Emily Reisman
Biographic Data
| ID | 81862 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Reisman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Reisman |
| SIGNATURE | REISMAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0199-5746 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Scarce, suffering, saved: Farm automation as digital saviourism
In this article we trace the complex ways in which farmworkers are characterised by technology promoters in the digital moment; as anxiety-provoking absences, relics of a cruel soon-to-be-past, and as fortunate beneficiaries of industrial, upskilling hygiene. Contributing to debates on labour and automation within the future of work, we argue that Silicon Valley’s mission to bring automation into the fields is a form of ‘digital saviourism’ that …
Agrarian Platform Capitalism: Digital Rentiership Comes to Farming
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 incumbent advantage: Corporate Power in Agri-Food Tech
The agri-food tech sector is touted for its potential to disrupt established industry. Yet research reveals that incumbent agribusinesses are buying their way into the sector through startup investments and acquisitions. Drawing from extensive qualitative research, we show that incumbent influence also shapes agri-food tech in more subtle and pervasive ways. Startups rely on incumbents' social and material infrastructure to achieve the rapid grow…
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…
Grad school in the rear view: Prioritizing career skills, mentorship, and equity in the interdisciplinary environmental PhD
Protecting provenance, abandoning agriculture? Heritage products, industrial ideals and the uprooting of a Spanish turrón
Agri-Food Systems and the Anthropocene
Understanding the Anthropocene—as both a set of physiological phenomena and as an existential crisis of modernity—requires interrogating Earth-changing transformations in food and agriculture. Agri-food systems are not only at the core of alarming environmental trends; they also offer opportunities to directly engage important challenges to the Anthropocene concept. Many human geographers and other social scientists have raised critiques of the A…
Plants, Pathogens, and the Politics of Care: Xylella fastidiosa and the Intra-active Breakdown of Mallorca's Almond Ecology
Almonds were once "the gold of Mallorca," a source of modest wealth and a pillar of diversified farming systems for smallholders on the largest of Spain's Balearic Islands. Now researchers believe nearly every rainfed almond tree on the island will be dead within as few as five years. The introduced bacteria Xylella fastidiosa, enabled by its spittle-bug vector, and emboldened by climate change, has flooded the xylem of these rainfed trees, imped…
Sanitizing agri-food tech: Covid-19 and the politics of expectation
Several emerging technologies for agri-food systems are promoted by supporters as alleviating the instabilities of COVID-19 and thus increasingly necessary and inevitable. Compelled to pivot towards the pandemic, technologists align their projects with narratives of safety, security and resilience. This paper highlights the political contours of these technologies, arguing that proposed innovations are far from neutral paths toward a more sanitar…
Next Year, Together: Covid-19 Rewrites a Ritual Meal
This commentary describes a virtual seder (the ceremonial Passover meal) as it is reformatted by Covid-19. Dwelling on a shift in the closing lines of the socially-distanced digital dinner from “next year in Jerusalem” to “next year, together,” the essay explores the politics of place in articulations of hope and the role of ritual in potentially rewriting them
The great almond debate: A subtle double movement in California water
Superfood as spatial fix: The Ascent of the Almond
Troubling Tradition, Community, and Self-Reliance: Reframing Expectations for Village Seed Banks
Lentil Underground: Liz Carlisle (New York: Avery Publishing 2015)
Sanitizing agri-food tech: Covid-19 and the politics of expectation
Several emerging technologies for agri-food systems are promoted by supporters as alleviating the instabilities of COVID-19 and thus increasingly necessary and inevitable. Compelled to pivot towards the pandemic, technologists align their projects with narratives of safety, security and resilience. This paper highlights the political contours of these technologies, arguing that proposed innovations are far from neutral paths toward a more sanitar…
The incumbent advantage: Corporate Power in Agri-Food Tech
The agri-food tech sector is touted for its potential to disrupt established industry. Yet research reveals that incumbent agribusinesses are buying their way into the sector through startup investments and acquisitions. Drawing from extensive qualitative research, we show that incumbent influence also shapes agri-food tech in more subtle and pervasive ways. Startups rely on incumbents' social and material infrastructure to achieve the rapid grow…
Plants, Pathogens, and the Politics of Care: Xylella fastidiosa and the Intra-active Breakdown of Mallorca's Almond Ecology
