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Why has Silicon Valley become the model for addressing today's myriad social and ecological crises? With this book, Julie Guthman digs into the impoverished solutions for food and agriculture currently emerging from Silicon Valley, urging us to stop trying to fix our broken food system through finit

This year's JustFood21 conference, organized by ASFS, AFHVS, CAFS, and SAFN, centers on the theme of food justice, highlighting how food is ensconced in systems of exclusion, oppression, and power. We reached out to several of our recently published authors in this field to ask: What does food justi

As part of our #AAG2021 virtual conference series, we reached out to author Julie Guthman to discuss her award-winning book, Wilted, and our Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics series.Julie Guthman is Professor of Social Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her

March is Women’s History Month, and we at UC Press are proud to share our rich record of publishing stories of women from throughout history, between disciplines, and across borders.Please enjoy these collections which highlight the work, research, and activism of women authors from throughout o

excerpted from Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry by Julie GuthmanThe appearance of Fusarium and Macrophomina in California’s strawberry fields, where they had supposedly never been before, returns me to questions about how these fungi came into