The problem with solutions : why Silicon Valley can't hack the future of food /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Guthman, Julie, author.
Imprint:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Agricultural innovations -- California -- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) Food -- Technological innovations -- California -- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) Food industry and trade -- Technological innovations -- California -- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) High technology industries -- California -- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/14150077

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ISBN:	9780520402683 0520402685 9780520402669 9780520402676
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 14, 2024).
Summary:	"A concise and feisty takedown of the all-style, no-substance tech ventures that fail to solve our food crises. The Problem with Solutions combines an analysis of the rise of tech company solution culture with findings from actual research on the sector's ill-informed attempts to address the problems of food and agriculture. As this seductive approach continues to infiltrate universities and academia, Guthman challenges us to reject apolitical and self-gratifying techno-solutions and develop the capacity and willingness to respond to the root causes of these crises. Solutions, she argues, are a product of our current condition, not an answer to it"--
Other form:	Print version: Guthman, Julie. Problem with solutions Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024] 9780520402669

Table of Contents:

Introduction : the origins of solutions
Silicon Valley and the urge to make the world a better place
Agri-food solutions before Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley bites off agriculture and food
Alternative protein and the nothing burger of the techno-fix
Digital technologies and plowing through to the problem
Silicon Valley thinking comes to the university
Big ideas and making Silicon Valley-style solution-makers
Conclusion : the pessimism of solutions and the (cautious) optimism of response.

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