Sarah A Mason
Biographic Data
| ID | 6592070 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah A Mason |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah A |
| FAMILY NAME | Mason |
| SIGNATURE | MASON S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2959-0633 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Traditional agriculture in transition
Following the renewed effort at achieving a new green revolution for Africa, emphasis has been placed on modernizing smallholder agriculture through the deployment of improved inputs especially mechanized technologies. In Ghana, the government has in the last decade emphasized the provision of subsidized mechanized ploughing services to farmers alongside a rapidly growing private sector tractor service market. While mechanized technology adoption…
A feminist political ecology of agricultural mechanization and evolving gendered on-farm labor dynamics in northern Ghana
Although agricultural mechanization is central to the renewed agenda for achieving an African Green Revolution, the increased deployment of mechanized technologies has been without critical analysis of the impacts on traditional agrarian labor division practices. Drawing on the experiences of smallholder farmers (n = 60) in northern Ghana using in-depth interviews, we examined the gendered labor implications of agricultural mechanization and how …
On the limitation of evidence-based policy
Lasting impacts and perceived inequities
This paper presents a comparative study of the shift in community perceptions pre- and post-siting of a biosolids processing facility – the Organic Material Recovery Centre – in the rural Township of Southgate, Ontario. The study responds to the need for comparative studies examining residents’ perceptions of contested noxious facilities during acrimonious siting processes and later during facility operations. Interviews were conducted before and…
Contested commons
Conceptualizing waste as a resource
Key Messages This research highlights biosolids as both an intruding and uncertain waste product and a valuable and natural fertilizer resource. Rural residents’ varied relational conceptions of place, time, and technology influenced perceptions of what belonged in or was natural to their community. Felt rural environmental injustices were contested as residents viewed the biosolids fertilizer as either an intruding inequitable risk or a valuable…
Interfering with therapeutic tranquility
Contested commons
A feminist political ecology of agricultural mechanization and evolving gendered on-farm labor dynamics in northern Ghana
Although agricultural mechanization is central to the renewed agenda for achieving an African Green Revolution, the increased deployment of mechanized technologies has been without critical analysis of the impacts on traditional agrarian labor division practices. Drawing on the experiences of smallholder farmers (n = 60) in northern Ghana using in-depth interviews, we examined the gendered labor implications of agricultural mechanization and how …
Interfering with therapeutic tranquility
On the limitation of evidence-based policy
Conceptualizing waste as a resource
Key Messages This research highlights biosolids as both an intruding and uncertain waste product and a valuable and natural fertilizer resource. Rural residents’ varied relational conceptions of place, time, and technology influenced perceptions of what belonged in or was natural to their community. Felt rural environmental injustices were contested as residents viewed the biosolids fertilizer as either an intruding inequitable risk or a valuable…
Interfering with therapeutic tranquility
On the limitation of evidence-based policy
Lasting impacts and perceived inequities
This paper presents a comparative study of the shift in community perceptions pre- and post-siting of a biosolids processing facility – the Organic Material Recovery Centre – in the rural Township of Southgate, Ontario. The study responds to the need for comparative studies examining residents’ perceptions of contested noxious facilities during acrimonious siting processes and later during facility operations. Interviews were conducted before and…
Contested commons
Conceptualizing waste as a resource
Key Messages This research highlights biosolids as both an intruding and uncertain waste product and a valuable and natural fertilizer resource. Rural residents’ varied relational conceptions of place, time, and technology influenced perceptions of what belonged in or was natural to their community. Felt rural environmental injustices were contested as residents viewed the biosolids fertilizer as either an intruding inequitable risk or a valuable…
Traditional agriculture in transition
Following the renewed effort at achieving a new green revolution for Africa, emphasis has been placed on modernizing smallholder agriculture through the deployment of improved inputs especially mechanized technologies. In Ghana, the government has in the last decade emphasized the provision of subsidized mechanized ploughing services to farmers alongside a rapidly growing private sector tractor service market. While mechanized technology adoption…
A feminist political ecology of agricultural mechanization and evolving gendered on-farm labor dynamics in northern Ghana
Although agricultural mechanization is central to the renewed agenda for achieving an African Green Revolution, the increased deployment of mechanized technologies has been without critical analysis of the impacts on traditional agrarian labor division practices. Drawing on the experiences of smallholder farmers (n = 60) in northern Ghana using in-depth interviews, we examined the gendered labor implications of agricultural mechanization and how …
Geography (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Environmental planning (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (3 works) · Agricultural Innovations and Practices (2 works)