E Ransom
Biographic Data
| ID | 48320 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Ransom |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Ransom |
| SIGNATURE | RANSOM E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Richmond |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9608-2914 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Holistic grazing management as a scalable niche? A systems perspective on transitions to increased sustainability in beef cattle grazing
Extensive cattle properties have become focal points for examining climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies. This is largely due to their dual role as sites that both release and potentially sequester carbon, depending on management activities. Many global regions have extensive cattle production systems, including the US, South America and Australia. In this qualitative social science research, the Australian beef cattle grazing indus…
Identifying knowledge gaps surrounding antimicrobial resistance
There is growing recognition that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a wicked problem in need of more systematic and interdisciplinary engagement. However, there remain significant knowledge gaps in how antimicrobial use in food-producing animals translates to AMR in animals, humans, and the environment. Drawing on an interdisciplinary approach, we utilize fecal testing on farms, to evaluate the presence of AMR genes (AMRg). Based on the existing …
Disaster response and sustainable transitions in agrifood systems
Food system shocks and food insecurity vulnerabilities
Situated Ethics in Development
Technology has played a central role in development programming since the inception of development assistance. Recent development organizations, like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, believe technological innovation can improve development outcomes. Development ethics, a field of study focused on the ethical questions posed by development policies and practices, has yet to fully appreciate the ethical dimensions of the science and technolog…
Impossible solutions
Dairy Livestock Interventions for Food Security in Uganda
Women are increasingly the target of agricultural development programs aimed at reducing poverty and food insecurity, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Some feminist scholars argue that such efforts are driven more by concerns about the efficient use of resources than the rights of women and do little to transform gendered power relations. We examine how development interventions that target women affect household well-being, especially food inse…
Weak winners’ of Women's empowerment
Constructing Culinary Knowledge
The late nineteenth and early twentieth century was a period rife with social change for both the domains of food production and consumption, with significant consequences for how we know food today. Yet the ways in which culinary knowledge became standardized beyond cooking schools and commercial cookbooks remains largely undisclosed, particularly in rural households. Much of the existing cookbook literature relies on cookbooks that originate fr…
Botswana’s beef global commodity chain
Gendering Agricultural Aid
Gender-based inequalities constrain women's ability to participate in efforts to enhance agricultural production and reduce poverty and food insecurity. To resolve this, development organizations have targeted women and more recently 'mainstreamed' gender within their agricultural aid programs. Through an analysis of agricultural-related development aid, we examine whether funded agricultural projects have increasingly targeted women and/or gende…
Agrifood Alternatives and Reflexivity in Academic Practice
Stratification on the Menu
LONG RECOGNIZED AS a source of conspicuous for the wealthy (Veblen 1899), over the past two decades food has increasingly become a signifier of social and cultural capital for a growing number of Americans. Celebrity chefs, television food channels, international cooking schools, cookbooks that line the shelves of corporate booksellers, as well as the proliferation of international restaurant chains are evidence of our efforts to differentiate ba…
The “All-American Meal
Using content analysis of newspaper coverage of the discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the United States, we analyze the media's portrayal of the “BSE crisis,” from a social constructionist perspective. We identify the salient claims-makers in the dialogue over food safety as it pertains to the discovery of BSE and we examine the content of their claims to reveal their core messages. We find that public definitions and respons…
New Agriculture Biotechnologies
In the contemporary global agrifood system, the emergence of a plethora of new agricultural biotechnologies has radically merged questions of design at the molecular level with those of agricultural change, posing a series of far-reaching social, technical, and ethical consequences and contradictions. With more possible technological paths than ever before, the new biotechnologies have made technology choice central in the discourse over the futu…
Stratification on the Menu
LONG RECOGNIZED AS a source of conspicuous for the wealthy (Veblen 1899), over the past two decades food has increasingly become a signifier of social and cultural capital for a growing number of Americans. Celebrity chefs, television food channels, international cooking schools, cookbooks that line the shelves of corporate booksellers, as well as the proliferation of international restaurant chains are evidence of our efforts to differentiate ba…
Gendering Agricultural Aid
Gender-based inequalities constrain women's ability to participate in efforts to enhance agricultural production and reduce poverty and food insecurity. To resolve this, development organizations have targeted women and more recently 'mainstreamed' gender within their agricultural aid programs. Through an analysis of agricultural-related development aid, we examine whether funded agricultural projects have increasingly targeted women and/or gende…
Impossible solutions
Weak winners’ of Women's empowerment
The “All-American Meal
Using content analysis of newspaper coverage of the discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the United States, we analyze the media's portrayal of the “BSE crisis,” from a social constructionist perspective. We identify the salient claims-makers in the dialogue over food safety as it pertains to the discovery of BSE and we examine the content of their claims to reveal their core messages. We find that public definitions and respons…
