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Susanne Elizabeth Freidberg

Associate Professor of Geography
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Departments and Programs

  • African and African American Studies
  • Geography

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Contact Information

Email: susanne.e.freidberg@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-3732
Office: 6017 Fairchild Hall

Education

B.A. Yale University; M.A. University of California at Berkeley; Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley

Areas of Expertise

Historical and cultural geographies of food, colonial and postcolonial Africa, development theory and practice, political ecology, agrarian change, gender analysis

Selected Works

  • French Beans and Food Scares. Culture and Commerce in an Anxious Age, (2004).
  • "Converging Networks and Clashing Stories: The Biotechnology Debate in South Africa," with L Horowitz, Africa Today, 51:1 (2004).
  • "The Ethical Complex of Corporate Food Power," Society and Space, 22:4 (2004).
  • "Cleaning Up Down South: Supermarkets, Ethical Trade, and African Horticulture," Social and Cultural Geography, 4:1 (2003).
  • "Gardening on the Edge: The Social Conditions of Unsustainability on an African Urban Periphery," Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 91:3 (2001).

Current Projects

Fresh: A Perishable History; food rights and the free press in Africa