Areas of interest:
· Social shaping of pesticides and other high-risk, agricultural technologies
· Sociology of standards in global commodity chains and corporate social responsibility (particularly environmental and fair trade labels)
· Discourses of 'best agricultural practices' (particularly in relation to crop protection and development intervention)
· Images, voice, and control in agrarian modernization
· Knowledge conflicts and social struggles
· Risk, culture, and agrarian political ecology
· Environmental and agrarian change in Latin America
· Interdisciplinarity as an ontological issue