The pathologies of agri-business: A book review symposium

Abstract

Lorimer, Jamie Mitchell, Don Guthman, Julie Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry. And to understand this, Julie focuses on the logics inherent in the commodity production (especially, of course, commodity production reliant on living things), the capital-labor relationship, the institutional imperatives governing the institutions of repair, political struggle, logics of path dependency, and more. Now the Pathogen Has Spoken: Commentary 1 I first encountered the ideas that Julie Guthman presents in I Wilted i in 2015, in a talk she gave at the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers conference. As with the efforts that Guthman documents by Californian strawberry growers to brand novel plant pathogens as Japanese, this COVID origin story links disease to foreign agents engaged in primitive practices. [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Progress in Human Geography is the property of Sage Publications Inc. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)