Suse Brettin
Doctoral Candidate
Research Interest
Feminist Political Ecology; Social relations to nature, especially towards water and food; Re/Productivityt; Food Sovereignityt; feminist perspectives to alternative food systems
Dissertation
"Feminist Perspectives on Practices of Care in Agricultural Production"
Contact
suse.brettin@gender.hu-berlin.de
Current Teaching
Previous Courses
Summer Term 2019:
- Gender Analysis in Economics
- Food and Care from a Feminist Political Ecology perspective
Summer Term 2018:
- Qualitative Research Methods (substitute lecturer)
Winter Term 2017/18:
- Of Course, Naturally?! Gender as an Analytical Category in the Debate on Human-Nature Relations
Publications
2024
Brettin, Suse (2024): Where value creation meets appreciation and care: motives of farmers for direct marketing in Brandeburg, Germany. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy. 20(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2024.2420410
Sardadvar, Karin; Brückner, Meike & Brettin, Suse (2024): Dringliche Allianzen und gemeinsame Visionen: Verbindungslinien zwischen feministischen und umweltpolitischen Perspektiven. In: Wroblweski, A.; Schmidt, A. (Eds.): Gleichstellung in progress. Von Frauenförderung zu Diversität und Inklusion. Springer VS, Wiesbaden.
Brettin, Suse; Brückner, Meike & Natalia Magnani (2024): A Plate Full of Food and Care: Investigating Care Practices and Gender Relations at the Crossroads of Sustainability, Innovative Practices, and Digital Platforms
Forno, Francesca; Brettin, Suse; Moran, Christopher; Cajic, Sandra (2024): From Grassroots to Platforms: How Digitalisation Reconfigures Learning and Engagement with Food. In: Dulsrud, A., Forno, F. (Eds.): Digital Food Provisioning in Times of Multiple Crises, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
2022
Brettin, Suse and Brücker, Meike (2022): Eat for change? Household practices as caring practices facing climate change. Weather Matters.
Brettin, Suse & Nowack, Wiebke (2020): Mit Corporate Social Responsibility die Transformation der Landwirtschaft vorantreiben? In: GAIA 31/3, S. 202-206 https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.31.4.3
2021
Brettin, Suse (2021): Sorgearbeit und Landwirtschaft. Feministische Perspektive auf landwirtschaftliche Produktion. In: Ökologisches Wirtschaften 3.2021
Sandra Čajić, Meike Brückner, Suse Brettin (2021): A recipe for localization? Digital and analogue elements in food provisioning in Berlin A critical examination of potentials and challenges from a gender perspective. In: Sustainable Production and Consumption, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2021.06.025
2020
Brettin, Suse (2020): Natürlich natürlich?! Zur Notwendigkeit einer feministischen Perspektive auf das Mensch-Natur-Verhältnis. In: ZTG (Hrsg.): Bulletin Texte 46, 19-35.
2017
Brückner, Meike & Suse Brettin (2017): Rezension. Wendy Harcourt und Ingrid L. Nelson (Hrsg.): Practising Feminist Political Ecologies. Moving Beyond the ›Green Economy‹; Vandana Shiva: Jenseits des Wachstums. Warum wir mit der Erde Frieden schließen müssen. In: Feministische Studien 2/2017
Brückner, Meike & Brettin, Suse (2017): Meal Sovereignty: Empirical Insights on an Innovative Perspective. International Colloquium: The Future of Food and Challenges for Agriculture in the 21st Century: Debates about who, how and with what social, economic and ecological implications we will feed the world. Vitoria Gasteiz, Spain (Conference Paper)
Lectures (selection)
2024
Agriculture, Food, and Gender: Critical Perspectives on Sustainable Agricultural and Food Systems. Guest lecture at the University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde (with M. Brückner)
2023
Care Work in the Bioeconomy?! An (Eco)feminist Perspective on Agricultural Production. Workshop Care and the (Re)Production of Nature – Feminist Perspectives on the Bioeconomy, HU Berlin
2022
Feminist Perspectives on Practices of Care in Agriculture, Food for Justice Talks, FU Berlin
Eat for (Global) Change?! Local Paths to a Fairer and More Sustainable Food System. Guest lecture for Leipzig handelt fair and Eine Welt e.V. Leipzig (with M. Brückner)
2021
A Plate full of Food and Care - Food practices between sustainability, practicality and pleasure, 4S Annual Meeting, 06.-09. Oktober 2021, Toronto, Kanada
Well Supplied from the Region? Potentials and Challenges for Need-Based Regional Food Systems. July 23-24, 2021, Gießen / Berlin (digital conference, organizer with Marie Reusch)
Food and Care – Between Sustainability, Practicality, and Pleasure. Gender Relations and Changing Food Systems Conference, January 15-16, 2021, Fulda, Germany (with Sandra Čajić).
2019
Sustainable Consumption and Food Practices in Northern Europe and East Africa, The Great Transformation: On the Future of Modern Societies, 23.-27. September 2019, Jena, Deutschland
Bridging Spaces: Linking Modes of Food Provisioning with Household Food Practices Methodologically, Europe and Beyond: Boundaries, Barriers and Belonging (ESA Conference), 20.-23. August 2019, Manchester, UK (mit M. Brückner)
Feminist Political Ecology, Care Perspective, and Meal Sovereignty: A Feminist Perspective on Economy Through the Lens of Food. Lecture Series "Sexualized Violence and Power," May 20, 2019, Siegen, Germany
Meal Sovereignty: Critique of Capitalism in the Food System from a Feminist Perspective. Environmental Lecture Series "Kapital is' muss!? - Business Ethics and Alternatives," May 8, 2019, Dresden, Germany (with M. Brückner)
2018
Meal Cultures: An Innovative Theoretical Toolkit for Food Research, SIEF 22nd International Ethnological Food Research Conference, 26.-29. September 2018, Kalamata, Griechenland (mit M. Brückner)
2017
Meal Sovereignty: Empirical Insights on an Innovative Perspective, The Future of Food and Challenges for Agriculture in the 21st Century, 25. & 26. April 2017, Vitoria Gasteiz, Spanien (mit M. Brückner)
2014
Re/Productivity in a Perspective of Material Feminism. 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, September 2-6, 2014, Leipzig, Germany (with C. Wember)
Research Projects (completed)
SUSFOOD2 Projekt "PLATEFORMS - Potentiale von Plattformen der Nahrungsmittelversorgung zur Förderung nachhaltiger Ernährungspraktiken"
Membership
PhD representative of InterGender, Consortium and Research School for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies
Associate Membership at the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin