Amy Trauger

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Professor

Contact info

Email:
atrauger@uga.edu
Office:
Geography-Geology Building, Room 138
Research Interests:

food and agriculture, human-environment-animal interactions, food production, rural geography

Amy Trauger, Author
Education:
  • Ph.D. (2005), Pennsylvania State University Geography and Women’s Studies
  • M.S. (2001), Pennsylvania State University Geography
  • B.A. (1998), University of Minnesota-Duluth Geography and Environmental Studies
Courses Regularly Taught:
GEOG 8305
GEOG 4/6680
GEOG 4/6890
GEOG 8920
GEOG 2010H
GEOG 3660
GEOG 1101
Selected Publications:

Trauger, A. (2022) The Vegan Industrial Complex: The Political Ecology of Not Eating Animals. Journal of Political Ecology 29(1): 639–655.

Trauger, A. and J. Fluri. (2014). Getting beyond the god-trick: towards service research. The Professional Geographer.  66(1): 32-40.

Desmarais, A. Claeys, P. and Trauger, A. (2017) (Eds) Making Policy for Food Sovereignty: Social Movements, Markets and the State. Earthscan/Routledge.

Trauger, A. (2017) “We Want Land to Live”: Space, territory and the politics of food sovereignty, UGA Press, Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Series: Athens, GA. 

Trauger, A. (2017) Community-based rights to food sovereignty: the case of Local Food and Community Self-Governance in Maine, USA. In Desmarais, A. Claeys, P. and Trauger, A. (2017) (Eds) Making Policy for Food Sovereignty: Social Movements, Markets and the State. Earthscan/Routledge.

Howerton, G. and Trauger, A. (2017) “Oh honey, don’t you know?” the social construction of food access in a food desert. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies. Accepted for publication, 14(4):740-760.

Trauger, A. (Ed). (2015). Food Sovereignty in International Context: Discourse, Politics and Practice in Place.  Food, Society and Environment Series. Routledge/Earthscan: London14.    

Trauger, A. (2017) Community-based rights to food sovereignty: the case of Local Food and Community Self-Governance in Maine, USA. In Desmarais, A. Claeys, P. and Trauger, A. (2017) (Eds) Making Policy for Food Sovereignty: Social Movements, Markets and the State. Earthscan/Routledge.

Trauger, A. (2014). Toward a political geography of food sovereignty. Journal of Peasant Studies 40th Anniversary Issue: Volume 2: Food Sovereignty: Critical Perspectives. 41(6): 1131-1152** *

Trauger, A. (2014) Is Bigger Better? Organic and Fair Trade Banana Production in the Dominican Republic. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 104(5): 1082-1100*

Kurtz, H., Trauger, A. and C. Passidomo.  (2013) The contested terrain of biological citizenship in the seizure of raw milk in Athens, Georgia. Geoforum. 48: 136-144. 

 

 

Articles Featuring Amy Trauger
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Dr. Amy Trauger's New Research Suggests Plant-Only Diets May Not Be Key to Saving the Planet

An entirely plant based diet has long been suggested as the most environmentally friendly way to eat. However, new research from University of Georgia Geography professor Dr. Amy Trauger suggests that a diet of mostly plants and humanely raised meat is likely…

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A Year of Titles: Dr. Amy Trauger returns from Fulbright Scholar program

Amy Trauger, author and professor of geography, was named last year as the Canada Research Chair in Food…

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Dr. Amy Trauger named the Canada Research Chair in Food Studies at the University of Guelph

Dr. Amy Trauger has been named the Canada Research Chair in Food Studies at the University of Guelph which is administered through the Fulbright Canada program. With this position, Dr. Trauger will research the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on food…

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