Sarah Rotz
Biographic Data
| ID | 93334 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Rotz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Rotz |
| SIGNATURE | ROTZ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9528-2044 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 160 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Farming the North: Cycles of Extraction and Dispossession
This paper examines recent initiatives to expand farming in Northern Ontario, Canada, situating these within the historical context of settler colonial agriculture. We ask: how do contemporary efforts in agricultural expansion differ from, or replicate, earlier forms of land acquisition? Focusing on land assembly, we explore how land consolidation, privatisation, and conversion meet agricultural and economic objectives under contemporary colonial…
Land data for whom? The marketization, privatization and commercialization of land data management in Canada
From Palestine to Turtle Island: Food as a weapon of colonialism and tool of liberation
This paper examines the historical and ongoing role of food as both a tool of colonization and a means of liberation, focusing on Palestine and Turtle Island (Canada). In Gaza, the latest wave of Israeli military violence, described by the UN as genocidal, uses food militarization and weaponization as key tactics of settler colonial control. These strategies, rooted in colonial and capitalist systems, have long been employed by settler states lik…
Exploring activist perspectives on Indigenous-settler solidarity in Toronto’s food sovereignty movement
While food movements have increasingly taken up the framework of Indigenous food sovereignty in their work, settler food activists continue to define food systems on stolen lands. In this article, we explore whether and how food activists in Toronto are building solidarity with Indigenous peoples and movements in their work. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with food activists and content analysis of Toronto food organizations, we identify t…
Field Notes from Rair: Putting Relational Accountability into Practice
In this field notes section we explore our work as a collective of Indigenous and settler academics, food providers, and community-based organizers, including how we came together over several plates of nachos and a shared vision of deepening our relationships to land rooted in (non)(de)(anti)colonial and feminist perspectives. In this ‘field notes’ piece, we articulate what research based in relational accountability looks like for us, including…
Toward intersectional and culturally relevant sex and gender analysis in health research
Current institutional frameworks in sex- and gender-based analysis (SGBA) are promising, but significant gaps remain in their relation to recent developments in research praxis. In this paper we draw from our own experiences with a national health research funding agency, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), to critically examine the uptake and implementation of its current frameworks and practices of sex and gender analysis in heal…
Disciplining land through data: The role of agricultural technologies in farmland assetisation
Digital agricultural technologies are promoted for increasing productivity, environmental sustainability and transparency in farming. Critical perspectives on digital agriculture are necessary to frame opportunities and challenges for agricultural communities. However, the ways in which digital agricultural technologies are contributing to land financialisation-bringing land into the global market exchange-remains unexplored. Historically, farmla…
Non-Indigenous partner perspectives on Indigenous peoples' involvement in renewable energy: Exploring reconciliation as relationships of accountability or status quo innocence
Purpose This research considers the potential for renewable energy partnerships to contribute to Canada's efforts to overcome its colonial past and present by developing an understanding of how non-Indigenous peoples working in the sector relate to their Indigenous partners. Design/methodology/approach This study is part of a larger research program focused on decolonization and reconciliation in the renewable energy sector. This exploratory rese…
Implementing Indigenous Gender-Based Analysis in Research: Principles, Practices and Lessons Learned
Numerous tools for addressing gender inequality in governmental policies, programs, and research have emerged across the globe. Unfortunately, such tools have largely failed to account for the impacts of colonialism on Indigenous Peoples' lives and lands. In Canada, Indigenous organizations have advanced gender-based analysis frameworks that are culturally-grounded and situate the understanding of gender identities, roles, and responsibilities wi…
The Politics of Digital Agricultural Technologies: A Preliminary Review
Digital technologies are being developed and adopted across the agro‐food system, from farm to fork. Within decision‐making spaces, however, little attention is being paid to political factors arising from such technological developments. This review draws from critical social sciences to examine emerging technologies and big data systems in agriculture and assesses some key issues arising in the field. We begin with an introduction and review of…
Automated pastures and the digital divide: How agricultural technologies are shaping labour and rural communities
A “digital revolution” in agriculture is underway. Advanced technologies like sensors, artificial intelligence, and robotics are increasingly being promoted as a means to increase food production efficiency while minimizing resource use. In the process, agricultural digitalization raises critical social questions about the implications for diverse agricultural labourers and rural spaces as digitalization evolves. In this paper, we use literature …
Situating tenure, capital and finance in farmland relations: Implications for stewardship and agroecological health in Ontario, Canada
