My current research is in the area of temporalities of change ​and the horizons of imagination that are constructed by ​various actors in this time of instability and crisis.

I focus on the emerging technology of Cellular Agriculture ​and Precision Fermentation from a multistakeholder ​perspective in the investigation of how these technologies ​are socially embedded.

My previous work focused on a comparative study of food ​consumption and environmental impact in the Global ​South, comparing Brazil and China. Through this research, I ​discussed what new values, expectations, and imaginations ​emerged from the change in diet in contexts of social ​mobility and improved living conditions over the last three ​generations.

Work

horizons of imagination & futures of food

Cellular Agriculture & Precision Fermentation

meat narratives in

climate change

The taste of prosperity in China and Brazil

intergenerational ​knot methodology

New methodologies from the Global South

sustainable food & scientific communication

Multimedia engagement and expanding the discussions on food and sustainability

horizons of imagination & futures of food

emerging food technologies in the protein transition:

cellular agriculture & precision fermentation

My main interests lie at the intersection of sociological studies on imagination, temporality and sustainable development. My current research is focused on the development of new food technologies, protein transition and new visions of futures in the face of climate change. I'm currently part of the Animal-free Milk Consortium, where I investigate the development of Precision Fermentation technology in milk production. The development of this technology impacts and at the same time is impacted by the various players belonging to this innovation ecosystem. However, a change in the production matrix will also have an impact on actors involved in conventional milk production. My work focuses on issues of imaginations and temporality, placing animal-free milk protein technology in a broader social context, comparing its social, nutritional and environmental aspects with bovine milk proteins to determine how the technology can be incorporated into society.

meat narratives in climate change

the taste of prosperity in china and Brazil

The act of eating, besides nutrition, is an act of imagination as it involves memories, social realities perceptions, and people's aspirations for a better future. In the context of Climate Change, food production is pointed out as a resource intensive industry connecting Global South countries as important producers and emerging markets. Animal products, especially meat, are in the spotlight in the context of Sustainable Diets due to their high emission of greenhouse gases and water footprint. However, it is also important to discuss the role of meat consumption from a sociological perspective as it embodies different narratives and meanings in different generations. While the young generation can bring the perspective of meat's negative environmental impact, the older generation relates it to memories of deprivation and class mobility as well as dreams of achieving a better life. This intergenerational encounter can result in conflict, but it also carries the potential of mutually influencing and multiplying new food consumption practices. Therefore, first-hand ethnographic data was collected from young consumers who negotiated between personal values and family narratives around their household meat consumption in Shanghai, China and in São Paulo, Brazil. These students recognized that in addition to the information they brought to their family, other factors exert more signicant influence, such as their experiences of food deprivation, their views of what a "better life" consists, and their experience of social mobility. Food consumption and the new role of Sustainability require an intercultural, intergenerational, and global debate in order to build an inclusive and just path towards Social Change.

global south dialogues

Besides developing research and teaching Chinese Sociology ​and Sino-Brazilian intercultural communication, I am the ​founder and organizer of the Annual Brazilian Postgraduate ​Seminar on China Studies (Seminário Pesquisar China ​Contemporânea), which is the longest-standing conference ​on China studies in Brazil. It has been gathering prominent ​scholars in the field since 2017.

The book "How China is Transforming Brazil" results from ​seven years of research and connecting and building a ​community of scholars researching different aspects of ​China-Brazil relations. This book brought together different ​generations of researchers in different fields, including also ​environmental and energy issues.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-3102-6

new methodologies from the global south

intergenerational knot

The Anthropocene is not only a period of rapid environmental transformation but also a prolific moment of values changes. In the face of the climate emergency, different actors respond in various ways. While the temporality dimensions of this phenomenon are a challenge to social sciences inquiry, it also presents a great opportunity for new methodologies to emerge. The generational knot can be a useful methodological frame for understanding social change through the discussion of different values across different generations' food consumption because, at the same time, it evidences differences and disagreement; it also shows the effort and willingness to negotiate in order to maintain social-kinship ties. While the intergenerational encounter can result in conflict, it also carries the potential of mutually influencing and multiplying new food consumption practices. While the young generation analyzed usually prioritise environmental impact when choosing what to eat, the older generation relates it to memories of deprivation and class mobility as well as dreams of achieving a better life. The generational knot, in this sense, becomes a useful methodological frame to understand values change in social and environmental transformation processes in an inclusive way.

sustainable food & scientific communication

Sustentarea is a project based in the Public Health Department of the ​University of São Paulo and aims to bring academia and the community ​together in the research and discussion on food sustainability. We develop ​debates based on scientific research on the impact of food not only on human ​health but also on the environment. I am part of the Strategic Planning and ​Science Communication Podcast teams.

