Sarah Ruth Sippel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3720809 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Ruth Sippel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Sippel |
| SIGNATURE | SIPPEL S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leipzig University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Territorio-tierra: A community feminist perspective on land by Indigenous Xinka women from Guatemala
Interview with the human rights defenders Maudy Ucelo and Gilberta Jímenez. Both are part of the Xinka women’s association Asociación de Mujeres Indígenas Xinkas de Santa Maria Xalapán, Jalapa (AMISMAXAJ) from Guatemala, which works to defend and protect the “territorio-cuerpo-tierra.” Interview conducted and edited by Charlotta Sophie Sippel and Sarah Ruth Sippel
Transforming land for sustainable food: Emerging contests to property regimes in the Global North
Land relations—property, access, tenure, landscape—are a central underlying driver of the material form of food systems, from farm to distribution. Despite their fluidity and historical and geographical diversity, land relations have a tendency to become normalized through law, custom, and practice. In particular, the exclusionary private “ownership model” of property has come to be deeply entrenched in legal systems worldwide, particularly in th…
Illustrating qualitative research findings: The Reflexive and Epistemic Potential of Experimental Visualization
Many social processes are characterized by multi-layered spatiotemporal dynamics. These dynamics cannot be visualized in the traditional cartographic way of locating social realities within the Cartesian coordinate system. Drawing on the insights from critical cartography and the debates on diagrammatic reasoning in the arts, this article discusses different ways of visualizing qualitative research. In qualitative research, there has been relucta…
Infrastructures of Farmland Valuation in Australia
This article investigates how valuation practices change as land becomes financialised in Australia. Financial investors bring their own assumptions on how land value should be 'measured' to enhance its fungibility as a financial asset. Importantly, this includes a shift to a 'future income' approach to value, which produces frictions with established land valuation practices. Combining valuation and infrastructure studies, I examine how conceptu…
Historical grounding, political contexts, material hurdles: Towards more in‐depth understandings of ‘finance going farming’
Two recently published books—Fairbairn's Fields of Gold and Ouma's Farming as a Financial Asset —now provide the first extensive investigations into finance's engagement with farmland. Both books set out to understand finance's growing interest in farmland from the perspective of the financial actors involved, and inquire how, why, and with what kind of challenges ‘finance has been going farming.’ This review essay discusses the two books in the …
Imprecision farming? Examining the (in)accuracy and risks of digital agriculture
Bridging divides: Constructing food sovereignty in Australia
This paper presents an in-depth account of the motivations that inspired the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance to engage food sovereignty for food system change. Pointing to the tensions between the theory and practice of food sovereignty, we highlight the challenges of mobilizing food sovereignty within highly urbanized, consumer-dominated settings. We argue the need to overcome the dominant role of producers in constructing food sovereignty …
The redefined role of finance in Australian agriculture
In their highly influential teaching and research text Global Restructuring: The Australian Experience Fagan and Webber set out a substantivist, institutionalist and multi-scalar account of the Australian space economy’s relatively rapid and radical globalisation after 1980. This paper extends Fagan and Webber’s global restructuring thesis to Australian farming and agriculture, connecting historical and more recent scholarship on agriculture–fina…
Financialising farming as a moral imperative? Renegotiating the legitimacy of land investments in Australia
This paper investigates the debate about foreign investment in Australian farmland. Employing a moral perspective, it is argued that the apparent tensions over foreign land investments in recent years can be interpreted as a renegotiation of the legitimate grounds upon which farmland investments should take place. The analysis shows that elements of worth are being applied to farmland that go beyond the 'pure' treatment of land according to marke…
Grounding the financialization of farmland: Perspectives on financial actors as new land owners in rural Australia
Breaking ground: Multi-family farm entrepreneurs in Moroccan export agriculture
Finance Capital, Food Security Narratives and Australian Agricultural Land
The growing involvement of financial actors in food production has been one of the major recent transformations in the global agri-food system. This 'financialization' of the agri-food sector has been observed at various levels, from commodity speculation to direct investment in agricultural production, along with farmland itself. While there has been concerted effort to track new landownership and control associated with financial actors, especi…
Food security or commercial business? Gulf State investments in Australian agriculture
Worldwide investments in agricultural land have gained much attention in recent years, resulting in renewed awareness of land as being a scarce and finite resource. This paper investigates a case of South-to-North land deals, namely investments from the Arab Gulf targeting agricultural land in Australia. For the Arab Gulf States that highly depend on external food supplies, investment abroad is one strategy to guarantee future food security. At t…
