Catherine PHILLIPS

Research Fellow

cphillip@uow.edu.au
Ph:  +61 2 4221 5616
Location:  41.G10

AUSCCER

Research Interests

My primary interest is in the study of food, which provides a means to examine relations among people, natures, cultures, and politics.  I explore how people encounter their worlds in everyday living, particularly in relation to food, and how their engagements dis/connect with global agri-food issues, including governance.  I am interested in how people come together with each other and with nonhumans in specific efforts to create more sustainable agri-food systems.

 agri-food networks  environmental cultural studies  global environmental politics and governance  socio-political activism  people-plant relations  everyday practices  seed policy and politics 

Current Projects

Horticulture in the Murray-Darling Basin
Australian Food and Farm Security

Degrees

Ph.D.    Environmental Studies, York University, Canada
M.A.    Political Studies (Collaborative International Development), University of Guelph, Canada
B.A.     Political Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada

Selected Publications

Searchable Publications

2010. Permaculture. Green Food: An A-to-Z Guide. ed. Dustin Mulvaney. Green Society Series. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.  
2008. Canada’s Evolving Seed Regime: Relations of Industry, State, and Seed Savers. Environments, 36/1.  

2006. Conserving and Growing Alternatives: Theorizing seed saving and exchange networks. Building Sustainable Communities: Ecological Justice and Global Citizenship, eds. J.D. Wulfhorst and A.K. Haugestad. At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries Series, eds. R. Fischer and M. Sönser Breen. New York: Rodopi.

2005. Cultivating Practices: Seed saving as green citizenship?  Environments, 33/3.

Editor. 2004. Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship. Oxfordshire: Interdisciplinary Press.

2004. Growing Citizenships: Food activists, rights and citizenship. Environments, Sustainability and Technology, ed. C. Phillips. Oxfordshire, UK: Interdisciplinary Press.