Strategic Planning: Our team is in charge of Marketing Strategies, Advocacy, ​and Funding, and I have also been leading the Mentorship Program, which aims ​to connect and engage more experienced professionals with university ​students to share and dialogue and, in this way, build a community based on ​respect, mutual understanding, and the commitment to a sustainable and fair ​food system.

Science Communication: Podcast “Comida que Sustenta”: I am co-leader of a ​team that produces episodes on Sustainable Diets and Planetary Health, ​bringing scientific knowledge in an accessible language to make the debate on ​food and sustainability more inclusive.

Season 1 (2021): 21 episodes

Season 2 (2022): 20 episodes

Season 3 (2023): 41 episodes

Season 4 (2024): in development

2024

HASE-UETA, Mariana; ROBAEY, Zoë. “When are we having for dinner”: Temporality ​and the ethico-politics in emerging food technologies In: EASST-4S Conference. ​Amsterdam, NL.

HASE-UETA, Mariana; ROBAEY, Zoë; DRIESSEN, Clemens. Do Cells Dream of Food Futures?: Ethical Entanglements of Cellular Agriculture In: EurSafe Conference. Wageningen, NL. (upcoming)

2023

HASE-UETA, Mariana. Who constructs the future of proteins? In: "Alternative Proteins and Society", The Alt Protein Project UNICAMP, Food Engineering Department, University of Campinas, Brazil.

HASE-UETA, Mariana. Keynote: Dairy Futures, but for whom? In: "Animal-free milk proteins consortium meeting", Wageningen University and Research, NL.

HASE-UETA, Mariana. Distinguished speaker: Societal aspects of Emerging Food Technologies. In: "Promissory Meatscapes of Mosa Meat & Co: The Political Ecologies of Urbanized Protein", Centre for Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam, NL.

HASE-UETA, Mariana; MULLER, Frank. Food technopolitical innovation and the geographies of inequality. In: "Extending Critical Approaches to Agtech and Foodtech: Dialoguing Insights from the Insides and Outsides of Technology Design Projects", XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, Australia.

HASE-UETA, Mariana. From Scarcity Memories Towards Alternative Futures: Intergenerational Dialogues in the Global South. In: "Alternative Food Futures: Connecting Research with Citizen Politics", XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, Australia.

2022

HASE-UETA, Mariana; MÜLLER, Frank. Organization of the session New Geographies of Food Protein (Sponsored by the Food Geographies Research Group (FGRG) and Latin American Geographies Working Group of the IGS-IBG) In: Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference 2022. Newcastle, UK.

HASE-UETA, Mariana; MÜLLER, Frank. Cultured Meat as Promissory Assemblage. In: “Panel 016. Engineering and caring for livestock futures in the anthropocene” during the European Association for the Studies of Science and Technology (EASST) 2022 Congress, Politics of Technoscientific Futures. Madrid, Spain.

HASE-UETA, Mariana. The Taste of Prosperity: Intergenerational Food Dialogues in the face of Climate Change. In: Perugia Food Studies Conference: “Food Movements, Moving Food”. Umbra Institute. Perugia, Italy.

HASE-UETA, Mariana. Organization of the session Contemporary Vegetarianisms from a Global Perspective. In: "Seventh International Convention on Food and Drink Studies". Institut Européen d'Histoire et des Cultures de l'Alimentation (IEHCA). Tours, France.

HASE-UETA, Mariana. Between Memories and Dreams: Vegetarianism and Intergenerational Dialogue in the Global South. In: "Veganism and Vegetarianism as Social Movement and Social Change", BSA Postgraduate Forum Event. University of York. York, UK.

2021

HASE-UETA, Mariana. Meat Consumption: an Intergenerational Food Discussion in the Global South. In: "13rd Colloque de l’Institut Européen d’Histoire et des Cultures de l’Alimentation". Tours, France.

HASE-UETA, Mariana. The Taste of Sustainability: Global South Perspectives on Sustainable Diets. In: "11th International Conference on Food Studies". Aarhus University. Copenhagen, Denmark.

HASE-UETA, Mariana; TANAKA, Jennifer; CARVALHO, Aline Martins de; MARCHIONI, Dirce Maria Lobo. Planetary Health from the Global South: Brazilian Perspectives on Sustainable Diets and Meat Consumption. In: "Planetary Health Alliance Meeting". São Paulo, Brazil.

