Kelly Struthers Montford
Associate Professor Faculty of Arts Department of Criminology Toronto, Ontario ksm@torontomu.ca
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I am currently working on research on food and dietary normalization in prison settings based on data from the Prisons Transparency Project. I am also working on a monograph, Agricultural Power: Food, Life, and Law in Settler Spaces, where I develop a theoretical account of agricultural power as ...
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Bio/Research
I am currently working on research on food and dietary normalization in prison settings based on data from the Prisons Transparency Project. I am also working on a monograph, Agricultural Power: Food, Life, and Law in Settler Spaces, where I develop a theoretical account of agricultural power as evinced in projects of colonial settlement, contemporary litigation that pivots on the distinction between real and fake foods, and the emergence of in vitro and synthetic meats. In the book, I suggest a contextual ontology of food. I am also currently drafting a co-authored book, Abnormal Appetites: Food Politics in the Anthropocene, with Chloë Taylor, under advanced contract with McGill-Queen’s University Press (anticipated completion in 2020). I am also in the final stages of co-editing Building Abolition: Decarceration and Social Justice, stemming from a SSHRC-funded conference held in the Fall of 2019.
Beginning in the Fall of 2020 I will embark on my next major research project, Agricultural Power/Carceral Power. The overall goal of this project is to understand, within the context of settler colonialism, our current return to penal agribusiness in Canada. This will be first sustained investigation of penitentiary agriculture in Canada, and will investigate this practice at the nexus of colonialism, the environment, food production, and carceral labour.
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Beginning in the Fall of 2020 I will embark on my next major research project, Agricultural Power/Carceral Power. The overall goal of this project is to understand, within the context of settler colonialism, our current return to penal agribusiness in Canada. This will be first sustained investigation of penitentiary agriculture in Canada, and will investigate this practice at the nexus of colonialism, the environment, food production, and carceral labour.
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