Amy Trauger
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 171335 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Amy Trauger |
| NOMBRES | Amy |
| APELLIDO | Trauger |
| FIRMA | TRAUGER A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3910-7855 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 256 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
“The park is the people”
Mainstream conservation practices are commonly rooted in capitalist logics of valuing nature for human use or enjoyment. Often facilitated by “big international non-governmental organizations” (BINGOs), environmental governance of land in conservation frequently drives adverse impacts on local communities in and around protected areas. The World Heritage Convention as a department of UNESCO, for example, uses technical and scientific justificatio…
Bruce Scholten
Wake Work
Athens-Clarke County, Georgia is home to the first publicly chartered institution of higher learning in the United States: The University of Georgia (UGA). For the last 200 + years, UGA has brought settlers to Athens and led them in Indigenous removal, slavery, Jim and Jane Crow politics, segregation, and racial discrimination. A reckoning with this history of slavery and the ongoing harms of settler-colonial higher education is long overdue. Thi…
The vegan industrial complex
Many political ecologists and geographers study ethical diets but most are curiously silent on the topic of death in the food system, specifically what or who is allowed to live and what is let die in the "doing of good." This article aims to show how the practice of eating produces the socio-ecological harm most ethical consumers set out to avoid with their dietary choices. I examine the food systems that produce ethical products for 1) the hier…
Food sovereignty and property in Cuba and the United States
Food sovereignty promotes agroecological farming methods and the reduction of food insecurity through changing political relations between people, land and food policy. Market orientations to land and private property in liberal democracies restrict access to food, and thus for food sovereigntists, reframing the social relationship to land through property is key to making food more available. This paper examines the case of usufruct land rights …
Rehumanizing the graduate seminar by embracing ambiguity
This Viewpoint introduces the Athena Co-Learning Collective: A group of faculty and graduate students at the University of Georgia committed to teaching and learning differently in the academy. In particular, we describe the Athena Co-Learning Collective’s efforts to reject masculine forms of teaching and learning that are characteristic of the traditional seminar. Instead, we focus on rehumanization, as offered by Katherine McKittrick, to render…
Organic certification as assemblage
Through the lens of assemblage theory, we conceptualise organic certification for agricultural products in Cuba as a “dispositif‐assemblage,” through which we trace a multiple and conflicted “will to govern” the production and valuing of food qualities. We juxtapose the hierarchical third‐party certification system for Cuban organic honey for export with a proposed horizontal participatory guarantee system for organic products to be consumed in C…
Anxious appetites
Jackson offers a fresh, if somewhat unsettling, take on a staple topic with Anxious Appetites: Food and Consumer Culture, published by Bloomsbury Press. The book sets out to identify and explain th
A Feminist Approach to Climate Change Governance
Neoliberal climate governance, which focuses on shifting responsibility for mitigating climate change onto individuals through their consumption of techno-scientific solutions, ignores and obscures the experience of differently situated subjects. This paper examines the consequences of both framing climate change as a problem of science and inducing individual behavior changes as a key point of climate policy. We build on climate governance liter…
Is Bigger Better? The Small Farm Imaginary and Fair Trade Banana Production in the Dominican Republic
Fair Trade is a certification system designed to create social change in production and consumption patterns, primarily in agricultural products, by shaping what happens on the production end of the supply chain through a certification and regulatory system. Previous research on Fair Trade investigated the workings and benefits of Fair Trade production models, with little attention paid to how the Fair Trade model might fail to meet its objective…
Capturing the Multiple and Shifting Identities of Farm Women in the Northeastern United States
The identities of women on farms are shifting as more women enter farming and identify as farmers, as reflected by the 30 percent growth in women farmers in the U.S. census of agriculture (USDA 2009). This article draws from identity theory to develop a quantitative measure of the identities of farm women. The measure incorporates multiple roles farming women may perform and weights these roles by their salience to two farm identities, farm opera…
Toward a political geography of food sovereignty
The failures of food security and other policies to guarantee the right to food motivate the calls for the radical reforms to the food system called for by food sovereignty. Food sovereignty narratives identify neoliberal state policies and global capital as the source of the food insecurity, and seek new rights for producers and consumers. However, the nature of territorial state power and the juridical structures of the (neo)liberal state may m…
The contested terrain of biological citizenship in the seizure of raw milk in Athens, Georgia
Food Justice, Hunger and the City
We are amidst a long-overdue increase of interest in issues related food, cities and inequality within geography. While there has certainly been significant scholarship done on the issue, this area seems to be on the verge of defining many other sub-disciplinary trajectories as opposed to the opposite which has historically been the case. In this short review essay, we hope to signal the utility of the concepts of community food security, food so…
