Dr. Meike Brückner
Research Associate
PostDoc Funding within the Berlin Equal Opportunities Program:
"Food Justice, Public Services, and Participation: Community-Oriented Food Provisioning Using the Example of Community Kitchens" (2024-2025)
Contact
meike.brueckner@hu-berlin.de
Research Focus Areas
Societal Nature and Gender Relations; Food Sovereignty; Care and Gender; Sustainability and Digitalization; Qualitative Social Research
Current Teaching
Gender Analysis in Economics/Gender Analysen in der Ökonomie
The Perfect Cup of Coffee? The Economy, Ecology and Culture of Coffee
Publications
2024
Brückner, Meike & Hoinle, Birgit: Bringing culinary justice to the table: a conceptual approach to enrich the debate on food justice, Die Erde, Special Issue “Power relations in local and globally connected agri-food systems” (in process).
Sardadvar, Karin; Brückner, Meike & Brettin, Suse: 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 & Magnani, Natalia: A Plate Full of Food and Care: Investigating Care Practices and Gender Relations at the Crossroads of Sustainability, Innovative Practices, and Digital Platforms. In: Dulsrud, A., Forno, F. (Eds.): Digital Food Provisioning in Times of Multiple Crises, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
2023
Brückner, Meike & Sardadvar, Karin: The hidden end of the value chain: potentials of integrating gender, households, and consumption into agrifood chain analysis. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems., Vol. 7.
Brückner, Meike: Meal cartographies: Using visual methods to explore geographies of food provisioning and care work. Feministisches Geo-RundMail Nr. 93.
Brückner, Meike: Rich People's Food? Changing Food Landscapes and the Need for a Critical Discourse on Superfoods. Food, Fatness and Fitness. Critical Perspectives Blog.
Hoinle, Birgit & Brückner, Meike: Kolonialität von Essen und Bewegungen für Ernährungssouveränität. In: Bauriedl S. & Carstensen-Egwuoum I. (Eds.): Geographien der Kolonialität: Geschichten globaler Ungleichheitsverhältnisse der Gegenwart. Transkript, Bielefeld.
2022
Brückner, Meike & Caglar, Gülay: Feministische Politische Ökologie von Agrobiodiversität und
Ernährung: Indigenes Blattgemüse in Kenia. In: Berliner Blätter: Ethnographische und ethnologische Beiträge.
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
(2021) Reflection: Food as pleasure or pressure? The care politics of the pandemic, Food and Foodways, DOI: 10.1080/07409710.2021.1943612
2020
Brückner, Meike (2020): Learning degrowth from women's food knowledge and care in Kenya. In:
Brückner, Meike (2020): Biodiversity in the Kitchen. Cooking and Caring for African Indigenous Vegetables in Kenya: A Feminist Approach to Food Sovereignty. München: oekom Verlag.
2018
Joyce-Ann Syhre & Meike Brückner (2018): 'The garden has improved my life’: Agency and food sovereignty of women in urban agriculture in Nairobi. In: Christine Bauhardt & Wendy Harcourt: Feminist Political Ecology and the Economics of Care: In Search of Economic Alternatives, Publisher: Routledge.
Anne Aswani Musotsi, Meike Brückner, Parto Teherani-Krönner, Ann Kingiri (2018): The gender dynamics of provisioning African Indigenous Vegetables as a meal in Kenya: A meal security perspective. In: Journal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security, Volume 3, Issue 2, 2018. pp. 36-50.
Brückner, Meike & Christine Bauhardt (2018): Agrarwissenschaft - Gender Curricula. Netzwerk für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW.
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 & Anne Aswani (2017): Promoting Consumption of African Indigenous Vegetables in Kenya. The Role of Gendered Knowledge and Perception. Policy Brief. African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS), HORTINLEA Policy Brief 001/2017.
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)
2016
Brückner, Meike & Caglar, Gülay (2016): Understanding Meal Cultures — Improving the Consumption of African Indigenous Vegetables: Insights from Sociology and Anthropology of Food. In: African Journal of Horticultural Science, Vol. 9: 53-61.
