Professor Dr. Sarah Ruth Sippel

Publications

• Books
• Articles
• Working Papers
• Other Scientific Publications

Books

Book (Edited Collection)

• Gertel, Jörg, and Sippel, Sarah Ruth, eds. 2014. Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture. The Social Costs of Eating Fresh London: Routledge.

Books (Monographs)

• Sippel, Sarah Ruth, and Böhme, Michaela. 2021. Dialektik des Globalen. Kernbegriffe, Vol. 7, Land Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110645583.
• Reiher, Cornelia, and 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 Issue of a Journal

• Sippel, Sarah Ruth, and Visser, Oane, eds. 2021. “Reimagining land: materiality, affect and the uneven trajectories of land transformation.” Special Issue Agriculture and Human Values.

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, and 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, and 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.
• 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, and 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.
• Visser, Oane, Sippel, Sarah Ruth, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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.
• 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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 Victoria Stead and Melinda Hinkson. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth, and Böhme, Michaela. 2022. “Gemeinschaftliches Gut, nationales Territorium, Finanzanlageobjekt: Aktuelle Neuaushandlungen von Land.” in Ungleiche ländliche Räume. Widersprüche, Konzepte und Perspektiven, edited by Bernd Belina, Andreas Kallert, Michael Mießner and Matthias Naumann. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. doi: 10.14361/9783839460139-008.
• Lawrence, Geoffrey, Sippel, Sarah Ruth, and 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 Hilde Bjørkhaug, Bruce Muirhead and Philip McMichael. Toronto: Toronto University Press. doi: 10.3138/9781487517236-009.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth, and Böhme, Michaela. 2019. “Dis/articulating agri-food spaces: The multifaceted logics of agro-investments.” in Spatial Formats Under the Global Condition, Vol. 1 of Dialectics of the Global, edited by Matthias Middell and Steffi Marung. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110643008-013.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth, Böhme, Michaela, and 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 Hilde Bjorkhaug, André Magnan and Geoffrey Lawrence. 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 Steffen Wippel and Andrea Fischer-Tahir. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth, Lawrence, Geoffrey, and 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, Vol. 24 of Research in Rural Sociology and Development, edited by Mara Miele, Vaughan Higgins, Hilde Bjørkhaug and Monica Truninger. Bingley: Emerald Publishing. doi: 10.1108/S1057-192220170000024001.
• Gertel, Jörg, and Sippel, Sarah Ruth. 2016. “The financialisation of agriculture and food.” in International Handbook of Rural Studies, edited by Mark Shucksmith and David L. Brown. 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 Alessandra Corrado, Carlos de Castro and Domenico Perrotta. 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 Guy M. Robinson and Doris A. Carson. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Lawrence, Geoffrey, Sippel, Sarah Ruth, and Burch, David. 2015. “The financialisation of food and farming.” in Handbook on the Globalisation of Agriculture, edited by Guy M. Robinson and Doris A. Carson. 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 Cornelia Reiher and Sarah Ruth Sippel. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. doi: 10.13109/9783666301704.67.
• Reiher, Cornelia, and Sippel, Sarah Ruth. 2015. “Einleitung: Umkämpftes Essen in globalen Kontexten.” in Umkämpftes Essen. Produktion, Handel und Konsum von Lebensmitteln in globalen Kontexten, edited by Cornelia Reiher and Sarah Ruth Sippel. 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 Jörg Gertel and Sarah Ruth Sippel. London: Routledge.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth, and 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 Jörg Gertel and Sarah Ruth Sippel. London: Routledge.
• Gertel, Jörg, and 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 Jörg Gertel and Sarah Ruth Sippel. London: Routledge.
• Gertel, Jörg, and 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 Jörg Gertel and Sarah Ruth Sippel. London: Routledge.
• Gertel, Jörg, and 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 Jörg Gertel and Sarah Ruth Sippel. London: Routledge.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth, and Kemmerling, Birgit. 2013. “Power geometries of food security: A critical area studies perspective.” in Self-Reflexive Area Studies, edited by Matthias Middell. 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 Ingo Breuer and Jörg Gertel. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. doi: 10.14361/transcript.9783839409282.269.
• Sippel, Sarah Ruth. 2010. “Doreen Massey.” in Theoretiker der Globalisierung, edited by Matthias Middell and Ulf Engel. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag.

Working Paper

• Sippel, Sarah Ruth, and 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.

Other Scientific Publication

• 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.

Teaching