Outline: Sarah Wakefield
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Associate Professor PhD McMaster University (2002) Phone: (416) 978-3653 Location: Room 5014, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: sarah.wakefield@utoronto.ca |
| Research Interests: Community food security Food systems Environmental justice Urban environmental health Healthy neighbourhoods Community-engaged scholarship |
| Current Research Projects |
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Understanding ‘Security’ in Food Security: Developing a Framework for Future Food Security Research in Canada and England - with Tim Brown, Queen Mary University of London Understanding Scale and Networks in Social Mobilization: A Case Study of the Community Food Security Movement in Canada - with Charles Levkoe (University of Toronto), Patty Williams (Mount S. Vincent University), Lauren Baker (Sustain Ontario), and Kreesta Doucette (Manitoba Food Security Network). Thought About Food? Planting the Seeds of Policy and Social Change through Research, Training and Knowledge Mobilization - with Patty Williams and C. Johnston (PIs), 53 co-applicants Who has the Power? The Energy Crisis and Environmental Justice in Toronto - with Cheryl Teelucksingh (PI – Ryerson University) and Blake Poland (University of Toronto) Growing Locally, Eating Globally? Understanding Local Food Systems using a Hamilton, Ontario Case Study |
Selected Publications
Levkoe, C. and Wakefield, S. In press. The Community Food Centre: Creating space for a just, sustainable and healthy food system. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development.
Soma, T. and Wakefield, S. In press. The emerging role of a Food System Planner: Integrating food considerations into planning. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development (special issue on food system planning).
Wakefield, S and J. Baxter. 2010. Linking health inequality and environmental justice: Articulating a precautionary framework for research and action. Environmental Justice 3(3): 95-102.
Kortright, R. and Wakefield, S. 2009. Edible backyards: A qualitative study of household food growing and its contributions to food security. Agriculture and Human Values, 28(1), 39-54.
Wakefield, S. 2007. Building the Harbour Waterfront Trail in Hamilton, Ontario: Re-imagining an industrial city in a post-industrial era. Cities. 24(4), 298-310.
Wakefield, S., C. Taron, F. Yeudall, J. Reynolds, and A. Skinner. 2007. Growing urban health: Community gardening in southeast Toronto. Health Promotion International. 22 (2): 92-101.
Wakefield, S. 2007. Reflective action in the academy: exploring praxis in critical geography using a "food movement" case study. Antipode. 39(2), 331-354.
Wakefield, S., S.J. Elliott., D. Cole, and J.D. Eyles. 2006. Taking environmental action: the role of local composition, context, and collective. Environmental Management, 37(1), 40-53.
Wakefield, S. and C. McMullan. 2005. Healing in places of decline: (re)imagining everyday landscapes in Hamilton, Ontario. Health and Place, 11(4), 299-312.
Wakefield, S. and B. Poland. 2005. Family, friend or foe? Critical reflections on the relevance and role of social capital in health promotion and community development. Social Science and Medicine, 60(12), 2819 - 2832.
Teaching (2011-2012)
GGR107 Environment, Food and People
GGR416 Environmental Impact Assessment
SII199 Environmental Change: Producing New Natures
JPG1421 Health in Urban Environments
UCS1000 Community Development
