Michael Classens
Biographic Data
| ID | 321324 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Classens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Classens |
| SIGNATURE | CLASSENS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3268-3083 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mapping for change: Balancing big and small data in documenting environmental (in)justice in a small Canadian city
This article recounts the development of an ongoing community‐engaged research project that maps environmental injustice in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong, Ontario. Drawing insight and inspiration from the activism and scholarship in environmental injustice in Canada and a specific understanding of environmental injustice as slow violence, this project seeks to understand how community members experience environmental risk. In this article we explore …
Good morning Metro shoppers!' Food insecurity, Covid-19 and the emergence of roll-call neoliberalism
From April 2020 to December 2021, the Canadian federal government earmarked $330,000,000 through the Emergency Food Security Fund to address food insecurity during the COVID-19 global pandemic. These funds were disbursed through a handful of national and regional emergency food and food justice agencies to smaller front-line organizations for the purchase of emergency food provisions and personal protective equipment, and to hire additional worke…
Confronting Anti-Black, Anti-Indigenous, and Anti-Asian Racisms in Food Systems in Canada
The impetus for this themed section came out of the broader reckoning that touched off in the summer of 2020 in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. The Canadian Association for Food Studies board, like so many organizations struggling to respond to such brazen violence, released a statement on racialized police violence and systemic racism. In the statement the CAFS board commits to more deliberately centering the work of anti-racism in our a…
Reflecting on food pedagogies in Canada
The original deadline for submissions for this special issue was March 1, 2020, just days before the destabilizing and disorienting first wave of pandemic-related shutdowns in many parts of Canada. The (r)evolution in food systems pedagogy we were hoping to document and celebrate was promptly preempted by an abrupt transition to virtual learning. In an instant, teachers and learners alike were attending to a pedagogical revolution of another kind…
Looking back on food studies in 2020-2021 in so-called Canada
In this collectively drafted Commentary, we offer some reflections on the past year for CAFS (Canadian Association for Food Stuides), and the state of food studies in general. Note: this is a modified version of the 2021 CAFS Presidential Address, given at the joint CAFS/ASFS/AFHVS/SAFN Conference Just Food: Because it never it just Food on June 10th, 20201
Student food literacy, critical food systems pedagogy, and the responsibility of postsecondary institutions
The recent “pedagogical turn” (Flowers and Swan 2012, p. 424) in food studies has productively focused attention on how to teach for a more just and sustainable food system. So far, however, the question of the place for food literacy in food systems pedagogy has received relatively little attention. In this perspective piece, we argue that critical food literacy needs to be a central feature of food studies curricula. Taking food systems pedagog…
The Matter of Matter: Making Property in the Holland Marsh
This paper explores how characteristics of biophysical nature—specifically the unique properties of the Organic Order of soil—have shaped the conditions of property in what is currently protected agricultural land, in the Holland Marsh, Ontario. Drawing on political ecology and critical property scholarship, I investigate how “nature” conjoins, complicates, and structures property in the Marsh. I start from the premise, as others have, that “thin…
The transformation of the Holland Marsh and the dynamics of wetland loss: A historical political ecological approach
The nature of urban gardens: Toward a political ecology of urban agriculture
Reading the urban landscape: The case of a campus tour at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Reading the urban landscape: The case of a campus tour at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The nature of urban gardens: Toward a political ecology of urban agriculture
The transformation of the Holland Marsh and the dynamics of wetland loss: A historical political ecological approach
The Matter of Matter: Making Property in the Holland Marsh
This paper explores how characteristics of biophysical nature—specifically the unique properties of the Organic Order of soil—have shaped the conditions of property in what is currently protected agricultural land, in the Holland Marsh, Ontario. Drawing on political ecology and critical property scholarship, I investigate how “nature” conjoins, complicates, and structures property in the Marsh. I start from the premise, as others have, that “thin…
Student food literacy, critical food systems pedagogy, and the responsibility of postsecondary institutions
The recent “pedagogical turn” (Flowers and Swan 2012, p. 424) in food studies has productively focused attention on how to teach for a more just and sustainable food system. So far, however, the question of the place for food literacy in food systems pedagogy has received relatively little attention. In this perspective piece, we argue that critical food literacy needs to be a central feature of food studies curricula. Taking food systems pedagog…
Reflecting on food pedagogies in Canada
The original deadline for submissions for this special issue was March 1, 2020, just days before the destabilizing and disorienting first wave of pandemic-related shutdowns in many parts of Canada. The (r)evolution in food systems pedagogy we were hoping to document and celebrate was promptly preempted by an abrupt transition to virtual learning. In an instant, teachers and learners alike were attending to a pedagogical revolution of another kind…
Looking back on food studies in 2020-2021 in so-called Canada
In this collectively drafted Commentary, we offer some reflections on the past year for CAFS (Canadian Association for Food Stuides), and the state of food studies in general. Note: this is a modified version of the 2021 CAFS Presidential Address, given at the joint CAFS/ASFS/AFHVS/SAFN Conference Just Food: Because it never it just Food on June 10th, 20201
Confronting Anti-Black, Anti-Indigenous, and Anti-Asian Racisms in Food Systems in Canada
The impetus for this themed section came out of the broader reckoning that touched off in the summer of 2020 in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. The Canadian Association for Food Studies board, like so many organizations struggling to respond to such brazen violence, released a statement on racialized police violence and systemic racism. In the statement the CAFS board commits to more deliberately centering the work of anti-racism in our a…
Good morning Metro shoppers!' Food insecurity, Covid-19 and the emergence of roll-call neoliberalism
From April 2020 to December 2021, the Canadian federal government earmarked $330,000,000 through the Emergency Food Security Fund to address food insecurity during the COVID-19 global pandemic. These funds were disbursed through a handful of national and regional emergency food and food justice agencies to smaller front-line organizations for the purchase of emergency food provisions and personal protective equipment, and to hire additional worke…
Mapping for change: Balancing big and small data in documenting environmental (in)justice in a small Canadian city
This article recounts the development of an ongoing community‐engaged research project that maps environmental injustice in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong, Ontario. Drawing insight and inspiration from the activism and scholarship in environmental injustice in Canada and a specific understanding of environmental injustice as slow violence, this project seeks to understand how community members experience environmental risk. In this article we explore …
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Food security (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (3 works)