Kristen Lowitt
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 2199524 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kristen Lowitt |
| NOMBRES | Kristen |
| APELLIDO | Lowitt |
| FIRMA | LOWITT K |
| AFILIACIONES | Queen's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4636-5980 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Motivations driving settler food movement organizations in Canada to engage with Indigenous peoples
Food systems, in terms of the processes, structures, and relationships that bring food to our plates, are deeply embedded in historical and ongoing processes of colonialism. In settler colonial countries, this reality is contributing to growing attention to and engagement with Indigenous peoples and communities in food systems scholarship and practice. This paper asks: what motivates settler-led food movement organizations to engage in relationsh…
Opportunities and barriers to alternative livestock production in the Kingston, Ontario region
Alternative livestock production is an important transition away from industrialized livestock production and towards more sustainable systems. However, even in areas well suited to alternative livestock production, non-industrial producers continue to struggle to make ends meet. This perspective piece examines the livelihood challenges facing alternative livestock producers in the Kingston, Ontario region based upon key informant interviews with…
Exploring the inter-connections between Alternative Agrifood and Seafood Networks for building food systems resilience
In the context of intensifying threats to food systems and a growing need for resilience, Alternative Agrifood Networks (AANs) and Alternative Seafood Networks (ASNs) have emerged as notable bright spots across North America. Collectively, AANs and ASNs comprise Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) - the micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises which are important, but often overlooked, actors in food systems. However, a critical limitation for foo…
Asset mapping for sustainable tourism development in Unesco’s Frontenac Arch Biosphere reserve
Advancing basic income as a policy tool for food systems sustainability
Racism, traditional food access, and industrial development across Ontario
Racism and industrial development across lands and waters in the province of Ontario have played a significant role in decreased access to traditional food for Indigenous peoples. Traditional food access is important for health reasons, as well as cultural and spiritual wellness, and its loss has dire consequences for both people and the environment. In this commentary, we bring together our practices and experiences as settler Canadians in the f…
Advancing Radical Food Geographies Praxis through Participatory Film
The academic field of geography is deeply embedded within capitalist and settler colonial logics and has played a major role in suppressing and concealing Indigenous histories along with rights claims, cultures, and practices. While geography’s origins are deeply problematic, over the past decades, many scholars and practitioners have offered counter theoretical and practical perspectives and approaches. Radical food geographies praxis is one suc…
Linking Fisheries Policy to Sustainable Diets
The contribution of fisheries to food systems are largely absent from conceptions of sustainable food systems. At the root of this problem is that fisheries are often seen in terms of maximizing economic efficiency rather than local food security. This perspective piece engages with sustainable diets as a framework for linking fisheries policy with broader food systems considerations asking, how would fisheries policy be different if fisheries we…
Indigenous Food Systems
Book review of Indigenous Food Systems: Concepts, Cases and Conversations
Empowering small-scale, community-based fisheries through a food systems framework
The power to convene
A framework for analyzing institutional gaps in natural resource governance
In this paper we present the Inter-Institutional Gap(IIG) Framework as a novel approach to conceptualizing the often-overlooked interconnectivity of different rule-levels between formal and informal institutions in a resource system. This framework goes beyond the existing concepts of legal pluralism, institutional void, structural hole, and cultural mismatch, each of which offer valuable insights to particular gaps between formal and informal in…
Challenges and opportunities for more integrated regional food security policy in the Caribbean Community
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has recognized regional integration as an important development strategy for addressing the unique vulnerabilities of its member small island developing states (SIDS). Food security in the Caribbean is a fundamental social and ecological challenge in which the dynamics of regional integration are increasingly playing out. CARICOM members have subsequently identified a number of shared food security problems and h…
Linking Communities of Practice with Value Chain Development in Smallholder Farming Systems
Value chains are an increasingly popular approach to understanding complex policy challenges in agricultural development. However, value chain research and development has often been too narrowly focused on the structural elements of production, resulting in lack of adaptive capacity. Drawing on the concept of communities of practice, this paper seeks to operationalize an understanding of how the social relations that underpin smallholder-related…
A coastal foodscape
Lowitt, K. N. 2014. A coastal foodscape: examining the relationship between changing fisheries and community food security on the west coast of Newfoundland. Ecology and Society 19(3): 48. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06498-190348
Exploring Connections Between People, Places and Food in Three Nova Scotia Farmers' Markets
This study explores connections between people, places and food in three Nova Scotia farmers' markets through a series of qualitative interviews with consumers and producers. It introduces readers to the concept of "social embeddedness" as a means of understanding the social ties and reciprocal relationships that form in market environments, and deconstructs notions of "local" and "quality" food by exploring distinct understandings of these terms…
Linking Communities of Practice with Value Chain Development in Smallholder Farming Systems
Value chains are an increasingly popular approach to understanding complex policy challenges in agricultural development. However, value chain research and development has often been too narrowly focused on the structural elements of production, resulting in lack of adaptive capacity. Drawing on the concept of communities of practice, this paper seeks to operationalize an understanding of how the social relations that underpin smallholder-related…
The power to convene
A framework for analyzing institutional gaps in natural resource governance
In this paper we present the Inter-Institutional Gap(IIG) Framework as a novel approach to conceptualizing the often-overlooked interconnectivity of different rule-levels between formal and informal institutions in a resource system. This framework goes beyond the existing concepts of legal pluralism, institutional void, structural hole, and cultural mismatch, each of which offer valuable insights to particular gaps between formal and informal in…
