Tony Weis

Associate Professor

Research Interests

My research is broadly located in the fields of agrarian political economy and political ecology. Entwined with this is an abiding interest in land reform, farmer co-operatives, and various movements to build alternatives. Much of my empirical research has been grounded in the Caribbean, especially Jamaica. Attention to the broader context of small farmer’s struggles led me on a path towards my first book, The Global Food Economy: The Battle for the Future of Farming (Zed Books, 2007).

Recently I have been mainly focused on worsening food crises and problems associated with the industrial grain-oilseed-livestock complex. I’m currently at work on a book entitled The Ecological Hoofprint: The Global Burden of Industrial Livestock.

Publications (past 7 years)

Refereed Journals

Weis, T. 2010 'Our Ecological Hoofprint and the Population Bomb of Reverse Protein Factories' Review 33(2/3)

Weis, T. 2010 'The Accelerating Contradictions of Industrial Capitalist Agriculture' Journal of Agrarian Change 10(3): 315-341

Weis, T. 2007 'Small Farming and Alternative Imaginations in the Caribbean Today' Race and Class 49(2): 112-117

Weis, T. 2007 'Agrarian Reform in Jamaica: The St Mary Rural Development Project' Promotio Iustitiae 94(1): 54-62

Weis, T. 2006 'The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Jamaican Peasantry' Journal of Peasant Studies 33(1): 61-88

Weis, T. 2005 'A Precarious Balance: Neoliberalism, Crisis Management, and the Social Implosion in Jamaica' Capital and Class 85: 115-147

Weis, T. 2004 'Restructuring and Redundancy: The Impact and Illogic of Neoliberal Agricultural Reforms in Jamaica' Journal of Agrarian Change 4(4): 461-491

Weis, T. 2004 '(Re-) Making the Case for Land Reform in Jamaica' Social and Economic Studies 53(1): 35-72

Weis, T. 2004 'To Raze or Renovate?: Developing Countries and the Struggle with the WTO' Transition 33: 119-142

Chapters in Books

Weis, T. 2012 'A Political Ecology Approach to Industrial Food Production' in Critical Perspectives in Food Studies eds M. Koc, J. Sumner and T. Winson (Toronto: Oxford University Press)

Weis, T. 2012 'Biofuels' in Encyclopedia of Global Studies eds M. Juergensmeyer and H.K. Anheier (Thousand Oaks: Sage)

Weis, T. 2010 'Industrialized Agriculture' in Encyclopaedia of Geography ed B. Warf  (Thousand Oaks CA: Sage) 43-47

Weis, T. 2010 'Land Reform' in Encyclopaedia of Geography ed B. Warf (Thousand Oaks CA: Sage) 1692-1696

Weis, T. 2009 'Breadbasket Contradictions: The Unstable Bounty of Industrial Agriculture in the United States and Canada' In Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability: New Challenges, Future Options ed G. Lawrence, K. Lyons and T. Wallington (London: Earthscan) 27-40

Weis, T. 2009 'Fossil Energy and the Biophysical Roots of the Food Crisis' in The World Food Crisis: Which Way Forward? ed J. Clapp and M. Cohen (Waterloo: WLU Press) 145-160

Luginaah, I.N., Weis, T., Galaa, S., Nkrumah, M.K. Bagah, D. and Bezner-Kerr, R. 2009 'Environment, Migration, and Food Security in the Upper West Region of Ghana' in Environment and Health in Developing Countries: Managing an Emerging Crisis ed I.N. Luginaah and E.K. Yanful (Berlin: Springer-Verlag) 25-38

Books

Weis, T. 2007 The Global Food Economy: The Battle for the Future of Farming (London and New York: Zed Books)

Supervised Graduate Students and Theses Titles

PhD Students	Year	Title
S. McFarlane-Morris (co-supervised)	Current	A Political Ecology of Mass Tourism Development on the Jamaican North Coast
K. Ross	Current	Divergent Responses to Tropical Commodity Dependence after the demise of EU-ACP Preferential Trade
M. Steckley	Current	Food Politics in Haiti: Social Perceptions of Food and Agriculture and Struggles for Food Sovereignty
B. Vogel (co-supervised)	Current	TBA
MA Students	Year	Title
E. Galley	2011	Remaking a Forestry Town: The Multifaceted Challenges of Transition in Port Alberni, BC
A. Al-khoury	2010	The Struggle to Get Back to the Land: New Farmers and Agriculture in Ontario
C. Hickey	2010	Adapting to Climate Change in Guyana: Necessities, Options and Constraints
A. Park	2010	The Iwokrama Challenge: Balancing Conservation and Development in Guyana
K. Ross	2010	Upgrade from Masters Program to PhD Program
L. Riley (co-supervised)	2008	Children's Geography and the Everyday Lives of Orphans in Malawi

CONTENTS

• Research Interests
• Publications

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