Farmers in Canada are older and more capitalized than ever before. Meanwhile, farmland values continue to rise. These forces together are generating unprecedented shifts in farmland relations, marked by increasing reliance on rental tenure and the rise of hybrid owner-renter consolidating farmers. This paper explores these dynamics in Ontario and asks how they are impacting on-farm agroecological stewardship. To do so, we begin with a review of t…
Drawing lines in the cornfield: An analysis of discourse and identity relations across agri-food networks
They took our beads, it was a fair trade, get over it’: Settler colonial logics, racial hierarchies and material dominance in Canadian agriculture
Canada is in a liminal space, with renewed struggles for and commitments to indigenous land and food sovereignty on one hand, and growing capital interest in land governance and agriculture on the other. While neoliberal capital increasingly accumulates land-based control, settler-farming communities still manage much of Canada’s arable land. This research draws on studies of settler colonialism, racial hierarchy and othering to connect the ideol…
Resilience and the industrial food system: Analyzing the impacts of agricultural industrialization on food system vulnerability
Redd'ing Forest Conservation: The Philippine Predicament
The United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD) is one of the newest global climate change counteraction pr
Automated pastures and the digital divide: How agricultural technologies are shaping labour and rural communities
A “digital revolution” in agriculture is underway. Advanced technologies like sensors, artificial intelligence, and robotics are increasingly being promoted as a means to increase food production efficiency while minimizing resource use. In the process, agricultural digitalization raises critical social questions about the implications for diverse agricultural labourers and rural spaces as digitalization evolves. In this paper, we use literature …
They took our beads, it was a fair trade, get over it’: Settler colonial logics, racial hierarchies and material dominance in Canadian agriculture
Canada is in a liminal space, with renewed struggles for and commitments to indigenous land and food sovereignty on one hand, and growing capital interest in land governance and agriculture on the other. While neoliberal capital increasingly accumulates land-based control, settler-farming communities still manage much of Canada’s arable land. This research draws on studies of settler colonialism, racial hierarchy and othering to connect the ideol…
Situating tenure, capital and finance in farmland relations: Implications for stewardship and agroecological health in Ontario, Canada
Farmers in Canada are older and more capitalized than ever before. Meanwhile, farmland values continue to rise. These forces together are generating unprecedented shifts in farmland relations, marked by increasing reliance on rental tenure and the rise of hybrid owner-renter consolidating farmers. This paper explores these dynamics in Ontario and asks how they are impacting on-farm agroecological stewardship. To do so, we begin with a review of t…
Disciplining land through data: The role of agricultural technologies in farmland assetisation
Digital agricultural technologies are promoted for increasing productivity, environmental sustainability and transparency in farming. Critical perspectives on digital agriculture are necessary to frame opportunities and challenges for agricultural communities. However, the ways in which digital agricultural technologies are contributing to land financialisation-bringing land into the global market exchange-remains unexplored. Historically, farmla…
Resilience and the industrial food system: Analyzing the impacts of agricultural industrialization on food system vulnerability
Toward intersectional and culturally relevant sex and gender analysis in health research
Current institutional frameworks in sex- and gender-based analysis (SGBA) are promising, but significant gaps remain in their relation to recent developments in research praxis. In this paper we draw from our own experiences with a national health research funding agency, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), to critically examine the uptake and implementation of its current frameworks and practices of sex and gender analysis in heal…
Redd'ing Forest Conservation: The Philippine Predicament
The United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD) is one of the newest global climate change counteraction pr
Farming the North: Cycles of Extraction and Dispossession
This paper examines recent initiatives to expand farming in Northern Ontario, Canada, situating these within the historical context of settler colonial agriculture. We ask: how do contemporary efforts in agricultural expansion differ from, or replicate, earlier forms of land acquisition? Focusing on land assembly, we explore how land consolidation, privatisation, and conversion meet agricultural and economic objectives under contemporary colonial…
Land data for whom? The marketization, privatization and commercialization of land data management in Canada
Drawing lines in the cornfield: An analysis of discourse and identity relations across agri-food networks
Redd'ing Forest Conservation: The Philippine Predicament
The United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD) is one of the newest global climate change counteraction pr
Resilience and the industrial food system: Analyzing the impacts of agricultural industrialization on food system vulnerability
Drawing lines in the cornfield: An analysis of discourse and identity relations across agri-food networks
They took our beads, it was a fair trade, get over it’: Settler colonial logics, racial hierarchies and material dominance in Canadian agriculture
Canada is in a liminal space, with renewed struggles for and commitments to indigenous land and food sovereignty on one hand, and growing capital interest in land governance and agriculture on the other. While neoliberal capital increasingly accumulates land-based control, settler-farming communities still manage much of Canada’s arable land. This research draws on studies of settler colonialism, racial hierarchy and othering to connect the ideol…
The Politics of Digital Agricultural Technologies: A Preliminary Review
