Venus Bivar

Venus Bivar's research lies at the intersection of economic history and the environment. With her scholarship, she aims to understand the deeper trajectories of major contemporary global phenomena, from the international agricultural trade system and climate change, to the primacy of economics in political life and the centrality of free markets to the liberal democratic state. She is currently writing a book on the environmental consequences of the rise of petrochemicals in postwar Marseille. Her first book, Organic Resistance: The Struggle Over Industrial Farming in Postwar France (UNC Press 2018), was awarded the J. Russell Major Prize from the American Historical Association, and examined the double movement of industrialisation and the rise of organics within the French farm sector.