Hollander, Gail

Hollander, Gail
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Positions

Associate Professor, Global and Sociocultural Studies , Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs

Contact Info

hollande@fiu.edu

overview

Dr. Hollander is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University in Miami. She is the author of "Raising Cane in the 'Glades: The Global Sugar Trade and the Transformation of Florida", "Securing Sugar: National Security Discourse and the Establishment of Florida's Sugar-producing Region," in Economic Geography, and "Agricultural Trade Liberalization, Multifunctionality, and Sugar in the South Florida Landscape" in Geoforum.

selected publications

Article
- 2013
  
  Unsustainable development: Alternative food networks and the Ecuadorian Federation of Cocoa Producers, 1995-2010. JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES. 32:251-263.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2013.07.004 Web of Science: 000329144400024
- 2010
  
  Power is sweet: sugarcane in the global ethanol assemblage. JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES. 37:699-721.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2010.512455 PMID: 20873028 Web of Science: 000282133800006
- 2006
  
  'Subject to control': shifting geographies of race and labour in US sugar agroindustry, 1930-1950. CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES. 13:266-292.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1191/1474474006eu358oa Web of Science: 000236704700005
- 2005
  
  Securing sugar: National security discourse and the establishment of Florida's sugar-producing region. ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY. 81:339-358.
  Web of Science: 000233155300001
- 2005
  
  The material and symbolic role of the Everglades in US national politics. POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY. 24:449-475.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2005.01.002 Web of Science: 000228704900003
- 2004
  
  Agricultural trade liberalization, multifunctionality, and sugar in the south Florida landscape. GEOFORUM. 35.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2003.11.004 Web of Science: 000221377900004
- 2003
  
  Re-naturalizing sugar: narratives of place, production and consumption. SOCIAL & CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY. 4.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/1464936032000049315 Web of Science: 000185161000005
- 1995
  
  Agroenvironmental conflict and world food system theory: Sugarcane in the Everglades Agricultural Area
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/0743-0167(95)00021-E

chaired theses and dissertations

Mullenite, Joshua, Engineering Colonialism: Race, Class, and the Social History of Flood Control in Guyana 2018
Vleet, Eric Van, Truffles Have Never Been Modern: An Actor-Network Theorization of 150 Years of French Trufficulture 2018
Hall, William, (Un)Making the Food Desert: Food, Race, and Redevelopment in Miami's Overtown Community 2016
Mic, Dumitrita Suzana, Producing Collaborations Through Community-Level Processes of Climate Change and Water Management Planning 2015
Eaves, LaToya, Spatial Articulations of Race, Desire, and Belonging in Western North Carolina 2014
Mixson-Perez, Nicole, Sizing Up Miami: A Multilevel Analysis of The Discourses and Politics of Obesity 2014
Eisenhauer, Emily, Socio-ecological Vulnerability to Climate Change in South Florida 2014
Solomon, Jan Lindsay, Women-led Community Development Organizations (CDOs) in Miami-Dade County: A Model of Community Development Efforts Impacting the Economic Security of Women 2013
Hurley, Astrid Ellie, Filtering the International Gender Paradigm: Perspectives of Gender in Barbados 2011
Melo, Cristian J., Left Behind: A Farmer’s Fate in the Age of Sustainable Development 2010
Gangopadhyay, Monalisa, Hindutva Meets Globalization: The Impact on Hindu Urban Media Women 2010

research interests

Economic Geography, Agro-Environmental Conflict, Food System Theory, Feminist Geographyv

principal investigator on

Race, Space, and Botanical Imperialism awarded by National Science Foundation 2018 - 2021
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Constructing Futures ¿ The Cultural Politics of Water and Climate awarded by National Science Foundation 2014 - 2015
ULTRA Exploratory Awards awarded by National Science Foundation 2009 - 2015

co-principal investigator on

Infusing Food Security, Food Safety, Energy in the Environmental Studies Graduate Program at Florida International University awarded by National Institute of Food & Agriculture 2013 - 2018

teaching activities

GEO5906-U03: Directed Individual Studies Fall Term 2019
GEO5906-U04: Directed Individual Studies Spring Term 2019
GEO7980-U01: Ph.D. Dissertation Fall Term 2019
GEO7980-U04: Ph.D. Dissertation Spring Term 2019
ISS6690-U01: Professionalization Seminar Fall Term 2019

full name

Gail Hollander

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publication subject areas

Anthropology
Business & Economics
Environmental Sciences & Ecology
Geography
Government & Law
Public Administration

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