Marylynn Steckley
Biographic Data
| ID | 152956 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marylynn Steckley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marylynn |
| FAMILY NAME | Steckley |
| SIGNATURE | STECKLEY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5252-7387 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Making and masking natures
The global trade of coconut water in the past two decades has made it a multi-billion-dollar industry. Since the early 2000s, the beverage has gone from one consumed mostly in coconut-producing countries to one processed and shipped all over the world. In this paper, I draw from field research conducted in Thailand from June to August 2023 to illustrate how the commodification and global exchange of coconut water shape and are shaped by the mater…
Untangling Food Sovereignty and Security on the Ground
In this paper, we explore the multiscalar discursive and governance barriers to food sovereignty in the context of Haiti. We draw from key informant interviews (n=15) with leaders of peasant and women's organizations, Haitian and international NGO representatives, and community and national-level government officials. Through these interviews, we begin by interrogating the concept of food sovereignty, exploring the different groups that take up t…
Tastes for Luxury
The human penchant for luxury foods has spurred mass migration, dietary overhaul and environmental change in many places around the world. Desires for foods like sugar, bread, beef and packaged foods were also central to the success of the British Empire and were a key part of American hegemony in the 20th century, and prestigious foods continue to be an important part of capital accumulation and power today. In this paper, I explore how the soci…
Deepening the ecological agrarian question
The relevance of food sovereignty assessments in urban sites of scarcity
Food sovereignty for health, agriculture, nutrition, and gender equity
Gender, Food Security, and Social Determinants of Health in Haiti
In the aftermath of the 2010 Haitian earthquake, gender equity and food security are key priorities for the Haitian state, bilateral organizations, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Yet there is very little research on the gendered dimensions of food insecurity in Haiti, specifically the nexus between gender, food security, and health. Literature on these themes tends to be divided by discipline: literature in the health sciences and nutr…
E-volunteering as international experiential learning
Experiential learning is a priority for Canadian universities, with many broadening international experiential learning options. But opportunities are not always inclusive. Low-income, visible minority groups and students with disabilities are less likely to take up travel-based experiential learning. At the same time, students are cognizant of the carbon footprints associated with aviation travel and are critical of traditional sending models. I…
Supporting food security for Indigenous families through the restoration of Indigenous foodways
Indigenous families are overrepresented among those within Canada who experience food insecurity. Studies have largely focused on northern populations, with less attention paid to southern and urban communities, including the social, cultural, and geographic processes that challenge food security. In this study, we present findings from a decade‐long community‐based study with the Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre (London, Ontario…
Post-Earthquake Land Appropriations and the Dispossession of Rural Women in Haiti
This study examines the trajectory of rural women's labor in the wake of post-earthquake land appropriations in Haiti. Drawing on ethnographic field research conducted between 2010 and 2013, it explores gendered access to land in Haiti in both historical and contemporary contexts, paying attention to the nature of rural gender relations and how they influence women's access to land and their roles in petty commerce. The study describes the strati…
Agriculture in and beyond the Haitian catastrophe
Although the devastation from Haiti’s 2010 earthquake was concentrated in Port-au-Prince, it had deep agrarian roots. This paper situates Haiti’s urban poverty in the chronic exploitation of the country’s peasant classes as a basis for assessing the competing contemporary visions for agricultural development. We argue that the post-earthquake reconstruction has fortified a neoliberal development that is incompatible with the aspirations of the Ha…
Why ‘race’ matters in struggles for food sovereignty
Peasant balances, neoliberalism, and the stunted growth of non- traditional agro-exports in Haiti
This paper examines divergent peasant responses to models of export-oriented mango production that have been promoted in post-earthquake Haiti. While critical agrarian studies tends to focus more on the ways that capital shapes conditions facing peasant producers, there has been much less attention to the ways that peasant decision-making can restrict how capital operates. This paper argues that Haitian peasants strive to pursue their livelihoods…
Eating up the social ladder
The industrial diet
Over the past two decades an extensive body of non-fiction literature on food and agricultural commodities has explored a wide range of topics related to agro-food systems. Scholars have enriched t
