Rebeca Ibáñez Martín.
Inside the Chemosphere: navigating toxicity in Dutch horticultural greenhouses.
The horticultural greenhouse is a built infrastructure that reproduces a climate-controlled environment for plant growth. Beyond their political role -they are spaces of 'hope', as they allow crops to be grown in otherwise hostile environments - greenhouses not only model different ways of growing food, but also different approaches to working with plants.
In this paper I present a small ethnographic investigation in which I elaborate how greenhouse cultivation give rise to emergent toxic relationships between humans and plants.
Dr. Rebeca Ibáñez Martín is an anthropologist specializing in critical food studies, environmental anthropology, and social studies of science (STS). She studied History and Anthropology at the Complutense University of Madrid and completed master's degrees in Feminist Critical Theory (Complutense University) and Social Studies of Science (University of Oviedo). She received her PhD in Philosophy of Science with "cum laude" distinction from the University of Salamanca, Spain (2014), where her dissertation "Bad to eat? Empirical Explorations of Fat as Food" was awarded the university's annual prize in Humanities and Arts.
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