Professor Dr. Sarah Ruth Sippel

Publications

• Books
• Articles
• Working Papers
• Other Scientific Publications

Books

Books (Edited Collections)

• Gertel, Jörg; Sippel, Sarah Ruth (Eds.): 2014. Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture. The Social Costs of Eating Fresh. London: Routledge.

Books (Monographs)

• Sippel, Sarah Ruth; Böhme Michaela. 2021. Land. Berlin: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110645583.
• Reiher, Cornelia; Sippel, Sarah Ruth. 2015. Umkämpftes Essen. Produktion, Handel und Konsum von Lebensmitteln in globalen Kontexten. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth. 2014. Export(t)räume. Bruchzonen marokkanischer Landwirtschaft. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.

Special Issues of Journals

• ‘Reimagining land: materiality, affect and the uneven trajectories of land transformation’, edited by Sippel, Sarah Ruth; Visser, Oane 2021. Agriculture and Human Values Symposium, 38.

Articles

Articles in Scientific Journals, Newspapers or Magazines

Research Articles (Journals)

• Sippel, Sarah Ruth. 2023. ‘Infrastructures of farmland valuation in Australia.’ Ethnos 2023: 1–18. doi: 10.1080/00141844.2022.2163275.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth. 2023. ‘Tackling land’s ‘stubborn materiality’: the interplay of imaginaries, data and digital technologies within farmland assetization.’ Agriculture and Human Values 2023. doi: 10.1007/s10460-023-10439-1.
• Burch, Karly; Gugganig, Mascha; Guthman, Julie; Reisman, Emily; Comi, Matt; Brock, Samara; Kagliwal, Barkha; Freidberg, Susanne; Baur, Patrick; Heimstädt, Cornelius; Sippel, Sarah Ruth; Speakman, Kelsey; Marquis, Sarah; Argüelles, Lucía; Biltekoff, Charlotte; Broad, Garrett; Bronson, Kelly;·Faxon, Hilary; Frohlich, Xaq; Ghosh, Ritwick; Halfon, Saul; Legun, Katharine; Martin, Sarah J. 2023. ‘Cultivating intellectual community in academia: reflections from the Science and Technology Studies Food and Agriculture Network (STSFAN).’ Agriculture and Human Values 2023. doi: 10.1007/s10460-023-10439-1.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth; Dolinga, Moritz. 2022. ‘Constructing agri-food for finance: Startups, venture capital and food future imaginaries.’ Agriculture and Human Values 2022. doi: 10.1007/s10460-022-10383-6.
• Visser, Oane; Sippel, Sarah Ruth; Thiemann, Louis. 2021. ‘Imprecision farming? Examining the (in)accuracy and risks of digital agriculture.’ Journal of Rural Studies 86: 623–632. doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.07.024.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth; Visser, Oane. 2021. ‘Introduction to symposium ‘Reimagining land: materiality, affect and the uneven trajectories of land transformation’.’ Agriculture and Human Values 38: 271–282. doi: 10.1007/s10460-020-10152-3.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth; Weldon, Timothy. 2021. ‘Redefining land’s investability: towards a neonationalization of resources in Australia?’ Territory, Politics, Governance 9, № 2: 306–323. doi: 10.1080/21622671.2019.1703797.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth; Larder, Nicolette. 2021. ‘Bridging divides: Constructing food sovereignty in Australia.’ Journal of Peasant Studies 48, № 2: 368–386. doi: 10.1080/03066150.2019.1655638.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth. 2021. ‘Wenn Agrarland nur noch Rendite bringen soll.’ Welternährung - Das Fachjournal der Welthungerhilfe Dez 2021.
• Calo, Adam; McKee, Annie; Perrin, Coline; Gasselin, Pierre; McGreevy, Steven; Sippel, Sarah Ruth; Desmarais, Annette Aurélie; Shields, Kirsteen; Baysse-Lainé, Adrien; Magnan, André; Beingessner, Naomi; Kobayashi, Mai. 2021. ‘Achieving food system resilience requires challenging dominant land property regimes.’ Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 5: 1–7. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2021.683544.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth. 2018. ‘Financialising farming as a moral imperative? Renegotiating the legitimacy of land investments in Australia.’ Environment and Planning A 50, № 3: 549–568. doi: 10.1177/0308518X17741317.
• Larder, Nicolette; Sippel, Sarah Ruth; Argent, Neil. 2018. ‘The redefined role of finance in Australian agriculture.’ Australian Geographer 49, № 3: 397–418. doi: 10.1080/00049182.2017.1388555.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth; Larder, Nicolette; Lawrence, Geoffrey. 2017. ‘Grounding the financialization of farmland: Perspectives on financial actors as new land owners in rural Australia.’ Agriculture and Human Values 34: 251–265. doi: 10.1007/s10460-016-9707-2.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth. 2017. ‘Marokkos Träume vom Agrarexport. Auswirkungen auf ländliche Existenzsicherung, Arbeitsmärkte und Ernährungssicherheit.’ Geographische Rundschau 12: 12–17.
• Sippel; Sarah Ruth. 2017. ‘“On a commencé petit-à-petit”: des entreprises agricoles multi-familiales dans l’export des fruits et légumes dans le Souss.’ Alternatives Rurales 5: 1–14.
• Sippel; Sarah Ruth. 2016. ‘Breaking ground: Multi-family farm entrepreneurs in Moroccan export agriculture.’ Journal of Rural Studies 45: 279–291. doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.03.013.
• Larder, Nicolette; Sippel, Sarah Ruth Sippel; Lawrence, Geoffrey. 2015. ‘Finance capital, food security narratives and Australian agricultural land.’ Journal of Agrarian Change 15, № 4: 592–603. doi: 10.1111/joac.12108.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth. 2015. ‘Food security or commercial business? Gulf State investments in Australian agriculture.’ Journal of Peasant Studies 42, № 5: 981–1001. doi: 10.1080/03066150.2014.990448.

