Jayson Porter is a Voss Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES). His research specializes in food systems, environmental politics, science and technology studies, and racial ecologies in Mexico and the Americas. Jayson is also an editorial board member for both the North American Congress for Latin America (NACLA) and Plant Perspectives, a staff blogger for Black Perspectives, and an environmental specialist for Noria Research's Mexico and Central America Program.
Recommendations from Jayson Porter
Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico (2018) by Alyshia Gálvez
Description from the publisher, the University of California Press:
Mexican cuisine has emerged as a paradox of globalization. Food enthusiasts throughout the world celebrate the...
Landscapes of Freedom: Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia (2018)...
Description from the publisher, the University of Arizona Press:
After emancipation in 1851, the African descendants living in the extra-humid rainforests of the Pacific coast...
Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China’s Countryside (2020) by Xiaowei...
Description from the Publisher, FSG Originals x Logic:
In Blockchain Chicken Farm, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology...
