Anisah Madden
Postdoctoral Associate
PRONUNCIATION Ah-nee-sah
PRONOUNS she/her
- B.A.H., Trent University
- Ph.D., Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney
Food Systems Research Institute; Agriculture, Landscape, and Environment; Institute for Agroecology
BIO
Anisah Madden is a political geographer and solidarity / action researcher working to support transformations to agroecological, equitable, and democratically governed food and agriculture systems across scales. As an activist-scholar, Anisah has worked on several interdisciplinary research projects to support grassroots-led capacity building and political engagement in policy advocacy processes. Anisah’s research helps to provide a strong evidence base to support transitions to agroecological food systems, equity and democratic decision-making in policy and practice.
Anisah’s solidarity / action research mobilises facilitation as a transformative participatory methodology that seeks to remedy the exclusion of small-scale food providers from political decision-making spaces, and to make visible and transform inequitable power relations between and within CSOs, social movements, academics and allies (for example, between North-South, generations, cultures, genders, political orientations, and organisational forms). Anisah is interested in the ways that living and working with the land can help us think about and enact democratic participatory governance differently, guided by the principles of food sovereignty, agroecology, human rights, equity, respect, reciprocity and interdependence. Anisah is guided by a relationalist ethos (see Mary Graham's work) and a deep understanding of, connection with, and sense of co-responsibility to the land and our non-human and human relatives.
Anisah is an active member of the Community Economies Research Network (CERN), an international network founded by feminist economic geographers J.K. Gibson-Graham of around 400 researchers, activists, artists and others who are interested in ways of enacting new visions of economy, theorizing diverse economies and building more ethical economic and ecological relationships. Before becoming an academic researcher, Anisah trained and worked as a practical herbalist and agroecological market gardener. She has set up and coordinated a range of food and agriculture cooperatives and community projects, and served on the board of several non-profit organisations.
Area(s) of expertise
food and agriculture governance, food sovereignty, agroecology, social movements, participatory decision-making and mechanisms, smallholder agriculture, youth, food systems transformations
Bio
Anisah Madden is a political geographer and solidarity / action researcher working to support transformations to agroecological, equitable, and democratically governed food and agriculture systems across scales. As an activist-scholar, Anisah has worked on several interdisciplinary research projects to support grassroots-led capacity building and political engagement in policy advocacy processes. Anisah’s research helps to provide a strong evidence base to support transitions to agroecological food systems, equity and democratic decision-making in policy and practice.
Anisah’s solidarity / action research mobilises facilitation as a transformative participatory methodology that seeks to remedy the exclusion of small-scale food providers from political decision-making spaces, and to make visible and transform inequitable power relations between and within CSOs, social movements, academics and allies (for example, between North-South, generations, cultures, genders, political orientations, and organisational forms). Anisah is interested in the ways that living and working with the land can help us think about and enact democratic participatory governance differently, guided by the principles of food sovereignty, agroecology, human rights, equity, respect, reciprocity and interdependence. Anisah is guided by a relationalist ethos (see Mary Graham's work) and a deep understanding of, connection with, and sense of co-responsibility to the land and our non-human and human relatives.
Anisah is an active member of the Community Economies Research Network (CERN), an international network founded by feminist economic geographers J.K. Gibson-Graham of around 400 researchers, activists, artists and others who are interested in ways of enacting new visions of economy, theorizing diverse economies and building more ethical economic and ecological relationships. Before becoming an academic researcher, Anisah trained and worked as a practical herbalist and agroecological market gardener. She has set up and coordinated a range of food and agriculture cooperatives and community projects, and served on the board of several non-profit organisations.
Areas of Expertise
food and agriculture governance, food sovereignty, agroecology, social movements, participatory decision-making and mechanisms, smallholder agriculture, youth, food systems transformations