Patricia Ballamingie

Professor

• B.A.H. (Queens), M.E.S. (York), Ph.D. (Carleton)
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Education

• B.A. Honours (Economics, Geography), Queen’s University, 1992
• M.E.S. (Environmental Studies – Communications in Health Promotion), York University, 1995
• Ph.D. (Geography), Carleton University, 2006

Current research interests

• Food policy and food systems governance
• Environmental conflict and deliberative democracy

2024-2025 Courses

• Fall 2024:
  
  – ENST/GEOG 4007 (Localizing Food Systems)
  
  – GEOG 5003F (Critical Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry)/CDNS 5002F (Interdisciplinary Methods)
• Winter 2025:
  
  – GEOG 6001 (Doctoral Core Seminar: Geography, Society and the Environment – Research and Professional Practice)
  
  – ENST/GEOG 4050 (Environmental and Geographic Education)

Current research affiliations

Co-director and Co-investigator on SSHRC Partnership Grant ($4M): Food Learning and Growing (FLOW) Partnership: Seeding Sustainability Transformation (2023-2028) [PI: Alison Blay-Palmer]

Co-investigator on SSHRC/CMHC Partnership Grant ($4.8M): A Safe and Affordable Place to Call Home (2023-2028) [co-PIs: Jackie Kennelly, Liam O’Brien]

 Co-investigator on SSHRC Insight Grant: Civil Society and Social Movement Engagement in Food Systems Governance (2019-2025) [PI: Charles Levkoe]

Collaborator on SSHRC Partnership Development Grant ($200,000): Living Relationships: Sharing Stories of Decolonizing Food System Transitions in Aotearoa and Canada (2024-2027) [PI: Peter Andrée]

Advisory Committee Member, UNESCO Chair on Food, Biodiversity and Sustainability Studies (2020-IP) [Chair: Alison Blay-Palmer]

Previous research affiliations

Member, Building Back Better Post COVID-19 Task Force – Established by the Canadian Commission for UNESCO and the UNESCO Chair on Food, Biodiversity, and Sustainability Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Co-investigator on SSHRC Partnership Grant ($2.5M): Food: Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged (FLEdGE) (2015-2022) [PI: Alison Blay-Palmer]

Co-investigator on SSHRC Partnership Grant ($2.5M): Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) (2011-2017) [PI: Peter Andrée]

• Academic Co-Lead of the Community Environmental Sustainability Hub (2011-2015) and the Aligning Institutions for Community Impact Working Group (2016-2017)

Select publications

Littlefield, C., Stollmeyer, M., Andrée, P., Ballamingie, P. & Levkoe, C.Z. (2024, January 31). Exploring Settler-Indigenous engagement in participatory food systems governance. Agriculture and Human Values.

Levkoe, C. Z., Andrée, P., Ballamingie, P., Tasala, K., Wilson, A., & Korzun, M. (2023). Civil society engagement in food systems governance in Canada: Experiences, gaps, and possibilities. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development.

Levkoe, C.Z., Andrée, P., Ballamingie, P., Changfoot, N.A., & Schwartz, K. (2023, February 1). Building action research partnerships for community impact: Lessons from a national community-campus engagement project. Community first: Impacts of community engagement (CFICE).

Ballamingie, P., & Szanto, D. (Eds.). (2022). Showing Theory to Know Theory: Understanding Social Science Concepts through Illustrative Vignettes. Showing Theory Press.

Ballamingie, P. (2022). The American Bullfrog: Economic savior to monster to miracle cure. In P. Ballamingie & D. Szanto (Eds.), Showing Theory to Know Theory: Understanding Social Science Concepts through Illustrative Vignettes. Showing Theory Press.

Ballamingie, P., & Levkoe, C.Z. (2021, October). Wayne Roberts: Food systems thinker, public intellectual, “actionist”. Canadian Food Studies, 8(3): 130-145.

Andrée, P., Ballamingie, P. & Coulas, M. (2021, August). Integrative governance for ecological public health: An analysis of ‘Food Policy for Canada’ (2015-2019). Canadian Food Studies, 8(2): 189-226.

Spring, A.; Nelson, E.; Knezevic, I.; Ballamingie, P.; & Blay-Palmer, A. (2021). Special Issue: Levering sustainable food systems to address climate change (pandemics and other shocks and hazards): Possible transformations. Sustainability, 13, 8206.

