Adam M. Romero is Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell.The toxicity of pesticides to the environment and humans is often framed as an unfortunate effect of their benefits to agricultural production. In Economic Poisoning
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
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