Mariana Hase Ueta is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Wageningen University & Research, developing interdisciplinary work at the intersection of food sociology, sustainable diets, and emerging technologies and seeking to further a relational understanding of how these are co-constituted.
Over the last few years, Dr. Hase Ueta has been working on issues related to imagination, temporality, intergenerational discussion and comparative sociology in the Global South and has expertise in China and Brazil.
In 2021 she was awarded the Emerging Scholar Award by the Food Studies Network.
dr. mariana hase ueta
She is currently part of the Animal-free Milk Consortium, where she places animal-free milk protein technology in a broader societal context by comparing its societal, nutritional, and environmental aspects to bovine milk proteins to determine how the technology can be embedded in society.
Over the last few years, she has been focused on Cellular Agriculture and Precision Fermentation technologies as emerging fields from a sociological perspective. She is a founding member of Cell Ag Brazil (Sociedade de Agricultura Celular do Brasil), which promotes the development of Cellular Agriculture through teaching, research, extension and consultancy from a societal-technical-scientific perspective in Brazil as well as international collaborations.
She is also a co-founder and part of the board of the International Network of Cellular Agriculture (NCA).
Prior to joining Wageningen, she was part of the Protein Matters project at Technische Universität Dresden (Germany), funded by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, where her research focused on Cultured Meat as a response to livestock’s zoonotic security matters and investigated this emerging field from a sociological perspective.
She has been a Fulbright Fellow at University of California Los Angeles UCLA (USA), DAAD Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), and a CAPES Visiting Researcher at Shanghai University (China).
Dr. Hase Ueta is currently part of the Sustentarea project at the University of São Paulo (Brazil), where she developed the mentorship programme and is part of the scientific communication podcast "Comida que Sustenta".
Education
Ph.D. in Social Sciences (China and Brazil Relations Program)
2017-2021 University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil (CAPES Scholarship)
Thesis: “The Taste of Prosperity: Intergenerational Dialogues on Food Consumption and Environmental Impact in China and Brazil”
Master’s in Chinese Society and Public Policy
2013-2015 Fudan University, Shanghai, China (Shanghai Government Scholarship)
Thesis: "Allegories of Imagination: On the Effect of Intercultural Communication on the Sino-Brazilian Strategic Partnership"
Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences
(concentration in Anthropology)
2009-2012 University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
How China is Transforming Brazil
Edited by Mariana Hase Ueta, Mathias Alencastro, and Rosana Pinheiro-Machado
"This book sets out to explore the new role of China in Brazilian politics and geopolitics. As China has become Brazil's biggest trade partner, Brazil's political economy has been transformed in subterranean ways, and China's role in the global economy has become a hot topic in Brazilian politics. By bringing into light a new generation of Brazilian scholars, this book seeks to consolidate the scholarship developed in the last decade and promote a new approach to Brazil-China relations, written from the perspective of the global south."