Blay-Palmer, A., Goupil, S., Van Nijnatten, D., Haine-Bennett, E., Friedmann, H., Vasseur, L., Dalby, S., Ballamingie, P., Di Battista, A., Reid, H., Wilkes, J., Zandvliet, D., Mcleod-Kilmurray, H., Roberts, W., & Fitz-Gerald, A. (2020, June 22). Transformative Post-COVID Infrastructure Investment in Canada – Infrastructure investments for a greener, more resilient and sustainable country: Ideas and considerations for Canadian decision-makers. iPolitics.

Blay-Palmer, A., Haine-Bennett, E., Goupil, S., Friedmann, H., Mullinex, K., Ballamingie, P., Settee, P., Wilkes, J., Ballamingie, P., Di Battista, A., Reid, H., Mcleod-Kilmurray, H., & Mount, P. (2020, July 15). Now is the time to build sustainable food system resilience. Canadian Commission for UNESCO and UNESCO Chair on Food, Biodiversity, and Sustainability Studies. iPolitics.

Ballamingie, P., Blay-Palmer, A.D., Knezevic, I., Lacerda, A.E.B., Nimmo, E.R., Stahlbrand, L., & Ayalon, R. (2020, Spring). Integrating a food systems lens into discussions of urban resilience: Analyzing the policy environment. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development, 9(3): 227-243.

Ballamingie, P., Poitevin-DesRivières, C., & Knezevic, I. (2019, Fall). Hidden Harvest’s transformative potential: An example of ‘community economy’. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development, 9(1): 125-139.

Martin, M.A., Knezevic, I. & Ballamingie, P. (2019). Social economy of food initiatives that are nourishing communities through power-with practices. Canadian Food Studies /La Revue Canadienne Des Études Sur L’alimentation, 6(3): 148-169.

Andrée, P., Coulas, M. & Ballamingie, P. (2019, September). Canada’s national food policy: The political basis for coordination and integration. In H. McLeod-Kilmurray, A. Lee & N. Chalifour (Eds.), Food Law and Policy in Canada. Carswell Publishing. ISBN: 978-0-7798-9152-8

Ballamingie, P. & Koller, K. (2018). Environmental conflict/ Access to natural resources. In D.C.  Poff & A.C. Michalos (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Springer, Cham. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23514-1

Ballamingie, P., Goemans, M., & Martin, G. (2018). Chapter 6: Supporting local civic engagement through a ‘Community First’ approach to foster broader social inclusion in development. In F. Klodawsky, J. Siltanen & C. Andrews (Eds.) Toward equity and inclusion in Canadian cities: Lessons from critical praxis-oriented research, pp. 148-177.

Andrée, P., Coulas, M., & Ballamingie, P. (2018, September). Governance recommendations from forty years of national food policy development in Canada and beyond. Canadian Food Studies, 5(3): 6-27. DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i3.283

Ballamingie, P., Andrée, P., Martin, M.A., & Pilson, J. (2017). Chapter 1: Connecting food access and housing security: Lessons from Peterborough, Ontario. In I. Knezevic, A.D. Blay-Palmer, C.Z. Levkoe, P. Mount & E. Nelson (Eds.) Nourishing Communities: From Fractured Food Systems to Transformative Pathways. New York, NY, USA: Springer, pp 3-22.

Andrée, P., Ballamingie, P., Piazza, S., & Jarosiewicz, S. (2017). Chapter 5: Can community-based initiatives address the conundrum of improving household food access while supporting local smallholder farmer livelihoods? In I. Knezevic, A.D. Blay-Palmer, C.Z. Levkoe, P. Mount & E. Nelson (Eds.) Nourishing Communities: From Fractured Food Systems to Transformative Pathways. New York, NY, USA: Springer, pp. 77-94.

Ballamingie, P. & Jarosiewicz, S. (2017, June) Kudrinko’s Food Hub Case Study on Nourishing Communities: Sustainable Local Food Systems Research Group.

Martin, G., McKay, R. & Ballamingie, P. (2017). Climate change and housing production in Ottawa, Canada: The business case for change. Journal of Transnational Corporations Review. Taylor & Francis Online, pp. 1-12.

Martin, G. & Ballamingie, P. (2016). Faith missions and church redevelopment in Ottawa, Ontario. Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 25 (1), 80-87.

Ballamingie, P, & Goemans, M. (August 29, 2016). Community Environmental Sustainability (CES) Ottawa Hub: Evaluation Synthesis Report, Years 1-4, 2012-2016. Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE).

Andrée, P., Ballamingie, P., & Sinclair-Waters, B. (2014). Neoliberalism and the making of food politics in Eastern Ontario. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability.