Brückner, Meike (2016): Rezension. Gabriele Winker: Care-Revolution. Schritte in eine solidarische Gesellschaft. Femina Politica 1/2016, 191-193.
Research Projects (completed)
HORTINLEA Project „Meal Cultures in Market Trends and Consumption Habits“ (Teilprojekt 7b)
SUSFOOD2 Project „PLATEFORMS - Potentiale von Plattformen der Nahrungsmittelversorgung zur Förderung nachhaltiger Ernährungspraktiken“
Doctorial Disseration (completed)
"Biodiversity in the kitchen: Cooking and caring for African Indigenous Vegetables in Kenya. A feminist approach to Food Sovereignty"
Previous Courses (selection)
Summer Term 2023: Gender, Environment and Sustainability: Theory and Debates; Qualitative Research and Feminist Methodologies in Food Studies
Winter Term 2022/23: City-Country-Food: Space, Gender, and Nutrition
Summer Term 2022: Global Value Chains and Sustainability from a Gender Perspective
Winter Term 2021/22: What We (Don't) Eat: Societal Nature Relations in the Field of Food and Agriculture
Winter Term 2019/20: Avocado or Avocadon’t? Food and Resources
Lectures (selection)
2024
Culinary Justice: An Essential Ingredient of Food Justice, Food For Justice, 2nd International Workshop, Marsilius Kolleg Heidelberg, Deutschland mit Birgit Hoinle)
2023
Culinary justice: Caring for food and meal cultures in private and public spaces, Jahrestagung AK Agri-Food Geographies (mit Birgit Hoinle)
Relationality and care: Towards a relational understanding of agri-food systems, transforming local agri-food-systems: Understanding the role of values Workshop, Universität Hohenheim, Deutschland
Food as a ‘natureculture’ entanglement: A study on gender and food relations, Foodculture Days Festival Vevey, Schweiz
A recipe for localization? Digital and analogue elements in food provisioning in Berlin, Symposium: Digital Transformation of Food Systems, Linköping University, Schweden (mit Suse Brettin)
2022
Gender, Environment and Sustainability, Guest lecture for the course Environmental Sociology, School of Natural Sciences, Tallinn University
Sustainability and Gender – Discussed Using the Example of Local and Gender-Equitable Nutrition, Opening lecture for the university-wide interdisciplinary project week on bioeconomy, TH Köln
Feminist Debates in Environmental and Agrarian Studies: Feminist Political Ecology and Biodiversity, Key lecture for the course Gender, Agriculture, Food, and Environment, École d’Ingénieurs de Purpan, Toulouse
2020
Feminist Political Ecology and Biodiversity, Lecture series Der Grüne Faden, Sustainability Office Student Initiative, Humboldt University of Berlin
2019
Bridging Spaces: Linking Modes of Food Provisioning with Household Food Practices Methodologically, Europe and Beyond: Boundaries, Barriers, and Belonging (ESA Conference), August 20–23, 2019, Manchester, UK (with S. Brettin)
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 S. Brettin)
2018
Kitchen Stories: Feminist Geographies of Food Using the Example of Kenya, Guest lecture as part of the Osnabrück Geography Colloquium Die Welt auf dem Teller, January 24, 2018, Osnabrück
Membership
AK Agri-Food Geographie
Associate Membership at the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin
until 2019 - PhD representative at InterGender, Consortium and Research School for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies
Biography
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09/2016 - DAAD Short-Term Research Grant for Field Research in Kenya
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05/2013 - 07/2014 Research Associate at the Chair of Sociology of Sport and Health, University of Potsdam
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03/2013 - 07/2013 Freelance Associate
- C60/Collaboratorium for Cultural Practice
- greenstorming – Agency for Sustainable Event Management -
10/2005 - 10/2012 Studies in Sociology, Human Geography, and Folklore/Cultural History, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
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09/2008 - 02/2009 Studies in Social Anthropology and Human Geography, Dalarna University, Sweden