Amanda Wilson
Associate Professor | Faculty staff
Profile
Amanda Wilson holds a PhD in Sociology, with a Specialization in Political Economy. Her areas of research include the food movement and alternative food networks, carceral food systems, collective organizing, and questions related to prefiguration and enacting a politics of possibility. Outside of academia, she has worked with several non-governmental organizations in the areas of policy analysis, research, network coordination and popular education, and is a long-time community organizer and activist in Ottawa.
Ph.D. Sociology with a Specialization in Political Economy, Carleton University, 2015
M.A., Labour Studies, McMaster University, 2008
B.A., Global Development Studies and Political Studies, Queen’s University, 2007
- Food systems and Alternative Food Networks
- Social Movements and Collective Organizing
- Carceral Food Systems
Wilson, A. and K. Tasala (2024). Moving beyond awareness to action and food system transformation: prioritizing labor in food systems governance work. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 8:1-12.
Wilson, A. (2023). Unpacking the Prison Food Paradox: Formerly Incarcerated Individuals’ Experience of Food within Federal Prisons in Canada. Studies in Social Justice 17(2): 280-305.
Levkoe, C.Z, P. Andrée, P. Bellamingie, A. Wilson and M. Korzun (2023). Civil Society Engagement in Food Systems Governance in Canada: Experiences, Gaps and Possibilities. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. 12(2): 267–286.
Zahran, G, J. Courchesne and A. Wilson (2023) “Eating is a Hustle”: The Complex Realities of Food in Federal Prison. Canadian Food Studies /La Revue Canadienne Des études Sur l’alimentation. 10(1): 55-64.
Wilson, A. (2022). Exploring Carceral Food Systems as Sites of Contestation and Possibility in Canadian Federal Prisons: The Food Services Modernization Initiative. Critical Criminology. Online advanced publication.
Wilson, A. and C.Z. Levkoe (2022). Introspecting Food Movements in Canada: Unpacking Tensions towards Justice and Sustainability. Canadian Food Studies / La Revue Canadienne Des études Sur l’alimentation 9(2): 101-124.
Chateauvert, J., P. Dufort, J. Durand Folco, A. Morales Hudon, J.Stambouli, S. Tremblay- Pepin et A. Wilson (2020). Manuel Pour Changer le Monde. Lux Editeur.
Hammelman, C., C.Z. Levkoe. J. Agyeman, S. Kharod, A. Moragues-Faus, E. Munoz, J. Oliva and A. Wilson (2020). Integrated Food Systems Governance: Scaling Equitable and Transformative Food Initiatives through Scholar-Activist Engagement. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development 9(2): 71-86.
Levkoe, C and A Wilson (2019). Policy Engagement as Prefiguration: Experiments in Food Policy Governance through the National Food Policy Dialogue in Canada. In Andree et al (Eds) Civil Society and Social Movements in Food System Governance. Routledge.
Levkoe, C., A. Wilson and V. Schembri (2019). Community-Academic Peer Review: Prospects for Strengthening Community-Campus Engagement and Enriching Scholarship. Engaged Scholar Journal 4(2).
Przednowek, A, M. Goemans and A. Wilson (2019). “I had a big revelation”: Student Experiences in Community-First Community-Campus Engagement. Engaged Scholar Journal 4(2).
Wilson, A. (2013). Beyond Alternative: Exploring Autonomous Possibilities in Food. Antipode: A Radial Journal of Geography 45(3): 719-737
Wilson A. (2010). Co-opting Precariousness: Can Worker Co-ops be an alternative to Precarious Employment? Just Labour 16: 59-75