Almonds were once "the gold of Mallorca," a source of modest wealth and a pillar of diversified farming systems for smallholders on the largest of Spain's Balearic Islands. Now researchers believe nearly every rainfed almond tree on the island will be dead within as few as five years. The introduced bacteria Xylella fastidiosa, enabled by its spittle-bug vector, and emboldened by climate change, has flooded the xylem of these rainfed trees, imped…
Agri-Food Systems and the Anthropocene
Understanding the Anthropocene—as both a set of physiological phenomena and as an existential crisis of modernity—requires interrogating Earth-changing transformations in food and agriculture. Agri-food systems are not only at the core of alarming environmental trends; they also offer opportunities to directly engage important challenges to the Anthropocene concept. Many human geographers and other social scientists have raised critiques of the A…
Superfood as spatial fix: The Ascent of the Almond
The great almond debate: A subtle double movement in California water
Agrarian Platform Capitalism: Digital Rentiership Comes to Farming
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…
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…
Protecting provenance, abandoning agriculture? Heritage products, industrial ideals and the uprooting of a Spanish turrón
Lentil Underground: Liz Carlisle (New York: Avery Publishing 2015)
Troubling Tradition, Community, and Self-Reliance: Reframing Expectations for Village Seed Banks
The great almond debate: A subtle double movement in California water
Superfood as spatial fix: The Ascent of the Almond
Next Year, Together: Covid-19 Rewrites a Ritual Meal
This commentary describes a virtual seder (the ceremonial Passover meal) as it is reformatted by Covid-19. Dwelling on a shift in the closing lines of the socially-distanced digital dinner from “next year in Jerusalem” to “next year, together,” the essay explores the politics of place in articulations of hope and the role of ritual in potentially rewriting them
Protecting provenance, abandoning agriculture? Heritage products, industrial ideals and the uprooting of a Spanish turrón
Agri-Food Systems and the Anthropocene
Understanding the Anthropocene—as both a set of physiological phenomena and as an existential crisis of modernity—requires interrogating Earth-changing transformations in food and agriculture. Agri-food systems are not only at the core of alarming environmental trends; they also offer opportunities to directly engage important challenges to the Anthropocene concept. Many human geographers and other social scientists have raised critiques of the A…
Plants, Pathogens, and the Politics of Care: Xylella fastidiosa and the Intra-active Breakdown of Mallorca's Almond Ecology
Almonds were once "the gold of Mallorca," a source of modest wealth and a pillar of diversified farming systems for smallholders on the largest of Spain's Balearic Islands. Now researchers believe nearly every rainfed almond tree on the island will be dead within as few as five years. The introduced bacteria Xylella fastidiosa, enabled by its spittle-bug vector, and emboldened by climate change, has flooded the xylem of these rainfed trees, imped…
Sanitizing agri-food tech: Covid-19 and the politics of expectation
Several emerging technologies for agri-food systems are promoted by supporters as alleviating the instabilities of COVID-19 and thus increasingly necessary and inevitable. Compelled to pivot towards the pandemic, technologists align their projects with narratives of safety, security and resilience. This paper highlights the political contours of these technologies, arguing that proposed innovations are far from neutral paths toward a more sanitar…
Grad school in the rear view: Prioritizing career skills, mentorship, and equity in the interdisciplinary environmental PhD
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…
The incumbent advantage: Corporate Power in Agri-Food Tech
The agri-food tech sector is touted for its potential to disrupt established industry. Yet research reveals that incumbent agribusinesses are buying their way into the sector through startup investments and acquisitions. Drawing from extensive qualitative research, we show that incumbent influence also shapes agri-food tech in more subtle and pervasive ways. Startups rely on incumbents' social and material infrastructure to achieve the rapid grow…
Scarce, suffering, saved: Farm automation as digital saviourism
In this article we trace the complex ways in which farmworkers are characterised by technology promoters in the digital moment; as anxiety-provoking absences, relics of a cruel soon-to-be-past, and as fortunate beneficiaries of industrial, upskilling hygiene. Contributing to debates on labour and automation within the future of work, we argue that Silicon Valley’s mission to bring automation into the fields is a form of ‘digital saviourism’ that …
Agrarian Platform Capitalism: Digital Rentiership Comes to Farming
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…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Agriculture (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (4 works) · Economics (4 works)