1st Edition

Many Ways to Think About Harvest Communicating Across Disciplines

By Ilona Kater Copyright 2026
164 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Effective and creative solutions to complex global problems often need teams with diverse knowledge and experience. Yet rising polarisation and confrontational attitudes can make meaningful dialogue across differences feel daunting.This book explores how to make collaborations possible, through focusing on what people really mean rather than just the words they say, using a case study of the... Read more

Introduction: Communicating Across Difference

Ilona Kater

 

1. Cycles of an Ecologically Sustainable Harvest

Ilona Kater

 

2. The Personal Data Cost-per-Bit: The Changing Socio-Technical and Legal Landscape of Data Harvesting

Janis Wong

 

3. Organ Donation for Transplantation: To Harvest, Procure, or Retrieve Life-Saving Organs?

Al-Faraaz Kassam

 

4. Harvesting the Community: Iñupiat, the Bowhead Whale, and Settler Colonial Imaginaries of Property

Elizabeth Walsh

 

5. Energy Harvest: Infrastructures of Extraction and Violence in Sudan

Razaz H. Basheir

 

6. Harvest: Remote Sensing of the Earth

Gareth Rees    

 

7. Harvest as Marronage: Shankleville's Texas Purple Hull Pea Festival and the Maroon Legacies of Freedom Colonies

Darold Cuba

 

8. Harvesting Cell Cultured Food from Bioreactors

Heiko Rischer

 

9. Reflecting on the Harvest

Ilona Kater, Razaz H. Basheir, Darold Cuba, Al-Faraaz Kassam, Gareth Rees, Heiko Rischer, Elizabeth Walsh and Janis Wong

Biography

Ilona Kater Ilona Kater is an Institute Associate at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK. Her research explores resource-use conflicts and the use of interdisciplinary knowledge to understand complex social-ecological systems, particularly in Arctic and Northern regions. She is also passionate about teaching and science communication.