Export(t)räume: Bruchzonen marokkanischer Landwirtschaft
Tomaten aus Marokko, Spanien, den Niederlanden - im Supermarktregal liegen sie friedlich nebeneinander. Doch hinter der Hochglanzpräsentation der Obst- und Gemüsetheke verbergen sich Interessenskämpfe mit hohen sozialen Kosten. In diesem Buch blickt Sarah Ruth Sippel nach Marokko und stellt die zunehmende Einbindung des Landes in den Weltmarkt dar. Den verheißungsvollen Exportträumen stehen existenzielle Risiken gegenüber: Während wenige zu globa…
Umkämpftes Essen: Produktion, Handel und Konsum von Lebensmitteln in globalen Kontexten
Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture: The Social Costs of Eating Fresh
Disrupted livelihoods? Intensive agriculture and labour markets in the Moroccan Souss
On my first visit to the village of Ait Ali in autumn 2008 inquiring about the feasibility of a farm survey, I entered into a gathering of villagers lively exchanging the latest news: missing rainfall, the interruption of the dam irrigation, a new cooperative for milk production which had been founded in a neighbouring village and the installation of a new greenhouse on a recently sold property. We soon started to discuss the situation in the vil…
Grounding the financialization of farmland: Perspectives on financial actors as new land owners in rural Australia
Food security or commercial business? Gulf State investments in Australian agriculture
Worldwide investments in agricultural land have gained much attention in recent years, resulting in renewed awareness of land as being a scarce and finite resource. This paper investigates a case of South-to-North land deals, namely investments from the Arab Gulf targeting agricultural land in Australia. For the Arab Gulf States that highly depend on external food supplies, investment abroad is one strategy to guarantee future food security. At t…
Imprecision farming? Examining the (in)accuracy and risks of digital agriculture
The redefined role of finance in Australian agriculture
In their highly influential teaching and research text Global Restructuring: The Australian Experience Fagan and Webber set out a substantivist, institutionalist and multi-scalar account of the Australian space economy’s relatively rapid and radical globalisation after 1980. This paper extends Fagan and Webber’s global restructuring thesis to Australian farming and agriculture, connecting historical and more recent scholarship on agriculture–fina…
Finance Capital, Food Security Narratives and Australian Agricultural Land
The growing involvement of financial actors in food production has been one of the major recent transformations in the global agri-food system. This 'financialization' of the agri-food sector has been observed at various levels, from commodity speculation to direct investment in agricultural production, along with farmland itself. While there has been concerted effort to track new landownership and control associated with financial actors, especi…
Financialising farming as a moral imperative? Renegotiating the legitimacy of land investments in Australia
This paper investigates the debate about foreign investment in Australian farmland. Employing a moral perspective, it is argued that the apparent tensions over foreign land investments in recent years can be interpreted as a renegotiation of the legitimate grounds upon which farmland investments should take place. The analysis shows that elements of worth are being applied to farmland that go beyond the 'pure' treatment of land according to marke…
Breaking ground: Multi-family farm entrepreneurs in Moroccan export agriculture
Bridging divides: Constructing food sovereignty in Australia
This paper presents an in-depth account of the motivations that inspired the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance to engage food sovereignty for food system change. Pointing to the tensions between the theory and practice of food sovereignty, we highlight the challenges of mobilizing food sovereignty within highly urbanized, consumer-dominated settings. We argue the need to overcome the dominant role of producers in constructing food sovereignty …
Infrastructures of Farmland Valuation in Australia
This article investigates how valuation practices change as land becomes financialised in Australia. Financial investors bring their own assumptions on how land value should be 'measured' to enhance its fungibility as a financial asset. Importantly, this includes a shift to a 'future income' approach to value, which produces frictions with established land valuation practices. Combining valuation and infrastructure studies, I examine how conceptu…
Export(t)räume: Bruchzonen marokkanischer Landwirtschaft
Tomaten aus Marokko, Spanien, den Niederlanden - im Supermarktregal liegen sie friedlich nebeneinander. Doch hinter der Hochglanzpräsentation der Obst- und Gemüsetheke verbergen sich Interessenskämpfe mit hohen sozialen Kosten. In diesem Buch blickt Sarah Ruth Sippel nach Marokko und stellt die zunehmende Einbindung des Landes in den Weltmarkt dar. Den verheißungsvollen Exportträumen stehen existenzielle Risiken gegenüber: Während wenige zu globa…
Umkämpftes Essen: Produktion, Handel und Konsum von Lebensmitteln in globalen Kontexten
Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture: The Social Costs of Eating Fresh
Disrupted livelihoods? Intensive agriculture and labour markets in the Moroccan Souss
On my first visit to the village of Ait Ali in autumn 2008 inquiring about the feasibility of a farm survey, I entered into a gathering of villagers lively exchanging the latest news: missing rainfall, the interruption of the dam irrigation, a new cooperative for milk production which had been founded in a neighbouring village and the installation of a new greenhouse on a recently sold property. We soon started to discuss the situation in the vil…
