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    Food, digital life, and new environment-development dynamics


    Fraser, Alistair (2021) Food, digital life, and new environment-development dynamics. In: The Routledge Handbook of Development and Environment. Routledge, pp. 79-89. ISBN 9781138325661

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    Abstract

    This chapter calls attention to new connections between digital technologies and food that can be found all across the world. It scrutinizes these developments against the light of an environment-development nexus engineered by mainstream development theorists, which assumes that an embrace of digital technologies in and across food systems will boost “development” and reduce the environmental impact of “modern” agricultural practices. The chapter uses materials on emerging configurations in the digital-infused food system to probe the possibilities for critical subjects to blend technical proficiencies to create alternative, conceivably more just, digital futures than those called forth by the well-established and many new firms using digital devices and services to generate and capture value across the food system.
    Item Type: Book Section
    Keywords: Food; digital life; environment development; dynamics;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography
    Item ID: 16394
    Depositing User: Alistair Fraser
    Date Deposited: 08 Aug 2022 11:22
    Journal or Publication Title: The Routledge Handbook of Development and Environment
    Publisher: Routledge
    Refereed: Yes
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    URI: https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/16394
    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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