Biography

I completed a B.A. (Honors) in Economics and Geography at Queen’s University (1992), a Master’s in Environmental Studies at York University (1995), and a Ph.D. in Geography at Carleton University (2006).  A broad range of experiences in the public, private, and non-profit sectors inform both my teaching and research.  I am most interested in praxis – the application of theory, and I seek to make my teaching transformative, and my research critical yet constructive and action-oriented.

Research Interests

•    Localizing food systems and sustainable community
•    Community-university partnerships
•    Environmental conflict and deliberative democracy

Research affiliations

Academic Co-Lead, Community Environmental Sustainability Hub, Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) (SSHRC Partnership Grant led by Ted Jackson): http://carleton.ca/communityfirst/

Eastern Ontario Research Node Co-Lead (with Peter Andrée), Nourishing Ontario: Sustainable Local Food Systems Research Group (SSHRC Partnership Development Grant led by Alison Blay-Palmer): http://nourishingontario.ca/

2013-2014 Courses

•      GEOG 5003 (Critical Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry) – Fall 2013
•      PECO 5001 (Methods in Political Economy) – Winter 2014     

 Recent Publications

Ballamingie, Patricia & Sarah M.L. Walker (2013) ‘Field of dreams: Just Food’s proposal to create a community food and sustainable agriculture hub in Ottawa, Ontario in Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability. 18 (5): 529-542. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2013.787975

Andrée, Peter, Patricia Ballamingie & Brynne Sinclair-Waters (2013) ‘Chapter 2: Eastern Ontario’ in Irena Knezevic, Karen Landman, Alison Blay-Palmer, and Erin Nelson (Eds.) Models and Best Practices for Building Sustainable Food Systems in Ontario and Beyond.  Guelph, ON: Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA).  URL: http://nourishingontario.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/CHAPTER-2_EASTERN-ONT.pdf [17 pages]

Walker, Sarah M.L. & Patricia Ballamingie (2013) ‘Just Food Ottawa’ in Community Food Toolkit: Ontario Case Studies.  URL: http://nourishingontario.ca/just-food-ottawa/ Waterloo, ON: Sustainable Local Food Systems Research Group.

Goemans, Magda & Patricia Ballamingie (2013) ‘Forest as hazard, forest as victim: Community perspectives and disaster mitigation in the aftermath of Kelowna’s 2003 wildfires’ in The Canadian Geographer, 57 (1), 56-71.  DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.2012.00447.x

Ballamingie, Patricia & Susan Tudin (2012) ‘Publishing Graduate Student Research in Geography: The Fundamentals’ in Journal of Geography in Higher Education, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2012.729815

Donald Leffers & Patricia Ballamingie (2012) ‘Governmentality, environmental subjectivity, and urban intensification’ in Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2012.719016

Ballamingie, Patricia (2012) ‘David Suzuki Foundation’ in George S. Philander and Geoffrey J. Golson (eds.) Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change, 2^nd Edition, Volume 1, 301-302. Sage Publications.

Ballamingie, Patricia (2011) ‘Contester l’effacement: les Premières nations et l’étude du cas Lands for Life’ (translated: ‘Contesting Erasure: First Nations and the Lands for Life Case Study’) in Écologie et Politique, 41, 1-13. URL: http://www.ecologie-et-politique.info/

Ballamingie, Patricia and Sherrill Johnson (May 2011) ‘Researcher Vulnerability: Some Unanticipated Challenges of Doctoral Fieldwork’ in The Qualitative Report, 16 (3), 711-729. URL: http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR16-3/ballamingie.pdf

Barnes, Jeffrey Ivan, Wall, John E., Diaz, Domingo & Patricia Ballamingie (2011) ‘Missed understandings: cultural and communication disconnects in indigenous livelihood revitalization and conservation’ in Society & Natural Resources.  First published on 25 April 2011 (iFirst), 1-12.  DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2011.559616

Ballamingie, Patricia (2011) ‘Art as Activism’ in Paul Robbins, Kevin Wehr, & J. Geoffrey Golson (Eds.) Green Culture. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Pp. 31- 33

Ballamingie, Patricia, Xiaobei Chen, Eric Henry and Diana Nemiroff (2010) ‘Edward Burtynsky’s China Photographs  – A Multidisciplinary Reading’ in Environments Journal, 37 (2), 66-92. URL: http://www.environmentsjournal.ca/index.php/ejis/article/view/14581/12047

Ballamingie, Patricia, and Sherrill Johnson (2010) ‘Greening Suburbia’ in Paul Robbins, Nevin Cohen and J. Geoffrey Golson (eds.) Green Cities: An A-to-Z Guide. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. Volume IV, Article No. 71.  URL:  http://www.sage-ereference.com/greencities/Article_n71.html

Johnson, Sherrill and Patricia Ballamingie (2010) ‘Social Entrepreneurship’ in Nevin Cohen (ed.) Green Business: An A-to-Z Guide. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. Volume V, Article No. 129.  URL: http://www.sage-ereference.com/greenbusiness/Article_n129.html

Lorelei Hanson and Patricia Ballamingie (2010) ‘Shifting the Frame to Imagine a Different World: An Interview with Frances Moore Lappé’ in Aurora, Issue 2010, 1-14.  URL: http://aurora.icaap.org/index.php/aurora/article/view/87/104

Ballamingie, Patricia (2009) ‘Democratizing Public Consultation Processes: Some Critical Insights’ in Journal of Public Deliberation, 5 (1), Article 11, pp. 1-14.  URL: http://services.bepress.com/jpd/vol5/iss1/art11  Berkeley Electronic Press.

