Garrett Graddy-Lovelace
Biographic Data
| ID | 163854 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Garrett Graddy-Lovelace |
| GIVEN NAMES | Garrett |
| FAMILY NAME | Graddy-Lovelace |
| SIGNATURE | GRADDY-LOVELACE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6006-3498 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Food as necropolitics: The starvation of Palestinian sovereignty and stakes of geopolitical ecology
Rural Root Shock
This article expands social psychiatrist Mindy Fullilove's characterisation of US postwar urban community root shock in time and space. We explore the impacts of land dispossession and population displacement on Black farming communities and their health from colonial origins on. We review racial capitalism driving such rural root shock as a socioecological nexus, with particular focus here on its effects in little‐studied Black communities of th…
Reviving Words: Oral Poetic Praise Traditions, Beyond Coloniality's Modernity
Agrarianizing climate accords & discord: Food, agriculture & agrarian movements at UNFCCC Conference of the Parties
How do agrarian justice movements factor into the UNFCCC annual global climate Conference of the Parties (COP)? How have they appeared and erupted, been excluded, appropriated, and barely allowed – over the years, and, in particular, at the 2022 COP27 and 2023 COP28? This paper asks and begins to answer these overlooked questions. In the heads-of-state negotiations, transnational agrifood, land, and labour issues do not take centre stage explicit…
Geopolitical ecology for our times
Data & the Seed: From Extractive Epistemology to Emancipating Agrobiodiversity Research Methods
This article emerges from a collaborative, cross-regional project to imagine and embody emancipatory research methods for agrobiodiversity practice and policy. The goal of emancipatory research–counteracting projects that extract data and time from communities–is intentionally aspirational. We analyze practices of extractive research and data collection and how it has shaped current agrobiodiversity research and governance. We argue that egalitar…
Towards abolitionist agrarian geographies of Kentucky
This agrarian geography of Kentucky begins on the streets of the state's largest city, in the throes of antiracist struggle. It tracks the state's lingering colonial settler power dynamics through the racism of plantation, extraction, and carceral geographies. It then traces how resistance to these exploitations take root in place-based agri-food initiatives unfolding through urban-rural solidarity against white supremacist policing, prison syste…
Re-orienting policy for growing food to nourish communities
Authoritarian populism and emancipatory politics in the rural United States
Farmer and non-farmer responsibility to each other: Negotiating the social contracts and public good of agriculture
Plants: Crop diversity pre‐breeding technologies as agrarian care co‐opted
Within the realm of international agricultural biodiversity conservation, there has been a surge of funding for “pre‐breeding” of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. Molecular high‐throughput analysis, among other techniques, attempts to discern, document, and digitise the genomic traits of farmer/landrace varieties and crop wild relatives stored in gene banks to render them legible fodder for professional breeding. But pre‐breeding…
U.S. Farm Policy as Fraught Populism: Tracing the Scalar Tensions of Nationalist Agricultural Governance
The scalar tensions of nationalism manifest acutely in agriculture—particularly in the contemporary United States. This is paradoxical because farm policy calls for and enacts nativist governance that undermines the conditions of farming: from labor to water, topsoil, and pollinators, to export markets. At the heart of these scalar contradictions is the fraught, shifting terrain of agrarian populism. The intertwined origin of the U.S. Farm Bill, …
New opportunities, new challenges: Harnessing Cuba’s advances in agroecology and sustainable agriculture in the context of changing relations with the United States
Cuba’s transition to agroecology is perhaps as widely known as it is misunderstood. In response to the economic crisis of the early 1990s, the Cuban agricultural sector largely departed from the industrial model of food production that it had previously pursued. The subsequent transition towards an agroecological model has been a dynamic and uneven process, elevating Cuba on the world stage as a global leader in sustainable agriculture while at t…
United States-Cuba Agricultural Relations and Agrarian Questions
In the wake of Cuba's far-reaching, halting economic reforms, geopolitical rapprochement and trade openings with the United States (US) offer opportunities and risks for Cuban small-scale farmers and agrarian cooperatives: pressures, paradoxes and potential abound. Meanwhile, on the margins, agro-ecologically oriented tours bring admiring US students, farmers and agrarian advocates. Cubans concur that the country must solve key problems in its ag…
From supply management to agricultural subsidies—and back again? The U.S. Farm Bill & agrarian (in)viability
Beyond Biodiversity Conservation: Why Policy Needs Social Theory, Social Theory Needs Justice, and Justice Needs Policy
The United Nations declared the 2010s to be the Decade on Biodiversity, but to what avail? A generation after the Convention of Biological Diversity launched the term biodiversity into the realm of global environmental policy, species’ numbers keep declining, as do state-funded conservation measures. Meanwhile, public attention to ecological crises focuses understandably on immediate dangers of undrinkable water and unbreathable air. With climate…
Latent alliances: The Women’s March and agrarian feminism as opportunities of and for political ecology
