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My thematic research interests center upon food and
agriculture, rural poverty and inequality, and rural development and environmental change. I am particularly interested in the
ways that representations of places and people, culture, politics, and
economics shape the production, distribution and consumption of food around
the world and at home. I remain interested in the ways in which
social and economic identities are materially and discursively forged in
order to foster, rework or maintain divisions and inequalities among groups
and individuals as well as regions and places. I employ insights from Marxist, feminist and poststructural theory to understand the linkages among
politics, economics, poverty and social and environmental change in rural
places. I retain ongoing interests in gender and labor processes, political
economy/ecology and critical development studies. My regional research
focuses upon southern Africa and the northwest United States. My current research investigates the material
and political outcomes related to the discursive shift that once defined
'hunger' as a fundamental social problem to that of 'food security' as a new
measurement and representation of poverty and food scarcity. I explore this shift in World Bank
and FAO policy as well as in case studies drawn from southern Africa and the
US. I am also studying the
historical political economy of the contemporary world food crisis. A second project, collaborative with Vicky
Lawson, Asun St. Clair and the Critical Global
Poverty Studies Group involves a cross national comparative study of the role
of the middle classes in reframing impoverishment and representations of poor
people in the cases of Argentina, South Africa, Norway and the US. |
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