Dr. Meike Brückner
Main Research Topics: Critical Agri-Food Studies, Human-Nature-Relations, Care and Food, Sustainability and Digitalisation, Participatory and Qualitative Research Methods
Phd Topic: "Biodiversity in the kitchen: Cooking and caring for African Indigenous Vegetables in Kenya. A feminist approach to Food Sovereignty"
Research Projects:
"Meal Cultures in Market Trends and Consumption Habits" (subproject 7b)
„PLATEFORMS - Potentiale von Plattformen der Nahrungsmittelversorgung zur Förderung nachhaltiger Ernährungspraktiken“
Past Teachings (selection):
SoSe 23: Gender, Environment and Sustainability: Theory and debates, Qualitative research and femminist methodologies in Food Studies
WiSe22/23: Stadt-Land-Food: Raum, Geschlecht und Ernährung
SoSe 22: Global Value Chains and Sustainability from a Gender Perspective / Gender, Environment and Sustainability: Theory and debates
WiSe 20/21: Was wir (nicht) essen: Gesellschaftliche Naturverhältnisse im Feld der Ernährung und Landwirtschaft
WiSe 19/20: Avocado oder Avocadon't? Ernährung und Ressourcen
SoSe 19: Gender Analysis in Economics
Food and Care from a Feminist Political Ecology perspective
WiSe 17/18: Qualitative und partizipative Methoden der Feldforschung (MA-Course)
Von der Agrarproduktion bis zur täglichen Mahlzeit: Ernährung und Geschlecht in transdisziplinärer Perspektive (BA-Course)
SoSe17: Gendered Practices of Food: Care, Environment and Sovereignty
SoSe16: Food-Body-Environment
Wise13/14 & SoSe14: Research Seminar - Sports and Health Sociology (University of Potsdam)
Publications
2024
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 & Natalia Magnani: 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 (accepted, in process)
2022
(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.
Presentations
2022
Gender, Environment and Sustainability, Guest lecture for the course 'Environmental Sociology', School of Natural Sciences, Tallinn University
Feminist debates in environmental and agrarian studies: Feminist Political Ecology and Biodiversity. Key lecture for the course 'Gender, agriculture, food and environment', Ecole d’Ingénieurs de Purpan, Toulouse
2019
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 S. Brettin)
Mahlzeitensouveränität: Kapitalismuskritik im Ernährungssystem aus einer feministischen Perspektive, Umweltringvorlesung "Kapital is' muss!? - Wirtschaftsethik und -alternativen", 08. Mai 2019, Dresden, Deutschland (mit S. Brettin)
2018
Kitchen Stories: Feministische Geographien des Essens am Beispiel von Kenia, Gastvortrag im Rahmen des Osnabrücker Geographischen Kolloquiums "Die Welt auf dem Teller", 24.01.2018, Osnabrück
2017
The Bittersweet Consumption of African Indigenous Vegetables: A Meal Sovereignty Perspective, Hortinlea Workshop: Gender in Agricultural Value Chains: African Indigenous Vegetables in Kenya, 24. November 2017, Berlin
WORKSHOPMODERATION: "Women’s Agency and Empowerment", International Urban Farming Conference, 11. & 12. September 2017 (with Joyce-Anne Syhre)
Meal Sovereignty in Urban and Rural Kenya: Consumption Practices of African Indigenous Vegetables, 7th European Conference on African Studies ECAS, 29. Juni - 01. Juni 2017, Basel, Schweiz
Meal Sovereignty: Empirical Insights on an Innovative Perspective, The Future of Food and Challenges for Agriculture in the 21st Century, 25. & 26.04.2017, Vitoria Gasteiz, Spanien (mit S. Brettin)
2016
Redefining Indigenous Food: Local Perspectives on AIV Consumption in Kenya, Multiple Dimensions of Food Sovereignty (HORTINLEA Conference), 23. & 24. June 2016, Berlin (mit A. Aswani).
Reflections on the Right to Food, Sustainable Food Infrastructures and Place-based Practices of Care in Kenya, Workshop Sustainable Livelihood and Ecofeminism, 08. April 2016, Berlin.
2015
Food Habits of African Indigenous Vegetables in Kenya, 2nd International Conference on Biodiversity for Food & Nutrition, 23. November 2015, Nairobi, Kenia (Poster mit A. Aswani)
Food Habits Matter: Investigating the Consumption of African Indigenous Vegetables in Kenya, Tropentag, 16. —18. September 2015, Berlin (mit A. Aswani).
Ortseffekte und Ernährung: Ein Vergleich urbaner und ruraler Ernährungskultur, Raum is(s)t Nahrung: Ein Workshop zu Geographien der Nahrung und Ernährung, 19. & 20. Juni 2015, Bayreuth.
The Role of Gendered Food Habits in Value Chain Analysis, Workshop: From the Field to the Table Investigating Gender Dynamics in Production, Marketing and Consumption of African Indigenous Vegetables (AIVs) in Kenya, 28. & 29. Mai 2015, Berlin.
Understanding Consumer Behaviour: The Social Embeddedness of Food Practices, 143rd JOINT EAAE/AAEA Seminar, 25—27. März 2015, Neapel, Italien (mit C. Bauhardt & G. Caglar).
Biography |
- 05/2013 - 07/2014 Research Associate at the Department of Sport and Health Sociology, University of Potsdam
- 03/2013 - 07/2013 Freelancer
- C60/Collaboratorium for cultural practice
- greenstorming - Agency for Sustainable Event Management
- 10/2005 - 10/2012 Study of sociology, human geography and ethnography / cultural history, University Friedrich-Schiller, Jena
- 09/2008 - 02/2009 Study of Social Anthropology und Human Geography, Dalarna University, Sweden