Special lecture on food politics

Nipissing University is pleased to welcome Sarah J. Martin to campus for a special lecture, Expertise, Financialization and Markets: The Techno-Politics of Agricultural Commodity Exchanges, today, Wednesday, October 22, at noon in room H349.The lecture is hosted by Nipissing’s Graduate Program in Environmental Studies.
Martin is a PhD candidate at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo with a research focus on the global political economy of food and agriculture. Her research interests are informed by her experiences as a cook and chef in a variety of settings, which has led to a particular interest in how politics are practiced in the everyday.
She examines the role of expertise and the financialization of agriculture. Agricultural commodity exchanges (ACEs) are at the center of the financialization of agriculture because of the rise of derivatives and other financial tools. International organization literature presents ACEs as time-tested technical tools which organize markets, commercialize agriculture and provide farmers with price risk protection. This paper examines the shifting discourses of expertise and how new financial tools and practices are being used to recruit, and enroll farmers in global markets.
All are welcome. Coffee and light snacks provided. ?