The Corporeal Marker Project (CMP)
In response to recent articles and ideas for experiential learning activities in human geography, this paper outlines a particular approach to learning about the body, difference, mobility and geographic space through experience. The Corporeal Marker Project designed and implemented by the authors provides a spatial experience of difference for students who represent themselves as 'the other' by marking their bodies outside accepted 'norms' in pu…
The Object of Extension
Cooperative extension, as an outreach mechanism of land grant universities in the USA, has long served the educational needs of rural and agricultural communities. The educational programming of extension, however, is generally divided into areas that reflect, reify and reinforce the gendered division of labour on farms in the USA. While it is well documented that extension inadequately serves women in providing knowledge about production practic…
Our market is our community”
Social agency and networked spatial relations in sustainable agriculture
Agriculture in the USA is in social and economic crisis, but sustainable agriculture is gaining unprecedented popularity among producers and consumers. This article examines the agency articulated by farmers and activists in the sustainable agriculture community in Pennsylvania to exploit ruptures in the conventional food system and develop new forms of food provisioning in local economies. Actor‐network theory offers roads out of structure/agenc…
Agricultural education
Un/Re‐constructing the Agrarian Dream
This paper employs a cultural‐economic approach to understanding the labour model strategies employed by an organic marketing co‐operative in a rural community of south‐central Pennsylvania. The co‐operative is composed of self‐described ‘back‐to‐the‐landers’, who are motivated by an agrarian dream of a better quality of life, making a living off the land and contributing to the environmental sustainability of farming. Organic agriculture as a te…
Recently completed doctorates in social and cultural geography
Because they can do the work’
Women throughout the West are up to three times more likely to be the operator of a farm in sustainable agricultural models than in productivist models. When women assume the role of farmer they transgress traditional gender identities on farms, which dictate that women are ‘farmwives’ and men are ‘farmers’; these gender identities intersect with spaces in the agricultural community to imply appropriate behavior for women as farmwives. This resea…
Translating Food Sovereignty
"Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance." The AAG Review of Books, 10(4), pp. 17–18
Toward a political geography of food sovereignty
The failures of food security and other policies to guarantee the right to food motivate the calls for the radical reforms to the food system called for by food sovereignty. Food sovereignty narratives identify neoliberal state policies and global capital as the source of the food insecurity, and seek new rights for producers and consumers. However, the nature of territorial state power and the juridical structures of the (neo)liberal state may m…
Because they can do the work’
Women throughout the West are up to three times more likely to be the operator of a farm in sustainable agricultural models than in productivist models. When women assume the role of farmer they transgress traditional gender identities on farms, which dictate that women are ‘farmwives’ and men are ‘farmers’; these gender identities intersect with spaces in the agricultural community to imply appropriate behavior for women as farmwives. This resea…
Capturing the Multiple and Shifting Identities of Farm Women in the Northeastern United States
The identities of women on farms are shifting as more women enter farming and identify as farmers, as reflected by the 30 percent growth in women farmers in the U.S. census of agriculture (USDA 2009). This article draws from identity theory to develop a quantitative measure of the identities of farm women. The measure incorporates multiple roles farming women may perform and weights these roles by their salience to two farm identities, farm opera…
Our market is our community”
Agricultural education
A Feminist Approach to Climate Change Governance
Neoliberal climate governance, which focuses on shifting responsibility for mitigating climate change onto individuals through their consumption of techno-scientific solutions, ignores and obscures the experience of differently situated subjects. This paper examines the consequences of both framing climate change as a problem of science and inducing individual behavior changes as a key point of climate policy. We build on climate governance liter…
Food Justice, Hunger and the City
We are amidst a long-overdue increase of interest in issues related food, cities and inequality within geography. While there has certainly been significant scholarship done on the issue, this area seems to be on the verge of defining many other sub-disciplinary trajectories as opposed to the opposite which has historically been the case. In this short review essay, we hope to signal the utility of the concepts of community food security, food so…
The contested terrain of biological citizenship in the seizure of raw milk in Athens, Georgia
Is Bigger Better? The Small Farm Imaginary and Fair Trade Banana Production in the Dominican Republic
Fair Trade is a certification system designed to create social change in production and consumption patterns, primarily in agricultural products, by shaping what happens on the production end of the supply chain through a certification and regulatory system. Previous research on Fair Trade investigated the workings and benefits of Fair Trade production models, with little attention paid to how the Fair Trade model might fail to meet its objective…
The Object of Extension
