- Sydney, Australia
Anisah Madden
Western Sydney University, Institute for Culture and Society, Graduate Student
- Environmental Sociology, Biopolitics, Food Sovereignty, Social Movements, Indigenous Studies, Environmental justice, global sustainability, Environmental Politics and Governance, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Education for Sustainable Development, Environmental Sustainability. Global Development and Environmental Protection, and 10 moreSocial Research Methods and Methodology, Health Psychology, Holistic Biopsychosocial Approach to Health, Peasant Studies, Agrarian Studies, Agrarian Change, Political Ecology, Reflexivity (Sociology), Action Research (Indigenous Health), Indigenous Peoples, and Health Governanceedit
- I'm a political and economic geographer with twenty years experience working with community organisations, social movements, and policy-makers. Through solidarity research, I help to coordinate grassroots-led policy advocacy to support t... moreI'm a political and economic geographer with twenty years experience working with community organisations, social movements, and policy-makers. Through solidarity research, I help to coordinate grassroots-led policy advocacy to support transitions to more sustainable food and agriculture systems across scales. I'm interested in the ways that living and working with the land can help us think about and enact participatory governance differently, and reimagine food system governance.
My PhD research explores the (micro)politics of social movement participation in the United Nations Committee on World Food Security through an International Civil Society and Indigenous People’s Mechanism (CSIPM). The CSIPM is an autonomous, self organised platform designed to support the political protagonism of peasant and Indigenous food producers' and workers' organisations and social movements in UN food and agriculture policy negotiations. As part of my research, I served as a co-facilitator of the CSIPM Youth Working Group for two years, supporting young food providers from their national and global organisations to have a voice in UN policy discussions that affect their livelihoods and futures.
Trained as a herbalist and market gardener in my twenties, I have set up a range of food and agriculture cooperatives, community projects, and served on the board of several non-profit organisations.
I am currently working on several interdisciplinary research projects that provide a strong evidence base to support transitions to sustainability in policy and practice.edit - Professor Katherine Gibson, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Dr Stephen Healy, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney Universityedit
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The accessibility, availability and consumption of food in food and agriculture systems are key public health and food security concerns. We draw on empirical research from members of the Community Economies Research Network from... more
The accessibility, availability and consumption of food in food and agriculture systems are key public health and food security concerns. We draw on empirical research from members of the Community Economies Research Network from Australia, New Zealand, India and Finland to reimagine food and agriculture systems as a planetary food commons (PFC). PFCs situate food-futures in relation to a broader post-capitalist commons sociality.
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This paper discusses the local food procurement goals articulated in the 2014 food services contract between Chartwells, a subsidiary of the TNC Compass Group Canada, and Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. It examines a range of... more
This paper discusses the local food procurement goals articulated in the 2014 food services contract between Chartwells, a subsidiary of the TNC Compass Group Canada, and Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. It examines a range of perspectives on sustainable food systems, drawing on
localization and food sovereignty discourses, to analyzes the role of food service corporations in campus food system reform. This paper employs Holt-Gimenez and Shattuck’s (2011) analytical framework of neo-liberal reformist, progressive, and radical movements to investigate the extent to which corporate food service providers’ local procurement initiatives are contributing to more substantive campus food system change. Based on the author’s work in various areas of the Trent food system to date, this paper contends that Compass Group’s platform of campus food service sustainability is based in a neo-liberal reformist ideology and practice. Although corporate-led neo-liberal reforms do not seek structural
change, it is suggested that corporate food service contracts with higher educational institutions can provide an impetus for alliances between those working from progressive and radical perspectives toward a more ecologically sustainable, socially just, and food secure future. Such alliances can help to build organizational capacity in these groups, and may help to facilitate more radical and substantive campus food system changes, although the role of corporate institutional food service providers (IFSPs) in such transformations remains complex.
localization and food sovereignty discourses, to analyzes the role of food service corporations in campus food system reform. This paper employs Holt-Gimenez and Shattuck’s (2011) analytical framework of neo-liberal reformist, progressive, and radical movements to investigate the extent to which corporate food service providers’ local procurement initiatives are contributing to more substantive campus food system change. Based on the author’s work in various areas of the Trent food system to date, this paper contends that Compass Group’s platform of campus food service sustainability is based in a neo-liberal reformist ideology and practice. Although corporate-led neo-liberal reforms do not seek structural
change, it is suggested that corporate food service contracts with higher educational institutions can provide an impetus for alliances between those working from progressive and radical perspectives toward a more ecologically sustainable, socially just, and food secure future. Such alliances can help to build organizational capacity in these groups, and may help to facilitate more radical and substantive campus food system changes, although the role of corporate institutional food service providers (IFSPs) in such transformations remains complex.
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How have changes in patterns of rural accumulation and production during the twentieth century affected peasant livelihoods in Mexico, and how have peasants responded to these changes? These questions will be examined using three... more
How have changes in patterns of rural accumulation and production during the twentieth century affected peasant livelihoods in Mexico, and how have peasants
responded to these changes? These questions will be examined using three contemporary agrarian questions – those of Bernstein, Araghi, and McMichael - as frameworks to
investigate processes of capitalist agrarian transition in Mexico and their effects on peasant livelihoods. This paper traces the social, economic and technical transformations installed in Mexico in the name of progress during the twentieth century, and the resulting processes of dispossession by displacement and differentiation experienced by the Mexican peasantry. I propose that while processes of dispossession by displacement and differentiation were prevalent in the modernist era, that under neoliberalism, processes of exclusion have become more relevant to the agrarian question today.
responded to these changes? These questions will be examined using three contemporary agrarian questions – those of Bernstein, Araghi, and McMichael - as frameworks to
investigate processes of capitalist agrarian transition in Mexico and their effects on peasant livelihoods. This paper traces the social, economic and technical transformations installed in Mexico in the name of progress during the twentieth century, and the resulting processes of dispossession by displacement and differentiation experienced by the Mexican peasantry. I propose that while processes of dispossession by displacement and differentiation were prevalent in the modernist era, that under neoliberalism, processes of exclusion have become more relevant to the agrarian question today.