Michael Mouat

Completed my PhD having received a Massey University Vice-Chancellor's doctoral scholarship. My project 'Assembling a land of milk and money' was on how money works and the work that money does in stabilising the NZ dairy industry. Rather than using one of the many competing theories of money as a lens to analyse the dairy industry, I advanced my own concept of moneyness.

Prior to this my research focused on the disruptive assemblage that is becoming a movement for Cellular Agriculture and my thesis was titled 'Discomfort food: How a market for synthetic food is being assembled'. The empirical story followed the relations which make 'Milk without cows' and 'Cultured Meat' possible. I am the recipient of the 2016 Thomsen Award for my research and received my Masters Degree with distinction. I published two papers from this research. First, Mouat, M. J., & Prince, R. (2018). Cultured meat and cowless milk: on making markets for animal-free food. Journal of Cultural Economy, 11(4), 315-329. doi:10.1080/17530350.2018.1452277; Second, Mouat, M. J., Prince, R., & Roche, M. M. (2019). Making Value Out of Ethics: The Emerging Economic Geography of Lab-grown Meat and Other Animal-free Food Products. Economic Geography, 95(2), 136-158. doi:10.1080/00130095.2018.1508994.

Before this I worked in the dairy industry and was an Army Officer.