Cooperative extension, as an outreach mechanism of land grant universities in the USA, has long served the educational needs of rural and agricultural communities. The educational programming of extension, however, is generally divided into areas that reflect, reify and reinforce the gendered division of labour on farms in the USA. While it is well documented that extension inadequately serves women in providing knowledge about production practic…
Food sovereignty and property in Cuba and the United States
Food sovereignty promotes agroecological farming methods and the reduction of food insecurity through changing political relations between people, land and food policy. Market orientations to land and private property in liberal democracies restrict access to food, and thus for food sovereigntists, reframing the social relationship to land through property is key to making food more available. This paper examines the case of usufruct land rights …
Social agency and networked spatial relations in sustainable agriculture
Agriculture in the USA is in social and economic crisis, but sustainable agriculture is gaining unprecedented popularity among producers and consumers. This article examines the agency articulated by farmers and activists in the sustainable agriculture community in Pennsylvania to exploit ruptures in the conventional food system and develop new forms of food provisioning in local economies. Actor‐network theory offers roads out of structure/agenc…
The vegan industrial complex
Many political ecologists and geographers study ethical diets but most are curiously silent on the topic of death in the food system, specifically what or who is allowed to live and what is let die in the "doing of good." This article aims to show how the practice of eating produces the socio-ecological harm most ethical consumers set out to avoid with their dietary choices. I examine the food systems that produce ethical products for 1) the hier…
Rehumanizing the graduate seminar by embracing ambiguity
This Viewpoint introduces the Athena Co-Learning Collective: A group of faculty and graduate students at the University of Georgia committed to teaching and learning differently in the academy. In particular, we describe the Athena Co-Learning Collective’s efforts to reject masculine forms of teaching and learning that are characteristic of the traditional seminar. Instead, we focus on rehumanization, as offered by Katherine McKittrick, to render…
The Corporeal Marker Project (CMP)
In response to recent articles and ideas for experiential learning activities in human geography, this paper outlines a particular approach to learning about the body, difference, mobility and geographic space through experience. The Corporeal Marker Project designed and implemented by the authors provides a spatial experience of difference for students who represent themselves as 'the other' by marking their bodies outside accepted 'norms' in pu…
Un/Re‐constructing the Agrarian Dream
This paper employs a cultural‐economic approach to understanding the labour model strategies employed by an organic marketing co‐operative in a rural community of south‐central Pennsylvania. The co‐operative is composed of self‐described ‘back‐to‐the‐landers’, who are motivated by an agrarian dream of a better quality of life, making a living off the land and contributing to the environmental sustainability of farming. Organic agriculture as a te…
Organic certification as assemblage
Through the lens of assemblage theory, we conceptualise organic certification for agricultural products in Cuba as a “dispositif‐assemblage,” through which we trace a multiple and conflicted “will to govern” the production and valuing of food qualities. We juxtapose the hierarchical third‐party certification system for Cuban organic honey for export with a proposed horizontal participatory guarantee system for organic products to be consumed in C…
Because they can do the work’
Women throughout the West are up to three times more likely to be the operator of a farm in sustainable agricultural models than in productivist models. When women assume the role of farmer they transgress traditional gender identities on farms, which dictate that women are ‘farmwives’ and men are ‘farmers’; these gender identities intersect with spaces in the agricultural community to imply appropriate behavior for women as farmwives. This resea…
Recently completed doctorates in social and cultural geography
Un/Re‐constructing the Agrarian Dream
This paper employs a cultural‐economic approach to understanding the labour model strategies employed by an organic marketing co‐operative in a rural community of south‐central Pennsylvania. The co‐operative is composed of self‐described ‘back‐to‐the‐landers’, who are motivated by an agrarian dream of a better quality of life, making a living off the land and contributing to the environmental sustainability of farming. Organic agriculture as a te…
Agricultural education
Our market is our community”
Social agency and networked spatial relations in sustainable agriculture
Agriculture in the USA is in social and economic crisis, but sustainable agriculture is gaining unprecedented popularity among producers and consumers. This article examines the agency articulated by farmers and activists in the sustainable agriculture community in Pennsylvania to exploit ruptures in the conventional food system and develop new forms of food provisioning in local economies. Actor‐network theory offers roads out of structure/agenc…
The Object of Extension
Cooperative extension, as an outreach mechanism of land grant universities in the USA, has long served the educational needs of rural and agricultural communities. The educational programming of extension, however, is generally divided into areas that reflect, reify and reinforce the gendered division of labour on farms in the USA. While it is well documented that extension inadequately serves women in providing knowledge about production practic…
The Corporeal Marker Project (CMP)
In response to recent articles and ideas for experiential learning activities in human geography, this paper outlines a particular approach to learning about the body, difference, mobility and geographic space through experience. The Corporeal Marker Project designed and implemented by the authors provides a spatial experience of difference for students who represent themselves as 'the other' by marking their bodies outside accepted 'norms' in pu…