Finance Capital, Food Security Narratives and Australian Agricultural Land
The growing involvement of financial actors in food production has been one of the major recent transformations in the global agri-food system. This 'financialization' of the agri-food sector has been observed at various levels, from commodity speculation to direct investment in agricultural production, along with farmland itself. While there has been concerted effort to track new landownership and control associated with financial actors, especi…
Food security or commercial business? Gulf State investments in Australian agriculture
Worldwide investments in agricultural land have gained much attention in recent years, resulting in renewed awareness of land as being a scarce and finite resource. This paper investigates a case of South-to-North land deals, namely investments from the Arab Gulf targeting agricultural land in Australia. For the Arab Gulf States that highly depend on external food supplies, investment abroad is one strategy to guarantee future food security. At t…
Grounding the financialization of farmland: Perspectives on financial actors as new land owners in rural Australia
Breaking ground: Multi-family farm entrepreneurs in Moroccan export agriculture
The redefined role of finance in Australian agriculture
In their highly influential teaching and research text Global Restructuring: The Australian Experience Fagan and Webber set out a substantivist, institutionalist and multi-scalar account of the Australian space economy’s relatively rapid and radical globalisation after 1980. This paper extends Fagan and Webber’s global restructuring thesis to Australian farming and agriculture, connecting historical and more recent scholarship on agriculture–fina…
Financialising farming as a moral imperative? Renegotiating the legitimacy of land investments in Australia
This paper investigates the debate about foreign investment in Australian farmland. Employing a moral perspective, it is argued that the apparent tensions over foreign land investments in recent years can be interpreted as a renegotiation of the legitimate grounds upon which farmland investments should take place. The analysis shows that elements of worth are being applied to farmland that go beyond the 'pure' treatment of land according to marke…
Imprecision farming? Examining the (in)accuracy and risks of digital agriculture
Bridging divides: Constructing food sovereignty in Australia
This paper presents an in-depth account of the motivations that inspired the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance to engage food sovereignty for food system change. Pointing to the tensions between the theory and practice of food sovereignty, we highlight the challenges of mobilizing food sovereignty within highly urbanized, consumer-dominated settings. We argue the need to overcome the dominant role of producers in constructing food sovereignty …
Historical grounding, political contexts, material hurdles: Towards more in‐depth understandings of ‘finance going farming’
Two recently published books—Fairbairn's Fields of Gold and Ouma's Farming as a Financial Asset —now provide the first extensive investigations into finance's engagement with farmland. Both books set out to understand finance's growing interest in farmland from the perspective of the financial actors involved, and inquire how, why, and with what kind of challenges ‘finance has been going farming.’ This review essay discusses the two books in the …
Territorio-tierra: A community feminist perspective on land by Indigenous Xinka women from Guatemala
Interview with the human rights defenders Maudy Ucelo and Gilberta Jímenez. Both are part of the Xinka women’s association Asociación de Mujeres Indígenas Xinkas de Santa Maria Xalapán, Jalapa (AMISMAXAJ) from Guatemala, which works to defend and protect the “territorio-cuerpo-tierra.” Interview conducted and edited by Charlotta Sophie Sippel and Sarah Ruth Sippel
Transforming land for sustainable food: Emerging contests to property regimes in the Global North
Land relations—property, access, tenure, landscape—are a central underlying driver of the material form of food systems, from farm to distribution. Despite their fluidity and historical and geographical diversity, land relations have a tendency to become normalized through law, custom, and practice. In particular, the exclusionary private “ownership model” of property has come to be deeply entrenched in legal systems worldwide, particularly in th…
Illustrating qualitative research findings: The Reflexive and Epistemic Potential of Experimental Visualization
Many social processes are characterized by multi-layered spatiotemporal dynamics. These dynamics cannot be visualized in the traditional cartographic way of locating social realities within the Cartesian coordinate system. Drawing on the insights from critical cartography and the debates on diagrammatic reasoning in the arts, this article discusses different ways of visualizing qualitative research. In qualitative research, there has been relucta…
Infrastructures of Farmland Valuation in Australia
This article investigates how valuation practices change as land becomes financialised in Australia. Financial investors bring their own assumptions on how land value should be 'measured' to enhance its fungibility as a financial asset. Importantly, this includes a shift to a 'future income' approach to value, which produces frictions with established land valuation practices. Combining valuation and infrastructure studies, I examine how conceptu…
Agriculture (12 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (11 works) · Economics (11 works) · Business (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (6 works) · Finance (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Context (archaeology (4 works)