On 21 January 2017, the day after a bitterly contested presidential inauguration, nearly 5 million women and men marched and protested in 673 places across the globe – under the banner of the Women’s March. The March exceeded and expanded expectations on many levels, from organizational projections to media classifications to scholarly analysis. One aspect of the March – and its ongoing repercussions – that has eluded attention is its latent link…
The coloniality of US agricultural policy: Articulating Agrarian (In)justice
Drawing on participatory action research with La Via Campesina's US member groups, this paper traces the coloniality of US agricultural policy - and the uses of this analytic lens. The framework of coloniality conjures history, contextualizing US Department of Agriculture (USDA) racism within long legacies of subjugation, while paying homage to historical resistance. It raises the stakes regarding the neo-imperialism of agribusiness monopolies, w…
The coloniality of US agricultural policy: Articulating Agrarian (In)justice
Drawing on participatory action research with La Via Campesina's US member groups, this paper traces the coloniality of US agricultural policy - and the uses of this analytic lens. The framework of coloniality conjures history, contextualizing US Department of Agriculture (USDA) racism within long legacies of subjugation, while paying homage to historical resistance. It raises the stakes regarding the neo-imperialism of agribusiness monopolies, w…
Authoritarian populism and emancipatory politics in the rural United States
Geopolitical ecology for our times
Farmer and non-farmer responsibility to each other: Negotiating the social contracts and public good of agriculture
U.S. Farm Policy as Fraught Populism: Tracing the Scalar Tensions of Nationalist Agricultural Governance
The scalar tensions of nationalism manifest acutely in agriculture—particularly in the contemporary United States. This is paradoxical because farm policy calls for and enacts nativist governance that undermines the conditions of farming: from labor to water, topsoil, and pollinators, to export markets. At the heart of these scalar contradictions is the fraught, shifting terrain of agrarian populism. The intertwined origin of the U.S. Farm Bill, …
United States-Cuba Agricultural Relations and Agrarian Questions
In the wake of Cuba's far-reaching, halting economic reforms, geopolitical rapprochement and trade openings with the United States (US) offer opportunities and risks for Cuban small-scale farmers and agrarian cooperatives: pressures, paradoxes and potential abound. Meanwhile, on the margins, agro-ecologically oriented tours bring admiring US students, farmers and agrarian advocates. Cubans concur that the country must solve key problems in its ag…
Latent alliances: The Women’s March and agrarian feminism as opportunities of and for political ecology
On 21 January 2017, the day after a bitterly contested presidential inauguration, nearly 5 million women and men marched and protested in 673 places across the globe – under the banner of the Women’s March. The March exceeded and expanded expectations on many levels, from organizational projections to media classifications to scholarly analysis. One aspect of the March – and its ongoing repercussions – that has eluded attention is its latent link…
Towards abolitionist agrarian geographies of Kentucky
This agrarian geography of Kentucky begins on the streets of the state's largest city, in the throes of antiracist struggle. It tracks the state's lingering colonial settler power dynamics through the racism of plantation, extraction, and carceral geographies. It then traces how resistance to these exploitations take root in place-based agri-food initiatives unfolding through urban-rural solidarity against white supremacist policing, prison syste…
Plants: Crop diversity pre‐breeding technologies as agrarian care co‐opted
Within the realm of international agricultural biodiversity conservation, there has been a surge of funding for “pre‐breeding” of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. Molecular high‐throughput analysis, among other techniques, attempts to discern, document, and digitise the genomic traits of farmer/landrace varieties and crop wild relatives stored in gene banks to render them legible fodder for professional breeding. But pre‐breeding…
Re-orienting policy for growing food to nourish communities
Beyond Biodiversity Conservation: Why Policy Needs Social Theory, Social Theory Needs Justice, and Justice Needs Policy
The United Nations declared the 2010s to be the Decade on Biodiversity, but to what avail? A generation after the Convention of Biological Diversity launched the term biodiversity into the realm of global environmental policy, species’ numbers keep declining, as do state-funded conservation measures. Meanwhile, public attention to ecological crises focuses understandably on immediate dangers of undrinkable water and unbreathable air. With climate…
From supply management to agricultural subsidies—and back again? The U.S. Farm Bill & agrarian (in)viability
Beyond Biodiversity Conservation: Why Policy Needs Social Theory, Social Theory Needs Justice, and Justice Needs Policy
The United Nations declared the 2010s to be the Decade on Biodiversity, but to what avail? A generation after the Convention of Biological Diversity launched the term biodiversity into the realm of global environmental policy, species’ numbers keep declining, as do state-funded conservation measures. Meanwhile, public attention to ecological crises focuses understandably on immediate dangers of undrinkable water and unbreathable air. With climate…
Latent alliances: The Women’s March and agrarian feminism as opportunities of and for political ecology
