M Comi
Biographic Data
| ID | 67412 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Comi |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Comi |
| SIGNATURE | COMI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0278-856X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Making Citra: Branding, Breeding, and the Co-production of New Aroma Hops in the Yakima Valley
Using farmer-owned breeding programs operated by vertically integrated US Northwest hop growers, this article examines the novel hops produced by these programs with market applications for craft beer. Drawing on data collected through hybrid qualitative methods, I explore Yakima farmers' understandings of the hop material they breed, grow, buy, and/or sell, alongside this model's resulting value chain. I demonstrate that growers, alongside other…
Digital home-lessness: Exploring the links between public Internet access, technological capital, and social inequality
Millions of individuals in the United States without a computer or broadband at their residence must rely on public libraries for their Internet access. Drawing on a rich data set of interviews and participant observation at three public libraries, we explore how individuals navigate these complex settings and how they profoundly shape their digital lives and experiences, one we characterize as digital home-lessness. In this article, we identify …
Cultivating intellectual community in academia: Reflections from the Science and Technology Studies Food and Agriculture Network (STSFAN)
Scholarship flourishes in inclusive environments where open deliberations and generative feedback expand both individual and collective thinking. Many researchers, however, have limited access to such settings, and most conventional academic conferences fall short of promises to provide them. We have written this Field Report to share our methods for cultivating a vibrant intellectual community within the Science and Technology Studies Food and A…
Social science – STEM collaborations in agriculture, food and beyond: An STSFAN manifesto
Interdisciplinary research needs innovation. As an action-oriented intervention, this Manifesto begins from the authors' experiences as social scientists working within interdisciplinary science and technology collaborations in agriculture and food. We draw from these experiences to: 1) explain what social scientists contribute to interdisciplinary agri-food tech collaborations; (2) describe barriers to substantive and meaningful collaboration; a…
Farmers who tinker: Grounded alternatives to incrementalism and the growth imperative
While hop yards have historically been small-acreage operations with high levels of infrastructure, North American hop growing has increasingly followed a neo-plantation model of high-acreage and high-automation farms. These large hop yards often have highly developed marketing and breeding components, and these growers' practices have reshaped the hop marketplace. Within this landscape are a scattered group of mostly small-to-medium-scale farmer…
Chicken noodle night: Conviviality, resilience, and food at the Vinland Fair
This participant-observation study examines the intersection of food, community resilience, and conviviality in a tiny, aging, but vibrant fair in NE Kansas. Vinland Valley is a town halfway between Lawrence and Baldwin City, southwest of Kansas City. Vinland’s population has never grown significantly beyond the size of its founding membership, and this stagnation resulted in its official un-incorporation in the 1980s. The Vinland Fair, however, …
New aesthetic regimes: The shifting global political ecology of aroma hops
Other agricultures of scale: Social and environmental insights from Yakima Valley hop growers
The distributed farmer: Rethinking US Midwestern precision agriculture techniques
This article examines changes in the social world of farming, agricultural decision-making, and environmental outcomes in regions where precision agriculture (PA) techniques are increasingly commonplace. I suggest that a PA farmer does not typically appear as a discreet actor but rather as a ‘distributed farmer’: an assemblage of human and material participants which only together enact farming and decisions about farming. Drawing on qualitative …
The right hybrid for every acre: Assembling the social worlds of corn and soy seed-selling in conventional agricultural techniques
This article looks to better understand seed-selling assemblages between top-10 agricultural companies and conventional farmers in the US Midwest by looking to the often ignored participants connecting these groups. Data for this research are drawn from 12 qualitative, on-site interviews with participants identifying as seed dealers or agronomists who live and work in Northeast Kansas and Northwest Missouri, an agricultural region dominated by th…
The distributed farmer: Rethinking US Midwestern precision agriculture techniques
This article examines changes in the social world of farming, agricultural decision-making, and environmental outcomes in regions where precision agriculture (PA) techniques are increasingly commonplace. I suggest that a PA farmer does not typically appear as a discreet actor but rather as a ‘distributed farmer’: an assemblage of human and material participants which only together enact farming and decisions about farming. Drawing on qualitative …
New aesthetic regimes: The shifting global political ecology of aroma hops
Chicken noodle night: Conviviality, resilience, and food at the Vinland Fair
This participant-observation study examines the intersection of food, community resilience, and conviviality in a tiny, aging, but vibrant fair in NE Kansas. Vinland Valley is a town halfway between Lawrence and Baldwin City, southwest of Kansas City. Vinland’s population has never grown significantly beyond the size of its founding membership, and this stagnation resulted in its official un-incorporation in the 1980s. The Vinland Fair, however, …
Social science – STEM collaborations in agriculture, food and beyond: An STSFAN manifesto
Interdisciplinary research needs innovation. As an action-oriented intervention, this Manifesto begins from the authors' experiences as social scientists working within interdisciplinary science and technology collaborations in agriculture and food. We draw from these experiences to: 1) explain what social scientists contribute to interdisciplinary agri-food tech collaborations; (2) describe barriers to substantive and meaningful collaboration; a…
Other agricultures of scale: Social and environmental insights from Yakima Valley hop growers
The right hybrid for every acre: Assembling the social worlds of corn and soy seed-selling in conventional agricultural techniques