HASE-UETA, Mariana; SCHMIDT, Augusto; CAMARGO, Kelly; WEINS, Niklas. Intergenerational Dependency & the Role of Family: Brazil, China and India Discussion and Comparative Perspectives. In: "RC20: Comparative Sociology". IV International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum of Sociology. Porto Alegre, Brazil.

HASE-UETA, Mariana. Brics Towards a Common Future: China and Brazil Youth Environmental Values. In: "RC34: Sociology of Youth". IV International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum of Sociology. Porto Alegre, Brazil.

HASE-UETA, Mariana. Food for Thought: from Memories towards Sustainable Futures. In: "20th East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference". University of Hawai’i Manoa. Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA.

2020

HASE-UETA, Mariana. The taste of Sustainability: Global South commodities-objects routes. In: "Millennium Conference 2020: Entanglements and Detachments in Global Politics". London School of Economics (LSE). London, UK.

HASE-UETA, Mariana. The Taste of Sustainability: Global South commodities-objects routes. In: "Forschungskolloquium Soziologie Lateinamerikas". Freie Universität Berlin. Berlin, Germany.

HASE-UETA, Mariana. Environmental Values and Green Governance in the BRICS Countries. In: "Workshop Contemporary Politics in Brazil". University of California Irvine (UCI). Irvine, CA, USA.

HASE-UETA, Mariana. Sustainable Diets: Intergenerational Challenges from the Global South. In: "Congress on Gastronomy, Sustainability and Development'. Organized by UNESCO, Universita Oberta de Catalunya, Universidad de Extremadura. Universidad de Extremadura. Cáceres-Extremadura, Spain.

HASE-UETA, Mariana; WEINS, Niklas Werner; SCHMIDT, Augusto. Environmental Values Among Youth in Contemporary China: University Students is Shanghai and Beijing. In: "Hawai’i International Conference on Chinese Studies". University of Hawai’i Manoa. Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA.

HASE-UETA, Mariana. O sabor da Prosperidade: Debates intergeracionais sobre Alimentação e Sustentabilidade no Brasil e na China. In: "4o Seminário Pesquisar China Contemporânea". State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas, Brazil.

HASE-UETA, Mariana; WEINS, Niklas Werner; SCHMIDT, Augusto. Diálogo Brasil-China frente às Mudanças Climáticas: A Juventude em direção à um projeto de Futuro Compartilhado. In: 1st International Conference “Latin America - Asia Relations”. UNILA. Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil.

2018

HASE-UETA, Mariana. On the Paradoxes of Consumption and Inclusion: China and Brazil Discussion on Sustainability. In: China Brazil Research Workshop. Fudan Latin America University Consortium (FLAUC). Fudan University. Shanghai, China.

HASE-UETA, Mariana. When Sustainability meets Globalization: BRICS Green Governance Challenges. In: "2018 Global Think Tanks Forum". China International Publishing Group (CIPG) and Chengdu Municipal People’s Government, co-organized by Academy of Contemporary China and World Studies (ACCWS) and Information Office of Chengdu Municipal People’s Government. Chengdu, China.

HASE-UETA, Mariana. A Tale of Youth and Institutions: Second Modernity in China and Brazil. In: "Youth in the Global South: Divergences, Absences, Universalities". RC34: Sociology of Youth. XIX International Sociological Association World Congress. Toronto, Canada.

HASE-UETA, Mariana. Consumption, Social Structure and Inclusion: China and Brazil Discussions on Sustainability. In: “2nd National Conference on Contemporary China Research in Brazil” UNICAMP (University of Campinas). Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.

2017

HASE-UETA, Mariana; TJONG, Erick; WEINS, Niklas Werner; SCHMIDT, Augusto. China and Brazil: Transitioning from the Middle Income Trap to Sustainable Development? In: "Fudan Latin America University Consortium (FLAUC) Conference". Bogotá, Colombia.

HASE-UETA, Mariana. Images and Imaginations: Intercultural Communication in the Frontier between Brazil and China. In: 18o Brazilian Sociology Congress. Brasília, Brazil.

HASE-UETA, Mariana. Consumption and Sustainability, China and Brazil in the BRICS context. In: “First Graduate Students Conference on Contemporary China Research in Brazil” UNICAMP (University of Campinas). Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.

HASE-UETA, Mariana. Consumption, Inclusion, Sustainability: A Sino-Brazilian Dialogue. In: "São Paulo School of Advanced Science on Research Methods for the Humanities" - UNICAMP (University of Campinas). Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.

• International Sociological Association (ISA)

RC34 (Sociology of Youth)

RC20 (Comparative Sociology)

RC40 (Sociology of Agriculture and Food)

• European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
  
• Rede Brasileira de Estudos da China (RBChina)