 Susanne
Freidberg
Associate
Professor of Geography
Dartmouth
College
6017
Fairchild Hall
603-646-3732
Freidberg@dartmouth.edu
Curriculum
Vitae
Research
I became a geographer because I wanted to explore the culture and power relations of food provisioning in and between different parts of the world. IÕm particularly interested in how these relationships have been shaped by ecological and colonial histories, and how they play out in food trades and marketplaces.
Originally focused on local food markets in Burkina Faso, West Africa, my research has also examined transnational food trades between Africa and Europe, and the role of the media and activist organizations in shaping different societiesÕ notions of food rights and ethics. These days IÕm learning about the social and technological history of freshness.
Teaching
Geography
6: Introduction to International Development
Geography
15: Food and Power
Geography
16: Moral Economies of Development
Geography
40: Africa: Ecology and Development
Recent Publications
2007 Supermarkets and imperial knowledge. Cultural Geographies 14, 3.
2005 With Leah Horowitz. Converging networks and
clashing stories: the biotechnology debate in South Africa. Africa
Today, 51, 1.
2004 French
Beans and Food Scares: Culture and Commerce in an Anxious Age, Oxford.
2004 The
ethical complex of corporate food power. Society and Space, 22, 4.
2003 French
beans for the masses: a modern historical geography of food in Burkina Faso, Journal
of Historical Geography 29, 3.
2003 Cleaning up down South: supermarkets,
ethical trade, and African horticulture, Social and Cultural Geography 4, 1.
2003 Culture,
conventions and colonial constructs of rurality, Journal
of Rural Studies, 19.
2001 On the trail of the global green bean:
methodological considerations in multi-site ethnography, Global Networks
1, 4.
2001
To garden, to market: gendered meanings of work on an African urban
periphery. Gender, Place and Culture, 8, 1.
2001
Gardening on the edge: The social conditions of unsustainability
on an African urban
periphery. Annals of the Association of American
Geographers, 91, 3.
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