Thinking Through Environmental Justice and Food Sovereignty on These Lands
Land | Food | Climate | Relations
Sarah Rotz is an interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersections of environmental justice, political economy, and land and food systems. Her work examines how agri-food industrialization, financialization, policy, and data are shaped by, and reproduce, settler colonial patriarchy and racial capitalism, and with what consequences for sovereignty, justice, and resistance movements.
She is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University, where her research engages collaborative, feminist, and decolonial methodologies and community-based organizing within food sovereignty and climate justice movements.
Writing that traces the politics of land and food, examining how structures of inequity, patriarchy, and colonialism continue to shape social and environmental life and relations.
Work that connects critical analysis with collaborative, justice-oriented research and action.
Teaching and supervision grounded in values of mutual respect, reflexivity, and collaboration.
Facilitating experiential and creative learning spaces that advance critical inquiry, ethical engagement, and develop research skills students can carry into community‑engaged and scholarly work.