A coastal foodscape
Lowitt, K. N. 2014. A coastal foodscape: examining the relationship between changing fisheries and community food security on the west coast of Newfoundland. Ecology and Society 19(3): 48. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06498-190348
Challenges and opportunities for more integrated regional food security policy in the Caribbean Community
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has recognized regional integration as an important development strategy for addressing the unique vulnerabilities of its member small island developing states (SIDS). Food security in the Caribbean is a fundamental social and ecological challenge in which the dynamics of regional integration are increasingly playing out. CARICOM members have subsequently identified a number of shared food security problems and h…
Exploring Connections Between People, Places and Food in Three Nova Scotia Farmers' Markets
This study explores connections between people, places and food in three Nova Scotia farmers' markets through a series of qualitative interviews with consumers and producers. It introduces readers to the concept of "social embeddedness" as a means of understanding the social ties and reciprocal relationships that form in market environments, and deconstructs notions of "local" and "quality" food by exploring distinct understandings of these terms…
A coastal foodscape
Lowitt, K. N. 2014. A coastal foodscape: examining the relationship between changing fisheries and community food security on the west coast of Newfoundland. Ecology and Society 19(3): 48. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06498-190348
Linking Communities of Practice with Value Chain Development in Smallholder Farming Systems
Value chains are an increasingly popular approach to understanding complex policy challenges in agricultural development. However, value chain research and development has often been too narrowly focused on the structural elements of production, resulting in lack of adaptive capacity. Drawing on the concept of communities of practice, this paper seeks to operationalize an understanding of how the social relations that underpin smallholder-related…
Challenges and opportunities for more integrated regional food security policy in the Caribbean Community
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has recognized regional integration as an important development strategy for addressing the unique vulnerabilities of its member small island developing states (SIDS). Food security in the Caribbean is a fundamental social and ecological challenge in which the dynamics of regional integration are increasingly playing out. CARICOM members have subsequently identified a number of shared food security problems and h…
A framework for analyzing institutional gaps in natural resource governance
In this paper we present the Inter-Institutional Gap(IIG) Framework as a novel approach to conceptualizing the often-overlooked interconnectivity of different rule-levels between formal and informal institutions in a resource system. This framework goes beyond the existing concepts of legal pluralism, institutional void, structural hole, and cultural mismatch, each of which offer valuable insights to particular gaps between formal and informal in…
Indigenous Food Systems
Book review of Indigenous Food Systems: Concepts, Cases and Conversations
Empowering small-scale, community-based fisheries through a food systems framework
The power to convene
Linking Fisheries Policy to Sustainable Diets
The contribution of fisheries to food systems are largely absent from conceptions of sustainable food systems. At the root of this problem is that fisheries are often seen in terms of maximizing economic efficiency rather than local food security. This perspective piece engages with sustainable diets as a framework for linking fisheries policy with broader food systems considerations asking, how would fisheries policy be different if fisheries we…
Racism, traditional food access, and industrial development across Ontario
Racism and industrial development across lands and waters in the province of Ontario have played a significant role in decreased access to traditional food for Indigenous peoples. Traditional food access is important for health reasons, as well as cultural and spiritual wellness, and its loss has dire consequences for both people and the environment. In this commentary, we bring together our practices and experiences as settler Canadians in the f…
Advancing Radical Food Geographies Praxis through Participatory Film
The academic field of geography is deeply embedded within capitalist and settler colonial logics and has played a major role in suppressing and concealing Indigenous histories along with rights claims, cultures, and practices. While geography’s origins are deeply problematic, over the past decades, many scholars and practitioners have offered counter theoretical and practical perspectives and approaches. Radical food geographies praxis is one suc…
Advancing basic income as a policy tool for food systems sustainability
Exploring the inter-connections between Alternative Agrifood and Seafood Networks for building food systems resilience
In the context of intensifying threats to food systems and a growing need for resilience, Alternative Agrifood Networks (AANs) and Alternative Seafood Networks (ASNs) have emerged as notable bright spots across North America. Collectively, AANs and ASNs comprise Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) - the micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises which are important, but often overlooked, actors in food systems. However, a critical limitation for foo…
Asset mapping for sustainable tourism development in Unesco’s Frontenac Arch Biosphere reserve
Motivations driving settler food movement organizations in Canada to engage with Indigenous peoples
Food systems, in terms of the processes, structures, and relationships that bring food to our plates, are deeply embedded in historical and ongoing processes of colonialism. In settler colonial countries, this reality is contributing to growing attention to and engagement with Indigenous peoples and communities in food systems scholarship and practice. This paper asks: what motivates settler-led food movement organizations to engage in relationsh…
Opportunities and barriers to alternative livestock production in the Kingston, Ontario region
Alternative livestock production is an important transition away from industrialized livestock production and towards more sustainable systems. However, even in areas well suited to alternative livestock production, non-industrial producers continue to struggle to make ends meet. This perspective piece examines the livelihood challenges facing alternative livestock producers in the Kingston, Ontario region based upon key informant interviews with…
Food security (10 obras) · Ecology (9 obras) · Economics (9 obras) · Geography (9 obras) · Agriculture (8 obras) · Business (8 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Food systems (6 obras)