Review (Journals)

• Sippel, Sarah Ruth. 2021. ‘Historical grounding, political contexts, material hurdles: Towards more in-depth understandings of ‘finance going farming’.’ Journal of Agrarian Change 2021: 1–19. doi: 10.1111/joac.12451.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth. 2021. ‘The radical contribution of what's in between M and M’.’ Dialogues in Human Geography 12, № 1: 1–3. doi: 10.1177/20438206211057321.

Research Article (Book Contributions)

• Sippel, Sarah Ruth. 2022. ‘Agri-investment cashing in on COVID-19.’ In Beyond Global Food Supply Chains: Crisis, Disruption, Regeneration, edited by Stead, Victoria; Hinkson, Melinda, 23–36. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth; Böhme, Michaela. 2022. ‘Gemeinschaftliches Gut, nationales Territorium, Finanzanlageobjekt: Aktuelle Neuaushandlungen von Land.’ In Ungleiche ländliche Räume. Widersprüche, Konzepte und Perspektiven, edited by Belina, Bernd; Kallert, Andreas; Mießner, Michael; Naumann, Matthias, 117–130. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. doi: 10.14361/9783839460139-008.
• Lawrence, Geoffrey; Sippel, Sarah Ruth; Larder, Nicolette. 2020. ‘State-led and finance-backed farming endeavours: Changing contours of investment in Australian agriculture.’ In Finance or Food? The Role of Cultures, Values, and Ethics in Land Use Negotiations, edited by Bjørkhaug, Hilde; Muirhead, Bruce; McMichael, Philip, 150–177. Toronto: Toronto University Press. doi: 10.3138/9781487517236-009.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth; Böhme, Michaela. 2019. ‘Dis/articulating agri-food spaces: The multifaceted logics of agro-investments.’ In Spatial Formats Under the Global Condition, edited by Middell, Matthias; Marung, Steffi, 336–360. Berlin: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110643008-013.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth; Böhme, Michaela; Gharios, Cynthia. 2018. ‘Strategic financialization? The emergence of Sovereign Wealth Funds in the global food system.’ In Financialisation, Food Systems and Rural Transformation, edited by Bjorkhaug, Hilde; Magnan, André; Lawrence, Geoffrey, 62–84. London: Routledge.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth. 2018. ‘Verflüssigungen, Fixierungen und Neukonfigurationen von Orten: Trans-MENA-Perspektiven am Beispiel von Agrarräumen.’ In Jenseits etablierter Meta-Geographien. Der Nahe Osten und Nordafrika in transregionaler Perspektive, edited by Wippel, Steffen; Fischer-Tahir, Andrea, 193–211. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth; Lawrence, Geoffrey; Burch, David. 2017. ‘The financialization of farming: The Hancock company of Canada and its embedding in rural Australia.’ In Transforming the Rural. Global Processes and Local Futures, edited by Miele, Mara; Higgins, Vaughan; Bjørkhaug, Hilde; Truninger, Monica, 3–23. Bingley: Emerald Publishing. doi: 10.1108/S1057-192220170000024001.
• Gertel, Jörg; Sippel, Sarah Ruth. 2016. ‘The financialisation of agriculture and food.’ In International Handbook of Rural Studies, edited by Shucksmith, Mark; Brown, David L., 215–226. London: Routledge. doi: 10.4337/9780857939838.00023.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth. 2016. ‘Contested red gold: The tomato in the context of European–Moroccan relations.’ In Migration and Agriculture. Mobility and Change in the Mediterranean Area, edited by Corrado, Alessandra; de Castro, Carlos; Perrotta, Domenico, 147–167. London: Routledge.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth. 2015. ‘All you need is export? Moroccan farmers juggling global and local markets.’ In Handbook on the Globalisation of Agriculture, edited by Robinson, Guy M.; Carson, Doris A., 328–349. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Lawrence, Geoffrey; Sippel, Sarah Ruth; Burch, David. 