Emily Reisman
PhD
Research Areas
Sustainable agriculture & food systems; political ecology; science & technology studies; more-than-human geography; hydrosocial systems
Education
- PhD, Environmental Studies, University of California Santa Cruz, 2020
- MA, Environmental Studies, University of California Santa Cruz, 2017
- BA, Environmental Studies & International Studies, Washington University in St Louis, 2009
Recent Publications
- Reisman, E. “Protecting provenance, abandoning agriculture? Heritage products, industrial ideals and the uprooting of a Spanish turrón” Journal of Rural Studies. 89: 45-53 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.11.003
- Reisman, E. “Plants, Pathogens and the Politics of Care: Xylella fastidiosa and the intra-active breakdown of Mallorca’s almond ecology” Cultural Anthropology 36:3, 400–427 (2021). https://doi.org/10.14506/ca36.3.07.
- Reisman, E. “Sanitizing Agri-Food Tech: COVID-19 and the Politics of Expectation” Journal of Peasant Studies 48:5, 910-933 (2021), DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2021.1934674
- Reisman, E. and Macauley, L. “Which Farms Drill During Drought? The Influence of Farm Size and Crop Type.” International Journal of Water Resources Development (2021). DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2021.1874889
- Reisman, E. and Fairbairn, M. “Agri-Food Systems and the Anthropocene.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 111:3, 687-697 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2020.1828025
- Reisman, E. “Superfood as spatial fix: the ascent of the almond.” Agriculture & Human Values 37, 337–351 (2020). https://doi-org.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/10.1007/s10460-019-09993-4
- Reisman, E. “The Great Almond Debate: A Subtle Double Movement in California Water.” Geoforum 104 (August 2019): 137–46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.04.021.
- Kelley, L. C., Clifford, K. R., Reisman, E., Lea, D., Matsler, M., Liebman, A., and Malone, M. “Charting a Critical Physical Geography Path in Graduate School: Sites of Student Agency.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Physical Geography, edited by Rebecca Lave, Christine Biermann, and Stuart N. Lane, 537–57. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71461-5_25.
- Reisman, E. “Troubling Tradition, Community, and Self-Reliance: Reframing Expectations for Village Seed Banks.” World Development 98 (October 2017): 160–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.04.024.