Ballamingie, Patricia (2009) ‘First Nations, ENGOs, and the Paradox of Ontario’s Lands for Life Process’ in Laurie E. Adkin (ed.) Environmental Conflicts and Democracy in Canada.  Vancouver: UBC Press.

Ballamingie, Patricia and Lorelei Hanson (2008) ‘Suburban Dystopia and the Threat of Peak Oil: A Review of the Videos The End of Suburbia, Escape from Suburbia and Radiant City’ in Environments, 35 (3), 93-96.

 Current Graduate Supervisions

Jennie Barron, Ph.D. Supervisor, Geography, 2013- [Incoming]

Magdalene Goemans, Ph.D. Co-supervisor (with Chris Stoney), Geography, 2013- [Incoming]

Michael Lait, Ph.D. Supervisor, Sociology, 2012-IP: Publics and their Propositions: A Political Sociology of Gatineau Park

Justin Stefanik, Ph.D. Nominal Co-supervisor (with Simon Dalby and Fiona Mackenzie), Geography, 2012-IP: Squaring the Triangle: Science, Nature, and Race in the Production and Erasure of Palliser’s Triangle

Deborah Carroll, MA Supervisor, Geography, 2013- [Incoming]

Lauren Allen, MA Co-supervisor (with Scott Mitchell), Geography, 2013- [Incoming]

Stephen Piazza, MA Co-supervisor (with Peter Andrée), Political Economy, 2012-IP: Insecure Ontario: Exploring the Role of the State in Community Food Security

Julie Pilson, MA Co-supervisor (with Jill Wigle), Geography, 2012-IP: Food and Shelter: The role of Good Food Markets in Ottawa, Ontario

Sarah Levesque-Walker, MA Supervisor, Geography, 2011-IP: They Pushed From Below: Propaganda, Production, and Urban Agriculture During Canada’s World Wars

Meaghan Kenny, MA Supervisor, Geography, 2010-IP: Exploring Immigrant Experiences of   Urban Agriculture in Ottawa: From Food Security to Cultural Identity

 Completed Graduate Supervisions

Gary Martin, Ph.D. Supervisor, Geography, 2008-2013: Manufacturing ‘Home’: Sustainability Discourses in Suburban Ottawa

Stephanie Kittmer, MA Supervisor, Political Economy, 2010-2013: Neoliberal conservation: Legitimacy and exclusion in the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement

Chris Bisson, MA Co-supervisor (with Jill Wigle), Geography, 2010-2013: Food Forests in the Ottawa Greenbelt: Representing Forests and Reconciling Land Use

Brynne Sinclair-Waters, MA Co-supervisor (with Peter Andrée), Political Economy (2011-2012): Rethinking Eastern Ontario’s Local Food Systems through a Feminist Political Economic Lens

Geri Blinick, MA Supervisor, Geography, 2008-2012: Wild Rice in the Ottawa Valley: A Question of Food, Sovereignty and Decolonization

Lina Johnston, MA Co-supervisor (with Claudio Aporta), Anthropology, 2010-2012: Discourses of Survival and Security: Cuban Agricultural Reform and Construction of Local Farmer Identity

Eric Lloyd Smith, MA Supervisor, Political Economy, 2010-2011: Asinabka: Toward a methodology of decolonial praxis

Austin Miller, MA Supervisor, Political Economy, 2010-2011: Rising to the Challenge of Global Resistance: The Political Economy of Vertical Farming in Canada

Donald Leffers, MA Supervisor, Geography, 2008-2010: Contested Discourses of Sustainability in Old Ottawa South

Madgalene Goemans, MA Supervisor, Geography, 2007-2009: Forest as Hazard, Forest as Victim: The Influence of Community Perceptions of Nature and Disaster on Forest Fire Mitigation Strategies in Kelowna, British Columbia

Jeffrey Barnes, MA Co-Supervisor (with Derek Smith), DGES, 2007-2009: Cultural Keystone Theory: Theobroma Cacao Among the Kuna of Panama

 Awards/Honours

FASS Research Achievement Award (April 2013)

Finalist for the Capital Educator’s Award (May 2012)

FASS Teaching Award (March 2012)

Nominated for a Graduate Student Mentor Award (2011 & 2012) – Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs and the Office of the Vice President

Teaching Achievement Award, Carleton University ($15,000) (May 1, 2008-April 31, 2009): USING PODCASTS TO ENGAGE, REINFORCE AND EXPLORE CRITICAL CONCEPTS http://carletonnow.carleton.ca/april-2008/teaching-achievement-2/ 

Inaugural “Featured Faculty” award winner in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (Winter 2006).

