How Beautiful We Were
Food, Oil and Justice in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were
Cameroonian author Imbolo Mbue’s novel How Beautiful We Were (2021) is not technically cli-fi, because...
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Launch of the EAT Lancet 2025 Report and the Stockholm Food Forum
I’ve spent two days at the Stockholm Food Forum, which began with the Launch of the 2025 EAT Lancet Report,...
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Food, Diets and Disaster in Nattavaara and Armasjärvi 
Two of the most ambitious cli-fi novels in Swedish are Nattavaara (2020) and Armasjärvi (2021)...
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The Massive, Marx and the Food System
Earlier this year, I attended the conference Marx in the Anthropocene, hosted by IUAV University in Venice,...
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Interview with Professor Armando Pérez-Cueto
https://youtu.be/KK8H3D2TG8M Interview with Professor Armando Pérez-Cueto at Umeå University on food,...
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Foodimagine on Swedish Science Radio
I was interviewed by Swedish national radio as part of the standing series Vetenskapsradion (The Science...
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Neo-Victorian Food Futures – A Case for Sherlock Holmes
In the early 2020s, the audio-book streaming service Storytel commissioned a new set of Sherlock Holmes...
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Trumpdrill
The Trump Administration, Sanity Collapse and Academic Activism
I have not blogged in a while. It has been difficult to understand the priorities of my project when...
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Fear Studies
Food and Futures of Fear
I participated in the inaugural conference of the new Fear Network at Warwick University. This is a truly...
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The Technosphere, the Information Crisis and Food in Naomi Alderman’s The Future
Naomi Alderman is best known as the author of The Power in 2016, a novel that tells the story of how...
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All City by Alex DiFrancesco: Climate (Food) Inequalities
A noted problem with much climate crisis discourse is that it tends to assume that the experience of...
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Nobel Prize Food
Since 1901, the Nobel Prize Award ceremony has always been followed by a very lavish banquet at the Stockholm...
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A Strange and Soulless Land: Food Futures in Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix
Like Tochi Onyebuchi, author of Riot Baby, Nnedi Okorafor was born in the US to Nigerian...
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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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