Mat2024
Future Food Systems at MAT2024
On September 20, I was part of a workshop called “Food as the Building Block of Society.” This workshop...
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The 2024 US Election: Politics and the Dark Food Futures of Donald Trump 
This project is funded by FORMAS, a Swedish research council for sustainability. As such, it should be...
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Interview with professor Sabine Höhler, co-director of the Centre of Excellence for Anthropocene History
The Swedish Research Council issued a call for Centres of Excellence last year, and Kungliga Tekniska...
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Upcoming Event: The Environmental Humanities in Anglophone Literature and Media
I am one of 4 speakers at the event The Environmental Humanities in Anglophone Literature and Media...
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The Blood of Angels: Writing (the Resistance to) Vegan Food Futures
As described in this blog post, research into future ways of eating often considers three...
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Categorizing Future Food Fiction: From the Optimized Omnivore to New and Future Food
Climate Fiction that explores food futures can be categorized in a number of ways. One useful way of...
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Nordic Climate Fiction and Extractive Food Industries in The Healer
The Healer is a climate fiction crime thriller by Finnish author Antti Tuomainen. The novel was first...
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Chain-Gang All-Stars: Prison Food Futures
In a manner similar to Tochi Onyebuchi’s Riot Baby, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Chain-Gang All-Stars investigates...
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Cyperpunk, Steampunk and Solarpunk: Food and Sci-Fi Subgenres
Starting in the late 1960s, science fiction authors began to explore futures very different from those...
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Agriculture, biodiversity and Indigenous science
The journal Science recently published a large study that reported on the relationship...
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Meat, the food-industrial complex and fiction: “Meat Narratives” special issue 
There is a great wealth of research that conclusively shows that the consumption of meat produces significant...
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Reading Global Climate Fiction: The World-Literature Perspective
If you are interested in the theoretical approach of the project, here is a (long) blog post that begins...
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Alien Romulus and Extraction
Alien: Romulus premiered worldwide on August 16 and has since done very well at the box office....
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New Book: The American Climate Emergency Narrative
In late July this year (2024), my new book The American Climate Emergency Narrative: Origins, Developments...
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Is conservation sustainable? Imagining a world of change
Guest Blog by UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures Cornelius Holtorf. It was a series of changes of plan...
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Automated Over-Fishing and Communicating Food Futures
Ray Naylor’s debut novel The Mountain in the Sea (2022) introduces the reader to a future where...
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Road out of Winter: Women, Witches and Food
Alison Stine’s Road Out of Winter is a postapocalyptic climate narrative set in rural Appalachia...
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Oryx and Crake: Atwood, Food and the Capitalocene
This is another too-long blog post. Sometimes, you just have to give a novel the space it demands. So...
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Food, culture and society
Special Issue Introduction: Representation of Diasporic Food Cultures
This is the introduction to a special issue I edited with food scholar Ana Grgic. The article Climate...
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The Tasty Future Festival
I spoke on the topic “Fiction and Food Futures” at the Tasty Future Festival on the 16th of April,...
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The Windup Girl and the World Food System
The publication of Paulo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl in 2009 marks an important stage in the...
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Climate Diaspora and Future Food Cultures
The first publication of the project is now online (Open Access). This is the article Climate Diaspora...
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(Beyond) junk food futures in Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
Tochi Onyebuchi was born in the US to Nigerian immigrants. He is known for the young adult War Girls (2019)...
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Leave the World Behind and the limits of Weird
Rumaan Alam’s novel Leave the World Behind (2020) was well reviewed when it came out. It has also been...
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