Gabriela Pechlaner
Assistant Professor
social cultural and media studies
University of the Fraser Valley
Canada
Biography
Most recently, Dr. Pechlaner completed a three year SSHRC standard research grant, co-investigated with Dr. Gerardo Otero (SFU), which undertook a comparative investigation of changes in capital accumulation in agriculture and food since the mid-1980s—the “neoliberal food regime
Research Interest
Sociology of agriculture and food; sociology of the environment; natural resources and new resource technologies (agricultural biotechnologies, aquaculture); socila movements; enviornmental justice; diet, class, and good security; political economy; globalization
Publications
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Pechlaner, G. and D. B. Tindall. 2013. “Changing Contexts: Environmentalism, Aboriginal Community and Forest Company Joint Ventures and the Case of Iisaak.†In First Nations and Forest Lands: Social and Cultural Perspectives. Tindall, D., R. Tosper and P. Perrault, (eds). Vancouver: UBC Press.
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Otero, G., G. Pechlaner, Giselle Lieberman, and E. Can Gurcan. 2015. “The Neoliberal Diet and Inequality in the United States.†Social Science and Medicine. 2015. 142: 47-55.
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Otero, G. and G. Pechlaner. 2013. “Is Biotechnology the Answer.†Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology. 4th Canadian Edition. J. Macionis, N. Benokraitis and P. Urmetzer (eds.). Toronto: Pearson.
