Harriet Friedmann: Outline
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Professor of Geography and Planning, Sociology and the Munk School of Global Studies Phone: (416) 978-5991 Location: Room 5055, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George Street) Email: harriet.friedmann@utoronto.ca |
| Research Interests |
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Harriet Friedmann is Professor of Geography and Planning, Sociology and the
Munk School of Global Studies. Her research interests share a common passion
for understanding the history and possible futures of food and
agriculture. Markets, investments, technologies, knowledges, policies,
politics, rebellions, inequalities, international specialization and trade, diets,
cuisines,
technologies, farming systems, relations of production (family, gender,
race, and waged
labour), commodity complexes, international (dis)agreements, and health of
humans and ecosystems, are all grist to her mill. Friedmann tries to make
sense of all
this through the historical perspective of "food regimes," which are periods
of roughly
25 years of relative stability in patterns of accumulation, inter-state and
class
relations, and which give way to equally enduring periods of confusion,
conflict, and
experimentation until a new regime constellates from some of the
experiments. Friedmann's recent work has focused on the regional "foodshed" of southern Ontario, one of many which are emerging across the globe, particularly efforts to link and renew cultures of farming, selling, cooking, storing, sharing, and eating to reflect the diasporic layers of populations in Ontario, from aboriginal to today's immigrants. Friedmann is discovering how to both research and be part of the "Community of Food Practice" working towards justice and sustainability through food system renewal; her provisional role is a "facilitator of reflection." She is a past Chair of the Toronto Food Policy Council and a present member. |
| Selected Publications |
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| Books |
| Food Regimes: International Political Economy of Food. Tokyo: Kobushi Shobo, 2006 (in Japanese. Translator, Professor Masao Watanabe, with Michiko Kida). |
| Articles in peer-reviewed Journals |
| "Moving Food Regimes Forward: Reflections on Symposium Essays," Agriculture and Human Values 26(4), 2009: 335-44. |
| "Whose Rules Rule? Contested Projects to Certify 'Local Production for Distant Consumers'," Journal of Agrarian Change, Special Issue on Agrarian Social Movements, eds. Saturnino M. Borras Jr. and Marc Edelman, 8(2 and 3), 2008, pp.408-34. (with Amber McNair). |
| "Scaling up: Bringing public institutions and food service corporations into the project for a local, sustainable food system in Ontario," Agriculture and Human Values, 24:3, 2007, pp.389-98. |
| Chapters |
| "Food Sovereignty in the Golden Horseshoe Region of Ontario," Food Sovereignty in Canada, Annette Desmarais, Nettie Wiebe and Hannah Wittman, eds. Fernwood, forthcoming. |
| "Food". Entry for Dictionary of Transnational History, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009. |
| "Seeds of the City," in John Knechtel, ed., Food. Alphabet City and MIT Press, 2007, pp. 240-50. |
| "Situating the Retail Revolution," in David Burch and Geoffrey Lawrence, eds., Supermarkets and Agri-food Supply Chains: Transformations in the production and Consumption of Food. Edward Elgar, 2007, pp.294-323. (with Philip McMichael) |
| "Discourse and Structure in the Governance of Genetically Modified Foods: Disempowering Civil Society," in John Kirton and Peter Hajnal. eds., Sustainability, Civil Society, and International Governance: Local, North American and Global Perspectives. Ashgate, 2006 (with Diane Bartlett) |
| "Feeding the Empire: The Pathologies of Globalized Agriculture," The Empire Reloaded: Socialist Register 2005 edited by Colin Leys and Leo Panitch, pps. 124-43. London: Merlin, 2004. |
| Courses |
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| GGR329H1: Global Food System--FALL |
| PLA1160H: Workshop in Planning Practice--FALL |
| JPG1424H-S: Comparative Farming Systems--SPRING |
| JPG1423H: Political Ecology of the Global Food System--SPRING |
