Jennifer Vansteenkiste
Biographic Data
| ID | 156674 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Vansteenkiste |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Vansteenkiste |
| SIGNATURE | VANSTEENKISTE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Guelph |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5840-6394 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nourishing the Nexus
Gender in the World Food Economy
Over the past five decades, agricultural trade liberalization and integration into the global food system have undermined gender equality, women’s empowerment, and food security in Haiti. International actors who design agricultural policies are aware of gendered contributions to Haitian food security, yet ignore this knowledge to privilege an ideological belief that trade liberalization and structural adjustment programs will advance gender equa…
The Gendered Space of Capabilities and Functionings
Different frameworks for building capabilities result in different material outcomes for women in four Haitian community-based organizations: two mixed-gender versus two women’s organizations. This study shows that frameworks deployed by the women’s organizations pay attention to gendered strategic interests by enhancing capabilities and functionings that communities and individuals value. Their frameworks resembled Nussbaum’s (2011, Creating Cap…
Haiti’s peasantry as poto mitan
Peasant farmers in northern Haiti have lost more than access to state land in a recent public–private partnership between the agro-export corporation Agritrans and the Government of Haiti. Using the Haitian concept of poto mitan, characterised by locally defined attributes of the moral economy of community care, identity and autonomy, this research establishes how peasants lose the ability to make critical and strategic contributions to food secu…
Considering the ecohealth approach
This paper examines the social and gender politics of a women's urban garden project supported by the International Organisation of Migration, in Cap Haitien, Haiti. My study highlights how the development process created an unmonitored symbolic space where society's normalised gender processes reproduced broader social inequalities, which, in turn, prevented the project from meeting the women's practical and strategic goals. Then, I discuss how …
Considering the ecohealth approach
This paper examines the social and gender politics of a women's urban garden project supported by the International Organisation of Migration, in Cap Haitien, Haiti. My study highlights how the development process created an unmonitored symbolic space where society's normalised gender processes reproduced broader social inequalities, which, in turn, prevented the project from meeting the women's practical and strategic goals. Then, I discuss how …
Haiti’s peasantry as poto mitan
Peasant farmers in northern Haiti have lost more than access to state land in a recent public–private partnership between the agro-export corporation Agritrans and the Government of Haiti. Using the Haitian concept of poto mitan, characterised by locally defined attributes of the moral economy of community care, identity and autonomy, this research establishes how peasants lose the ability to make critical and strategic contributions to food secu…
The Gendered Space of Capabilities and Functionings
Different frameworks for building capabilities result in different material outcomes for women in four Haitian community-based organizations: two mixed-gender versus two women’s organizations. This study shows that frameworks deployed by the women’s organizations pay attention to gendered strategic interests by enhancing capabilities and functionings that communities and individuals value. Their frameworks resembled Nussbaum’s (2011, Creating Cap…
Gender in the World Food Economy
Over the past five decades, agricultural trade liberalization and integration into the global food system have undermined gender equality, women’s empowerment, and food security in Haiti. International actors who design agricultural policies are aware of gendered contributions to Haitian food security, yet ignore this knowledge to privilege an ideological belief that trade liberalization and structural adjustment programs will advance gender equa…
Nourishing the Nexus
Economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Food security (2 works)