ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some sense of how agri-food scholarship does not just study the word but contributes in its making. It is a full-throated endorsement of public agri-food scholarship. The chapter highlights some of agri-food studies public engagements. It begins by making observations that few readers, such as the author's likening agri-food scholarship to what Michael Burawoy famously advocated in his 2004 American Sociological Association presidential address: public sociology. In 2004, Michael Burawoy gave a notable presidential address to the, which has since been published, in different iterations, in a variety of outlets around the world. Burawoy goes on to distinguish across, while acknowledging overlap between, four types of sociological labor that lead to four forms of knowledge: professional, critical, policy, and public. John Dewey, the great American philosopher and an early developer of pragmatism, worried about the interests, beliefs, and ideologies of elites becoming fixed and assuming a taken-for-granted status within dominant political and social cultures.