On 21 January 2017, the day after a bitterly contested presidential inauguration, nearly 5 million women and men marched and protested in 673 places across the globe – under the banner of the Women’s March. The March exceeded and expanded expectations on many levels, from organizational projections to media classifications to scholarly analysis. One aspect of the March – and its ongoing repercussions – that has eluded attention is its latent link…
The coloniality of US agricultural policy: Articulating Agrarian (In)justice
Drawing on participatory action research with La Via Campesina's US member groups, this paper traces the coloniality of US agricultural policy - and the uses of this analytic lens. The framework of coloniality conjures history, contextualizing US Department of Agriculture (USDA) racism within long legacies of subjugation, while paying homage to historical resistance. It raises the stakes regarding the neo-imperialism of agribusiness monopolies, w…
New opportunities, new challenges: Harnessing Cuba’s advances in agroecology and sustainable agriculture in the context of changing relations with the United States
Cuba’s transition to agroecology is perhaps as widely known as it is misunderstood. In response to the economic crisis of the early 1990s, the Cuban agricultural sector largely departed from the industrial model of food production that it had previously pursued. The subsequent transition towards an agroecological model has been a dynamic and uneven process, elevating Cuba on the world stage as a global leader in sustainable agriculture while at t…
United States-Cuba Agricultural Relations and Agrarian Questions
In the wake of Cuba's far-reaching, halting economic reforms, geopolitical rapprochement and trade openings with the United States (US) offer opportunities and risks for Cuban small-scale farmers and agrarian cooperatives: pressures, paradoxes and potential abound. Meanwhile, on the margins, agro-ecologically oriented tours bring admiring US students, farmers and agrarian advocates. Cubans concur that the country must solve key problems in its ag…
U.S. Farm Policy as Fraught Populism: Tracing the Scalar Tensions of Nationalist Agricultural Governance
The scalar tensions of nationalism manifest acutely in agriculture—particularly in the contemporary United States. This is paradoxical because farm policy calls for and enacts nativist governance that undermines the conditions of farming: from labor to water, topsoil, and pollinators, to export markets. At the heart of these scalar contradictions is the fraught, shifting terrain of agrarian populism. The intertwined origin of the U.S. Farm Bill, …
Re-orienting policy for growing food to nourish communities
Authoritarian populism and emancipatory politics in the rural United States
Farmer and non-farmer responsibility to each other: Negotiating the social contracts and public good of agriculture
Plants: Crop diversity pre‐breeding technologies as agrarian care co‐opted
Within the realm of international agricultural biodiversity conservation, there has been a surge of funding for “pre‐breeding” of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. Molecular high‐throughput analysis, among other techniques, attempts to discern, document, and digitise the genomic traits of farmer/landrace varieties and crop wild relatives stored in gene banks to render them legible fodder for professional breeding. But pre‐breeding…
Data & the Seed: From Extractive Epistemology to Emancipating Agrobiodiversity Research Methods
This article emerges from a collaborative, cross-regional project to imagine and embody emancipatory research methods for agrobiodiversity practice and policy. The goal of emancipatory research–counteracting projects that extract data and time from communities–is intentionally aspirational. We analyze practices of extractive research and data collection and how it has shaped current agrobiodiversity research and governance. We argue that egalitar…
Towards abolitionist agrarian geographies of Kentucky
This agrarian geography of Kentucky begins on the streets of the state's largest city, in the throes of antiracist struggle. It tracks the state's lingering colonial settler power dynamics through the racism of plantation, extraction, and carceral geographies. It then traces how resistance to these exploitations take root in place-based agri-food initiatives unfolding through urban-rural solidarity against white supremacist policing, prison syste…
Agrarianizing climate accords & discord: Food, agriculture & agrarian movements at UNFCCC Conference of the Parties
How do agrarian justice movements factor into the UNFCCC annual global climate Conference of the Parties (COP)? How have they appeared and erupted, been excluded, appropriated, and barely allowed – over the years, and, in particular, at the 2022 COP27 and 2023 COP28? This paper asks and begins to answer these overlooked questions. In the heads-of-state negotiations, transnational agrifood, land, and labour issues do not take centre stage explicit…
Geopolitical ecology for our times
Reviving Words: Oral Poetic Praise Traditions, Beyond Coloniality's Modernity
Food as necropolitics: The starvation of Palestinian sovereignty and stakes of geopolitical ecology
Rural Root Shock
This article expands social psychiatrist Mindy Fullilove's characterisation of US postwar urban community root shock in time and space. We explore the impacts of land dispossession and population displacement on Black farming communities and their health from colonial origins on. We review racial capitalism driving such rural root shock as a socioecological nexus, with particular focus here on its effects in little‐studied Black communities of th…
Political science (14 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (12 works) · Agriculture (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Agrarian society (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works)