Researcher's site: Jennifer Mateer

Contact Information

Email: mateerj@brandonu.ca

Research Interests

Research Interests

-Community-based participatory mapping and GIS

-Urban food systems and food access planning

-Human–environment relations and political ecology

-Youth and community engagement in sustainability practice

-Decolonizing research methodologies and ethical collaborations

I am interested in how spatial practices — such as mapping, storytelling, and embodied fieldwork — can strengthen community agency, surface lived experience, and support equitable decision-making.

Research Area

Participatory and Community-Engaged Geographies; Political Ecology and Environmental Justice; Food Systems, Food Sovereignty, and Urban/Rural Food Planning; Youth, Education, and Outdoor / Land-Based Learning; Urban, Cultural, and Social Geographies; Feminist and Intersectional Geographies; Settler Colonialism and Critical Legal Geographies

Keywords

Environmental dispossession; Environmental governance; Community resilience; Youth agency; Outdoor education; Nature-based play; Prefigurative politics; Feminist political ecology; Settler-colonial landscapes; Land-based pedagogy; Two-Eyed Seeing; Community-based participatory research (CBPR)

Field(s)

Geography & Environment

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