Piazza, S., Andrée, P., & Ballamingie, P. (2014). Food Access and Farm Income Environmental Scan. Nourishing Communities Working Paper.

Ballamingie, P. & Walker, S.M.L. (2013). Field of dreams: Just Food’s proposal to create a community food and sustainable agriculture hub in Ottawa, Ontario. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability. 18 (5): 529-542.

Andrée, P., Ballamingie, P. & Sinclair-Waters, B. (2013). Chapter 2: Eastern Ontario. In I. Knezevic, K. Landman, A.D. Blay-Palmer, & E. Nelson (Eds.) Models and Best Practices for Building Sustainable Food Systems in Ontario and Beyond.  Guelph, ON: Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA).

Walker, S.M.L. & Ballamingie, P. (2013) Just Food Ottawa. In Community Food Toolkit: Ontario Case Studies.  URL:  Waterloo, ON: Sustainable Local Food Systems Research Group.

Goemans, M. & Ballamingie, P. (2013). Forest as hazard, forest as victim: Community perspectives and disaster mitigation in the aftermath of Kelowna’s 2003 wildfires. The Canadian Geographer, 57 (1), 56-71. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0064.2012.00447.x

Ballamingie, P. & Tudin, S. (2012). Publishing graduate student research in geography: The fundamentals. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 37(2): 304-314. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2012.729815

Donald L. & Ballamingie, P. (2012). Governmentality, environmental subjectivity, and urban intensification. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, 18(2): 134-151. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2012.719016

Ballamingie, P. (2011). Contester l’effacement: Les premières nations et l’étude du cas Lands for Life’(translated: Contesting Erasure: First Nations and the Lands for Life Case Study) in Écologie et Politique, 41, 1-13. URL: http://www.ecologie-et-politique.info/

Ballamingie, P. & Johnson, S. (May 2011). Researcher vulnerability: Some unanticipated challenges of doctoral fieldwork. The Qualitative Report, 16 (3): 711-729.

Ballamingie, P., Chen, X., Henry, E. & Nemiroff, D. (2010). Edward Burtynsky’s China Photographs – A Multidisciplinary Reading. In Environments Journal, 37 (2), 66-92. URL: http://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ejis/article/view/14581

Ballamingie, P. (2009). Democratizing public consultation processes: Some critical insights. Journal of Public Deliberation, 5 (1), Article 11, pp. 1-14. Berkeley Electronic Press.

Ballamingie, P. (2009). First Nations, ENGOs, and the paradox of Ontario’s Lands for Life process. In L.E. Adkin (Ed.) Environmental conflicts and democracy in Canada.  Vancouver: UBC Press.

Current graduate supervisions

• Maria Dabboussy, Ph.D. Co-supervisor (with Sophie Tamas), DGES, 2022-IP: Mapping reparative pedagogy in the academy
• Kata Georgaras, Ph.D. Co-supervisor (with Sophie Tamas), DGES, 2024-IP: Feminist interventions in sexual technology
• Lisa Wong, Ph.D. Co-supervisor (with Peter Andrée), DGES, 2021-IP: Plant-based diets and traditional knowledge(s)
• Katalin Koller, Ph.D. Supervisor, DGES, 2015-IP: Networks of solidarity counter environmental injustice: Ally-ship and the politics of reconciliation in settler-colonial Mi’kma’ki
• Rachel Woods, MA Co-supervisor (with Meera Karunananthan), IPE, 2022-IP: Canadian Impact Investments for an Equitable Future in Rural Senegal
• Arianna Fuke, MA Co-supervisor (with Jill Wigle), DGES, 2024-IP: TBD
• Michaela Tokarski, MA Supervisor, DGES, 2024-IP: TBD

Completed post-doctoral fellowships:

• Monika Korzun (May 2021 – May 2022, with Amanda Wilson, SPU): Food Communities Network + Participatory Food Governance
• Mary Anne Martin (September 2018- June 2019): Common Approach to the Social Economy of Food – co-supervised with Irena Knezevic
• Abra Adamo, Mitacs-Accelerate Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Advancing Innovations in Affordable Housing Development in Ottawa (June 1, 2015 – May 30, 2016)
• Gary Martin,Mitacs-Accelerate Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2013-2014: Accelerating the Market for Green Urban Housing

Completed Graduate Supervisions:

