The Wild Side of Agro-food Studies

On Co-experimentation, Politics, Change, and Hope

Bibliographic Data

ID4445787
AuthorsMichael Carolan (0000-0002-2691-0454, Colorado State University, corresponding author), Michael S Carolan (Department of Sociology Colorado State University Fort Collins CO 80523‐1784 USA)
Year2013
Volume53
Issue4
Pages413-431
Publication date2013-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociologia Ruralis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0199 • E-ISSN: 1467-9523
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/soru.12020
OpenAlexW1842432795
LanguageEN
Citations received40
References cited82

Noting that the field of agro-food studies has undergone numerous 'turns' over the years, this article first seeks to make sense of this evolving literature by examining aspects of the metaphysical foreground upon which this 'turning' takes place. Doing this highlights a coalescing of sorts within the field; a movement the author describes as being less toward a specific theoretical framework as it is around a general way of doing agro-food scholarship. This style of scholarship embraces relationality, process, and multiplicity while emphasising the generative capacities of what agro-food scholars do for enacting novel political, ontological, and normative practices. The reminder of the article co-experiments with what it means to be open to these productive capacities as researchers, in terms of making the un-thought thinkable and un-doable routine. In doing this the article offers an account of agro-food imaginaries that is hopeful precisely because it is unsettling

Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Organic Food and Agriculture

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