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Alexandra E. Sexton
Researcher at University of Oxford
Publications - 13
Citations - 789
Alexandra E. Sexton is an academic researcher from University of Oxford. The author has contributed to research in topics: Food security & Entomophagy. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 11 publications receiving 453 citations. Previous affiliations of Alexandra E. Sexton include University of Sheffield & King's College London.
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Bringing cultured meat to market: Technical, socio-political, and regulatory challenges in cellular agriculture
Neil Stephens,Lucy Di Silvio,Illtud Dunsford,Marianne J. Ellis,Abigail Glencross,Alexandra E. Sexton +5 more
TL;DR: Cultured meat is a promising, but early stage, technology with key technical challenges including cell source, culture media, mimicking the in-vivo myogenesis environment, animal-derived and synthetic materials, and bioprocessing for commercial-scale production.
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Framing the future of food: The contested promises of alternative proteins.
TL;DR: Through mapping this narrative landscape, it is shown how different types of ‘goodness’ have been ascribed by alternative protein and conventional livestock stakeholders to their respective approaches, and reveals a series of tensions underpinning these contested food futures.
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Making Sense of Making Meat: Key Moments in the First 20 Years of Tissue Engineering Muscle to Make Food.
TL;DR: This paper identifies significant activities, transitions, and moments in which key meanings and practices have taken form or exerted influence during the near-twenty year period from the millennium until around the 2013 cultured burger event.
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Eating for the post-Anthropocene: Alternative proteins and the biopolitics of edibility
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Palatable disruption: the politics of plant milk
TL;DR: The politics and consumer subjectivities fostered by mylks are considered as part of the broader trend towards ‘plant-based’ food, and the limits of the current plant-based trend for transitioning to more just and sustainable food production and consumption are reflected.