• Catherine Littlefield, MA Supervisor, IPE, 2021-2023 [C]: Gathering, Governing, and Gifting Food: Community Economy and Food Distribution in the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyak Dun
• Iain Storosko, MA Co-supervisor (with Peter Andrée), DGES, 2019-2022 [C]: Evaluating participatory plant breeding programs in Canada and their effectiveness as a strategy for climate change adaptation
• Chloé Poitevin-DesRivières, Ph.D. Co-supervisor (with Irena Knezevic), 2015-2021 [C]: Crafting Community Economies: Tapping into Localism, Place-making, and Diverse Economies through Craft Brewing
• Erin Snider, MA Co-Supervisor (with Peter Andrée and Andrew Spring), IPE, 2019-2021 [C]: The political ecology of sustainable livelihoods in Kakisa, NT: Fish waste composting for enhancing soil productivity and waste management capacity in northern Indigenous communities
• Tess MacMillan, MA Co-supervisor (with John Milton), DGES, 2018-2020 [C]: The Role of Regulations in Decisions Regarding the Transition to Organic, Biodynamic, and Sustainable Agricultural Productions: The Case of Niagara Vineyards
• Magda Goemans, Ph.D. Co-supervisor (with Chris Stoney), DGES, 2013-2019 [C]: Bringing adaptation home: Engaging with climate change, municipal policy and urban natures at household scales
• Jennifer Barron, Ph.D. Supervisor, DGES, 2013-2018 [C]: The Giving Trees: Community Orchards as New Urban Commons
• Michael Lait, Ph.D., Supervisor, Sociology, 2012-2017: The rotting heart of Gatineau Park: How and why the Kingsmere-Meech Lake privatopia prevented a national park in Canada’s capital region
• Nadia Ibrahim, MA Co-supervisor (with Peter Andrée), IPE, 2015-2017: Adopting a Food Systems Approach: The Case Study of Just Food, Ottawa
• Deborah Carroll, MA Co-supervisor (with Irena Knezevic), DGES, 2013-2016: Consumer, Producer and State Relations within the Multiple Scales of the Eastern Ontario Egg Industry: Exposing Scalar Relations and Neoliberal Tensions
• Katalin Koller, MA Supervisor, IPE, 2014-2015: Toward a political economy of on-reserve Indigenous education in Canada: Problematizing Bill C-33
• Gary Martin, Ph.D. Supervisor, Geography, 2008-2013: Manufacturing ‘Home’: Sustainability Discourses in Suburban Ottawa
• Lauren Allen, MA Co-supervisor (with Scott Mitchell), Geography, 2013-2015: Growing in the city: Analyzing Public Urban Agriculture in Ottawa, Ontario
• Meaghan Kenny, MA Supervisor, Geography, 2010-2014: Exploring Immigrant Experiences of Urban Agriculture in Ottawa: From Food Security to Cultural Identity
• Stephen Piazza, MA Co-supervisor (with Peter Andrée), IPE, 2012-2013: Food Access and Farmer Livelihoods: Policy Reflections from Stakeholders in Eastern Ontario
• Stephanie Kittmer, MA Supervisor, Political Economy, 2010-2013: Neoliberal conservation: Legitimacy and exclusion in the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement
• Chris Bisson, MA Co-supervisor (with Jill Wigle), Geography, 2010-2013: Food Forests in the Ottawa Greenbelt: Representing Forests and Reconciling Land Use
• Brynne Sinclair-Waters,MA Co-supervisor (with Peter Andrée), Political Economy (2011-2012): Rethinking Eastern Ontario’s Local Food Systems through a Feminist Political Economic Lens
• Geri Blinick, MA Supervisor, Geography, 2008-2012: Wild Rice in the Ottawa Valley: A Question of Food, Sovereignty and Decolonization
• Lina Johnston, MA Co-supervisor (with Claudio Aporta), Anthropology, 2010-2012: Discourses of Survival and Security: Cuban Agricultural Reform and Construction of Local Farmer Identity 
• Eric Lloyd Smith, MA Supervisor, Political Economy, 2010-2011: Asinabka: Toward a methodology of decolonial praxis
• Austin Miller, MA Supervisor, Political Economy, 2010-2011: Rising to the Challenge of Global Resistance: The Political Economy of Vertical Farming in Canada
• Donald Leffers, MA Supervisor, Geography, 2008-2010: Contested Discourses of Sustainability in Old Ottawa South
• Madgalene Goemans, MA Supervisor, Geography, 2007-2009: Forest as Hazard, Forest as Victim: The Influence of Community Perceptions of Nature and Disaster on Forest Fire Mitigation Strategies in Kelowna, British Columbia
• Jeffrey Barnes, MA Co-Supervisor (with Derek Smith), DGES, 2007-2009: Cultural Keystone Theory: Theobroma Cacao Among the Kuna of Panama