Manufacturing corporate landscapes
This paper explores the historical and contemporary sources of food insecurity in Haiti. It begins by detailing the impact of colonial legacies on the Caribbean region as a whole and on Haiti in particular. The adverse consequences associated with this period include deforestation, soil infertility and food-import dependence. The paper then turns to more contemporary trends, namely the influence of 30 years of neoliberal ideology. It argues that …
Tsunami survivors' perspectives on vulnerability and vulnerability reduction
This paper presents the results of primary research with 40 survivors of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in two communities: Khao Lak (n=20) and Koh Phi Phi Don (n=20), Thailand. It traces tsunami survivors' perceptions of vulnerability, determines whether residents felt that the tsunami affected different communities differently, identifies the populations and sub-community groups that survivors distinguished as being more vulnerable than others, …
Why ‘race’ matters in struggles for food sovereignty
Manufacturing corporate landscapes
This paper explores the historical and contemporary sources of food insecurity in Haiti. It begins by detailing the impact of colonial legacies on the Caribbean region as a whole and on Haiti in particular. The adverse consequences associated with this period include deforestation, soil infertility and food-import dependence. The paper then turns to more contemporary trends, namely the influence of 30 years of neoliberal ideology. It argues that …
Peasant balances, neoliberalism, and the stunted growth of non- traditional agro-exports in Haiti
This paper examines divergent peasant responses to models of export-oriented mango production that have been promoted in post-earthquake Haiti. While critical agrarian studies tends to focus more on the ways that capital shapes conditions facing peasant producers, there has been much less attention to the ways that peasant decision-making can restrict how capital operates. This paper argues that Haitian peasants strive to pursue their livelihoods…
Tsunami survivors' perspectives on vulnerability and vulnerability reduction
This paper presents the results of primary research with 40 survivors of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in two communities: Khao Lak (n=20) and Koh Phi Phi Don (n=20), Thailand. It traces tsunami survivors' perceptions of vulnerability, determines whether residents felt that the tsunami affected different communities differently, identifies the populations and sub-community groups that survivors distinguished as being more vulnerable than others, …
Supporting food security for Indigenous families through the restoration of Indigenous foodways
Indigenous families are overrepresented among those within Canada who experience food insecurity. Studies have largely focused on northern populations, with less attention paid to southern and urban communities, including the social, cultural, and geographic processes that challenge food security. In this study, we present findings from a decade‐long community‐based study with the Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre (London, Ontario…
Post-Earthquake Land Appropriations and the Dispossession of Rural Women in Haiti
This study examines the trajectory of rural women's labor in the wake of post-earthquake land appropriations in Haiti. Drawing on ethnographic field research conducted between 2010 and 2013, it explores gendered access to land in Haiti in both historical and contemporary contexts, paying attention to the nature of rural gender relations and how they influence women's access to land and their roles in petty commerce. The study describes the strati…
Agriculture in and beyond the Haitian catastrophe
Although the devastation from Haiti’s 2010 earthquake was concentrated in Port-au-Prince, it had deep agrarian roots. This paper situates Haiti’s urban poverty in the chronic exploitation of the country’s peasant classes as a basis for assessing the competing contemporary visions for agricultural development. We argue that the post-earthquake reconstruction has fortified a neoliberal development that is incompatible with the aspirations of the Ha…
Eating up the social ladder
Deepening the ecological agrarian question
Tsunami survivors' perspectives on vulnerability and vulnerability reduction
This paper presents the results of primary research with 40 survivors of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in two communities: Khao Lak (n=20) and Koh Phi Phi Don (n=20), Thailand. It traces tsunami survivors' perceptions of vulnerability, determines whether residents felt that the tsunami affected different communities differently, identifies the populations and sub-community groups that survivors distinguished as being more vulnerable than others, …
Eating up the social ladder
The industrial diet
Over the past two decades an extensive body of non-fiction literature on food and agricultural commodities has explored a wide range of topics related to agro-food systems. Scholars have enriched t
Manufacturing corporate landscapes
