Colleen Hammelman
Biographic Data
| ID | 369512 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colleen Hammelman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Hammelman |
| SIGNATURE | HAMMELMAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6553-2161 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Utilizing perceptions of public health officials in Cali, Colombia to support the surveillance of co-circulating vector-borne diseases
The Covid-19 Pandemic's lasting consequences for tropical crop cultivation in Eastern Thailand
The global COVID-19 pandemic disrupted supply chains, altered market dynamics, and reshaped labor availability in agricultural communities worldwide. Today, we can begin to see some of the lasting consequences of these disruptions and farmer responses to them. This article reports on the lasting consequences of farmer adaptations to pandemic disruptions identified via in-depth interviews and farm visits in Eastern Thailand. The research team comp…
Leave or stay? The small business landscape along Buford highway
Immigrant small businesses in emerging gateway cities in the Sunbelt region are more likely to cluster along inner-suburban corridors where they contribute to economic development and the social and cultural capital of growing immigrant groups. These businesses also face numerous challenges in accessing government services and traditional financing, withstanding market shocks, and overcoming language and cultural barriers. This research examines …
Balancing the Scales: The Potential for Socioeconomic Mobility Through Place-Based Food Systems
Persistent socioeconomic inequities plague efforts to build more just and sustainable food systems. This is evident in fast-growing cities with long histories of segregation, systemic disinvestment in communities of color, and high rates of food insecurity. This study focuses on Charlotte, North Carolina, one of the fastest growing cities in the United States that consistently ranks low for socioeconomic mobility despite significant rhetoric and …
Paving over taquerias to put up condos: Constructing urban imaginaries of migrant foodscapes via digital food narratives
In this paper, we explore the social construction of place through a close analysis of the language used in online reviews to describe migrant-owned or -serving restaurants and their neighborhoods in Charlotte, NC. Through analysis of more than 2,000 online reviews of 16 restaurants across multiple platforms, we found that online restaurant reviews are key sites in which discourse about particular social groups and spaces is brought forth. In par…
“Looking for true Mexican food in Charlotte”
Emerging migrant destinations in the United States, such as Charlotte, North Carolina, are receiving an influx of Latin American and Caribbean restaurants and markets in nontraditional landscapes. Food adventurers and diasporic residents rely on their habitus formed by experiences elsewhere to make sense of and determine the authenticity of these new food spaces. To understand how notions of authenticity are used, constructed, experienced, and in…
Assembling agroecological socio-natures: A political ecology analysis of urban and peri-urban agriculture in Rosario, Argentina
Scholar-activist perspectives on radical food geography: Collaborating through food justice and food sovereignty praxis
Radical geography research, teaching, and action have increasingly focused on food systems, examining the scalar, sociopolitical, and ecological dynamics of food production and harvesting, processing, distribution, consumption, and waste. While academics have contributed significantly to these debates, the success and progress of this scholarship cannot be separated from the work of practitioners and activists involved in food justice and food so…
Toward a radical food geography praxis: Integrating theory, action, and geographic analysis in pursuit of more equitable and sustainable food systems
Radical geographies scholarship has evolved over the past decades in pursuit of transforming spatial, political-economic, social, and ecological engagements within oppressive structures. Similarly, food systems scholarship demonstrates increasing interest in the scalar, sociopolitical, and ecological dynamics of food systems, often with an applied or action-oriented focus. Building on these connected, yet divergent, traditions of scholarship and …
Envisioning radical food geographies: Shared learning and praxis through the Food Justice Scholar-Activist/Activist-Scholar Community of Practice
Food justice scholarship and activism have coevolved and at times been intertwined over past decades. In some instances, there are clear distinctions between “scholarly” and “activist” activities. However, individuals, groups, and actions often take on characteristics of both, producing knowledge at multiple sociopolitical scales. Recognizing and building upon these dynamics is important for strengthening food justice work. This is especially sal…
Reflections on the affective contributions to research success in two participatory projects in Colombia
Participatory research increasingly seeks tangible outcomes contributing to social transformation. We reflexively examine the role of affect in two participatory research projects in Colombia to argue that intentionally making space for and reflecting on affective experiences can help generate more effective research. Such 'praxis of affect' focused on building social bonds, demonstrating solidarity, distributing expertise, and sharing hope were …
Challenges to supporting social justice through food system governance: Examples from two urban agriculture initiatives in Toronto
Urban agriculture continues to gain traction in cities across North America. Many such efforts pursue social justice objectives with mixed success. This paper examines two urban agriculture projects in Toronto, Canada, to demonstrate the challenges of pursuing social justice goals via urban agriculture. Despite a long history of municipal and civil society support for urban agriculture in Toronto, stakeholders continually face bureaucratic obstac…
