ABSTRACT
This introduction presents on overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores new practices and categories of knowledge making and new possibilities for transformative scholarship. It describes in assembling potentially co-productive lines of thinking that might foster a new moral economy of agri-food and build a platform for a new generation of more disruptively productive agri-food scholarship. The book outlines the ways in which the knowledge assemblage that the book generates more than the sum of its parts. Rather, it is a political project of knowledge production, which the book labels biological economies. However, consistent with the notion of assemblage and the theoretical spirit of each of the contributions, the book represents this political project as a platform for a moral politics of continuous and constructive disturbance rather than a definitively new analytical category. It makes possible by the Biological Economies research project funded by the New Zealand Marsden Fund.