This paper explores the historical and contemporary sources of food insecurity in Haiti. It begins by detailing the impact of colonial legacies on the Caribbean region as a whole and on Haiti in particular. The adverse consequences associated with this period include deforestation, soil infertility and food-import dependence. The paper then turns to more contemporary trends, namely the influence of 30 years of neoliberal ideology. It argues that …
Why ‘race’ matters in struggles for food sovereignty
Peasant balances, neoliberalism, and the stunted growth of non- traditional agro-exports in Haiti
This paper examines divergent peasant responses to models of export-oriented mango production that have been promoted in post-earthquake Haiti. While critical agrarian studies tends to focus more on the ways that capital shapes conditions facing peasant producers, there has been much less attention to the ways that peasant decision-making can restrict how capital operates. This paper argues that Haitian peasants strive to pursue their livelihoods…
Agriculture in and beyond the Haitian catastrophe
Although the devastation from Haiti’s 2010 earthquake was concentrated in Port-au-Prince, it had deep agrarian roots. This paper situates Haiti’s urban poverty in the chronic exploitation of the country’s peasant classes as a basis for assessing the competing contemporary visions for agricultural development. We argue that the post-earthquake reconstruction has fortified a neoliberal development that is incompatible with the aspirations of the Ha…
Post-Earthquake Land Appropriations and the Dispossession of Rural Women in Haiti
This study examines the trajectory of rural women's labor in the wake of post-earthquake land appropriations in Haiti. Drawing on ethnographic field research conducted between 2010 and 2013, it explores gendered access to land in Haiti in both historical and contemporary contexts, paying attention to the nature of rural gender relations and how they influence women's access to land and their roles in petty commerce. The study describes the strati…
Supporting food security for Indigenous families through the restoration of Indigenous foodways
Indigenous families are overrepresented among those within Canada who experience food insecurity. Studies have largely focused on northern populations, with less attention paid to southern and urban communities, including the social, cultural, and geographic processes that challenge food security. In this study, we present findings from a decade‐long community‐based study with the Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre (London, Ontario…
Gender, Food Security, and Social Determinants of Health in Haiti
In the aftermath of the 2010 Haitian earthquake, gender equity and food security are key priorities for the Haitian state, bilateral organizations, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Yet there is very little research on the gendered dimensions of food insecurity in Haiti, specifically the nexus between gender, food security, and health. Literature on these themes tends to be divided by discipline: literature in the health sciences and nutr…
E-volunteering as international experiential learning
Experiential learning is a priority for Canadian universities, with many broadening international experiential learning options. But opportunities are not always inclusive. Low-income, visible minority groups and students with disabilities are less likely to take up travel-based experiential learning. At the same time, students are cognizant of the carbon footprints associated with aviation travel and are critical of traditional sending models. I…
Food sovereignty for health, agriculture, nutrition, and gender equity
The relevance of food sovereignty assessments in urban sites of scarcity
Untangling Food Sovereignty and Security on the Ground
In this paper, we explore the multiscalar discursive and governance barriers to food sovereignty in the context of Haiti. We draw from key informant interviews (n=15) with leaders of peasant and women's organizations, Haitian and international NGO representatives, and community and national-level government officials. Through these interviews, we begin by interrogating the concept of food sovereignty, exploring the different groups that take up t…
Tastes for Luxury
The human penchant for luxury foods has spurred mass migration, dietary overhaul and environmental change in many places around the world. Desires for foods like sugar, bread, beef and packaged foods were also central to the success of the British Empire and were a key part of American hegemony in the 20th century, and prestigious foods continue to be an important part of capital accumulation and power today. In this paper, I explore how the soci…
Deepening the ecological agrarian question
Making and masking natures
The global trade of coconut water in the past two decades has made it a multi-billion-dollar industry. Since the early 2000s, the beverage has gone from one consumed mostly in coconut-producing countries to one processed and shipped all over the world. In this paper, I draw from field research conducted in Thailand from June to August 2023 to illustrate how the commodification and global exchange of coconut water shape and are shaped by the mater…
Geography (13 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Agriculture (9 works) · Food security (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Development economics (6 works) · Political economy (6 works)