Investigating connectivity in the urban food landscapes of migrant women facing food insecurity in Washington, DC
Urban migrant women’s everyday food insecurity coping strategies foster alternative urban imaginaries of a more democratic food system
Urban migrant women worldwide utilize a creative combination of food insecurity coping strategies to procure food for themselves and their families. Using in-depth interviews with 72 migrant women in Medellín, Colombia, and Washington, DC, this paper argues that in low-income urban communities these everyday strategies can further their demands for autonomy in determining what foods they produce and consume. Relying on feminist geography and food…
Envisioning radical food geographies: Shared learning and praxis through the Food Justice Scholar-Activist/Activist-Scholar Community of Practice
Food justice scholarship and activism have coevolved and at times been intertwined over past decades. In some instances, there are clear distinctions between “scholarly” and “activist” activities. However, individuals, groups, and actions often take on characteristics of both, producing knowledge at multiple sociopolitical scales. Recognizing and building upon these dynamics is important for strengthening food justice work. This is especially sal…
Toward a radical food geography praxis: Integrating theory, action, and geographic analysis in pursuit of more equitable and sustainable food systems
Radical geographies scholarship has evolved over the past decades in pursuit of transforming spatial, political-economic, social, and ecological engagements within oppressive structures. Similarly, food systems scholarship demonstrates increasing interest in the scalar, sociopolitical, and ecological dynamics of food systems, often with an applied or action-oriented focus. Building on these connected, yet divergent, traditions of scholarship and …
Urban migrant women’s everyday food insecurity coping strategies foster alternative urban imaginaries of a more democratic food system
Urban migrant women worldwide utilize a creative combination of food insecurity coping strategies to procure food for themselves and their families. Using in-depth interviews with 72 migrant women in Medellín, Colombia, and Washington, DC, this paper argues that in low-income urban communities these everyday strategies can further their demands for autonomy in determining what foods they produce and consume. Relying on feminist geography and food…
Scholar-activist perspectives on radical food geography: Collaborating through food justice and food sovereignty praxis
Radical geography research, teaching, and action have increasingly focused on food systems, examining the scalar, sociopolitical, and ecological dynamics of food production and harvesting, processing, distribution, consumption, and waste. While academics have contributed significantly to these debates, the success and progress of this scholarship cannot be separated from the work of practitioners and activists involved in food justice and food so…
Investigating connectivity in the urban food landscapes of migrant women facing food insecurity in Washington, DC
Reflections on the affective contributions to research success in two participatory projects in Colombia
Participatory research increasingly seeks tangible outcomes contributing to social transformation. We reflexively examine the role of affect in two participatory research projects in Colombia to argue that intentionally making space for and reflecting on affective experiences can help generate more effective research. Such 'praxis of affect' focused on building social bonds, demonstrating solidarity, distributing expertise, and sharing hope were …
Assembling agroecological socio-natures: A political ecology analysis of urban and peri-urban agriculture in Rosario, Argentina
Challenges to supporting social justice through food system governance: Examples from two urban agriculture initiatives in Toronto
Urban agriculture continues to gain traction in cities across North America. Many such efforts pursue social justice objectives with mixed success. This paper examines two urban agriculture projects in Toronto, Canada, to demonstrate the challenges of pursuing social justice goals via urban agriculture. Despite a long history of municipal and civil society support for urban agriculture in Toronto, stakeholders continually face bureaucratic obstac…
Balancing the Scales: The Potential for Socioeconomic Mobility Through Place-Based Food Systems
Persistent socioeconomic inequities plague efforts to build more just and sustainable food systems. This is evident in fast-growing cities with long histories of segregation, systemic disinvestment in communities of color, and high rates of food insecurity. This study focuses on Charlotte, North Carolina, one of the fastest growing cities in the United States that consistently ranks low for socioeconomic mobility despite significant rhetoric and …
Urban migrant women’s everyday food insecurity coping strategies foster alternative urban imaginaries of a more democratic food system
Urban migrant women worldwide utilize a creative combination of food insecurity coping strategies to procure food for themselves and their families. Using in-depth interviews with 72 migrant women in Medellín, Colombia, and Washington, DC, this paper argues that in low-income urban communities these everyday strategies can further their demands for autonomy in determining what foods they produce and consume. Relying on feminist geography and food…
Investigating connectivity in the urban food landscapes of migrant women facing food insecurity in Washington, DC
Challenges to supporting social justice through food system governance: Examples from two urban agriculture initiatives in Toronto
