowledge producers. In this viewpoint, we propose a reparative approach to CNE research that foregrounds relational, material, and epistemic repair as pathways to interrupt the re…
Political science (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (7 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (6 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Economics (5 works)