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Rachel Schurman

Protrait: Rachel Schurman

Professor
Ph.D. 1993 University of Wisconsin Madison
Room 1078 Social Sciences
Phone: 612-624-1039
Email: schurman@umn.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Interest Areas

Agri-food Studies, Political Sociology, Social Movements, International Political Economy, Environmental Sociology.

Current Research

Prof. Schurman’s newest research project, “Science for the Poor: Foundations, Firms and the New Green Revolution for Africa,” explores the massive effort that two large philanthropies, together with other public and private actors, are making to bring a new ‘green revolution’ to African agriculture. Her last book analyzed social resistance to agricultural biotechnology and how the contending life worlds of anti-biotech activists and the biotechnology industry shaped the development and deployment of genetically modified organisms at a global level.

Selected Publications

Fighting for the Future of Food: Activists Vs. Agribusiness in the Struggle Over Biotechnology with and William A. Munro. 2010. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Book Cover: Fighting for the Future of Food

"Targeting Capital: A Cultural Economy Approach to Understanding the Efficacy of Two Anti-Genetic Engineering Movements," with William A. Munro. 2009. American Journal of Sociology 115(1):155–202.

"Local Activism and the 'Biotechnology Project'," with William A. Munro. 2008. Pp. 59-78 in Reconstructing Biotechnologies: Critical Social Analysis, edited by G. Ruivenkamp, S. Hisano, and J. Jongerden, Wageningen. Wageningen Academic Publishers.

"Sustaining Outrage: Motivating Sensibilities in the U.S. Anti-GE Movement,” with William A. Munro. 2007. Pp. 145-176 in The Fight Over Food: Producers, Consumers, and Activists Challenge the Global Food System, edited by W. Wright and G. Middendorf. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.

"Ideas, Thinkers, and Social Networks: The Process of Grievance Construction in the Anti-Genetic Engineering Movement," with William A. Munro. 2006. Theory and Society 35(1):1-38.