Richie Nimmo

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Richie Nimmo is a leading scholar in the environmental social sciences and human-animal studies, whose work critically interrogates the intersections of technology, nature, and capitalism. His research focuses on political ecology, multispecies ethnography, and the sociology of agriculture, examining how nonhuman life is entangled with industrial and technological systems. Nimmo’s most-cited paper, “Replacing cheap nature? Sustainability, capitalist future-making and political ecologies of robotic pollination” (2021, 21 citations), offers a groundbreaking critique of robotic pollination as a techno-fix for ecological crisis, revealing how such innovations reproduce capitalist logics of nature as a replaceable resource. In “The Mechanical Calf: On the Making of a Multispecies Machine” (2017, 4 citations), he traces the historical transformation of dairy farming, showing how robotic milking systems reconfigure human-animal relations into hybrid, machine-like assemblages. Though his citation counts reflect a specialized field, Nimmo’s work has been influential in shaping debates on the political ecology of automation and the future of multispecies justice. His contributions are essential for students and researchers seeking to understand how emerging technologies mediate our relationships with the more-than-human world.