{"id":8293,"date":"2021-10-19T10:18:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T14:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/?p=8293"},"modified":"2026-01-09T14:21:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:21:44","slug":"faculty-profile-jennifer-vansteenkiste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/2021\/faculty-profile-jennifer-vansteenkiste\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Profile: Jennifer Vansteenkiste"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Faculty Profile: Jennifer Vansteenkiste\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Jennifer Vansteenkiste is a critical feminist geographer whose primary research interests include sustainable community development through social and systemic transformation of institutions and communities. Specifically, she examines Haitian peasant efforts to decolonize and make critical and strategic contributions to food sovereignty in light of protracted national and international efforts to liberalize land and production for export. Her feminist-informed action-research is predicated on the premise that the inherent power imbalances found in cross-cultural research can be countered with robust decolonizing methodologies. Dr. Vansteenkiste is a BGInS Postdoctoral Fellow and a Co-Applicant on a CIHR Project Grant&nbsp;grant with Dr. Marylynn Steckley titled, &#8220;Towards a Gender-Inclusive Food Sovereignty Assessment of Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Review her profile on our <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/people\/jennifer-vansteenkiste\/\">faculty page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jennifer Vansteenkiste is a critical feminist geographer whose primary research interests include sustainable community development through social and systemic transformation of institutions and communities. Specifically, she examines Haitian peasant efforts to decolonize and make critical and strategic contributions to food sovereignty in light of protracted national and international efforts to liberalize land and production [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8293"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10847,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8293\/revisions\/10847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}