2015. ‘The financialisation of food and farming.’ In Handbook on the Globalisation of Agriculture, edited by Robinson, Guy M.; Carson, Doris A., 309–327. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth. 2015. ‘Kampf ums “rote Gold”: Die Tomate im Spannungsfeld europäisch-marokkanischer Interessenkonflikte.’ In Umkämpftes Essen. Produktion, Handel und Konsum von Lebensmitteln in globalen Kontexten, edited by Reiher, Cornelia; Sippel, Sarah Ruth, 67–96. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. doi: 10.13109/9783666301704.67.
• Reiher, Cornelia; Sippel, Sarah Ruth. 2015. ‘Einleitung: Umkämpftes Essen in globalen Kontexten.’ In Umkämpftes Essen. Produktion, Handel und Konsum von Lebensmitteln in globalen Kontexten, edited by Reiher, Cornelia; Sippel, Sarah Ruth, 9–37. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. doi: 10.13109/9783666301704.9.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth. 2014. ‘Disrupted livelihoods? Intensive agriculture and labour markets in the Moroccan Souss.’ In Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture. The Social Costs of Eating Fresh, edited by Gertel, Jörg; Sippel, Sarah Ruth, 186–198. London: Routledge.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth; Gertel, Jörg. 2014. ‘Shared insecurities? Farmers and workers in Bouches-du-Rhône.’ In Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture. The Social Costs of Eating Fresh, edited by Gertel, Jörg; Sippel, Sarah Ruth, 37–48. London: Routledge.
• Gertel, Jörg; Sippel, Sarah Ruth. 2014. ‘Super/markets: Beyond buyer-drivenness in Southern France.’ In Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture. The Social Costs of Eating Fresh, edited by Gertel, Jörg; Sippel, Sarah Ruth, 49–60. London: Routledge.
• Gertel, Jörg; Sippel, Sarah Ruth. 2014. ‘Introduction: Seasonality and temporality in intensive agriculture.’ In Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture. The Social Costs of Eating Fresh, edited by Gertel, Jörg; Sippel, Sarah Ruth, 3–22. London: Routledge.
• Gertel, Jörg; Sippel, Sarah Ruth. 2014. ‘Epilogue: The social costs of eating fresh.’ In Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture. The Social Costs of Eating Fresh, edited by Gertel, Jörg; Sippel, Sarah Ruth, 246–252. London: Routledge.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth; Kemmerling, Birgit. 2013. ‘Power geometries of food security: A critical area studies perspective.’ In Self-Reflexive Area Studies, edited by Middell, Matthias, 215–247. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth. 2012. ‘“On a commencé petit à petit”: Globalisierte Agrarproduktion und soziale Mobilität im Souss.’ In Alltagsmobilitäten: Aufbruch marokkanischer Lebenswelten, edited by Breuer, Ingo; Gertel, Jörg, 269–287. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. doi: 10.14361/transcript.9783839409282.269.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth. 2010. ‘Doreen Massey.’ In Theoretiker der Globalisierung, edited by Middell, Matthias; Engel, Ulf, 341–353. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag.

Working Papers

• Sippel, Sarah Ruth; Bauer Lea. 2022. Finanzialisierung von Landwirtschaft sichtbar machen? Zum reflexiven und epistemischen Potential experimenteller Visualisierung Working paper series des SFB 1199 an der Universität Leipzig, № 24. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2022.

Other Scientific Publications

• Sippel, Sarah Ruth (section head). 2018. ‘Global economic entanglements, area studies, and transregional perspectives’ and ‘Transregional mobilities, migratory systems, and diasporas’, in: Middell, M. (ed.) Handbook of Transregional Studies, London: Routledge..

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