Gyorgy Scrinis

Publications Website

Publications on Food, Nutrition, Agriculture and Techno-Science

Book Chapters, Journal Articles and Monographs

• Miller, G. and Scrinis, G., "Nanotechnology, Equity and Technological Democracy", Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society Volume 3: The Challenge of Equity and Equality, S. Cozzens & J. Wetmore (eds.), Springer, 2011. [Springer website]

• Miller, G & Scrinis, G., "The Rise of NGOs in Governing Nanotechnology: Beyond the Benefits versus Risks Framing", in International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies, eds. G. Hodge, D. Bowman & A. Maynard, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011. [PDF] [Edward Elgar Publishing website]

• Scrinis, G. & Lyons, K., "Nanotechnology and the Techno-Corporate Agri-Food Paradigm", in G.Lawrence, K. Lyons & T. Wallington (eds.), Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability: New Challenges, Future Options, Earthscan: London (2010). [PDF] [Earthscan website]

• Lyons, K. & Scrinis, G., "Under the Regulatory Radar? Nanotechnologies and their Impacts for Rural Australia", in Tracking Rural Change: Community, Policy and Technology in Australia, New Zealand and Europe, edited by Francesca Merlan and David Raftery, Australian National University E Press: Canberra, 2009, pp.151-171. [PDF]

• Scrinis, G., "Functional Foods or Functionally Marketed Foods?: A Critique of, and Alternatives to, the Category of Functional Foods", Public Health Nutrition, Vol.11 (5), 2008. [PDF]
[A critique of definitions of "functional foods", and alternative categories proposed, such as "functionally-marketed foods".]

• Scrinis, G., "On the Ideology of Nutritionism", Gastronomica, Vol.8, No.1, February, 2008, pp.39-48. [PDF]
[The ideology of nutritionism defined, and a number of related concepts and categories introduced.]

• Scrinis, G. & Lyons, K., "The Emerging Nano-Corporate Paradigm: Nanotechnology and the Transformation of Nature, Food and Agri-Food Systems", International Journal for the Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol.15, No.2, 2007, pp.22-44. [PDF] [View on IJSAF website]
[On the introduction of nano-foods across the food system, including the functional food applications of nano-processing techniques.]

• Scrinis, G., "From Techno-Corporate Food to Alternative Agri-Food Movements", Local Global, Vol.4, 2007, pp.112-140. [PDF]
[An overview of the global food system.]

• Scrinis, G., "Sorry Marge", Meanjin, Vol.61, No.4, 2002, pp.108-116. [PDF]
[On the ideology of nutritionism.]

Japanese translation of 'Sorry Marge' by Kouichi Hirota from Japan's National Institute of Health and Nutrition available on their website. [PDF] [View on NIHN website]

• Scrinis, G., Colonizing the Seed: Genetic Engineering and Techno-Industrial Agriculture, Friends of the Earth, Melbourne, 1995, pp.48. [PDF]
[On genetically modified foods and industrial agriculture.]

Magazine Articles

• Scrinis, G., "Engineering the Food Chain", Arena Magazine, 77, June-July, 2005, pp.37-39. [PDF]
[On nutritionism and genetically modified foods with modified nutrient profiles.]

• Scrinis, G., "When Small Isn't Beautiful", Arena Magazine, No.83, June-July, 2006.[PDF]
[On nanotechnology.]

• Scrinis, G., "Nanotechnology and the Environment: The Nano-Atomic Reconstruction of Nature", Chain Reaction, No. 97, 2006, pp. 23- 26.
[On environmental implications of nanotechnology.]

• Scrinis, G., "Colonizing the Seed", Arena Magazine, No. 36, Aug-Sept, 1998, pp. 41-44. [PDF]
[On genetically modified foods. Also published in Biodiversity, Vol.2, No.2, May, 2001, pp.35-38.]

Selected Newspaper Opinion Articles

• "The future of food: where a hamburger is not what it seems", The Age, Op-Ed, September 19, 2007. [PDF] [View on The Age website]
[On functional foods, functional hamburgers, funky pizza, and health claims.]

• "Food production must not be controlled by a few corporations", The Age, Op-Ed, August 17, 2007. [PDF] [View of The Age website]
[On the lifting of the bans on genetically-modified canola crops in Australia.]

• "The artificial taming of the fat scare", The Sydney Morning Herald, Op-Ed, May 11, 2007. [PDF] [View on SMH website]
[On trans-fatty acids, and how the "good and bad fats" discourse has played into the hands of the food industry.]

• "High in protein, low in fat and too good to be true", The Sydney Morning Herald, Op-Ed, April 7, 2006. [PDF] [View on SMH website]
[On the ideology of nutritionism.]

• "Labels: An unhealthy trend", The Age, Op-Ed, December 30, 2005. [PDF]
[On the introduction of health claims on food labels in Australia. Also published in The Sydney Morning Herald, Op-Ed, December 30, 2005.]

• "A Diet Thin on Science", with Rosemary Stanton, The Age, Op-Ed, August 29, 2005. [PDF]
[On the CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet and nutritional reductionism. Also published in The Sydney Morning Herald, Op-Ed, August 29, 2005; & in Australasian Science, October, 2005, pp.37-38.]

• "Mega fear over something nano", The Age, Op-Ed, December 29, 2004. [PDF]
[On nanotechnology. Also published in The Sydney Morning Herald, Op-Ed, January 5, 2005.

• "Time to End Industrial Cuisine", The Age, Op-Ed, December 27, 1997. [PDF]
[On nutritional reductionism.]