Recent Scholarly Engagement

Presented with Irena Knezevic, Alison Blay-Palmer, Peter Andrée, Connie Nelson, Mirella Stroink, Erin Nelson, and Karen Landman: FLEdGE—Transformative Communities of Food at the AFHVS/ AFSF 2013 Annual Meeting, Toward Sustainable Foodscapes and Landscapes, East Lansing, Michigan (June 20, 2013)

Julie Pilson presented ‘Best Practices in Tackling Housing Insecurity and Food Access’ with Patricia Ballamingie and Peter Andrée (non-presenting co-authors) at CAFS 2013, Victoria, B.C., in a session titled: Testing the Boundaries of Food Localization: Ecological Production, Viable Farm Incomes and Accessibility (June 2, 2013)

Presented ‘Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement­ – Inside the Community Environmental Sustainability Hub’ with Stephanie Kittmer (also Todd Barr and Blair Cullen as non-participating co-authors) at ESAC 2013, Victoria, B.C., in a session titled Community Involvement (June 4, 2013)

Presented with Stephanie Kittmer, The Community Environmental Sustainability Hub in a roundtable organized by Edward Jackson, Putting Community First: Practices and Policies for Maximizing the Benefits to Non-Profits of Community-Campus Engagement at the ANSER 2013 Annual Meeting, Victoria, B.C. (June 5, 2013)

Invited by Ann Dale, Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Community, Royal Roads University, to participate as an expert panel member for The Solutions Agenda, in an e-Dialogue on Food Security (January 14, 2013)

Presented with Peter Andrée and Phil Mount on Eastern Ontario Food Initiatives: Lessons Learned and Policy Challenges at the 2^nd Annual Eastern Ontario Local Food Conference, “Collaborating for Success” – University of Guelph, Kemptville Campus, OMAFRA (November 22, 2012)

Canadian Association of Food Studies Annual Meeting, Waterloo – Presented: ‘Does the lens of neoliberalism clarify the possibilities and limits of community food initiatives? The case of Eastern Ontario’ by Peter Andrée, Patricia Ballamingie, and Brynne Sinclair-Waters in a session led by Alison Blay-Palmer, titled: Food Hubs in Ontario (May 26-29, 2012)

Pre-Congress Webinar at the Balsilie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Presented: ‘Field of Dreams: Just Food’s Proposal to Create a Community Food and Urban Agriculture Hub in Ottawa’ by Patricia Ballamingie and Sarah M.L. Walker (non-participating co-author) in a session led by Alison Blay-Palmer, titled: Local Food Networks: SSHRC Participatory Action Research Projects (May 24-25, 2012)

American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, New York – Presented: ‘Operationalizing Just Food: Analysis of the Greens Creek Farm Proposal’ with Sarah M.L. Walker (February 24-28, 2012)

American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Seattle – Presented: ‘Being, story, land: Towards a decolonial genealogical approach to understanding environmental conflict’ with Eric L. Smith, at Indigeneity and Ontology 3: Ontologies of Land and Resources (April 11-16, 2011)

Building Sustainable, Local Food Systems in Policy and Practice, Canada-Europe Dialogue, British High Commission, Ottawa – Presented: Insights from Cuba: Viva la revolución agro-ecológica! (with Lorelei Hanson—non-participating co-author).  URL: http://canada-europe-dialogue.ca/local-food-systems/ (March 4, 2011)

Reclaiming Activism in Academia Symposium, Kelowna – Presented:  ‘Environmental Scholars: Engaging Beyond the Academy’ (May 5-9, 2010)

Environmental Studies Association of Canada Conference,
Ottawa – Organized and chaired a joint ESAC/CAG panel: ‘Environmental Publishing’ (May 27-29, 2009)

Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference,
Vancouver –Presented in Political Ecology, Democracy and Citizenship: ‘Democratizing Public Consultation Processes’ (June 4-6, 2008)

Environmental Studies Association of Canada Conference,
Vancouver – Presented in Environment and Education: Advocacy and the Academy: ‘Environmental Advocacy from Within the Academy: Opportunities and Constraints’ (June 3-6, 2008)

Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting,
Boston – Presented in Environmental Education and Public Awareness: ‘Engaged Scholars: Critical Praxis beyond the Academy’ (April 15-19, 2008)

Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting,
University of Saskatchewan –
Co-presented a paper (with Dr. Sherrill Johnson): ‘The Vulnerable Researcher: Some Unanticipated of Doctoral Fieldwork’ (May 31, 2007)