Urban agriculture continues to gain traction in cities across North America. Many such efforts pursue social justice objectives with mixed success. This paper examines two urban agriculture projects in Toronto, Canada, to demonstrate the challenges of pursuing social justice goals via urban agriculture. Despite a long history of municipal and civil society support for urban agriculture in Toronto, stakeholders continually face bureaucratic obstac…
Scholar-activist perspectives on radical food geography: Collaborating through food justice and food sovereignty praxis
Radical geography research, teaching, and action have increasingly focused on food systems, examining the scalar, sociopolitical, and ecological dynamics of food production and harvesting, processing, distribution, consumption, and waste. While academics have contributed significantly to these debates, the success and progress of this scholarship cannot be separated from the work of practitioners and activists involved in food justice and food so…
Toward a radical food geography praxis: Integrating theory, action, and geographic analysis in pursuit of more equitable and sustainable food systems
Radical geographies scholarship has evolved over the past decades in pursuit of transforming spatial, political-economic, social, and ecological engagements within oppressive structures. Similarly, food systems scholarship demonstrates increasing interest in the scalar, sociopolitical, and ecological dynamics of food systems, often with an applied or action-oriented focus. Building on these connected, yet divergent, traditions of scholarship and …
Envisioning radical food geographies: Shared learning and praxis through the Food Justice Scholar-Activist/Activist-Scholar Community of Practice
Food justice scholarship and activism have coevolved and at times been intertwined over past decades. In some instances, there are clear distinctions between “scholarly” and “activist” activities. However, individuals, groups, and actions often take on characteristics of both, producing knowledge at multiple sociopolitical scales. Recognizing and building upon these dynamics is important for strengthening food justice work. This is especially sal…
Reflections on the affective contributions to research success in two participatory projects in Colombia
Participatory research increasingly seeks tangible outcomes contributing to social transformation. We reflexively examine the role of affect in two participatory research projects in Colombia to argue that intentionally making space for and reflecting on affective experiences can help generate more effective research. Such 'praxis of affect' focused on building social bonds, demonstrating solidarity, distributing expertise, and sharing hope were …
Assembling agroecological socio-natures: A political ecology analysis of urban and peri-urban agriculture in Rosario, Argentina
“Looking for true Mexican food in Charlotte”
Emerging migrant destinations in the United States, such as Charlotte, North Carolina, are receiving an influx of Latin American and Caribbean restaurants and markets in nontraditional landscapes. Food adventurers and diasporic residents rely on their habitus formed by experiences elsewhere to make sense of and determine the authenticity of these new food spaces. To understand how notions of authenticity are used, constructed, experienced, and in…
Paving over taquerias to put up condos: Constructing urban imaginaries of migrant foodscapes via digital food narratives
In this paper, we explore the social construction of place through a close analysis of the language used in online reviews to describe migrant-owned or -serving restaurants and their neighborhoods in Charlotte, NC. Through analysis of more than 2,000 online reviews of 16 restaurants across multiple platforms, we found that online restaurant reviews are key sites in which discourse about particular social groups and spaces is brought forth. In par…
The Covid-19 Pandemic's lasting consequences for tropical crop cultivation in Eastern Thailand
The global COVID-19 pandemic disrupted supply chains, altered market dynamics, and reshaped labor availability in agricultural communities worldwide. Today, we can begin to see some of the lasting consequences of these disruptions and farmer responses to them. This article reports on the lasting consequences of farmer adaptations to pandemic disruptions identified via in-depth interviews and farm visits in Eastern Thailand. The research team comp…
Leave or stay? The small business landscape along Buford highway
Immigrant small businesses in emerging gateway cities in the Sunbelt region are more likely to cluster along inner-suburban corridors where they contribute to economic development and the social and cultural capital of growing immigrant groups. These businesses also face numerous challenges in accessing government services and traditional financing, withstanding market shocks, and overcoming language and cultural barriers. This research examines …
Balancing the Scales: The Potential for Socioeconomic Mobility Through Place-Based Food Systems
Persistent socioeconomic inequities plague efforts to build more just and sustainable food systems. This is evident in fast-growing cities with long histories of segregation, systemic disinvestment in communities of color, and high rates of food insecurity. This study focuses on Charlotte, North Carolina, one of the fastest growing cities in the United States that consistently ranks low for socioeconomic mobility despite significant rhetoric and …
Utilizing perceptions of public health officials in Cali, Colombia to support the surveillance of co-circulating vector-borne diseases
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Geography (8 works) · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (8 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (7 works) · Food security (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Food systems (5 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (4 works)