Food Justice, Hunger and the City
We are amidst a long-overdue increase of interest in issues related food, cities and inequality within geography. While there has certainly been significant scholarship done on the issue, this area seems to be on the verge of defining many other sub-disciplinary trajectories as opposed to the opposite which has historically been the case. In this short review essay, we hope to signal the utility of the concepts of community food security, food so…
The contested terrain of biological citizenship in the seizure of raw milk in Athens, Georgia
Is Bigger Better? The Small Farm Imaginary and Fair Trade Banana Production in the Dominican Republic
Fair Trade is a certification system designed to create social change in production and consumption patterns, primarily in agricultural products, by shaping what happens on the production end of the supply chain through a certification and regulatory system. Previous research on Fair Trade investigated the workings and benefits of Fair Trade production models, with little attention paid to how the Fair Trade model might fail to meet its objective…
Capturing the Multiple and Shifting Identities of Farm Women in the Northeastern United States
The identities of women on farms are shifting as more women enter farming and identify as farmers, as reflected by the 30 percent growth in women farmers in the U.S. census of agriculture (USDA 2009). This article draws from identity theory to develop a quantitative measure of the identities of farm women. The measure incorporates multiple roles farming women may perform and weights these roles by their salience to two farm identities, farm opera…
Toward a political geography of food sovereignty
The failures of food security and other policies to guarantee the right to food motivate the calls for the radical reforms to the food system called for by food sovereignty. Food sovereignty narratives identify neoliberal state policies and global capital as the source of the food insecurity, and seek new rights for producers and consumers. However, the nature of territorial state power and the juridical structures of the (neo)liberal state may m…
A Feminist Approach to Climate Change Governance
Neoliberal climate governance, which focuses on shifting responsibility for mitigating climate change onto individuals through their consumption of techno-scientific solutions, ignores and obscures the experience of differently situated subjects. This paper examines the consequences of both framing climate change as a problem of science and inducing individual behavior changes as a key point of climate policy. We build on climate governance liter…
Anxious appetites
Jackson offers a fresh, if somewhat unsettling, take on a staple topic with Anxious Appetites: Food and Consumer Culture, published by Bloomsbury Press. The book sets out to identify and explain th
Rehumanizing the graduate seminar by embracing ambiguity
This Viewpoint introduces the Athena Co-Learning Collective: A group of faculty and graduate students at the University of Georgia committed to teaching and learning differently in the academy. In particular, we describe the Athena Co-Learning Collective’s efforts to reject masculine forms of teaching and learning that are characteristic of the traditional seminar. Instead, we focus on rehumanization, as offered by Katherine McKittrick, to render…
Organic certification as assemblage
Through the lens of assemblage theory, we conceptualise organic certification for agricultural products in Cuba as a “dispositif‐assemblage,” through which we trace a multiple and conflicted “will to govern” the production and valuing of food qualities. We juxtapose the hierarchical third‐party certification system for Cuban organic honey for export with a proposed horizontal participatory guarantee system for organic products to be consumed in C…
The vegan industrial complex
Many political ecologists and geographers study ethical diets but most are curiously silent on the topic of death in the food system, specifically what or who is allowed to live and what is let die in the "doing of good." This article aims to show how the practice of eating produces the socio-ecological harm most ethical consumers set out to avoid with their dietary choices. I examine the food systems that produce ethical products for 1) the hier…
Food sovereignty and property in Cuba and the United States
Food sovereignty promotes agroecological farming methods and the reduction of food insecurity through changing political relations between people, land and food policy. Market orientations to land and private property in liberal democracies restrict access to food, and thus for food sovereigntists, reframing the social relationship to land through property is key to making food more available. This paper examines the case of usufruct land rights …
Wake Work
Athens-Clarke County, Georgia is home to the first publicly chartered institution of higher learning in the United States: The University of Georgia (UGA). For the last 200 + years, UGA has brought settlers to Athens and led them in Indigenous removal, slavery, Jim and Jane Crow politics, segregation, and racial discrimination. A reckoning with this history of slavery and the ongoing harms of settler-colonial higher education is long overdue. Thi…
Translating Food Sovereignty
"Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance." The AAG Review of Books, 10(4), pp. 17–18
Bruce Scholten
“The park is the people”
Mainstream conservation practices are commonly rooted in capitalist logics of valuing nature for human use or enjoyment. Often facilitated by “big international non-governmental organizations” (BINGOs), environmental governance of land in conservation frequently drives adverse impacts on local communities in and around protected areas. The World Heritage Convention as a department of UNESCO, for example, uses technical and scientific justificatio…
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