Constructing Culinary Knowledge
The late nineteenth and early twentieth century was a period rife with social change for both the domains of food production and consumption, with significant consequences for how we know food today. Yet the ways in which culinary knowledge became standardized beyond cooking schools and commercial cookbooks remains largely undisclosed, particularly in rural households. Much of the existing cookbook literature relies on cookbooks that originate fr…
Disaster response and sustainable transitions in agrifood systems
Food system shocks and food insecurity vulnerabilities
Dairy Livestock Interventions for Food Security in Uganda
Women are increasingly the target of agricultural development programs aimed at reducing poverty and food insecurity, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Some feminist scholars argue that such efforts are driven more by concerns about the efficient use of resources than the rights of women and do little to transform gendered power relations. We examine how development interventions that target women affect household well-being, especially food inse…
Agrifood Alternatives and Reflexivity in Academic Practice
New Agriculture Biotechnologies
In the contemporary global agrifood system, the emergence of a plethora of new agricultural biotechnologies has radically merged questions of design at the molecular level with those of agricultural change, posing a series of far-reaching social, technical, and ethical consequences and contradictions. With more possible technological paths than ever before, the new biotechnologies have made technology choice central in the discourse over the futu…
New Agriculture Biotechnologies
In the contemporary global agrifood system, the emergence of a plethora of new agricultural biotechnologies has radically merged questions of design at the molecular level with those of agricultural change, posing a series of far-reaching social, technical, and ethical consequences and contradictions. With more possible technological paths than ever before, the new biotechnologies have made technology choice central in the discourse over the futu…
Stratification on the Menu
LONG RECOGNIZED AS a source of conspicuous for the wealthy (Veblen 1899), over the past two decades food has increasingly become a signifier of social and cultural capital for a growing number of Americans. Celebrity chefs, television food channels, international cooking schools, cookbooks that line the shelves of corporate booksellers, as well as the proliferation of international restaurant chains are evidence of our efforts to differentiate ba…
The “All-American Meal
Using content analysis of newspaper coverage of the discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the United States, we analyze the media's portrayal of the “BSE crisis,” from a social constructionist perspective. We identify the salient claims-makers in the dialogue over food safety as it pertains to the discovery of BSE and we examine the content of their claims to reveal their core messages. We find that public definitions and respons…
Agrifood Alternatives and Reflexivity in Academic Practice
Botswana’s beef global commodity chain
Gendering Agricultural Aid
Gender-based inequalities constrain women's ability to participate in efforts to enhance agricultural production and reduce poverty and food insecurity. To resolve this, development organizations have targeted women and more recently 'mainstreamed' gender within their agricultural aid programs. Through an analysis of agricultural-related development aid, we examine whether funded agricultural projects have increasingly targeted women and/or gende…
Constructing Culinary Knowledge
The late nineteenth and early twentieth century was a period rife with social change for both the domains of food production and consumption, with significant consequences for how we know food today. Yet the ways in which culinary knowledge became standardized beyond cooking schools and commercial cookbooks remains largely undisclosed, particularly in rural households. Much of the existing cookbook literature relies on cookbooks that originate fr…
Weak winners’ of Women's empowerment
Dairy Livestock Interventions for Food Security in Uganda
Women are increasingly the target of agricultural development programs aimed at reducing poverty and food insecurity, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Some feminist scholars argue that such efforts are driven more by concerns about the efficient use of resources than the rights of women and do little to transform gendered power relations. We examine how development interventions that target women affect household well-being, especially food inse…
Impossible solutions
Situated Ethics in Development
Technology has played a central role in development programming since the inception of development assistance. Recent development organizations, like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, believe technological innovation can improve development outcomes. Development ethics, a field of study focused on the ethical questions posed by development policies and practices, has yet to fully appreciate the ethical dimensions of the science and technolog…
Identifying knowledge gaps surrounding antimicrobial resistance
There is growing recognition that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a wicked problem in need of more systematic and interdisciplinary engagement. However, there remain significant knowledge gaps in how antimicrobial use in food-producing animals translates to AMR in animals, humans, and the environment. Drawing on an interdisciplinary approach, we utilize fecal testing on farms, to evaluate the presence of AMR genes (AMRg). Based on the existing …
Disaster response and sustainable transitions in agrifood systems
Food system shocks and food insecurity vulnerabilities
Holistic grazing management as a scalable niche? A systems perspective on transitions to increased sustainability in beef cattle grazing
Extensive cattle properties have become focal points for examining climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies. This is largely due to their dual role as sites that both release and potentially sequester carbon, depending on management activities. Many global regions have extensive cattle production systems, including the US, South America and Australia. In this qualitative social science research, the Australian beef cattle grazing indus…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Business (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (4 works) · Biology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works)