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Katharine Legun is an Associate Professor in the Knowledge and Technology Innovation Group at Wageningen University & Research. Originally from Canada, she completed her PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2013 before working for six years at the University of Otago in New Zealand. Her research focuses on more-than-human relations in agricultural practices, specifically how technologies related to plants and food systems can enact political and social dynamics. She is currently involved in significant projects including 'Plants Power,' which examines the social power dynamics within horticultural industries, and 'Data Justice,' as part of the Wageningen Global Sustainability Program, exploring food security through the lens of data justice. Aside from these, she is supervising Master's theses on the implications of new plant breeding techniques and the historical changes in these technologies. A president of the Research Committee on Sociology of Agriculture and Food within the International Sociological Association, she has also co-edited the Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology published in 2020.
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