Digital technologies are being developed and adopted across the agro‐food system, from farm to fork. Within decision‐making spaces, however, little attention is being paid to political factors arising from such technological developments. This review draws from critical social sciences to examine emerging technologies and big data systems in agriculture and assesses some key issues arising in the field. We begin with an introduction and review of…
Automated pastures and the digital divide: How agricultural technologies are shaping labour and rural communities
A “digital revolution” in agriculture is underway. Advanced technologies like sensors, artificial intelligence, and robotics are increasingly being promoted as a means to increase food production efficiency while minimizing resource use. In the process, agricultural digitalization raises critical social questions about the implications for diverse agricultural labourers and rural spaces as digitalization evolves. In this paper, we use literature …
Situating tenure, capital and finance in farmland relations: Implications for stewardship and agroecological health in Ontario, Canada
Farmers in Canada are older and more capitalized than ever before. Meanwhile, farmland values continue to rise. These forces together are generating unprecedented shifts in farmland relations, marked by increasing reliance on rental tenure and the rise of hybrid owner-renter consolidating farmers. This paper explores these dynamics in Ontario and asks how they are impacting on-farm agroecological stewardship. To do so, we begin with a review of t…
Non-Indigenous partner perspectives on Indigenous peoples' involvement in renewable energy: Exploring reconciliation as relationships of accountability or status quo innocence
Purpose This research considers the potential for renewable energy partnerships to contribute to Canada's efforts to overcome its colonial past and present by developing an understanding of how non-Indigenous peoples working in the sector relate to their Indigenous partners. Design/methodology/approach This study is part of a larger research program focused on decolonization and reconciliation in the renewable energy sector. This exploratory rese…
Implementing Indigenous Gender-Based Analysis in Research: Principles, Practices and Lessons Learned
Numerous tools for addressing gender inequality in governmental policies, programs, and research have emerged across the globe. Unfortunately, such tools have largely failed to account for the impacts of colonialism on Indigenous Peoples' lives and lands. In Canada, Indigenous organizations have advanced gender-based analysis frameworks that are culturally-grounded and situate the understanding of gender identities, roles, and responsibilities wi…
Toward intersectional and culturally relevant sex and gender analysis in health research
Current institutional frameworks in sex- and gender-based analysis (SGBA) are promising, but significant gaps remain in their relation to recent developments in research praxis. In this paper we draw from our own experiences with a national health research funding agency, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), to critically examine the uptake and implementation of its current frameworks and practices of sex and gender analysis in heal…
Disciplining land through data: The role of agricultural technologies in farmland assetisation
Digital agricultural technologies are promoted for increasing productivity, environmental sustainability and transparency in farming. Critical perspectives on digital agriculture are necessary to frame opportunities and challenges for agricultural communities. However, the ways in which digital agricultural technologies are contributing to land financialisation-bringing land into the global market exchange-remains unexplored. Historically, farmla…
Field Notes from Rair: Putting Relational Accountability into Practice
In this field notes section we explore our work as a collective of Indigenous and settler academics, food providers, and community-based organizers, including how we came together over several plates of nachos and a shared vision of deepening our relationships to land rooted in (non)(de)(anti)colonial and feminist perspectives. In this ‘field notes’ piece, we articulate what research based in relational accountability looks like for us, including…
From Palestine to Turtle Island: Food as a weapon of colonialism and tool of liberation
This paper examines the historical and ongoing role of food as both a tool of colonization and a means of liberation, focusing on Palestine and Turtle Island (Canada). In Gaza, the latest wave of Israeli military violence, described by the UN as genocidal, uses food militarization and weaponization as key tactics of settler colonial control. These strategies, rooted in colonial and capitalist systems, have long been employed by settler states lik…
Exploring activist perspectives on Indigenous-settler solidarity in Toronto’s food sovereignty movement
While food movements have increasingly taken up the framework of Indigenous food sovereignty in their work, settler food activists continue to define food systems on stolen lands. In this article, we explore whether and how food activists in Toronto are building solidarity with Indigenous peoples and movements in their work. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with food activists and content analysis of Toronto food organizations, we identify t…
Farming the North: Cycles of Extraction and Dispossession
This paper examines recent initiatives to expand farming in Northern Ontario, Canada, situating these within the historical context of settler colonial agriculture. We ask: how do contemporary efforts in agricultural expansion differ from, or replicate, earlier forms of land acquisition? Focusing on land assembly, we explore how land consolidation, privatisation, and conversion meet agricultural and economic objectives under contemporary colonial…
Land data for whom? The marketization, privatization and commercialization of land data management in Canada
Political science (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Agriculture (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (6 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Business (4 works)