Research
1. Industrial Agriculture, Technology, and Food System Resilience
I study how industrial agriculture, finance, and new digital technologies are reshaping land, farming, and food systems. My research asks how automation, data, platform technologies, and the rise of financial interests affect soils, biodiversity, farm workers, and rural communities, and who benefits from these changes. I show how industrialization, financialization, and digitalization are accelerating land consolidation and financial investment in farmland, often at the expense of ecological health and farmer autonomy, leaving food systems more vulnerable to crises like climate change and pandemics.
Current Projects: Digitalization, financialization, and consolidation in the Canadian agri-food sector
2. Power, Inequality, and Structural Injustice in Food Systems
A central focus of my work is how power operates across land and food systems. Using mixed methods, including interviews, surveys, soil data, and institutional analysis, I examine how technological and economic shifts deepen racial, gendered, and class-based inequalities. My research demonstrates how agricultural data and innovation are often designed to serve already powerful actors, reinforcing corporate concentration and labour exploitation, while marginalizing smaller-scale farmers, workers, and Indigenous land stewards.
Current Projects: Land data privatization, marketization & commercialization; Confronting financialization, consolidation, and settler-colonial agri-food land governance in Canada
3. Food and Land Policy in Times of Crisis
I engage closely with debates about food, land relations, and agricultural policy, asking how decisions made by governments shape ecological sustainability, equity, and resilience. My work shows how policies determining who can access land, grow food, and participate in decision-making profoundly affect soil health, biodiversity, rural livelihoods, and food security, especially under conditions of climate instability and political oppression and violence.
Current Projects: Public Grocery Stores in Canada: A Feasibility Study
4. Collaborative, Feminist, and Anti-colonial Research Practices
My research is grounded in feminist, anti-colonial, and community-based methodologies. As a white settler scholar, I strive to work with responsibility and accountability alongside Black and Indigenous collaborators and interlocutors. Through projects like RAIR, I am part of collective efforts to build research practices rooted in trust, respect, reciprocity, and long-term relationships, with the goal of building knowledge that is useful beyond the academy and accountable to the communities involved.
Current Projects: Relational Accountability for Indigenous Rematriation (RAIR); Food sovereignty and settler colonialism in Canada & Palestine