This article looks to better understand seed-selling assemblages between top-10 agricultural companies and conventional farmers in the US Midwest by looking to the often ignored participants connecting these groups. Data for this research are drawn from 12 qualitative, on-site interviews with participants identifying as seed dealers or agronomists who live and work in Northeast Kansas and Northwest Missouri, an agricultural region dominated by th…
Digital home-lessness: Exploring the links between public Internet access, technological capital, and social inequality
Millions of individuals in the United States without a computer or broadband at their residence must rely on public libraries for their Internet access. Drawing on a rich data set of interviews and participant observation at three public libraries, we explore how individuals navigate these complex settings and how they profoundly shape their digital lives and experiences, one we characterize as digital home-lessness. In this article, we identify …
Cultivating intellectual community in academia: Reflections from the Science and Technology Studies Food and Agriculture Network (STSFAN)
Scholarship flourishes in inclusive environments where open deliberations and generative feedback expand both individual and collective thinking. Many researchers, however, have limited access to such settings, and most conventional academic conferences fall short of promises to provide them. We have written this Field Report to share our methods for cultivating a vibrant intellectual community within the Science and Technology Studies Food and A…
Farmers who tinker: Grounded alternatives to incrementalism and the growth imperative
While hop yards have historically been small-acreage operations with high levels of infrastructure, North American hop growing has increasingly followed a neo-plantation model of high-acreage and high-automation farms. These large hop yards often have highly developed marketing and breeding components, and these growers' practices have reshaped the hop marketplace. Within this landscape are a scattered group of mostly small-to-medium-scale farmer…
The right hybrid for every acre: Assembling the social worlds of corn and soy seed-selling in conventional agricultural techniques
This article looks to better understand seed-selling assemblages between top-10 agricultural companies and conventional farmers in the US Midwest by looking to the often ignored participants connecting these groups. Data for this research are drawn from 12 qualitative, on-site interviews with participants identifying as seed dealers or agronomists who live and work in Northeast Kansas and Northwest Missouri, an agricultural region dominated by th…
Other agricultures of scale: Social and environmental insights from Yakima Valley hop growers
The distributed farmer: Rethinking US Midwestern precision agriculture techniques
This article examines changes in the social world of farming, agricultural decision-making, and environmental outcomes in regions where precision agriculture (PA) techniques are increasingly commonplace. I suggest that a PA farmer does not typically appear as a discreet actor but rather as a ‘distributed farmer’: an assemblage of human and material participants which only together enact farming and decisions about farming. Drawing on qualitative …
Chicken noodle night: Conviviality, resilience, and food at the Vinland Fair
This participant-observation study examines the intersection of food, community resilience, and conviviality in a tiny, aging, but vibrant fair in NE Kansas. Vinland Valley is a town halfway between Lawrence and Baldwin City, southwest of Kansas City. Vinland’s population has never grown significantly beyond the size of its founding membership, and this stagnation resulted in its official un-incorporation in the 1980s. The Vinland Fair, however, …
New aesthetic regimes: The shifting global political ecology of aroma hops
Cultivating intellectual community in academia: Reflections from the Science and Technology Studies Food and Agriculture Network (STSFAN)
Scholarship flourishes in inclusive environments where open deliberations and generative feedback expand both individual and collective thinking. Many researchers, however, have limited access to such settings, and most conventional academic conferences fall short of promises to provide them. We have written this Field Report to share our methods for cultivating a vibrant intellectual community within the Science and Technology Studies Food and A…
Social science – STEM collaborations in agriculture, food and beyond: An STSFAN manifesto
Interdisciplinary research needs innovation. As an action-oriented intervention, this Manifesto begins from the authors' experiences as social scientists working within interdisciplinary science and technology collaborations in agriculture and food. We draw from these experiences to: 1) explain what social scientists contribute to interdisciplinary agri-food tech collaborations; (2) describe barriers to substantive and meaningful collaboration; a…
Farmers who tinker: Grounded alternatives to incrementalism and the growth imperative
While hop yards have historically been small-acreage operations with high levels of infrastructure, North American hop growing has increasingly followed a neo-plantation model of high-acreage and high-automation farms. These large hop yards often have highly developed marketing and breeding components, and these growers' practices have reshaped the hop marketplace. Within this landscape are a scattered group of mostly small-to-medium-scale farmer…
Making Citra: Branding, Breeding, and the Co-production of New Aroma Hops in the Yakima Valley
Using farmer-owned breeding programs operated by vertically integrated US Northwest hop growers, this article examines the novel hops produced by these programs with market applications for craft beer. Drawing on data collected through hybrid qualitative methods, I explore Yakima farmers' understandings of the hop material they breed, grow, buy, and/or sell, alongside this model's resulting value chain. I demonstrate that growers, alongside other…
Digital home-lessness: Exploring the links between public Internet access, technological capital, and social inequality
Millions of individuals in the United States without a computer or broadband at their residence must rely on public libraries for their Internet access. Drawing on a rich data set of interviews and participant observation at three public libraries, we explore how individuals navigate these complex settings and how they profoundly shape their digital lives and experiences, one we characterize as digital home-lessness. In this article, we identify …
Sociology (8 works) · Agriculture (6 works) · Business (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Hops Chemistry and Applications (3 works)