In 2017, the Singaporean government unveiled Farm Transformation Map, a highly technology-driven initiative that intends to change its current, near-total dependence on imported food. The plan focuses prospect of high-productivity farming—in particular, integrated vertical, indoor, and intensive urban farming—as possible solution geopolitical uncertainty, intense urbanisation, environmental deg...

Abstract: This paper uses the example of Slow Food International (SFI) and its promotion of artisanal cheese to examine how scale is produced around the defense of particular social relations of production. I argue that attempts by SFI to naturalize discursive configurations of rural/local/traditional express a particular politics tied to the anxiety of ‘losing’ imagined rural communities. Howe...

The title of this book clearly echoes the well-known exhortation of microbiologist Rene Dubos: “Think global, act local.” We live today under the broad and darkening shadow of large-scale disruptions by human societies to the natural environment and its life-support systems. We also face an increasingly urban future as the still-expanding human population gravitates into cities in most countrie...

Davidson advocates a radical and powerful form of anti-conventionalism, on which the scope of a semantic theory is restricted to the most local of contexts: a particular utterance by a particular speaker. I argue that this hyper-localism undercuts the explanatory grounds for his assumption that semantic meaning is systematic, which is central, among other things, to his holism. More importantly...